... HOW AUSTRALIA DEFENDS HER PORTS By Means of Strong Boom Defences Which Stretch Across Her Harbours STRIPPED to the waist in tropic heat, men of the Royal Australian Navy work day by day at sea and ashore on the unspec tacular but vital task of operating and maintaining the harbour boom defence system. the basic func tion of boom de fence is to throw out a protecting screen of giant nets ...

... ANOTHER, AND DIFFERENT, KIND OF R.A.F. RAID Two airmen go prospecting for gulls' eggs at an English bomber station THE RESULT OF THE RAID Four more gulls' eggs are discovered in their nest in the gulls colony. These two men were both brick layers in civilian life, and both came from Aldgate one is now a runner in the Operations Room, and the other is fully trained for gas defence. After their ...

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... THE three things that stand out in my mind as I sit down to write of another Red Cross goif match, this time at the Cuddington Golf Club, Banstead, Surrey, are (1) that James Braid, our referee, had already covered eighteen holes on his beloved Walton Heath before coming on to us, to get a little walking practice, as it were; (2) that one enthusiast cycled 35 miles to watch the game-- he still ...

... A BANK HOLIDAY crowd of some 20,000 at Lord's saw the defeat of the Army (8 wickets declared, 168) by the R.A.F. (1 wicket, 169). The R.A.F. won the toss and put their opponents in first. The Army did not declare until 5.15, but the R.A.F. were 100 up within an hour, and, after a fine innings for 73 (not out) by L. G. Berry, partnered by W. J. Edrich, made the necessary extra run. Matthews, ...

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... Royal Visitors at the Allied Fair The Queen was Present on the Opening Day The Allied Nations Summer Fair, arranged by the Red Cross and St. John War Organisation, was held in the gardens of Clarence House, London. Sir Philip Chctwode, Lady Louis Mountbatten and Lady Limerick were among the reception com mittee, and showed the Queen round the stalls of fourteen Allied nations. Her Majesty made ...

... 66 The Russians Rehearsed in Moscow Within Sound of the Guns, the First Russian War Play Seen in England is Given by the Old Vic Co. at the Playhouse Enter the Spy Act J, Scene 2, headquarters of an isolated Russian unit. Koslovsky (centre), the spy Roy Malcolm joins the guerillas and shows his false credentials. The girl scout, Valya (left Freda Jackson who works between the occu pied town ...

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... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewarl Examination THE electron microscope would be a good instru ment with which to examine the speeches of responsible Ministers of the Crown. For the more you magnify them, the more you can see the facts of which they are composed. When we magnify Mr. Morrison one hundred thousand times we see millions of examples of the paper virus; we see growing with pathological ...

... Googie Withers is now playing Alice Foster, the leading role opposite John Clements in J. B. Priestley's They Came to a City at the Globe Theatre, her first serious part on the stage. It was the screen, in the films One of Our Aircraft is Missing and The Silver Fleet that first gave this talented young actress her chance to show her merits as a serious emotional actress. She was horn in India ...

... 0.. J A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Allied Nations' Fair HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN arrived at the Allied Nations' Fair in the garden of Clarence House, St. James's Palace (for so many years the home of the veteran Duke of Connaught), looking particularly charming in a lovely shade of pale mauve, and one of her favourite halo hats, trimmed with violets. Her simple austerity bouquet was of ...