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January 17th

' General Hsueh Yu-Eh, Known As Little Tiger '

' A Typical Japanese Leaflet, One of Many Dropped on Honolulu '

' The Wake Island Garrison: Marines of the 47th Platoon, US Marine Corps Who Faced The First Japanese Onslaught '

' Atlantic Rescue: The Survivors of a Torpedoed Ship Rescued By a Patrolling British Warship '

' The Flag of Free France Flying Over The Governors Residence on the Island of St Pierre ' islands off Canada near Newfoundland

' The Barrage Balloons of Londons River '

' HMS Galatea Torpedoed and Sunk by a U boat in the Mediterranean '

' HMS Neptune Sunk By Enemy Mines.. Lost in The Mediterranean '

' Japanese Two Man Submarine Washed Up at Honolulu - This Strange Undersea Ship Took Part in the Japanese Surprise Raid on Pearl Harbour '

' The Island Of Tarakan, The Dutch Oil Port Off the NE Coast of Borneo Which Has Been Attacked by The Japanese '

' The New Sub Machine Carbine for Canadian Soldiers '

' A New Rifle for the British Army - the No 4 Mark I Lee-Enfield Rifle and Its Six inch Bayonet, A Comparison with The Old Type '

' Studies of the Prime Minister Addressing the Joint Session of the US Congress. Also William P. Cole Speaker Of The House - Vice President Henry A. Wallace - Senator A. w. Barkley '

' A General View Of The Senate Chamber During Mr Churchill's Historic Speech to a Joint Session of Congress '

' Mr Churchill in Ottawa - The Prime Minister Delivering His Address From The Floor of the Canadian House of Commons '

' A Tell Tale Document: A Chart of Pearl Harbour The Great US Pacific Naval Base, Marked With Hieroglyphics: They Indicate THe Anchorage of Warships and Military Establishments, Which Were Raided By Th Japanese on December 7, Before War Was Declared '

' A War Map of Invaded China, SHowing Marshal Chiang Kai Shek's Three KEy Strategic Situations Where They Contain The Japanese: In The North The Ichang Front - The Pearl River Covering Canton - The Third at Kunming Protecting The Burma Road '

Perak The Worlds Chief Tin Centre,Seized By Japan - ' A Pontoon Bridge Over The Perak River at Enggor: Enggor is on the Main Railway Line and About 20 miles North of Ipoh '

' The Perak River Looking South, At Kuala Kangsar '

' A Jungle Road Near Matang, Perak '

' Limestone Cliffs and Paddy Fields at Padang Rengas '

' The Road Over The High Pass Near Taiping ' (Now also known as Itu Aba )

' Japanese Penetration of Malaya: Main Tin Rubber Centres - Malayan Staple~Industries of Tin and Rubber, Now in Enemy Possession: A Map Showing Production Areas ' Full page

Some Trophies of Tobruk - ' The Recovery of Cyrenaica Rechristened Democracy Lane: A Notice Board in Italian and German Improved Upon by a Cheery Tank Crew, Who Have Been In the Thick of the Fighting '

Some Trophies of Tobruk - ' Indian Troops of THe Eighth Army Filing Along the Modern Motor Road Past the Ruins of Ancient Cyrene, in the Centre is the Temple of Apollo '

Some Trophies of Tobruk - ' Punjabis and Transport on a Cold But Sunny Morning at the Entrance to the Town Of Derna '

Some Trophies of Tobruk - ' Free French Blenheim Bombers of the Lorraine Squadron Commanded By Colonel Pijeaud Killed in Action '

Some Trophies of Tobruk - ' Our Two Main Commanders in the Field - Air Vice Marshal A Coningham with Lieut General N. M. Ritchie '

Cyrenaica ' The Long Trail of German and Italian Prisoners From Tobruk to Sea Transports and Prisoner Camps '

' Trophies of Victory at Tobruk: A Collection of Long Range Enemy Guns in Battered Condition '

General Rommel's Routed Army 'An Officer of the Eighth Army Surveys a German Dual Purpose 88mm Gun near El Gubbi

' An Eighth Army Officer Displays a Skull and Cross Bones Pennant Captured With The German Tank '

' Captured Italian Aircraft a Fiat G50 After Seuzure in the Desert Battle '

' Another Enemy Gun Out of Action by British Artillery, Showing a Dead Italian Gunner in the Foreground '

' Rajput Troops Manning a Captured Italian Anti Tank Gun South of Gazala '

' The Graveyard of Some German Aeroplanes: Dive Bombers Destroyed By The RAF in Libya '

' Captured Enemy Guns in th the Libyan Desert '

' Enemy Dead Among The Wreckage of an Italian Ammunition Column Caught by Shell Fire '

' German Bomb Abandoned on Dera Aerodrome '

' Damaged Enemy Aircraft on Derna Aerodrome '

' A Tank With Cupola Gone and Replaced by a Thin Armoured Shield: Rommels els Secret Weapon in the Battle of the Libyan Desert ' three views

' Maj General S. J. P. Scobell '

' Maj General D. M. W. Beak VC '

' Iraq's Boy King Visits Indian Troops: King Feisal, Accompanied By The Regent, Abdul Ilahi, Shakes Hands With The Brigadier on Arrival '

