... The AFTERMATH at GUADALCANAR The Island the Japs could not Conquer and which they have now Evacuated There are no longer any Japs left on Guadalcanar Island, except dead ones. After months of bitter fighting the yellow men were fought to a stand still by tough American troops, until the enemy High Command ordered its evacu ation. The pictures reproduced below show last scenes after the enemy ...

... 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 ...

... WAT OF THE WAR By Foresight Premier's Return THE Prime Minister is back at work once more and ready to assume new burdens in the House of Commons in the absence of one of his colleagues. Mr. Churchill looks thinner as though he had lost many pounds in weight but he is cheerful, even exuberant. He has overcome his illness in the comparatively short time of three weeks. Some of his friends ...

... Family Pictures The Duchess of Marlborough and Three of Her Children Lady Caroline Spencer- Churchill For over a year, the younger daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough did full-time secretarial work in a hospital, but deciding that she tvould be even better employed on the more active work of nursing, she recently qualified as a V.A.D. She is now working at a hospital in Oxfordshire ...

... The Glorious Story of the Eighth Army in the Battle of Egypt is Told in 44 Desert Victory' dive-bombed by ,n ,hc Rommel s J into action z-n.nrM l, ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen Post-Symbolists THE HERITAGE OF SYMBOLISM, by C. M. Bowra (Macmillan; 15s.), is a study of the link between five great poets-- Paul Valéry, Rainer Maria Rilke, Stefan George, Alexander Blok and William Butler Yeats. These men, though (roughly) contemporaries, were of different nationalities: the scenes of their lives and their destinies lay very far apart. They did not ...

... Mr. Arthur Machen, the well-known author, cele brated his eightieth birthday a fortnight ago by giving a luncheon-party for friends and relatives at the Ilun- garia Restaurant in London. Mr. Machen's last work, A Handy Dickens, was pub lished little more than a year ago. His home is at Amersham, in Buckingham shire his favourite recre ation, according to Who \s Who, 44 Dog and Duck Lady Benson ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 185 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Impatience of Publicists. --No doubt, the first week of March 1943 was historically a very signi ficant one in this war-- and especially for the Allied air forces. It was a culmination of a phase of intensified bombing of German war industries on a non-stop basis by day and night which included record raids. It included the 100 per cent, ...

... The Devastation Wrought ac Essen where the 41 Heaviesc Blow at German War Industry was Struck by the R.A F. During the course of his Air Review in the House of Commons on March 11. Sir Archibald Sinclair had this to say of Essen We have now obtained photographs of the attack on the night of March 5-6, and this proves to have been probably the heaviest blow struck at German war industry in the ...

... Dublin Bull Shows High Prices for Shorthorns THREE hundred and eighty Shorthorns faced the judges -at the annual Royal Dublin Society's Bull Show this year. The champion bull was Prumplestown Gamecock, a yearling owned by the well- known shorthorn breeder, Mr. J. F. Wright, whose brother secured the reserve champion ship with Kilkea Double Event, an April calf. Mr. J. F. Wright won the group ...