... EGYPT A New German Weapon A Tank, which is a Mobile Gun Plat form, Just Captured by the 8th Army An Official Picture Wirelessed from Cairo This extraordinary picture shows a new Ger man armoured weapon which has just been inspected by Mr. Wendell Willkie during his tour of the Middle East. It is the first of its kind to be captured by the 8th Army in Egypt, and it was taken during Rommel's ...

... THE SPIRIT OF RUSSIA TO-DAY This picture shows how the civilian population of Soviet Russia are backing up the efforts of the Red Army in the field. It depicts the scene in a workshop of an underground factory in a city of the Soviet Union which has suffered heavy attacks from the I aggressors. The workers are producing arms for defenders of the city, despite the crowded quart artificially ...

... A part from a few very old destroyers such as the Vega and the Admiralty S and R classes the Hunts are the smallest destroyer type in the Royal Navy. Since the end of the last War, these vessels showed a general increase in tonnage but in 1939, when the Hunts were laid down under the Programme for that year, a return was made to the idea of a small, general-purpose destroyer. At least thirty ...

... THE FLYING FORTRESS, with which the American Air Force Have Carried Out Some Fine BombingRaids in Europe 'T'he huge four-engined aircraft known to the R.A.F. as the Fortress II, but to the U.S. Army Air Force as the B-17E, has already distinguished itself in operational flights over the Occupied Territories it is soon likely to distinguish itself further, because more U.S. bomber crews are now ...

... 'The story of the Malta Convoy is now generally known and Mr. Churchill has paid tribute to its great signifi cance. Supplies have been carried to the island sufficient to ensure the life and resistance of that heroic island fortress for a good many months to come, he said in the House of Commons on September 8. The Convoy had to force its way through extraordinary dangers, which beset its ...

... r\R. CHURCHILL AND THE U.S. NAVAL CHIEFS A Picture Taken at Greenwich on July 25, 1942 It has only just been announced that, on July 25 last, the Board of Admiralty entertained the Prime Minister, Admiral King of the U.S. Navy, Mr. Harry Hopkins, Mr. John G. Winant, and distinguished U.S. Govern ment and Naval officials in the Painted HallatGreenwich. A number of the guests on this occasion ...

... SENOR SERRANO SUNER SPOILT A FRANCO DREAM. Why Suher Became the Pet of Berlin and of Rome, and the Promises and Prospects with which He Beguiled the Caudillo, His Brother-in-law And Why, with the Fading of the Dream and the Entry into the War of Mexico and Brazil, General Franco Has Now Found it Convenient to Appoint a New Minister for Foreign Affairs in Spain By FERDINAND TUOHY BROTHERS-IN ...

... The ART of the SNIPER He is Still an Important Factor in Modern Warfare By DOUGAL GORDON THE value of the sniper lies not so much in the number of men he is likely to be able to kill at a session, so to speak (though a gillie in the last war claimed a bag of ten Bavarians in an even ing from a hide near the Bapaume Road), but in the restraint he imposes on the movements of the enemy. A well ...

... MODERN AfRCRAFT-CARRIERl are the Result of Twenty Year of Intensive Experimentation In the last war, there were three aircraft carriers actively engaged in nava operations. After the Armistice, Britait Japan and-- especially-- the United State began to experiment further with them The first U.S. Carrier was an 11,000-ton collier named the Jupiter, which in 192 was given a flat upper deck for ...

... Special Sphere drawings and diagrams of the terrain and of the air tactics of the Germans HThe air onslaught indicated in the top drawing was principally directed against the vehicles of the 8th Army but these were well dispersed, and not very much damage was wrought. Then our own aircraft went into action. When the R.A.F. got in amongst the bombers it was a beautifully-timed attack the enemy ...

... THE TANKER OHIO GETS THROUGH A Story of Heroism During the Passage of the Malta Convoy faptain Mason is forty-one years of age, and he is the youngest Master of the Eagle Oil and Shipping Company. During the passage of the convoy to Malta he was in command of the tanlcer Ohio for his heroism on that occasion, when he won through to port after incredible dangers, he has been awarded the ...

... AWAY FROM THESE WARS. Memories and Thoughts of the Years Between A Fortnightly Causerie By J. G. INTO THE 1920's AGAIN-- THINGS EPHEMERAL SOCIETY'S HEYDAY.-- We went over to lun cheon with Lady Ormonby, the Dowager. The talk turned upon the splendour of London society in the Victorian and the Edwardian ages. She looked to me and said: You can bear me out before these young people that London ...