General Brooke was on the sands of Dunkirk during the historic retreat and is a seasoned soldier who knows what the Nazi war machine is "He, like General Dill, has been an instructor at the Staff College and the Imperial Defence College and is thus eminently qualified to lead the organization for the defence of the British Isles against the threatened menace of a Nazi invasion.
"These three Generals have been Damage to Burma Road Bridge Photographed Tokyo, Feb. 9.
The Tokyo press today gave prominence to official photographs showing the destruction of the Kungkuo Bridges on the Burma Route, spanning the Mekong River. Unretouched air photographs show one-fourth of the Old Kungkuo Bridge destroyed, while the new bridge further upstream was shown totally blown up leaving only suspension cables across the river, with wreckage visible same distance downstream. Approaches. to the bridges were trained according to the traditions of the British Army and all three of them distinguished themselves upon active service.
"Day by day we see tle progress of jhe campaign in North Africa. Day by day we are told of the huge forces ready and waiting to repel any attack by invasion upon the soil of the British Isles, Confidently we can trust in these men who arè proved leaders and seasoned soldiers. Hopefully can we look forward to the not too distant future when a British Expeditionary Force with all the support of gallant Allies will be organized to strike the Continent of Europe. overthrow he forces of Nazism and relieve those millions of people who are suffering under-a tyrant's yoke"
King with the Night Bombers His Majesty the King visited a station of bombers recently in the evening, when he dropped in az- the briefing room, where the fliers were receiving their last instructions before a raid over Germany, The picture shows the King with Air Marshal Sir Richard Peirse, commanding the Bomber Command, and Air Vice-Marshat J.E.A, Baldwin, examining maps in the briefing room,
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