... THE BUSINESS END OF THE PAPER BALLOONS SENT OVER AMERICA DURING THE WAR BY THE JAPS This part of the Japanese balloon, with which the Japs hoped to destroy areas in the U.S., carries the bomb-load. The bombs are attached to this chandelier, which is equipped with an automatic release and is hinged to the balloon itself by nineteen shroud-lmes. The exploding fuse which released a sandbag as ...

... On left Air Vice-Marshal Donald Bennett, who formed and led the K.A.F. S famous Path finder Force, celebrated the transfer of Heath Row Aero drome from military to civil control by taking-off in the Lancastrian air liner Star light on a survey flight to South America on January 1 Heath Row is to be Britain s main air junction it is estimated officially to have cost about £20,000,000. At ...

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... i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Importance of U.N. As sembly. --The nation was not likely to forget or underrate the importance of U.N.A., first and last hope of posterity and peace. From the King downwards, every component of our State has gone forth to do it honour. A King's Speech, a royal banquet, a Premier's welcome, Cabinet meetings to agree upon early resolutions and first addresses by ...

... The New Year started with a week of disaster on the British railways which has caused the deepest national concern. The L.M.S. collision at Trent Valley, Lichfield, with its death-roll mounting to twenty the Army casualties at Savernake, near Marlborough, where ammunition wagons blew up and the night express disaster near Durham, in volving a further ten deaths, all came within a period of six ...

... On right Not content with trying to control affairs in the island of Java itself, the insurgents are now extending the scope of their activities to other parts of the Dutch Colonial possessions in the East Indies. According to recent reports from the Dutch naval authorities, Indonesian terrorists, carrying Japanese-made portable radios and identification cards, have landed in Southern Borneo ...

... Dcrlin once housed the fourth largest city population in the world to-day it is but a skeleton of its former greatness, and Ber- liners are forced to many expedi ents to place roofs over their heads. In some districts where wood is plentiful they are erecting hutments, and individual huts, on suitable land in order that they may pass the winter in reasonable comfort. The Allied authorities ...

... THE AMERICAN WARSHIP WHICH BRAVED A 75 MILE-AN-HOUR GALE IN MID-ATLANTIC REACHES AN ICE-COVERED NEW YORK The U.S. battleship Washington made her last journey from Europe to America with hundreds of U.S. troops on board for demobilisation. During the crossing she ran into a heavy gale, in the course of which the wind achieved a force at times of 75 miles an hour. On arrival in New York, after ...

... AMERICA'S TEMPORARY HOUSES a colony of Quonset huts converted for civilian use at the Port Hueneme Housing Project in California. These are ex-Army huts which are being used to alleviate the desperate housing problem in the U.S. THE INTERIOR OF A QUONSET HUT which has been converted into a hunting-lodge in Ohio It boasts a roomy brick fireplace connected to a chimney outside. It has been made ...

... THE MAN WHO DIRECTED THE MURDER OF 90,000 IN THE DOCK AT NUREMBERG, OTTO OHLENDORF, FORMER CHIEF OF THE SECURITY POLICE UNDER HIMMLER, stands before a microphone and describes his terrible record of mass murders Confessing with thg utmost candour that the group under his com mand had been responsible for 90,000 executions in a year of campaigning in Russia, Otto Ohlendorf, former S.S. Major ...

... THE year 1946 promises to be a record one for international meetings. The series has already begun in London, and by the summer not only must a Peace Conference be concluded, but an Economic Conference put in train. By mid-year other discussions will have been launched on such reverberating subjects as atomic energy and a world police force, and this is taking no account of such matters as the ...

... The status of the Emperor of Japan has been recognised as a matter of great importance to the future development in the Far East. American authorities have evidently given it consideration and have come to the conclusion that his political divinity must not be fostered in future. A few days ago it was announced that the Emperor had himself issued a rescript to the Japanese people declaring ...