... THE PROGRESS OF THE WAR BY AIR Over Land and Over Sea AN AIR MINISTRY PICTURE OF THE BOMBING OF COMINES by daylight on August 29. As the aircraft completed its run over the target it took this photograph of smoke rising from other bomb bursts a subsequent photograph is published below FIRES STILL BURN IN BREMEN THE FOLLOWING DAY after a heavy raid by R.A.F. bombers Fires started in the Dock ...

... THE CATALINA FIGHTS BACK The Flying-boat which Broke Up a Formation of Seven Big Bombers in the Mediterranean and Then Fought Off Four Fighters Tn June last, Flying Officer K. J. Riddy, U.A.F.V.R., of No. 240 Squadron, was the captain of a Catalina flying-boat engaged on an anti-submarine patrol in the Mediterranean he had been detailed to act as escort to one of H.M. ships. Whilst thus ...

... AMERICA ATTACKS in the S.-W. PACIFIC A Complete Series of Official Pictures from the Solomon Islands, where the Jap Forces of Occupation were Annihilated by the U.S. Marines and U.S. Navy Bombers Hp he United States Marines now hold J- six islands in the Solomon group north of Australia. They took them from the J apanese after three weeks of struggle, and thus eliminated a pos sible invasion ...

... RELICS OF THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT FOR SALE A craftsman shaping some of the Anston Stone into art pots Stonework, timber and stained glass which were salved after the Houses of Parliament had been bombed has been given to the Red Cross and St. John War Organisation. This salvage is now being offered for sale, and purchasers are having small portions converted into various shapes to the designs ...

... '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 ...