... , MAGNET HOUSE, KINGSWAY, LONDON, W.C.2 SPITFIRE 1945 (4 LI NES) Simply by pressing a button a British rescue craft. Think of the heightened fighter pilot gets immediate radio skill and new experience in radio- contact with base, command, flight or electronics G.E.C. will bring to sea rescue. This automatic 'four-line the making of the future's finest press-button radio-telephone was Radio and ...

... THE ROCKET SHIP AND ITS FORMIDABLE EQUIPMENT--THE OVERWHELMING ALLIED WEAPON USED IN EVERY INVASION IN EUROPE AND THE PACIFIC SINCE ANZIO REVEALED FOR THE FIRST TIME. This photograph has just been released by the U.S. Navy Department it shows how the rocket equipment is installed on the deck of a special landing craft To gain a foothold on the strongly-defended coast of Europe, the rocket ship ...

... Secrets of the work carried out by the R.A.F. in their almost uncanny photographic reconnais sance flights were revealed a few days ago when, for the first time, British journalists visited the R.A.F. Stations at Benson and Medmenham-- nerve centres of the camera war. At Benson, headquarters of No. 106 Group, which was responsible for vitally important photographic reconnaissances, the Air ...

... After the vilest treatment at the hands of the Japs during their four years of internment, relief was speedily brought to the British prisoners on the island of Singapore. Almost before the surrender formalities had been completed, plans had been put into execution for the dropping of medical relief teams by parachute. In the drawing by Mr. Roland Davies given above, the island, with its great ...

... THE GREAT MOMENT ON BOARD THE U.S.S. MISSOURI On behalf of the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters, General Yoshira Umaza signs the surrender document. Standing in front of him is Lieut.-General Richard K. Sutherland, Chief of Staff. General Douglas MacArthur, the Supreme Commander, stands by the microphone on the left CHARTING TOKYO BAY for the entry of the Allied Fleet: A conference on ...

... Among the many merchant ships which have been doing wartime jobs are the armed merchant cruisers. These will probably be the first to return to their normal peace time business of cargo and passenger-carrying. To reconvert these after six years of war is no light task. To remove the guns and gun positions is comparatively easy, but this is not all. Much internal structural work has to be done. ...

... HThe new Vampire, of which two pictures just released by the Air Ministry are given here, is believed to be the fastest jet-propelled plane in production in the world to-day it was the first in Great Britain or America to exceed by a handsome margin 500 m.p.h. in level flight, which it did in the spring of 1944. The aircraft is of all-metal con struction except the cockpit, which is of all ...

... IF half the forebodings turn out to be but half- true, this is going to be a memorable winter of misery, death and suffering on the Continent. Mr. Lehman says roundly of the European countries on U.N.R.R.A.'s list Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy, Albania, Czechoslovakia, Poland that unless they get more assistance they cannot survive the coming winter months. As U.N.R.R.A. threatens to stop before ...

... On right The great international port and mart of Shanghai is at last freed from the throttling grip of the Japanese, and once again the ships of commerce will move into the wide estuary of the Yangtse and up the Whang-pu tributary to Shanghai itself. The facade of the great Bund, a succession of palatial build ings facing the stream, is still there, waiting for the life-blood of commerce to ...

... i. New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Saving Face and Wasting Time.-- If I were an Australian statesman, I should temper my relief at Japan's defeat with anxiety for the not far distant future. The next weeks may put a different complexion on the face of things. Just now Japan looks like a by-no-means extinct volcano. Hirohito may be still the Son of Heaven, still the one institution which all Japanese ...

... Six days before Japan surrendered, Russia declared war upon her, in fulfilment of a promise made to the Allies to join with them against the Far Eastern enemy when the war in Europe was over. China had been at war with Japan for eight years, and America and Great Britain since December 7, 1941. Russia entered the war with vigour with full military force, and with all the experience gained ...

... A FAVOURITE LONDON VIEWPOINT, WHICH IS AGAIN OPEN TO THE PUBLIC The Monument, near London Bridge, was closed to the public during the six years of war a few days ago it was reopened, so that visitors may once again enjoy the remarkable vista of the City and its suburbs to be seen from its high platform. To climb the Monument was always a favourite diversion of our country cousins. In this ...