... AT this time of year the maintenance parties responsible for the upkeep of our warships are working overtime, especially in the case of destroyers whose duties give them the smallest of respite from the winter weather. inter conditions in the Arctic and JNortk Atlantic in particular provide the severest test which could possibly be devised for ship and crew alike, and one of the highest ...

... THE new vote of credit for which Sir John Anderson asked in the House of Commons last week drew further attention to U.N.R.R.A., the biggest of all the philanthropic schemes of the United Nations. U.N.R.R.A. is the abbreviation of United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Adminis tration, and its task can be defined as planning the provision of essential imports and services required for ...

... TWO NEW BISHOPS ARE CONSECRATED IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY The Archbishop's Procession- fourth from the right is the Rev. N. S. Jones, the new Assistant Bishop of Lagos, and fifth from the right is the Rev. G. F. Cranswick, the new Bishop of Tasmania. The consecration of two new Colonial Bishops by the Archbishop of Canterbury took place at a ceremony held in Westminster Abbey on the anniversary of ...

... A CURTAIN OF FIRE IS PUT UP BY BRITISH WARSHIPS during a night bombing attack off the Normandy coast. When enemy night raiders came over and tried to bomb the Allied armada in the anchorage at Ouistreham, British warships put up a terrific barrage. These two pictures were taken from the cruiser Mauritius they show tracer fire from the Navy streaking up into the darkness and creating an almost ...

... The pictures reproduced on these pages show the progression of the wounded British soldier from battle-line to Britain. By sea- and by air, the wounded are evacuated at great speed-- so that, ;in some cases, only a very few hours elapse before the arrival of a wounded man at a base in this country where the most expert treatment can, of course, be carried out. British and American soldiers are ...

... CAPTURED BY THE EIGHTH ARMY IN ITALY: The 70-ton Ferdinand self-propelled gun, showing the top of the vehicle and the manner in which the crew enter by hatchways. The gun itself is an 88 mm. On right During the rapid advance of our troops in Italy, the Germans have been forced to abandon or blow up many of the vehicles and guns which they found it impracticable to take with them along the ...

... ON JUNE 20 bombers of the Eighth Air Force attacked the oil refineries at Hamburg. Eight plants were left burning as a result, and here the Rhenania Ossag Refinery is seen spouting black smoke thousands of feet into the air as a result of the assault ANOTHER REFINERY AT HAMBURG GOES UP IN SMOKE at the same time as the one in the upper picture. This is the Ebano Works. On June 20 the Eighth Air ...

... PRESSED-STEEL EMERGENCY WINDOWS FOR THE LONDON BUSES When bus or trolley-bus windows are blasted, London Transport engineers have discovered a quick method of getting the vehicle into service again within a short space of time. Thin sheets of steel, the same sire as the glass windows, are used and are fitted in the same manner. Two diagonal creases in the middle give the sheet a slight bulge ...

... J ast week airborne troops were employed in one of the biggest exercises yet carried out in this country. Within a space of twenty minutes, scores of gliders landed without a mishap at an English airfield. Guns, ammunition, bicycles and other equipment rained from the skiqs, whilst on the ground gliders poured out their loads of troops, doctors and stretcher-bearers. The demonstration was part ...

... In the most recent class of British frigates, at least 80 per cent, of the structure has been pre fabricated and certain deck houses have been pre- constructed and fitted out to enable them to be de livered complete to the shipyards for lifting into the vessel,' declared Mr. Alexander recently in Parliament. Without this system of pre-fabrication, in fact, the losses in torpedoed and mined ...

... TWO LAKELAND FARMS FOR THE NATION A picture of Millbeck Farm, Great Langdale, with the Langdale Pikes providing an impressive background. The Master of Trinity, Dr. G. M. Trevelyan, O.M., has given to the National Trust his two farms. Millbeck and Harry Place' in Great Langdale, Westmorland, with a total area of 289 acres. The Trust already owns the Dungeon Ghyll Hotel and three farms at the ...

... A/Tany references have been made during recent weeks to the Ger man experimental long- range V- weapon base at Watten, near St Omer. Here are the first pictures to be shown ot this great construction, believed by people living in the neigh bourhood to be an installation to destroy London by fire, the huge main building is still intact internally, despite thirty-three heavy attacks by the R.A.F ...