' Maj General C. F. Liardet Commander of the RAF Regiment for The Defence of Aerodromes '

' General Douglas MacArthur '

' general Wavell With Allied Chiefs Leaving Chungking Airport After VIsiting Chiang Kai-Shek '

' Mr and Lady Diana Duff Cooper in Singapore: Ordered to Return Home '

' Lieutenant Colonel Feliz Pijeaud '

' Captain T. A. Joyce died on Jan 3 '

' The Rt Hon. Nawab Sir Akbar Hydari died on Jan 8 '

' Presentation Parade in New Delhi: Lady Linlithgow Shakes Hands with the Daughter of the Late Subedar Richpal Ram VC '

' Mr Gustave Tuck '

' The Boxing Day Raid on the Lofoten Islands - A British Commando Charging Up A Steep Incline with No Cover to Seize The Sorvargen Lighthouse, Where Germans Surrendered ' Wonderful double page drawn by Captain Bryan De Grineau From a Personal Description by Mr Gordon Holman

' Russian Troops Before Tula '

Tula ' Cossack Cavalry Charging Across The Snow '

Tula 'On the Moscow Front, Red Army Guns Concealed in a Wood '

Tula ' A Dramatic Moment in One of the Numerous Tank and Infantry Battles at Tula '

Tula ' Fur Clad Russian Soldiers Line up To Receive Rewards for Gallantry '

Tula ' Cossack Soldiers Advance on Foot '

Tula ' Russian Soldiers Examing Equipment Left Behind By The Fleeing Germans '

Tula ' Retreating And Ill Equipped German Troops, Only One of Whom is Waring An Overcoat '

Tula 'German Artillerymen Trying to Extricate a Tractor and Field Gun Half Buried in the Snow '

Tula ' Once a Heavy German Tank '

' A Column of Cossack Horsemen Such as Have Been Decimating the Retreating and Desperate Germans '

' In Tula Itself: Russian Soldiers in the Reoccupied Town '

' W. R. Sickert 1884 '

' W. R. Sickert 1936 '

' Great Waste Paper Drive: More Salvage Needed for Munitions ' six photographs

' Tolstoy's House at Yasnaya Polyana in the Tula Region: A State Museum Until Its Recent Destruction by the Germans '

' The Dining Room at Yasnaya Polyana Ilst '

' Tolstoys Study and Bedroom : Showing Early Dictaphones Given Him By Edison '

' A Purple Gallinule - Porphyrio Calvus '

' The Great Courlan - Aramus Vociferus '

' Stanleys Crane - Tetraptery paradisea '

' J. Samuel White & Co Ltd Shipbuilders - The Whitecraft Fast Service Craft ' Advert

' Bovril - The Home Guard ' Full page colour advert of a bull charging a german parachutist



Also articles (no pictures unless listed above) including :

Our Note Book by Arthur Bryant

The Great World War: Defence of Our Aerodromes by Cyril Falls

Introduction to a Great Painter. "The Life and Opinions of walter Richard Sickert" by Robert Emmons. An Appreciation by Sir John Squire

Books of the Day by Charles E. Byles

January 24th

one shilling.

' Johore Bahru Capital of Johore State and Seat of the Sultan. The Causeway to Singapore is Seen at the Foot of the Photograph '

' Another View of Johore Causeway With The Penang Express Passing Along, Singapore Being Its Southern Terminus '

' Japans Thrust Towards Singapore: The Terrain in South Malaya - The Scene of Desperate Fighting and Continuous Retreats in Malayha as the Japanese Thrust Back The Hard Pressed Imperial Forces : A Relief Map of Johore State and Singapore Island ' Wonderful full page map "By courtesy of the Malayan Information Agency" with article beneath

' A March Past of a Polish Army Regiment in Russia '

' Polish Artillery in Russia, Equipment Has Been Sent by the Allies '

' Some of Poland's Cavalry Now Fighting With The Red Army '

' General Sikorski With A Polish Womens Auxiliary Unit in Russia '

Winter in Russia - ' German Infantry Surrounded by Their Dread Enemy, General Winter '

Winter in Russia - ' The Shape of Worse Things to Come: German Soldiers in Kharkov '

Winter in Russia - ' Nature's Panzer Trap: Snow and Mire on the Road of Retreat '

' Panzer Strafing From the Air: Russia's Answer to the Blitzkrieg - Low Flying Aircraft Which Have Mauled The Panzers in Russia, Methods of Attack Illustrated ' a full page sketch "Drawn by Our Special Artist G. H. Davis "

' The Invasion of Malaya By The Japanese: A Map Published in the American Weekly " Life " Which Astonishingly Foretold Every Monve on Singapore The Enemy Has Employed '

' An American Prognostication of Japanese Naval and Air Strategical Lines of Attack, With Oil The Desideratum and Showing the Allies Probable Counter Strategy: This Diagram Map Appeared in the New York " Life " in June 1941 and Accurately Forecast The Enemy Plan '

Singapore Bombed By The Japanese: The First Air Raid Pictures :-

' Singapore Bombed by The Japs: Workmen Clearing Up Raid Debris '

