... FASHIONS IN FELONY A Visit to the Police Courts, to See the Wartime Procession before the Metropolitan Magistrates. Described by CHARLES GRAVES IN spite of the opportunities afforded by abnormal wartime conditions, the black-out, and a shortage of experienced detectives and police- constables, fewer offences against the law are taking place in 1943 than in peacetime. I have been paying a ...

... THE TASK OF THE R.A.F. WAS NOT AN EASY ONE, OWING TO THE WEATHER HAZARDS. Bad weather conditions persisted to the very last days of the campaign in Tunisia. Although the actual entry into Tunis was made in sunshine, heavy rains during the preceding days had alternated with Scotch mists to make flying conditions very difficult. It was frequently found to be impossible to carry out certain ...

... AFTER THE GREAT VICTORY I Some Interesting New Pictures from the Battle Areas in Northern Tunisia ^\/Jany aircraft which were reported missing in air combat in North Africa were soon back in the battle They had been brought to the base by R.A.F. Repair and Salvage Units. These latter go .everywhere with their powerful cranes and big 44 Queen Marys (as the R.A.F. call their 60-ft.-long, six ...

... iews of our 3-7 anti-aircraft guns in the Tunisian assault mes from a staff officer of Anti-Aircraft Command who has t returned from North Africa. The observations he made 1 unisia bring out fresh details on the use of A. -A. guns in her roles, such as in anti-tank or field gunnery, and shed nv light on the comparison of the 3-7 with the Germans' $-mm. flak gun. Much has recently been made of ...

... THE U-BOAT CAMPAIGN At the Close of Winter The German people have been encouraged through out the bleak disasters of the winter with the assurance from their High Command that the U-boats were steadily crushing the Allied effort, by the increasing sinking of the shipping crossing the Atlantic. Consequently, there has been much disappointment at the latest figures announced for April, which ...

... THREE PHASES of the TUNISIAN FIGHTING Smoke Screens over the Land Mortar Fire in Axis Counter-Attacks; Tank versus Tank in the Plains Special Diagrams and Drawings IT will have been noticed from accounts of the Tunisian fighting how our tank forces, no less than those of the enemy, have made conspicuous use of smoke-screens, both for offensive and defensive purposes. The methods employed are ...

... THE COMING OF THE THUNDERBOLT The Crack American Fighter Plane New in Quantity Production for the U.S. Army Air Force and in Operation Over Europe THE NEW AMERICAN P47, KNOWN AS THE THUNDERBOLT, a high-altitude and very fast fighter now being operated by U.S. pilots. This picture well emphasises the fat body lines of the new aircraft, the huge radial engine and the four-bladed propeller ...

... , after the four major attacks by the R.A.F. in April 1942 (on left) LAUNCH 2586, of the Air-Sea Rescue Service, is hauled ashore on a special cradle for a final and thorough inspection at its base High-speed Launch 2586 was built for the Air-Sea Rescue Service. Her purpose like all of her class is to save the lives of airmen brought down oyer the sea. She was built at a Thames-side ship yard. ...

... GENERAL EISENHOWER, C.-IN-C. OF THE ALLIED FORCES, pays a surprise visit to a forward area Headquarters of the Eighth Army. On his left is Major E. R. Lee, his A.D.C. in the centre is a British Brigadier of the General Staff on the right is Air Vice-Marshal Broadhurst (Commanding the Desert Air Force with the Eighth Army) BATHS BETWEEN BATTLES FOR THE EIGHTH ARMY. A change from the desert to ...

... DORNEYWOOD and BOARSTALL Tower for the National Trust A gift to the nation, similar to that of Chequers made in 1917 by Lord Lee of Fareham, has just been announced. Through the National Trust, Sir Courtauld Thomson has given Dorney- wood, in Buckinghamshire (adjoining Bumham Beeches), as an official residence for one of the Secretaries of State, or another Minister of similar rank. The Prime ...

... The S'ory of the pictures on the facing page THIS is the story of the sailor who became Squire of an African village. Not only the Squire, but also Chairman of the Parish Church Council, Chief Air-Raid Warden and the only white man ever to be elected to the village Leopard Hunt Club. The sailor is Petty Officer William Palethorpe, and the African village is Leicester, which clings to the ...

... One by One They Have Been Called to the F'uhrer, and One by One They Have Been Told Exactly What is Wanted From I hem. By rtKUINANU 1UOHT FOUR days in mid-April indubitably marked a milestone in the lifetime of Mussolini. At his own request, the Duce went to the Führer's head quarters. These are a mobile quantity: now Berchtesgaden, now Berlin, or in a Russian forest beside a train that begets ...