... THE BATTLE IN THE LIBYAN DESERT Where the Great Clash Between the British and German Armoured Forces is Now Taking Place in the Acroma-Knightsbridge Area Special Sphere Drawings At the opening of Rommel's offensive in Libya the British line ran roughly from Gazala, on the coast, down to Bir Hacheim this line was strongly held with fortified positions and minefields. Around Bir Hacheim, in ...

... THE JAPANESE SCENE Special Sphere Diagram-drawings Showing Some of the Principal Centres of the lap War Effort The land-locked basin known as the Inland Sea is not only one of the most beautiful natural features of Japan it is now one of the most important naval and industrial sections in the whole of the Japanese Empire. It extends from Osaka Bay to the Strait of Shimonoseki a dis tance of ...

... LADY DIANA COOPER GOES TO MARKET Since her return from Malaya, Lady Diana has resumed her chicken-farming in Sussex. This picture, taken during a recent visit to Barnham Market, where she purchased some chickens, shows Lady Diana stopping for refreshment at one of the stalls AERODROME CONSTRUCTION FOR THE R.A.F. in the modern manner a com paratively short time ago, the levelling and ...

... -By Vernon Fane Two Authors and their Peripatetic Ponderings A Victorian Family Album A Ffovel of Wartime England DURING the past three years Mr. Hesketh Pearson and Mr. Hugh Kings mill have managed to walk themselves into a very entertaining book, and to have gone their way round England with at least sufficient mental energy to have produced THIS BLESSED PLOT (Methuen. 8s. 6d.). Naturally, ...

... THE BOMBING OF COLOGNE (continued) ANOTHER SET OF BEFORE-AND-AFTER PICTURES To the north of Cologne lies the great industrial suburb of Nippes (now a part of the city) Here ar twc pictures of the great Koln-Nippes railway workshops, taken before and after the 1 ,000-Bombers Raid. Hardly a roof is intact: walls, machines, factories-- all have gone as a result of the concentrated battering by ...

... Pictures of M. Molotov's Visit to Britain and the Scenes at the Foreign Office and at No. 10, Downing Street at the Signing of the Twenty Years' Treaty with the Soviet f\n the morning of May 20 a giant Russian aircraft alighted in North Britain it bore M. Molotov Russian Commissar for Foreign Affairs M. Sabolev, of the Moscow Foreign Office Lieut. -General Shelevski, Major-General Isayev, and ...

... THE STORY OF PENELOPE The British Cruiser now known as H.M.S. Pepperpot Because of the Thousand-odd Shrapnel Holes Suffered During Concentrated Attack while in Dry-Dock at Malta 'FHE cruiser Penelope had seen considerable service in the J- Mediterranean. She took part some months ago in a battle off Taranto, in which a small British Naval force sunk two Italian convoys of ten ships despite ...

... LIBYAN PORTFOLIO continued Tanks and Artillery in Concentrated Action AN IMPRESSION OF GENERAL GRANT TANKS IN ACTION NEAR THE CAULDRON These compact monsters weigh 28 tons, and thus are officially classed as mec urn tanks, but their hitting power is tremendous. This is due to their two guns one of which is a 37-mm. weapon and the other a 75-mm. The latte is fitted to the right of the Grant, ...

... LIBYAN PORTFOLIO (continued) THE GUN WHICH HAS BEEN DOING A GOOD DEAL OF USEFUL WORK IN LIBYA-- The mobile 25-pounder which has been in continuous action in the fighting round The Cauldron, and in the Knightsbridge battles. (On the left is the ammunition limber) Our mobile guns have proved a great success in Lioya prominent amongst these is the 25-pounder, of which two impressions whilst in ...

... THE KING ON BOARD THE U.S. FLAGSHIP With him is Admiral Stark, C.-in-C. U.S. Naval Forces in Europe behind the latter in this picture is Rear-Admiral Robert C. Giffen, in command of the American force inspected by the King. The visit to the battleship followed after the inspection of an American cruiser THE KING BEING PIPED ABOARD H.M.S. NORFOLK, a 9,925-ton cruiser of the Dorsetshire class. ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 147 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Libya.-- There was more point than usual in my recent hope expressed in the Newsletter, that we should not this time halloo too soon as to the outcome of the battle with Rommel. I want to make these observations about the present situation: Once more, we have had a sharp disappoint ment, we have taken an unexpected knock, and we have ...

... A GENERAL VIEW OF A PORTION OF THE RECLAIMED LAND, with land-girls at work. Young corn and sugar-beet are now growing on fertile soil over a large part of the 5,000 acres of Swaffham Prior Fen and Adventurer's Fen, which were formerly a reedy wilderness nrhe King and Queen have just paid a visit of inspection to one of the country's greatest land-reclamation works in the Cambridgeshire Fenland ...