... JAP NAVAL DIVERSIONS IN THE PACIFIC WAR The Strange, Wearing-Down Tactics of the Enemy The two pictures reproduced here illustrate one curious aspect of the naval war amongst the Pacific Islands. It would almost appear as if the Japs were deliberately sending out small vessels of any size and They are Sending Out All Kinds of Small Armed Craft on Suicide Missions to Engage and Take Up the ...

... CAUGHT AT THE NOONDAY SIESTA HOUR! The surrender of an Italian force as the result of a surprise attack by a British light armoured column whilst the enemy were resting in the noonday heat. The Italians were engaged on the construction of gun emplacements and other field works- Drawing by C. Syoti The comic incident depicted above concerned several hundred men of Italy's crack Pavia Division, ...

... A RECORD TOW IN THE SOUTH ATLANTK A SUNDERLAND flying-boat which was forced to alig on the sea through engine trouble was recently tow hundreds of miles across the South Atlantic to its base West Africa by a naval corvette. No flying-boat had ever before been towed such a distait over the open sea. The tow lasted for 74 hours, during rni| of which time there was a heavy swell and a cross ...

... THE PRIME MINISTER WITH THE TWO LEADING COMMANDERS IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE Mr. John Curtin is on the right with him are General Douglas MacArthur (C.-in-C. of the United Nations Forces in the South-West Pacific) and Lieut.-General Sir Thomas Blarney (Commander of the Australian Defence Forces and Australia's most famous soldier). This picture was taken just after the Premier had attended a ...

... MAINTAINING the BRIDGE of SHIPS A Stupendous Task But It Must Be Done By ALFRED GRAHAM FROM the slips at Bremen, Kiel and Rostock, from Taranto and Spezia the U-boats are being launched as fast as the Axis labourers can be made to turn them out. From the yards on Clyde, Tees and Tyne, from California, Virginia and Hog Island the merchant-ships are being delivered as fast as the riveters can ...

... FRONTIER One of the Famous British 25-Pounders Firing at German Transport Vehicles 1/ nightsbridge was the scene of some of the heaviest fighting of all it was here that General Ritchie established one of his Boxes, from which attacks on the enemy's armour and transports were carried out and to which the 8th Army retired when hard pressed after the evacuation of Bir Hacheim. It was at once a ...

... GIVING the NEWS to EUROPE The Work, of the European Service of the B.B.C., and How the Continent is Kept Informed Over the Air of the Real Progress of the War Described by CHARLES GRAVES NOW that the B.B.C. European transmission of the news in English takes place at 10.15 p.m. (as well as at 10 a.m. and 3.30 p.m.), it is acquiring a vast audience in this country as well as on the Continent. ...

... Read the Austin Magazine it contains useful tips 4 d monthly from your newsagent 8Di5o lv/ i YOUR SPEEDOMETER PROVES IT The proof of the car is in the mileage. If your Austin is an old friend the substantial total on your speedometer will confirm the well-known fact that every Austin is a good long-term investment. Austin owners whose cars are in constant use on war work are finding, even in ...

... 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 ...

... The STORY of PENELOPE i H.H.S. PEPPERPOT)- --cont. J n last week s issue of The Sphere we published the story of H.M.S. Penelope Pepperpot to her friends now in t United States port for repair. The pictures reproduced her- amplify those published last week. Penelope is a British cruisf which was in prolonged action with enemy aircraft in the Med; terranean. During a fortnight s stay in Malta ...

... A YORKSHIRE CLIMMER --These guillemot eggs will be sold, and the reward shared with the haulers who lowered him over the cliff edge Hundreds of thousands of eggs are waiting on the Yorkshire cliffs to be collected. They can be seen (if you dare go so near the edge) resting on the ledges all the way down to the sea. From the middle of May to the end of June, men risk their lives on this ...