... n t extreme right-hand corner, the curving railway tracks I a those leading from the main station behind the Dom, Ir C hedral, over the Hohenzollern Bridge (which lies just lelov the picture) at the extreme left is the entrance to the Ihei: u-Hafen, a busy river harbour. From the Dom on the light ill along the river, are ruined buildings and houses lith leir roofs either burnt off or blasted ...

... AT BANDAR SHAHPAR Cases of motor parts being unloaded on the wharf at this important port of entry on the Persian Gulf A WAR FLAT, designed to carry heavy guns, tanks and other war material up to 50 tons, arriving from England. The flat is being lifted on to a bogie and will soon go into service ENGLISH ROLLING-STOCK ARRIVES IN PERSIA, part of the daily increasing British effort to supply ...

... ON THE GEORGE CROSS ISLAND The New Governor of Malta and the British Miners who are Engaged on Tunnelling Work There MALTA'S NEW GOVERNOR General Viscount Gort, V.C., with his aide-de-camp, at San Anton Palace, where he had just wit nessed the ceremony of the Changing of the Guard. General Gort succeeded General Dobbie only a few weeks ago TUNNELLING UNDER THE ISLAND A skip of rock being ...

... nj A Collection of Special Drawings and Photographs, in Illustration of the Present Campaign Against Rommel's Forces in the Western Desert It was on the evening of May 26 that General Rommel launched the German Afrika Korps to the attack of the British forces on the Gazala-Bir Hacheim line in the Western Desert. In an Order of the Day he was at pains to explain that in the course of great ...

... AMERICAN TROOPS AND WARPLANES ARRIVE The latter are stowed on deck in the manner shown. They are capable of being assembled very quickly after landing. Troops have been transported from the United States to Australia by the thousand HOW THE BOMBERS ARRIVE In the background is one of the big troopships in which U.S. reinforcements have been transported across the Pacific. Very soon these twin- ...

... The GREAT NAVAL QUESTION- Warship versus Bomber Or, is the Surface Craft of To-day Really so Vulnerable as Some Naval Experts Would Have Us Think By A. J. McWHINNIE BRITISH naval designers are con stantly wrestling with the pro blem of whether or not our warships can be made to stand up better to attack by torpedo and bombs. An argument of the critics has become too general. There are many ...

... MEMORIES OF FIFTY YEARS- An Experiment in Autobiography-- XIII By J. G. THE PLEASURES OF LIFE.-- I pause at this stage to attempt some rough marshalling of the chief recreational pleasures of my life. I say recreational advisedly, because I have not the least doubt that the only abiding, constant and utterly chance-proof pleasure and objective in my life has been my tardily chosen business ...

... [HE DEFENCE OF BIR HACHEIM for Eighteen Days And the Escape of the Defenders by a Secret Route When Bir Hacheim was attacked in great strength by the Axis forces, there were some 4,000 men in its original garrison. Amongst them were a number of tough members of the famous Foreign Legion all were under the control of General Koenig, a Frenchman from Alsace. In the eighteen days of their ...