' The Wrecked Tower of a Heavily Bombed Building in Singapore '

' Native Workmen Clearing Away Wreckage Caused By a Heavy Bomb '

' One of the Victims Searching in the Ruins for His Lost Possessions '

' Singapore Street Scene: Tamil Labourers at Work after A Raid '

' Some of the Dwelling Houses Wrecked By The Japanese Bombers '

Gurkhas and Kukris - The Japanese Dread in the Malayan Jungle :-

' Men of the 9th Gurkha Regiment in the Malayan Jungle '

' Gurkhas Making Their Way Cautiously Along a Torrid Jungle Stream ' ' The Kukri - 16 inches Long From Butt to Blade Tip, The Notches on the Blade are Used a sSights When The Knife Is Thrown ' and sheath

' A Gurkha Officer Carrying Out an Inspection of His Mens Kukris '

The Importance of Java in the Pacific War: Its Chief Towns ' Bandoeng The Capital of Mid Preanger '

' Surabaya The Commercial Capital of the Dutch East Indies and an Important Naval Base '

' The Kali MAs ( Golden River ) Which Flows Through Surabaya '

' Batavia ( Weltevreden ) The Capital of Java and of the Dutch East Indies - The Residential Section of the City '

' Weltevreden Queen City of the East The Whole District is Like one Huge park '

Portable Landing fields For Aircraft: The US Marston Strip:-

' A Portable Aerodrome in the Making: American Engineers Laying Strips of Metal '

' Twin Engined USA Bombers Taking Off From a Portable Landing Field Composed of the Marston Strip '

' A Douglas Medium Bomber Coming to Rest on the Corrugated Metal Surface '

' An Aerial View of One of the US Portable Landing Strips '

' Famous British Aircraft: An Avro Manchester Pulverising the Dockyards at Brest - Bombs Gone! Far Below A Speeding Manchester, Smoke and Flames Belch upwards From the Naval Base At Brest ' wonderful double page "Painted By Our Special Artist C. E. Turner " in sepia style

Attack and Counter Attack in the Desert: Eastern Libya Cleared of all The Axis Troops :-

' The English Advance in the Western Desert From December 9 1940 to February 1941 From the Egyptian Border to El Agheila '

' View of a Bombardment - Probably Against Our Positions at Sollum '

' Major Bach The Senior German Officer at Halfaya '

' The Gulf of Sollum on the Libyan Egyptian Frontier: A German Aerial Photograph '

' A View of Sollum ' An aerial view

' View of Sollum With Fort Cappuzo in the Background '

' The German Italian Counter Offensive: A Map Taken From an Italian Paper and Used in Comparison with No 1 '

' German Troops on the Hills at Sollum '

' A Fortress in The Desert: A German Machine Gun Soldier in El Agheila Scans the Surrounding Country for British patrols '

' The Head of the Emperor Lucius Verus '

' A Bust of Jupiter Dating From the Fourth Century after Christ and The Bust After Restoration by Brozzi '

' The 25 Pounder in Action - A British High Velocity Gun Howitzer Which Creates Havoc Among Panzers, in Action in Libya ' a wonderful full page "Drawn by Our Special Artist Captain Bryan De Grineau " in sepia style

' Swooping Low Over St Peter Port, Guernsey, Beauforts of the RAF Bomber Command Attack Enemy Ships at Mast Height '

' Another View of St Peter Port Taken From One of the Raiding Planes and Showing Castle Pier and The Old Harbour '

Bay of Biscay ' A Bomb From an Adventurous Coastal Command Liberator Falls Alongside The Submarine Which Was Detected by The Crew '

Bay of Biscay - ' Supply Ship Seen Taking Avoiding Action '

' The Liberator and Its Significant Donald Duck Emblem '

' Further Afield The RAF Has Been Persistently Bombing Tripoli and Above are Seen Axis Troops Clearing Up Some of the Raid Wreckage '

Mr Churchill Returns Home Again: Bermuda to Plymouth by Air :-

' Mr Churchill With Mr Harry Hopkins, The Presidents Confidential Adviser, at the White House '

' The Prime Minister Addressing The Legislature at the Bermuda House of Assembly '

' At Bermuda - Mr Churchill and Lord Knollys at the British Airways Base '

' The Flying Premier at the Controls of the Bermuda Bound Berwick '

' TheEnthusiastic Scene on the Prime Ministers Arrival in London '

' Home Again: Mr Churchill With His Wife and His Daughter Diana '

' Sir Archibald Clark Kerr Appointed Ambassador to the Soviet Union '

' Sir Stafford Cripps Has Relinquished his post as Ambassador to Russia '

' Gen Sir Alan F. Hartley Commander in Chief India '

' Sir Horace Seymour Appointed Ambassador to China '

' Sir Jeremiah Colman BT Chairman of J. And J. Colman Ltd Mustard Manufacturers Died on Jan 16 '

' Major General Gordon Bennett GOC AIF in Malaya ' ' Field Marshal Von Reichenau - Said to Have Died of Apoplexy '

' Carole Lombard Has Lost Her Life in an Aeroplane Crash near Las Vegas '

' The Hon U. Saw Prime Minister fo Burma '

