... AWAY FROM THESE WARS. Memories and Thoughts of the Years Between --A Fortnightly Causerie By J. G. SHAKESPEARE.-- I was at Stratford-on-Avon. It was springtime, and festival time, and I came out into the warm-scented air of the en chanted town, still under the spell of Shakespeare and A Winter's Tale. We cannot recapture the lightness of heart, the simple and triumphant joy of living, which ...

... Pictures from the U.S., Syria and France MRS. HENRY J. KAISER LAUNCHES ONE OF HER HUSBAND'S SHIPS With the master shipbuilder as a spectator, Mrs. Kaiser prepares to break a bottle of champagne against a Liberty ship which was built in the record time of 24 days. Since then Mr. Henry J. Kaiser has built a vessel complete in 14 days He operates several yards in the United States and more are ...

... LORRY-BORNE INFANTRY IN THE EGYPTIAN DESERT How the Modern Soldier Takes the Omnibus into Battle The Technique of the Infantry Onslaught of To-day Described by F. A. NOLAN IN the days when the tank's best speed was a mere 5 m.p.h., supporting in fantry could trudge fairly comfortably along in the rear. As soon as armoured vehicles became capable of up to 30 m.p.h. over any kind of ground, the ...

... WHEN A TANK IS HIT A Few Impressions of what Happens when the Big Desert Vehicles are Caught by Concentrated Shell-fire During Battle Throughout the desert, where the fighting has been fiercest, are large areas now littered with the debris of modern warfare blackened, blown-up tanks charred lorries ruined transport vehicles. The manner in which large tanks can be blown up is surprising and a ...

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... Queens 41- (Ufie QumiS OWn) XuAiati, Raised independently and regimented under Col. the Hon. John Berkeley in 1685 as the Princess Anne of Denmark's Regiment of Dragoons. In 1788 it was ordered to adopt the title Queen's Own Dragoons. Made Light Dragoons in 1818 and became Hussars in 1861. f t^. Like this famous regiment HIGHLAND OUEEN GRAND LIQUEUR SCOTCH WHISKY was originally produced ...

... MR ANTHONY EDEN IN BATTLE-DRESS: THE FOREIGN SECRETARY AND GENERAL SIR BERNARD PAGET, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF HOME FORCES, witness a bin-scale Army exercise in Yorkshire-- a picture taken as the tanks were moving off across a cornfield during the operations The Foreign Secretary and Lieut.-Colonel the Maharajah Jam Sahib of Nawanagar (Indian representative in the War Cabinet) have just returned ...

... U TOWITZERS WHICH ARE NOW IN ACTION IN EGYPT This is one of the American-built 155-mm. howitzers they were originally designed in ance, but are now made by our Allies. Men of the Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery, operate these powerful weapons and, above, gunners are seen removing the camouflage nets prior to going into action AXIS SUPPLY LINES UNDER ATTACK FROM THE AIR: A direct hit is scored ...

... Cince Russia's entry into the war in June 1941, the world has learned of the heroism of the Red Army at Leningrad, Moscow, Sebastopol and now Stalingrad. For weeks the mightiest German armies have been battering at the great industrial centre on the Volga, and for weeks the Red Army has withstood the whole might of the invader's massed divisions. Day by day the Germans have poured in fresh ...

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... AN R.A.F. COASTAL COMMAND FLYING FORTRESS RESCUES 43 TORPEDOED SEAMEN Two Official Air Ministry Pictures Showing the Men in their Lifeboat 500 Miles Out in the Atlantic I^ortv-three Allied seamen, whose ship was sunk by a German U-boat, owe their lives to a Coastal Command Flying Fortress which sighted them some on rafts and others in a lifeboat-- nearly 500 miles out in the Atlantic. The ...

... 90,000 BRITONS and their GERMAN GAOLERS Their Routine Life and Their Aspirations and Accomplishments whilst Prisoners of War in Germany By FERDINAND TUOHY UNTIL this viciously-childish affair of the prisoners in chains, it can truthfully be said that the Nazi treatment of British and Dominion prisoners of war provided least ground for criticism of all Germany's behaviour towards her principal ...