... LET'S (JET DOWN TO EARTH AND EXAMINE THE ADDED SAFETY PROVIDED BY FERODO LININGS This is one way of getting out of difficulties. Down to Mother Earth where safety is more easily achieved if wise precautions are taken. But if the safety-first rule is to be followed in this high speed world, the foremost essential for road users is to install efficient brake linings. Ferodo Linings T provide ...

... THE BATTLE FOR THE POSSESSION OF THE SOLOMONS: HOW THE U.S. MARINES LANDED ON GUADALCANAL ISLAND IN THEIR SPECIAL AMPHIBIAN TANKS £lsewhere in this issue we publish some special drawings and photographs in connection with the U.S. and Australian operations against the Japs in the South-West Pacific. The picture above was taken at Guadalcanal Island, in the Solomons, where the U.S. Marines ...

... MOUNT HIMEINAT Where Rommel's Afrika Korps Launched their Big Offensive in the Desert C* 1 Himeinat lies about 25 miles south of the British positions at El Alamein in the Egyptian Desert. It is a hill some 200 ft. in height on the fringe of the Qattara Depression. For some time before the German offensive was launched, patrols had been busy in this region a minefield had been laid by the ...

... What are we Going To Do to Keep Our Own Army, and the Canadians and Americans, Occupied During this Coming Winter of Black-out The Local Little Hitlers in Some Parts of the Country are Already at Work Cutting Down on Entertainments and Forcing the Troops Back on to Their Own Limited Resources. By FERDINAND TUOHY AS the Russians have been reminding us, Hitler looks upon Britain as a huge ...

... From GERMANY to CANADA Within Twenty-four hours of Bombing Saarbruecken, a Canadian Crew Arrives in Canada A Wonderful Feat lust Carried Out by the R.C.A.F. the night of September 1, an aircraft of the Royal Canadian Air Force took part in the heavy bombfng attack on Saarbruecken, in Western Germany on the night of September 3, the crew of this aircraft made a personal appearance at the Maple ...

... The AMERICANS in ACTION in the SOUTH-WEST PACIFIC The Battle of Milne Bay f at the Eastern Tip of New Guinea And the Struggle for Supremacy in the Solomon Islands When, on Wednesday, August 26, the Japs made a landing in strength in Milne Bay, at the extreme south-easterly tip of New Guinea, it at once became evident that the idea behind the landing was to attack Port Moresby from the land. ...

... HOW the RUSSIAN RIVERS ARE CROSSED An Explanation of Some of the German Successes in the River Countries of the Don By DONALD COWIE With Special Sphere Drawings and Diagrams THE point that must be puzzling in telligent people is not the actual bridging method employed-- the work of the engineers is familiar-- but how the defences on the opposite bank are over come. It may seem incredible that ...

... 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 ...

... THE BRAZILIAN NAVY Two Sphere Drawings of Some of the Vessels of Our Newest Ally ONE OF BRAZIL'S TWO BATTLESHIPS -THE MINAS GERAIS ENTERING RIO HARBOUR. Just behind the vessel is the world-famous Pao de Assucar (or Sugar Loaf), where the entrance is less than a mile wide, although the harbour itself is nearly 30 miles wide. In the distance, behind the Sugar Loaf, is the Corcavado Peak, 2,329 ...