' Lieut. Com. A. H. Callaway in Command of the Trawler LAdy Shirley Presumed Lost '

' Mr Donald Nelson Chairman of War Production Board in America '

' Mr William S. Knudsen of The US War Department Arms Programme '

The Bristol of Today - An Artist in the Much Bombed City of Historic Memories and Mediaeval Buildings :-

' Old Bristol: The Lovely Llandoger Tavern on the Quayside. It is the Likely Spy Glass Inn of Robert Louis Stevensoins Treasure Island '

' St Bartholomew's Hospital and Christmas Steps '

' The Heart of the Much Bombed City - St Stephens And University Towers - St Nicholas Gutted - All Saints - The Tower of St Mary le Port, The Church Destroyed '

These four wonderful drawings were by Dennis Flanders printed in sepia style
' The Goose Barnacle Lepas Anatifera '
' Coronula Barnacle '

' Thornycroft 40ft Seaplane Tender ' advert

' Jaguar Car ' Advert

' Miles Aircraft - The Miles Hawk Cirrus III ' Advert

' Moss Bross ' Advert

' Dunlopillo Sleeping Bag ' Advert

' Johnnie Walker Scotch Whisky ' full page colour advert
'Books of the Day by Charles E. Byles'
'The World of Science - Barnacles by W. P. Pycraft FZS'

February 21st

' Heavily Armed Infantrymen of the Red Army Almost Invisible Against The Snow in their Whit e Camouflage Make a Silent Approach to a German Position '

' Results of Germanys Clothing Appeal: Two German Soldiers Wearing a Czechoslovakian Overall and With Scarves Wound Round His Hed and (right) A Kind of Fur Trimmed Pinafore '

' A Party of red Army Guards, With Tank Support, Go Into Action '

' A detachment of White Clad Soviet Ski Troops Armed With Automatic Rifles, Receive Final Instructions Before Going into Action '

' A Group of Red Army Scouts Moving Forward Through The Snow on Light Trackdriven Vehicles '

' Behind The German Lines: Russian Paratroops, Equipped with Skis And Tommy Guns are Seen Preparing to Blow up a Railway Track '


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' Macassar, Celebes - The Main Square, showing the Parish Church, The Dutch Garrison Destroyed All Military Installations Before The Japanese Landed '

' Pontianak in Borneo - This Town Fell into Japanes Hands on January 31 and It Is Thought That They Uses it as A Base to Attack Palembang '

' Manuscripts of the World Famous Russian Composer, Tchaikovsky Used by the Germans For Heating a Motor Cycle Garage '

' ANother Mark of the Beast: The Borodino Museum Now a Blackened And Gutted Ruin Following its Burning by The Germans '

' Sub Lieutenant Edgar Lee One of the Only Five Survivors of the Six Swordfishes Which Were Destroyed in the Channel Action '

' Where Tolstoy Wrote war and Peace - The Room was Converted into a Barrack Room Where Drunken Orgies Were Held Futher Evidenc of What May Be Expected From the "New Order"..'

' A World record in Shipbuilding: The Tanker " Sinclair " Undergoing Trials 100 days After Her Keel Was Laid Down '

' Little Fishing Boats of the Little Yellow Men Tied up at Stevenston, Vancouver, after Canada's Declaration of War on Japan ' craft owned by Japanese fishermen

' AMerican General Lee Tanks of a Canadian Armoured Division (The Fort Garry Horse Brought up to Date) During Exercises at a Training Camp "Somewhere in England" '

' Two Men Aboard a Raft Which Had Been Adrift for Thirty Days, Rescued By a Trawler in the Atlantic ' a " Catalina " was sent to the rescue, and directed to th escene by the aircraft, a trawler took the two men on board

' Unconcious on His frail Craft: A Chinese Seaman Just Before His Rescue by the Canadian Minesweeper " Red Deer " 160 miles off Halifax

' A Map Showing the Relative Positions of Aruba, Curacao and Bonaire to South America ' small

' The Island of Aruba: Small map '

' Storage Tanks on Aruba Island - An Enemy Submarine Damaged the Refinery '

' Curacao Oil Refining Centre in the Dutch West Indies - A Drawing by A. Van Anrooy an Officiall war Artist to the Netherlands Armed Forces, Showing Refineries and Storage Tanks '

' Oil Wells and Refineries at Palembang Sumatra - the Japanese Captured This Important Oil Centre jon Feb 16 '

' Warfare on Wheels: Mechanised and Mobile Units of the Modern British Army - In The Above Drawing are Shown Many Types of Mechanised Vehicles Used By The Various Military Units ' a wonderful double page pullout "Drawn by Our Special Artist G. H. Davis '


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A wonderful panoramic pullout "A Supplement To The Illustrated London News "

' The Army of Today: A Panoramic Drawing Showing The Vast Organisation Required for an Expeditionary Force (With Full Air Support) Consisting of Only Two Army Corps, and Illustrating its Component Units, Lines of Communication and Supply ' this panorama was "Drawn by Our Special Artist Captain Bryan de Grineau Who Was With THe British Expeditionary Force in France". It measures 100cm X 37cm ( 39 x 14.5 inches ) overall


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' The Component Units of a British Armoured Division - An Armoured Division in Panorama: From the Advanced Reconnaissance Force to Rear Supplies ' Full page drawn by "Our Special Artist Captain Bryan de Grineau"

' The Waxwing Ampelis Garrulus ' ' The Wing of the Waxwing '

' Broadcasting Correspondent Saved Fromt he " Repulse " -Ccecil Brown on Board a Destroyer, A Columbia Broadcasting Correspondent '

' The Earl of Midleton died February 13 '

The Late ' Mr Felix Powell Composer of the Song " Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag "..'

