... AMERICAN FLYING NURSES IN BRITAIN These young women are highly trained, and their work is to tend wounded in special stretcher-equipped planes which evacuate casualties from Clearing Stations to Base Hospitals. Two nurses attend each plane. Here three of them are seen without their leather flying suits and showing their uniforms with wings. A JEWELLED SWORD FOR MR. CHURCHILL FROM THE KING OF ...

... THE BATTLE LINE IN ITALY The Latest Pictures from the Fifth and Eighth Armies BEFORE THE CROSSING OF THE SANGRO The Trigno Valley, where Allied troops were held up for about a week. German observation posts overlooked the whole of this valley, and their machine-guns made it impossible to move in daylight. The Eighth Army, having crossed the Trigno River in force, soon came in contact with the ...

... 17 or the first time in 2,400 years, a new type of compass has been invented a compass of such revolutionary design that it may well equal in importance the invention of the famous Sperry bomb- sight. No official details have been re leased by the United States Government beyond those depicted in the drawing here and, owing to its extreme importance and value to the Allied Air Forces, the ...

... Owing to the necessity of maintaining the greatest possible degree of wireless silence, flag-and-lamp signals are even to-day the chief means 0f communication between warships at sea. The lamp, whether it is the small Aldis hand-lamp or the larger signalling searchlight, comes into use mainly for the exchange of messages between pairs of ships. Flag-signals, on the other hand, are chiefly used ...

... --By Vernon Fane Miss Monica Dickens's Study of a War Factory An Airy- Collection of Short Stories This Week's Spy Story An Eleanor Farjeon Burlesque The Tunisian Battlefield And the Son g of the Birds MISS MONICA DICKENS has turned her observant eye and her tart, but friendly, humour on to the acti vities of her fellow-humans in a small war factory near London. lhere is no suggestion that any ...

... The ILLNESS of the PRIME MINISTER Who is now Suffering from Pneumonia in the Middle East ()n Thursday of last week the whole country was seri ously disturbed by the news from the Middle East that Mr. Winston Churchill was ill. The news was announced to a startled House of Com mons by Mr. Attlee, who read the first bulletin signed by Lord Moran, Brigadier D. Evan Bedford and Lt. -Colonel R. J. ...

... ANOTHER OF HITLER'S 41 SECRET WEAPONS A close-up of a new German rocket gun one of a series of pictures just released, evidently for propaganda purposes, from enemy sources These three pictures are the first to reach London of the Germans' newest rocket gun which, it is claimed, is now being used with much success on the Eastern Front. It fires six rocket shells in quick succession, each of ...

... THE NEW V.C. Twenty-two-year-old Acting Right-Lieut. William Reid, of No. 61 Squadron. R.A.F., who thus becomes the seven teenth member of the R.A.F. to win this highest distinction. The award was made for a flight to Dusseldorf, during the course of which Right-Lieut. Reid was wounded when 200 miles away from the target. Despite his wounds, suffering severely from cold, and with his aircraft ...

... THE LUN.TS RETURN TO-NIGHT: THERE SHALL BE NO NIGHT. HPHERE SHALL BE NO NIGHT, the new Robert E. Sherwood play starring those brilliant and accomplished artists, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, is due to open in London to-night, December 15, at the Aldwych, after a successful provincial try-out. The scene is set in Greece. Karila Vlachos, brilliant scientist, and his American-born wife are ...

... . JANE EYRE, the famous Victorian romance by Charlotte Bronte, was successfully staged F some time ago, and is now coming to the screen in a 20th Century- Fox production, with Orson Welles as the sinister Mr. Rochester and Joan Fontaine in the title-role. As everyone knows, the story deals with the love affair of the demure governess and [Continued opposite. Jane Eyre and Air. Rochester in ...

... pERHAPS the chief element which contributes to the joyousness of Christmas is giving. Everyone is bent on bringing gladness to others. We would like you to remember the work of JOHN GROOM'S CRIPPLE- AGE, founded by the late John Groom and the great Earl of Shaftesbury. We rely on the public, more than ever, to support the training and maintaining of crippled girls bringing relief and partial ...

... THE THREE-POWER CONFERENCE IN NORTH AFRICA: MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK, WITH MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL DURING THE RECENT TALKS, which Madame Chiang attended throughout, despite the delicate state of her health For the first time in this war, Mr. Winston Churchill and President Roosevelt have met Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek at an historic full-dress conference at the Mena House Hotel, near Cairo. The ...