... THE PRIME MINISTER TOURS HIS CONSTITUENCY, ACCOMPANIED BY MRS. CHURCHILL ADDRESSING A CROWD AT WOODFORD THROUGH THE MICROPHONE AND IN THE RAIN. Mr. Churchill's tour lasted for six hours, during which he addressed some 10,000 people The constituency which Mr. Churchill will contest during the coming election is Woodford this is the new constituency which has resulted from the splitting of the ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 300 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. A Mad World?-- How often in the past years, between bouts of cheerfulness or efforts to cheer, have I bored readers with reminders that four years of total war left the world pretty mad in 1919 and, a fortiori, might do so again in 1945 onwards. Messrs. Eden and Attlee returned from 'Frisco to tell us that all goes pretty smoothly and ...

... (see also pp. 264-5) GERMAN OFFICIALS ARRESTED WHEN BRITISH TROOPS SEIZED THE HIGH COMMAND HEADQUARTERS Some of them were late-risers and were only partly-dressed. One is still in his underclothes, while others line the corridor, face to the wall, in various stages of undress THE FOREMOST PRISONER, standing with bowed head facing the wall, bears a striking resemblance to Adolf Hitler. When ...

... 'The German Navy employed three types of midget U-boats, of which the two one-man types are shown above and on the right. That known as Biber has a surface displacement of 6 tons. Its length is 29 ft. 6 ins. and overall beam 4 ft. 9 ins. It is armed with two modified electric torpedoes, slung one on either side outboard. These have a range of about 5,000 yards at 20 knots. In place of one or ...

... Once more the Rock, that preposterous freak of geology which thrusts its towering cliffs into the Western Mediterranean, has played its part in a long-drawn-out struggle. From the moment when the Rock took action stations as rapidly as any warship at sea, it has remained ever on guard, ever on duty. During many decades it has boasted of an increasing number of rock-hewn emplacements, but ...

... The German Air Force did not emerge from the war as an un defeated organisation. It was as decisively beaten in the air as the Army was on land. Since the crossing of the Elbe by the British in the closing stages of the land fighting, the Luftwaffe made desperate but hopeless attempts to attack our bridgeheads before finally giving up the struggle in the face of overwhelming British and ...

... Another development of the successful Cromwell tank is now released from the Secret List. It is the Challenger. It was not possible to mount the 17-pounder gun in the Cromwell, and so this new vehicle was developed to carry it. By lengthening the hull of the tank, fitting an additional pair of bogey-wheels and fitting a larger turret, it became possible to fix one of our best cruiser tanks ...

... THANKSGIVING FOR VICTORY IN THE RUINS OF ST. MARY-LE-BOW IN CHEAPSIDE-- with a distant prospect of St. Paul's through the John Milton Commemoration Window. This church was destroyed by Nazi airmen on May 11, 1941 only the walls, the crypt and the steeple were left standing. The famous Bow Bells have been recorded arid arc often heard on the broadcasts of the B.B.C. All the bells in the peal, ...

... THE BRITISH NAVY GOES EAST FOR THE FINAL EFFORT AGAINST THE JAPS An impression of some of the Fleet auxiliaries which accompany the fighting vessels, to service them and provide amenities- -Drawing by Wm. McDowell The shifting of the focus of naval activity from European to Eastern waters involves a very great deal more than just the movement of warships. Dry- docking arrangements have to be ...

... THE TWO LEADING FIGURES IN THE NEW SHOW AT THE LONDON HIPPODROME On left-- Miss Roma Beaumont in her Regency dress on right Mr. Ivor Novello as Valentine Fayre in Perchance to Dream a colourful production with songs and costumes of the Regency and Victorian era. Ivor Novello, as a Regency buck, attempts to improve the family fortune by becoming a nocturnal highwayman. He is redeemed by his ...

... The QUEEN ELIZABETH as a TROOPER And a Special Overhead Drawing of a Carrier's Flight Deck Cince the spring of 1940 the Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth, in grey war paint, have steamed over 930,000 miles to bring safely across the oceans 1,250,000 fighting men of the United Nations. When the war began, the Queen Elizabeth was a source of anxiety to the Government. In February 1940, the ...

... A FORMER NAZI BIG SHOT Dr. Robert Ley, still wearing pyjamas after he had been found near Berchtesgaden: Leader of the German Labour Front, Dr. Ley was found in a house 45 miles from Hitler s Bavarian headquarters. After complaining that he was suffering from a heart complaint, he unsuccessfully attempted to commit suicide UNPLEASANT PEOPLE This unattractive couple are Franz Schwarz and his ...