... Errors in Flight, when Heavy Weather Often Creates Special Difficulties Against which the Pilot has to be on Constant Guard Described by PETER LISCOMB THE Duke of Kent's tragic death when his Sunderland crashed into a Scottish hillside revives a question which must puzzle many laymen. Why do planes crash into hills Why, in thick weather, cannot they fly well above them Surely modern ...

... Overcoats are now being brought out by the men of the Eighth Army, owing to the sharpness of the autumn morning air. Here a small Special Party, scouting through the desert south of the main positions at El Alamein, wake at sunrise, whilst the sun is still throwing long shadows and the chill night air still lingers Drawing by Edward Osmond The news contained in a recent communique from the ...

... CASUALTIES on the LIBYAN FIELD Saving the Wounded, and Honouring the Dead under Desert Conditions By DONALD COWIE HERE is a true story of the Libyan campaign that illustrates the difficulty of giving wounded men proper attention, and the splendid work of the Royal Army Medical Corps in spite of that. A twenty-four-year-old bombardier was filling ammu nition clips under German artillery fire ...

... The Enthronement of a Bishop And Other News Items from the Home Front THE NEW BISHOP IS ENTHRONED AT WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL-- Dr. Haigh asks admission on his arrival Dr. Mervyn George Haigh was formerly Bishop of Coventry. A few days ago he was enthroned as the new Bishop of Winchester. No bells were rung for the occasion and the silence of the bells has been regretted by many leading churchmen, ...

... THE FIRST PICTURE FROM THE FRONT IN EGYPT SHOWING HOW THE 8TH ARMY'S OFFENSIVE OPENED: A GERMAN STRONG-POINT IS CAPTURED AND THE WAY PREPARED FOR A FURTHER ADVANCE- -Picture by radio This picture was sent to Cairo from the front line in the Desert, and radioed by Cable and Wireless to London. It shows how our troops went into action as zero hour came at 10 p.m. on Friday night of last week. ...

... r|Ao every corner of the globe General Smuts' fine analysis of the war situation has now penetrated through the medium of the Press and radio. The South African statesman, paying his first visit to this country for ten years, spoke for an hour to an Assembly which comprised members of both Houses of Parliament. He delivered an oration which closely analysed the events of the past three years ...

... CLOTHING the ARMY and the AUXILIARY SERVICES The Work of the Director-General of Equipment and Stores Described by CHARLES GRAVES ON the top floor of a building in a mean street in London is one of the most intriguing sights in Great Britain. For here is one of the main pattern-rooms of the Director-General of Equipment and Stores. As far as I can make out, no reporter has previously been ...

... THE AIR FORCE CHIEF AND THE W.A.A.F. CORPORAL SIR CHARLES PORTAL AND SIR LESLIE GOSSAGE INSFECT THE GIRLS OF THE BALLOON BARRAGE and are shown round Ye Olde Log Cabin by Corporal Janet Postage- Inland, 2d. Canada and Newfoundland, Id. Elsewhere Abroad, l£d. a \A/hen Air Chief-Marshal Sir Charles Portal (Chief of the Air Staff) and Air Marshal Sir Leslie Gossage (A.O.C., Balloon Command) ...

... THE PROBLEM OF THE CHILDREN One of the Most Difficult of the Many Wartime Problems Which Have Arisen on the Home Front By CHARLES GRAVES ONE of the chief problems on the Home Front is provided by juvenile delinquency. This was 30 per cent, greater in December 1941 than it was in peacetime. And there is no reason to suppose that there has been any drop during the past nine months. There is, ...

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... IT AM RATHE# W RARE- ONLY ASK j VOOR SHARE 'x It w tempting to search everywhere for Peek Frean's to enjoy that unvarying quality for which these biscuits are famous. But please don't do it. Trust your regular dealer, who will consider you all the more if you are patient and understand his many difficulties. BRITAIN'S CRISPEST BISCUITS 7 f I M226 Enquiries I Nicoll Clothes, Middlesex House, ...

... THE LIGHTNING CLASS- ■Latest and Biggest of British Destroyers The Lightning class of destroyers are Britain's latest and most up-to-date. There are fifteen of them, and the names of all begin either with L or with M. Work on them was begun in the year 1938, and so far as is known eight have already been completed and are serving with the Royal Navy. The Lightnings are of an enlarged Javelin ...