... A REVIEW of the U-BOAT WAR And the Tactics of the German Wolf-Packs in the Under-water Battle of the Atlantic By DOUGLAS GLEN IN 1917, when sinkings brought us peril ously near defeat, it was the convoy system that saved us. At the outbreak of the present war Germany possessed seventy submarines, and again, but for the con voys, our sea-borne supplies could not have been maintained. Now, after ...

... VETERANS OF THE ROYAL NAVY: C.-in-C. on His Own Quarter-Deck ADMIRAL SIR JOHN TOVEY, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE HOME FLEET, on his quarter-deck with a naval visitor, Vice-Admiral S. S. Bonham-Carter Sir John went to the Home Fleet as its Commander in 1940, after having served since 1938 as Rear-Admiral (D.) commanding the Destroyer Flotillas of the Mediterranean Fleet. Previously he had served, ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 165 i, New Oxford Street, W.i. Christian Smuts.-- He had the welcome which he deserved and we expected. His address to Parliament proved an historic occasion and a fine contribution to war oratory. He put things in their right perspective, with out fear or favour; and the poor old British Empire emerged looking all the better for the advocacy of its best friend and ...

... NAVAL SURGEONS AT SEA How They Care for the Wounded During Action Described by GEORGE A. KENT 'THERE is another thin red line that Kipling might have versified, if his thoughts had run more in the direction of the Navy, instead of the Army. It is the thin red line on the gold-braided cuff that marks the naval surgeon, be he the humble Surgeon-Lieutenant just entered, or the exalted Surgeon ...

... A JAP FROM THE ALEUTIANS is brought to Dutch Harbour, for questioning by Lieut. -Commander Peter C. Holm, of the U.S. Navy. He was one of five captured after a naval engagement N TRADITIONAL CROSS-LEGGED POSITION, a Jap prisoner from the Aleutians eats his meal in the brig of the U.S. ship which carried him to Dutch Harbour, in Alaska AMERICA SETS HER HOARDS OF SILVER TO WORK IN THE WAR EFFORT ...

... WOMEN WORKERS REPLACE MEN AT KING'S CROSS STATION Girl telephone operators, who have taken over men's work in the Engineering Office at this London terminus. The men they replace have either gone into the Forces or have taken over more important tasks in connection with the country's war effort TONS OF COAL FOR THE WINTER DUMPED IN LONDON Thousands of tons of coal are being stacked up on the ...

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... J. R. Freeman Son, Ltd., n, J. R. Freeman G? Son, Ltd., n Made by King SIX CIGARS Yfwh, jot the fQnif on the hand King SIX is a British-made cigar, by Freeman's the house with over ioo years' experience in fine cigar making. lakers of fine cigars since 1839. ...

... BRITAIN'S NEW TWIN-ENGINED AIRCRAFT The Mosquito Pictured for the First Time Uor some time the Mosquito has been engaged on operational work with the R.A.F., but details of this new twin-engined reconnaissance bomber have only just been rrtade public. The new aircraft is the first operational type to be developed by the de Havilland Design Office Staff since the war of 1914-18. It has two ...

... TEST-FLYING A BRITISH BOMBER Before Incorporating New Modifications in the Already Successful Lancaster Bomber Just as important as the introduction ol new types of aircraft is the improvemenl of existing ones. Much work is necessarj when a modification is introduced it musl be tested and re-tested until every new factor about it is known. Yet, often, 44 modifications really mean that an old ...

... The STRUGGLE for the SOLOMON ISLANDS The Fighting Around Lunga Aerodrome on Guadalcanar, Where U.S. Marines and Bluejackets Have Now Been Reinforced by the Army A DETERMINED effort is now being made by the Japanese Forces-- land, sea and air-- to recover the island of Guadalcanar, in the Solomon Islands, which they lost on August 8. The island is an essential part of the Japanese scheme to ...

... I The Advance Across the Owen Stanley Range The Pursuit of the Japs Across the Gap in New Guinea During the Allied Offensive from Port Moresby Towards Buna ON these pages we are enabled to reproduce-- for the first time-- pictures and diagrams which indicate the nature of the little-known tangle of country which lies between Port Moresby, on the south of New Guinea, and Buna, on the north. ...