... The Whirlwind is made by the same company that produces the highly-successful Lysander. It is one of Britain's most recent fighters it is powered with two 8B5-h.p. Rolls-Royce motors, and its armament consists of four 20-mm. cannon-guns in the nose, which give a weight of fire of 600 lb. per minute. It has just been made public that some of these fighters have been modified to carry tw> bombs ...

... A special Sphere drawing by Montague Dawson A British Escort Vessel Encounters an Exceptionally High Sea whilst on Patrol Duty in Mid-Atlantic The vessel shown here is a sloop of 990 tons, a type which has many times proved its great worth during the present war With a Note on the Sailors' Everlasting Foe Weather By A. J. McWHINNIE THOUSANDS of years before mines, torpedoes, bombs and shells ...

... COAL-the life-blood of Britain's war industries The Problem of the Coal Industry has been Complicated by the Government's Confused Policy with Regard to Actual Production and also the Call-up for Army Service of Numbers of Miners. The Present Position with Regard to Output and Working Conditions is Here Thoroughly Reviewed By CHARLES GRAVES WITH the approach of winter and the rationing of fuel ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 157 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Duke of Kent.-- The nation, in all sincerity, shares in the grief which has befallen the Duchess of Kent, Queen Mary and the Royal family by the death, on war duty, of the Duke of Kent. This was a young man of great charm and promise, and, already of fulfilment. there was. indeed, a singular charm about this handsome couple which had ...

... What Jacques Doriot, Most Ardent Turncoat and Collaborationist of Them All, Will Do If and When He Achieves Power. The Career of This Extraordinary Quisling and His Adventures in Russia and Germany are Here Traced in Detail By FERDINAND TUOHY OFFICIAL Washington enjoys special pipe lines of information from both zones in France, and it will not be surprised if Laval shoots his bolt very soon ...

... THE AMERICAN TROOP-CARRYING GLIDER Now in Mass Production in the United States Now that the Americans are in the war, with a will, it is only to be expected that they should press forward with the production of aircraft of all types. Above is one of the first pictures of the U.S. Army Air Force new glider, for carry ing Commando troops wherever they may be needed in the many battle zones in ...

... FREAKS of the DESERT ARTILLERY How Our Gunners Overcame Great Difficulties to Hold Rommel at Bay By DONALD COWIE THAT it was primarily the work of our gunners which halted Rommel's drive towards the Nile Valley now seems certain. Metaphorically digging its heels into the sand at El Alamein, the Royal Regiment-- and this goes also for its Aus tralian, New Zealand and South African branches-- ...

... AWAY FROM THESE WARS. Memories and Thoughts 01 the Years Between --A Fortnightly Causerie By J. G. SPORT IN THE POST-WAR WORLD.-- My heart warmed and my hands responded to a recent appeal by the Duke of Beaufort and Lord Middleton for books on sport to be sent out to prisoners of war. I have for some time been dispersing a small collection of books on sporting subjects, mostly on shooting. Yet ...

... Drtf rot in full flower! WHEREVER TIMBER IS USED SOLIGNUM PROTECTS 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 country Sheds, Huts, Fences and Structural Timbers all need the protection that Solignum can give in the ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 158 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Three Years Hard.-- The anniversary has come round again. We are into the fourth year of world war. If you were over sixteen in 1914, you may call it the eighth year. If you have jaundiced views about the uneasy years of peace between wars, you may call it the umpteenth year of world war, destructive of all things sane and decent and ...

... THE DIEPPE RAID --From the German Side A series of pictures just received in London showing scenes on the Beaches and in the Town as they were witnessed by the enemy after the fighting Phe pictures reproduced here all come from an enemy source. They have been published in Germany and in German-controlled journals in France. It has been admitted by our own military and naval authorities that ...

... The series of pictures reproduced here are the first to be taken at a British shipyard where merchant vessels on the pre- fabricated plan are being constructed. This is the method now widely used in the United States the vessels are all of standard design, and the various parts some of them of great size and weight are entirely made at inland factories. They are taken to the actual shipyard ...