... ONE of the most interesting things about the Navy's submarines is that they are one of the few weapons which have not shown a tendency to get bigger and more costly as the war goes on. We are now actually building smaller submarines than in 1928. Neglecting the L. and H. classes, now used for training, the Navy now has about nine operational classes of submarines. Really there are only about ...

... AWAY FROM THESE WARS Memories and Thoughts of the Years Between --A Fortnightly Causerie By J. G. ODD Jobs at Home.-- How many of us good, easy men, householders, fathers of families and country squireens, in these last years of in creasing austerity, have seen the various duties of the plumber, builder, house carpenter, electrician and handy-man thrust upon us, and found ourselves cast for ...

... ROOF OVER BRITAIN How the Anti-Aircraft Defences were Organised to Counter the Blows of the German Luftwaffe yhe R.A.F. won the Battle of Britain during the autumn of 1940. But the Fighter Squadrons who fought and won that immortal battle did not constitute the whole of our defensive system. The 44 roof over Britain was composed of her static defences as well the anti-aircraft batteries, the ...

... MARCH 19, 1943 Triple the safety glass fortnightly V fa ILLUSTRATED SPORTING DRAMATIC NEWS ftPORT IlCOUNTRY ...

... THE Spring Show and Sale of at tracted a very good crowd and some fine animals changed hands, although a proportion was for show only. Averages were excellent. Ten three-year-old stallions averaged £108 eleven four-year-olds averaged £126, and eleven two year olds averaged £135 16s. Entries for yearling, two- and three-year-old fillies were small, but they all sold. Five yearling and two-year ...

... amcf M-Xtyn tJte/ai£c( THREE organisations for the voluntary collection of the 1943 harvest appear to be working already at full speed. These are the Voluntary Landworkers (for adults) and the two organisations affecting schoolchildren. These last two affect (a) the secondary schools and the public schools, and (b) the elementary schools. The schools as a whole, last year, formed 650 camps and ...

... Wanderers v. Keyham Crack R.N. XV. Win by 12 Pts. to 3 MAJOR G. WARDEN, one of Rugby football's most sage and popular referees, and secretary of Eastern Counties Rugby Union before important military advisory duties took Up most of his time, has started a scheme whereby American and other Allied officers in this country are invited as guests of sports organisations. Major Warden's concern is ...

... Inter- Varsity Sports OXFORD, by beating Cambridge 61 points to 47, has now squared its wartime athletics ac count. Each University- has now won twice, on each occasion on its own ground. The match illus trated was held on the Iffley Road ground, Ox ford. The Dark Blues won 8 events against 4. THE TWO TEAMS. In the centre of the front row are the two Presidents, G. W. Sears Cambridge and W. S. ...

... By A. Croxton Smith AS the Great War of 1914-18 was drawing to its close, I was asked to write an article dis cussing the effect it was likely to have upon the future of field sports, and with this text in mind I sought the views of friends who were most qualified to express opinions worth hearing. Hunting, shooting, and coursing all came under review. Most of them expected radical changes, a ...

... Hermione Baddeley Returns to Straight Drama in Brighton Rock The Story of a Brighton Race-Gang Brighton Rock has been adapted by- Frank Harvey, author of Saloon Bar, from the novel by Graham Greene. It is a sensational, strong story of the machina tions of Brighton's race-gangs and of the sordid lives and distorted mentalities of the men and women who make up these gangs. It may come as ...

... Stage and Screen Some Celebrities Oil' Duty First-Night Dressing-Room Scenes at The Merry Widow Revival George Graves, who plays his original part of Baron Pop off read a telegram of congratulations from Lily Elsie the original Merry Widow) to Madge Elliott now playing the role) and Cyril Ritchard Celebrating the First Anniversary of The Doctor's Dilemma 99 Vivien Leigh gave the party, and ...

... -/4 By Sabretache Racing Dates 1943 THE publication of the dates for the prin cipal fixtures in 1943 does not greatly vary the information given earlier on, but the new dates are far more favourable to owners' interests than the first ones, under which the Derby and the Oaks were put down for the same day, May 27th, at Epsom, and the Two Thousand and One Thousand suffered in the same way, and ...