' Don Juan Antonio Rios President of Chile '

' Professor Albert Speer '

' The First Meeting of the Pacific War Council - Mr Churchill and Sir Earle Page '

' Lieut Commander M. D. Wanklyn VC DSO RN With The Crew of HM Submarine " Upholder " on Board Which He Earned His VC '

' The Royal Humane Society's Stanhope Gold Medal for the Bravest Deed of the Year; Presented to Radio Operator Douglas S. Fairley '

' Lieut General Percival - British Commander in Chief Malaya Since 1941 '

' The Twenty Eighth VC of the War - Lieutenant (Acting Captain) Philip John Gardner of the Royal Tank Regiment, Saves The Life of a Fellow Officer '

' Admiral William Standley - New US Ambassador to Russia '

' An Aerial View of the " Normandie " on Fire at Her Moorings in New York Harbour - The Damage is Estimated at £1,025,000 '

' The Great Liner Lying on Her Side ( New York Harbour ): She Toppled Over as a Result of the Weight of Water Poured into Her Which Subsequently Froze '

' Royal Visit to the Eagle Club: the Queen Serving Coffee to an Eagle Pilot at The Eagle Club Dormitory Recently ' also with the Hon. Mrs Geoffrey Bowlby and Colonel Dermot McMorrough Kavanagh visit the American Eagle Club and The Canadian Leinster Court Club

' Her Majesty Among " The Eagles " Chatting to Members of the American Forces Who Are Doing Such Splendid Work ' Eagle Squadron of the RAF

' Famous Belgian Aviation Standard Rescued: A Belgian Pilot Officer Taking The Oath of Allegiance Wervfing With The RAF '

' Mr A. V. Alexander Opens a National Waste paper Exhibition at the Ford Showrooms, Regent St '

' U Boat Commanders Unchallenged: Germans Go Unchallenged in Philadelphia ' tow reporters of The Philadelphia Record dressed in German Uniform


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Help for Russian- Ships of a British Convoy in the Frozen North

' The Guns of a Warship in a Northern Latitude at Extreme Elevation '

' The Snow Covered And Com;etely Iced Up Deck of a British Warship as it Appeared Recently When Convoying To Russia '

' Crunching Its Way THrough a Sea of Ice a British Convoy in The Arctic Seas '

' Another Picture Showing the Conditions of Intense Cold '

' The White Ensign Billows out Against A Russian Background. The Convoy in the Safety of an Allied Harbour '

' A White Mantle of Snow and ICe Enfolds a British Warship on Convoy Duty in the Far North '


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A Victory for Treachery: Pearl Harbour During and After the Date Which Will Live in Infamy :-

' TheThirty Three Year Old Target Ship " Utah " After She Had Capsized in Pear Harbour Following the Treacherous Japanese Attack on December 7 '

' The USS " Oklahoma " Lying in the Mud at Pearl Harbour. The Oklahoma Was But one of the Ships Sunk By Japanese Aircraft '

' An American Destroyer Engulfed in Smoke and Flame: The USS Shaw After Receiving a Direct Hit from A Japanese Bomber '

' AN Undamaged Light Cruiser Steaming Past the USS Arizona - The Arizona Went to the Bottom Following The Attack on December 7 '

' Divers At Work on the USS Arizona Sunk on December 7, "The Date" in the Words of President Roosevelt "Which Will Live in Infamy"..'

' Another Victim of Japanese Treachery - The USS Destroyer Downes Resting on the Bottom of Pearl Harbour, Her Gun Turrets at Water Level '

' A Dramatic Picture Taken at the Exact Instant When A Japanese Bomb Found Its Target During the Attack on Pearl Harbour '

' A Tragedy in Twisted Steel: The 32,600 Ton Battleship Arizona As She Appeared After Being Sunk By Japanese Aircraft '


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' Greenwich From One Tree Hill: From a Sketch Book by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm Part of Which is in The Possession of Dr John Isaacs '

' High Street Marylebone - Showing The Old Manor House Fountayne's School Where Handel Visited and Performed - from The Guildhall Library Viscount Wakefield Collection ' ' A Diagram Showing the Extent of the Apparent Shift of Eros From Which its Distance From Us Is Calculated....'


