... ROYAL, NAVAL, MILITARY AND SPORTING 1EWS OF THE WEEK IN PICTURE FORM. H.R.H. the DUCHESS OF KENT took the salute at a Youth Week Parade at Leeds. The LORD MAYOR OF LEEDS (MISS J. B. KITSON) and the EARL OF HAREWOOD are with her on the steps. This smiling WREN works at the repair depot of a landing-craft base where the training of our Amphibious Forces is in progress. The Chariot race at a ...

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- THE epic story of WING-COMMANDER G. P. GIBSON, V.C., D.S.O. and Bar, and his force of Lancaster bombers which wrecked the three Ruhr dams made May history. Last week he attended at Buckingham Palace with his wife, to receive his brilliantly- won V.C., and a Bar to the D.S.O. handed to him by the Queen, who deputised for the King, then abroad. COLONEL MALCOLM C. GROW, ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER- No. 197 i. New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Churchill Returns Home --The nation heaved its customary sigh of relief to hear on June 5 that the Premier was home again after his travels. Even for magic carpets, whether they take the air or skim the waves, there are risks of enemy intervention, and we still obstinately cling to the idea that Mr. Churchill is at the moment irreplaceable ...

... ITALY'S FORTRESS in the MEDITERRANEAN The mysterious Island of Pantellaria which has now been cut off from the mainland by the Royal Navy and by Allied bombers A British Official photograph pantellaria has always been described as Mussolini's Island Stronghold it lies midway between Malta- and the North African coast in the Sicilian Narrows there fore its subjugation is necessary. Long before ...

... IN PERIL ON THE SEAS New and Dramatic Pictures of Rescues in the Atlantic THE BATTLE OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC. British seamen huddle in their half-swamped lifeboat as a U.S. Coastguard cutter draws near. A moment later the cutter detected a German submarine in the vicinity and attacked it (See next picture) ADRIFT ON A RAFT AND AWAITING RESCUE BY THE U.S. COAST GUARD CUTTER: Weak from exposure ...

... A SCENE FROM THE BRITISH FILM, THE SILENT VILLAGE --The men of the village are to die, but they face their executioners with an anthem on their lips. The Germans added Lidice to their list of shameful deeds on June 10 last year razing this Czech village to the ground as a reprisal for the killing of Heidrich wiping out its name from official records putting the male population to death. ...

... GRAVE AND LIGHT-HEARTED, WORK AND rLAi STABILITIES OF THE WEEK AND THEIR DOINGS. ADMIRAL LORD LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN, Chief of Combined Operations, and LADY LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN attended the premiere of 44 We Dive at Dawn, in aid of the R.N. Benevolent Fund. I 1 M I II 'VHmtmMWmt IT 1 f Wk j Jj WING COMMANDER W. RUDD teas judge of the ankles competition at the garden party' held by plotter W.A.A.F.s ...

... FROM WAR TO WAR: THE LIFE 11 D DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP. Brilliant young British officers of 1902 Lieut. Clive Candy, V.C. (ROGER LIVESEY) and Lieut. Hopuell (DAVID HUTCHESON), heroes of the Boer War. Edith Hunter (DEBORAH KERR), British governess in Berlin and official 44 reason for Clive's duel finds him bandaged, but all thumbs-up. Clive as the complete Colonel Blimp. Colonel Blimp is ...

... WOMEN IN WARTIME i THE IMPORTANCE OF COLOUR THE SHORT EVENING DRESS PRACTICAL ECONOMY IN the new collections, if so they may be called, colour and simplicity are very important. Debenham and Freebody, Wigmore 'Street, are making a feature of House Coats which are a glorified version of the time-honoured wrapper they are semi-fitting, with full skirts. The model above has been designed by this ...

... MRS. LORNE MacLAINE CAMPBELL is the wife of Major temporary Lieut. -Colonel Lome MacLaine Campbell, V.C., D.S.O., T.D., Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. He won the V.C. for his gallantry at Wadi Akarit, when as described in one of the longest official citations of the war, he gave a display of valour and utter disregard for personal safety which could not be excelled. He won the D.S.O. in ...

... . 1V/T AGIC CARPET, Firth Shephard's new 1VJL musical extravanganza at the Princes Theatre, is a gay, colourful show, full of comic in vention and enlivened by first-class acrobatic dancing by the Ganjou Brothers and Juanita, Marguerite and Charles, and the somersaulters Valyne and Lontay. Sydney Howard is superb as Miss Finchbottom.of the Bon Marche, a Tender foot, an A.B., and in other well ...

... CYRIL RITCHARD AND MADGE ELLIOTT- STAGE PRINCE AND MERRY WIDOW. PHOTOGRAPHS BY CECIL BEATON. AN out facing page we give photographs of MADGE ELLIOTT and CYRIL RITCH ARD as they are at home here they are pictured as Sonia and Prince Danilo as they appear on the stage in the revival of Franz Lehar's musical comedy, 44 The Merry Widow, at His Majesty's. This famous piece was originally seen in ...