... THE LATIN BLOC IDEA COMES UP AGAIN The Laval-Franco-Mussolini Scheme for Combining Forces in the Mediterranean and Establishing Zones of Influence In and Around the Inland Sea after We have been Ousted from Gibraltar, Malta and Other Key Positions Described by FERDINAND TUOHY OUR worsened position in the Mediterranean automatically heightened the hopes of those who are intriguing for a ...

... WHEN THE COUNTRIES OF EUROPE ARE DE-OCCUPIED A Little-known Work which is now Actively Going On in Britain to Prepare Refugee Women to Assist in the Rehabilitation of Their Own Countries After the Expulsion of the German Invaders Described by CHARLES GRAVES THE strangest classroom in London is on the third storey of a big building in Bloomsbury. The students are women between the ages of ...

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... Dry rot in full flowef! WOOD PRESERVING STAIN AND WHITE ANT DESTROYER Donington House, Norfolk Street, Strand, London, W.C.2 J WHEREVER TIMBER IS USED SOLIGNUM PROTEUS IT For forty years Solignum has been used all over the world for the protection of timber against attack by Dry-Rot, Damp and Insect Pests but never before has this protection been of such vital importance as now. In this ...

... THE PRIME MINISTER RETURNS TO LONDON AFTER HIS CONFERENCES IN WASHINGTON: WITH MRS. CHURCHILL AND CORPORAL MARY CHURCHILL, of the A.T.S., on his arrival at Euston after a flight back across the Atlantic in the world s biggest flying-boat On Saturday evening last, Mr. Winston Churchill arrived back in London after his conferences with President Roosevelt in Washington. His return trip, like his ...

... The Film of the LIBYAN FIGHTING Historic Record, Taken on the Battlefield Near Sidi Rezegh in November 1941 The film Historic Record was taken on the battle field near Sidi Rezegh in November 1941 by a brave cameraman-- Errol Hinds, Staff Cameraman of the South African Bureau of Information. When it became obvious that he would be captured by the enemy, Mr. Hinds had the presence of mind to ...

... ■p.fQ DM ATC i.L^ A DMV The First Officio! Pictures of the Manner in which Men are being Trained to Handle OLIDblV lILU I OT trie /AMn T the Thousands of New Gliders now being Built in Britain for Operation by Army Pilots 1 1 was made public some little time ago that air-borne troops were to be trained by the Army. The pictures reproduced here the first to be officially released for pub ...

... MAINLY as the result of the Battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle off Midway Island, it has been made public that the U.S. Navy intends to concentrate in the future largely on aircraft-carriers. Not that the vulnerable battleship is to be abandoned: as long as the enemy build battleships, so will the U.S., but plans for the biggest and best have been laid aside, at least for the present. ...

... RESCUING AIRMEN from the SEA How the Work is Carried Out by the R.A.F. in Co-operation with the Royal Navy Described by E. MARSHALL FROM all these operations three of our aircraft have not returned; but the pilots of two are known to be safe. Listening to the Broadcast news, millions of the British public are familiar with such announcements; they have, indeed, become so much a matter of ...

... SUNDERLAND FLYING-BOAT ATTACKS AN ITALIAN U-BOAT. As its depth-charges exploded, the submarine was lifted high out of the water it fell back into the white foam, unable to move or to submerge- --Drawing by Roland Davies he Italian U-boat which, according to reports from Spain, has been beached near Santander, had een previously attacked by Coastal Command aircraft when on the way to its ...

... D B.R*bed *'8 f BRBBED Wjflp No words can describe the lot of our men wh are Prisoners of War. Many will Boon be ent. ing their THIRD YEAR of captivity. Faced with aet new problems, we beg readers of THE SPH IRE not to forget these men at this time of heir greatest need. Please complete and post the form below, sending what you can-- £5 will end regular parcels and cigarettes for a year. £5( ...

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