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' His Excellency Ivan Maisiky - A Bronze By Jacob Epstein '

' Emperor in Exile - A Portrait in bronze oif Haile Selassie By Epstein '

' Self Portrait of Epstein in Bronze '

' ..."I Feel Like a Guinness" reply "I Wish You Were" ..' A full page Guiness GE 312E advert adapted from the original Fougasse drawing

' The Nuffield Organization Charter ' full page advert

' Haig Whisky ' Full page advert

' White Horse Whisky ' Full page colour advert

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Also articles (no pictures unless listed above) including :
'Our Note Book by Arthur Bryant'

' The Great World War: The GHerman Battleships Return Home by Cyril Falls '

'The World of Science - The Waxwing by W. P. Pycraft FZS'

Books of the Day by Charles E. Byles'

' Samuel Hieronymus Grimm of Burgdorf in Switzerland by Rotha Mary Clay. An Appreciation by Sir John Squire'

 

April 18th

' A Line of Fishing Vessels off The Danish Coast Is Seen Attempting to Cut a Way Through The Tightly Paceked Ice Floes '

' Anothe RAF Photograph Showing the Bombed Matford Works Outside Paris ..'


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When The Malta Convoy Gained Port: Actual Pictures of Admiral Vian's Bold Action Against Italian Warships

' Actual Official Photographs of Rear Admiral Vians Sea Battle With Big Italian Units on MArch 22: An Enemy Bomber Trying to Evade a Destroyers Shells ..... '

' Dramatic Actual Photograph Showing TheAction in Full Swing, The SIx Forward 5.25 inch Guns of the Near By Cruiser Are Firing a Broadside At the E£nemy ...'

' A British Destroyer Emerges from a Smoke Screen As She Fires Her Torpedoes at an Enemy Ship ....'

' And The Convoy Goes on Safely to Its Destination, Malta ...'


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' A Near Miss on a British Cruiser in the Mediterranean: German And Italian Aircraft Were Continualy Bombing Our Ships Out on Patrol ' - - - ' The Cruiser Sails on Unharmed: A Photograph Taken a Few Seconds Later When the Spray From the Near Miss Had Subsided '

' Vice Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten Appointed Chief of Combined Operations ']

' Admiral Vian on the Bridge of the Cruiser " Naiad " With Him is the Captain, Guy Grantham '

' King Boris of Bulgaria Visits Hitler at His Headquarters: At The Station on His Arrival '

' The Town Hall, Middelburg One of Hollands Finest Gothic Buildings, Now Destroyed by the Germans From a Water colour by James P. Power RBA '

' The Same Town Hall, Middelburg, After The Germans Wantonly Bombedc It in 1940, The Walls Standing are Merely a Swaying Mass of Masonry '


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The Men of Vichy - Marshal Petain - Darlan and The Ministerial Council, Sketched From Life

' Scenes at Vichy - The Daily Communique Being Given Out To the Press in the Hotel Du Parc, The Heart of the Vichy Government of MArshal Petain '

' Evening at the Hotel Des Ambassadeurs, Reserved for The Diplomatic Corps. They Are Able To Indulge in Luxury '

' A Sitting of the Council of Ministers at The Pavillon Sevigne - Messrs Carcopino and Benoit-Mechin - Lehideux - Barthelemy - Moysset - Marshal Petain - Romier - Bergeret - Miel - Berthelot - Admiral Darlan - Charbin - Bouthillier - Pecheu - Pucheu - Admiral Platon - Caziot '

' On the First Floor of the Hoted du parc is theCabinet de Travail of the Ambitious Admiral Darlan, A Bitter Anglophobe ' sketch of the admiral

' Where the White Haired Octogenarian Marshal Petain Gives Audience to Ambassadors and Others - On the Third Floor '

From drawings by J. Simont


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' A Map of Ceylon Which Island the Japanese Have Several Times Raided with Long Distanc eBombers and Been Repulsed With Heavy Losses ' small map

' The Harbour of Trincomalee Ceylon The HW of Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton - A Picture Taken From Admiralty House '

' Tank Fighting in Libya: Modern Methods of Desert Warfare - How New Types of Tanks and Guns Have Revolutionised Battle Tactics in Desert Fighting ' full page diagramatical drawings with explanations by G. H. Davis

'Lieut General Ritchie GOC Eighth Army is Seen in the Abov ePhotograph on the Steps of the Caravan Which Serves as His Mobile HQ in the Libyan Desert '

' The General Is Seemn at Work Conning Documents inside The Caravan '

' Rommels Mobile Headquarters in Libya - According to the Germans, The Plans for the Africa Panzer Divisions are Drawn Up and DIscussed '

' General Rommel Seated on a Car in the Libyan Desert - One of the Photographs of the Commander of the German North Afrika Korps Taken From an Anemy Prisoner '

' General Rommel and Major The Rev Bach '


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Tiny Malta Which Defies the Axis: The Grand harbour and Airfields

' A View of the Grand Harbour Looking From Towards its Mouth, With Fort Ricasoli; A Part of Valetta and Its Suburb Floriana '

' Another View from Valetta The Capital, With For St Elmo in the Foreground, The Grand Harbour Entrance and The Naval Hospital '

' Mikabba Aerodrome a Picture Taken By An Enemy Aviator During One of Many Raids on It '

' An Aerial View of Hal-Far Aerodrome During one of Dozens of Raids '

Malta The Gallant VC Island: ' Air View of Malta Taken From 10,000 ft, Has Recently Experienced its 2000th Alert, and Since December 4 Has Experienced Only One Raidless Day and Night in Succession '

