... SUITS ACCESSORIES WITH INTERCHANGEABLE QUICK- CHANGE CHECKS.-- The woman with a limited income must always count a suit and top coat as one o£ its indispensable items. If she is clever about them she will ring countless changes by varying small accessories, and certainly she will find an outfit that can be worn with equal success in town or in the country. I here is, for instance, almost no ...

... LAUNCH OF THE KING GEORGE V Britain's First J\[ew Battleship for Fourteen Tears about to Enter the T yne after being Named by the King; While Mr. Chamberlain was addressing the House of Commons last Tuesday afternoon and telling members how the long period of effort, preparation, and organisation of our defence programme is at last beginning to bear visible fruit, the King, accompanied by ...

... 32-34 St. Bride Street, E.C.4 Wednesday, February 22, 1939. THE COST.-- Only the other day the nation gasped to hear that a five-year plan of defence rearmament was perhaps to cost the country £1,500,000,000. The inconceivable figure was gradually digested. This money might be spent between 1937 and 1942. We are now at the beginning of 1939 and by the end of the year we shall have spent just ...

... Britain's Greatest Estate The Story of the Crown Lands How George III Gave Them to the People's Keeping --By^= NOEL THOMPSON CROWN lands are not controlled by the King. The greatest estate in the country provides money for the people. There is a widespread idea that if you have a Crown lease, or are a tenant of Crown lands, you are bound by all sorts of curious restrictions. Before I set out ...

... Wholesome Public Pressure: A.R.P. Makes Strides The Home Gas-Proof Room Makes Way for the Steel Shelter FEBRUARY'S first three weeks of A.R.P. progress bristle with second thoughts. Under wholesome public pressure, half a dozen burning questions in danger of being shelved are squarely faced. Sir John Anderson addresses to his depart ment his own admonition to the citizen:-- Do it now. For ...

... SWAIN E ADENEY Ltd, By Appointment to the late King George V. No. 7856. Pigskin Limp Toilet Case, lined oilskin, loops for tooth brush, razor, &c., pocket for hair brushes £1 i 5 0 Postage and Packing Abroad extra. Complete Illustrated Catalogue on application I5 l'ICCAIHI.I/V, I.O.MHLV. W.I SWAINE ADENEY Ltd, ...

... The Daylight Sweeps Over France The Pilots Who Have Been Driving Back the Luftwaffe in the Biggest Offensive Yet Undertaken by the R.A.F. A BRITISH FLIGHT-LIEUTENANT, still covered with the fumes of battle, relates to the Intelligence Officer exactly what took place his hands indicate the various attitudes he and the enemy pilot assumed during the combat TWO CANADIAN PILOTS DISCUSS THE RAID ON ...

... THE BATTLE-FRONT ALONG ITS WHOLE LENGTH-- FROM PETSAMO TO THE BLACK SEA, showing the main thrusts and counter-attacks from June 22 to June 30 A special Sphere map Germany's unannounced assault upon Russia began at 4 a.m. on Sunday, June 22, and has continued with varying success and failure during the period under review here, which covers only the first week of fighting. Attacks were made at ...

... A Further Series of Analyses of Vapour Trails by a Sphere Expert We have previously published in The Sphere a series of analytic studies of the fascinating trails traced by fighter aircraft. Here are some further studies, with full explanatory notes IN the picture on the right the trails have the typical cloud-scape background of cirro-stratus at (1) merging to cirrus (2), between heights of ...

... THE drawing above represents an incident which was the basis of a recent Air Ministry bulletin in connection with the Battle of the Atlantic. An Australian-manned Sunderland flying-boat of Coastal Command encountered two German float-planes: immediately the pilot of the Sunderland went low down over the water when the enemy were sighted some miles off: in this position it was, of course, ...

... THE CONVOY ASSEMBLES AND PREPARES TO FORM UP FOR ITS HAZARDOUS JOURNEY This series of pictures was taken aboard one of the destroyers escorting a south-bound convoy through the English Channel into waters infested by enemy U-boats. The little ships and big ships alike braved everything the Germans had, passing through unscathed and without the loss of a single man although within twenty miles ...

... MRS. CHURCHILL IN BEDFORDSHIRE Colworth House, at Sharn- brook, is the Bedfordshire home of Lord and Lady Melchett, which has been used as a rest centre for nurses from bombed areas. Some three hundred have already enjoyed its hospitality, thanks to the two owners and to the British American War Relief Society of New York, which has undertaken to maintain it as a health home for twelve months. ...