' A Contour Map of Malta, Marking Principal Defences as Seen byt he Enemy From the North ...' ,HR>

' HMS Queen Elizabeth, Admiral Cunninghams Flagship in the Mediterranean ' a wonderful double page drawing of the battleship by C. W. E. Richardson

' Hernando Cortes From an Oil Painting in the Hospital De Jesus Nazarene Mexico City '

' A Map of a Part of Mexico Showing the Route Taken By Cortes From Vera Cruz to City of Mexico '


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The Zaporozhe Dam - Germans Struggle to Repair the Damage

' High Tension Cables Near The Zaporozhe Dam in the Wilderness of the Ukraine Steppes '

' The Dnieper Pours Through The Gaping Chasm Made in the Dam by Russian Engineers, The Breach is 175 Metres Wide and The Germans Hope to Be Able to Harness The Flood '

' Here is Seen The Vast Gap in the Dam Through Which The Waters of the Dnieper Now Pour Uncontrolled '

' Workers of the Todt Organisation Have Drilled Holes in the Base of the Dam in an Attempt to Harness The Waters '

' Workers Drilling Tunnels in the Dam '

' A German Worker Poring Over Blue Prints in an Effort to Elucidate Russian Engineering Secrets '


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The Royal Navy: Midshipmen Learning Their Jobs on a Destroyer in Wartime

' Midshipman n a destroyer; Leaving The Bridge After His Watch '

' Training Yet on a Destroyer for a Three Months Couse Our Midshipman, In CHarge of a Gun Crew Sights His Pom Poms '

' On the Bridge The Midshipman Receives a Message From the Signalman '

' On The Look Out Wearing His Duffell Coat and Sea Boots, " A Snotty ", His Naval Nickname '

' An Early Midshipman HRH Prince William, Later William IV '

' The Signalman Hands Over Messages to The Midshipman on Duty '

' On Watch Duty on the Bridge '

' A Midshipman Acting as Officer of the Day Saluting The Commander of a Destroyer as He Is Piped Aboard '

' Seated More or Less Comfortably on a depth Charge ' Revising

' Dinner Timne in the Ward Room With Other Officers '

' Puzzling Out a Chess Problem in the Ward Room...'

' After Three Months Hard Experience int he Destroyer the Midshipman Will Now Return to a Larger Ship of the Fleet

Seems to be the same midshipman in all photographs, from "Young Gentlemen" by Lieut Com. C. F. Walker RN - Double page


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' Escaping From the Observation of a Japanese Cruiser, The SUrvivors of a British Destroyer Land on an Enemy Occupied Island i Malaya - A Drawing by Lieut. F. M. Russell Flint RN '

' British Seamen See Their Santuary Ablaze: The Scene as Witnessed and Painted By Lt. F. M. Russell Flint RN ' a wonderful full page in sepia style - more info Francis Russell Flint son of the famous William Russell Flint RA


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Minbu Mud Volcanoes of Burma - the Phenomena of the Battle Area

' The Minbu Mud Volcanoes of Burma Situated on the Right Bank of the Irrawaddy - Two of the Larger Cones '

' A Close up of a Cone '

' A View of the Main Group from th South - 170 Miles South of Mandalay ' <>p> ' A Full Sized Bubble in the Crater - The Shrine in the Background is Used to Present offerings to the Local Spirits '

' Looking into One of the Craters, A Bubble is About to Rise '

' The Main Cone Showing Mud Which Has Overflown Down the Sides Not Yet Dry '

now Magway Region in Burma (Myanmar)


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' HM Cruiser " Dorsetshire " of 9975 Tons - Commanded by Captain A. W. S. Agar VC At The Time of Her Sinking by Japanese Bombers '

' An Italian Cruiser of 10,000 Tons Torpedoed and Sunk By a British Submarine in the Central Mediterranean, Showing the Type of Cruiser Referred to in the Communique '

' The Aircraft Carier HMS Hermes (Captain R. F. J. Onslow ) Sunk by Enemy Air Attack Off the Coast of Ceylon '

' Miniatures at the V. and A. - Recent Acquisitions on Exhibition ' fifteen examples

Plus many adverts of the day

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Also articles (no pictures unless listed above) including :
'Our Note Book by Arthuyr Bryant'

'The Great World War: The Coming Battles by Cyril Falls'

' Hernan Cortes: Conqueror of Mexico By Salvador De Madariaga - AN Appreciation by Sir John Squire

Books of the Day by Charles E. Byles

The Illustrated London News - Centenary Year 1942

On Saturday May 14th 1842 the very First edition of The Illustrated News was published

On May 16th 1942 the Centennary edition was published. Because of Wartime restrictions this edition was a low key, lightweight publication but with a promise of something more lavish to come when wartime restrictions were over.

Although lightweight in comparison to its 90th anniversary issue in 1932, nevertheless it contained snippets from the very first edition and historical comment by Arthur Bryant.

CENTENARY Celebrations of the centenary of the Illustrated London News in 1942 were curtailed by the fact that Britain was once more at war and there were paper restrictions in force: the price went up from 1/-- to 1/6d between 1939 and 1942 (vols. 194-207).

The offices of the ILN were also damaged in the bombing of London. The paper’s war artist, Bryan De Grineau, was honoured by the appointment of official War Artist and there was once again a comprehensive coverage of events.

Cyril Falls, the historian, provided a valued blow-by-blow analysis of events as they occurred. Advertisements in the ILN evinced a suitably martial tone, with slogans like ‘How to win your war of nerves’ (Sanatagon) and ‘Viyella For Service’ (Viyella shirts).

Masthead of ILN Centennary 1942

May 16th

  • Front Cover ads Paripan enamel, Meet me at Fortnums, Gaymers Cyder, Grants Scotch Whisky, Greys cigarettes, Paddy whisky, Ardente hearing aids, Euthymol toothpaste and fially Drambuie
  • inside FC ads "What sort of people does he think we are" Avon tyres save rubber, The Nuffield Organisation
  • Frontispiece The founder of the magazine, Herbert Ingram was considered a great benefactor of his native town, Boston , Lincolnshire to whom the townsfolk erected a statue in 1862 outsde the famous Boston "Stump"

    Statue of Herbert Ingram outside the Boston

  • Our Note Book by Bryant Evans: a 2 page article including 4 photos of different generations of the Ingram family about the History of the Illustrated London News

    To Our Readers
    This issue marks the hundreth anniversary of the Illustrated London News. It had been our intention to celebrate this important occasion with one at least of the elaborate and exhaustive Special Numbers for which the Illustrated News has become famous. All the plans were laid before the war, and we have no hesitation in saying the the special number would have been one of the most important ever produced. But, unfortunately, paper restrictions have stepped in, and are good intentions have perforce come to naught.
    So, till the war is over, this special number must remain in abeyance. When conditions become normal once again, we shall, we trust, make up for the delay by the publication of a record worthy of the centenary of the first illustrated newspaper.

  • 2 pages of Daguerrotypes (first photos) taken from the Duke of Yorks ColumnThe very first edition, May 14th, 1842 A Panorama of London looking North More... The very first edition, May 14th, 1842 A Panorama of London looking South



  • 2 pages of The City of London 1942 the pictorial side of the damaged Metropolis including 5 photos
  • 1 page The Great centenary The Story of the Illustrated London Newsengraving of herbert Ingrams statue 1842The unveiling in 1862 the statue to Herbert Ingram

  • From the First Issue of The ILN of 1842 a full page of nine drawings/engravings showing life in 1842
  • The Great World War: One Hundred years of Warfare, a full page pics of Famous London News War artists, Edward Goodall, Constantine Guys, and 11 other pics with commentary
  • Personalities of the Week in 1942, Admiral Leary and Marshall Petain, LT Gen Willoughby Norrie, etc full page 9 pics
  • A Literary Centenary , an appreciation of the Great writers who had contributed to the Illustrated London News during 100 years, by Sir John Squire. a full page of comment and 17 portrait pics including Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, Hall Caine, Wilkie Collins et al.
  • Full colour Photo of George V1 in Naval Uniform
  • To commemorate "The Illustrated News Centenary : Their majesties in natural colour (King, Queen and the 2 Princesses, Elizabeth and Margaret) a middle page spread of 5 colour photos
  • A full page colour photo of "Conversation Piece" of the Royal Family (princess Elizabeth is knitting by the fire
  • Convoy Drama in the Mediterranean - enemy bomb freighter, 1 page 7 pics
  • Russia 1942 The melting snows herald the opening of gargantuan battles with German invaders, Soviet women guerillas - T Balavenskya of Tuchkovo detachment, 2 pages 11 pics
  • RAF precision bombing, The F.W. 190, naval and RAF regiments, 1 page , 7 pics
  • Vichy French surrender in Madagascar after severe fighting, 1 page , 3 pics and a map
  • Camera Occasions:current events on Land and sea, hms Edinburgh, new type pack for us marines, etc, 1 page, 7 pics
  • The battle of the Coral sea - Japanese invaders repulsed, 1 page, 4 pics and map
  • American Warship design, consideration of speed and range in relation to naval strategy, 1 page, 8 pics
  • How allied pilots recognise Japanese warships from the air, 1 page showing all chinese ttype of ships in silhouette from above.
  • The King and Queen make a 1000 mile tour of the west country, 1 page, 6 pics
  • ads Reynolds Tube Co., Austin Reed for Uniforms, National savings - Mrs Venning
  • ads Ilford Micro copying, Moss Bros for Uniforms, The British Power Boat company, Guy Motors (wartime ideas to assist production)
  • ads inside back cover Forhans tootpaste for Pyorrhoea, Vita Wheat crispBread, The Yorkshire post, Eclipse razor blades, Viyella, Chubb, Macdonalds cigarettes, Wardonia razor blades, Will Rose Happy snap shots
  • ads back cover KLG spark plugs, Old Angus scotch whisky, Dobies Four Square cigarettes, Sportex Scotlands hardest woven cloth

    June 20th

    July 4th

    sixteen page issue (32 sides) price one shilling and sixpence and features prints of sketches and photographs (often with descriptive articles) including : Those with Images :-

    August 1st

     

    September 5th

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