... MORE BATTLE TACTICS IN THE AIR How the German Luftwaffe Try To Penetrate the British Defences at Hell's Corner A picture reproduced from the American magazine Life Hell's Corner is the name given by American correspondents to the South- East section of England around Dover, where most of the enemy's air attacks begin. This diagram, taken from the American magazine Life, shows how the ...

... THE STRUGGLE FOR OIL: The Tens* Situation Around the Danube and the Black Sea The Eyes of War Sfrategists have been Turned Towards the Inland Sea Bordered by Turkey, the Balkans, and Southern Russia One important link in the chain by which it is desperately hoped to obtain Russian oil is the mighty Danube. When the spring comes, the river may be free of any physical bars to traffic, but at the ...

... MAPPING THE WORLD'S WAR-AFFECTED AREAS German Pro duction Bases Far East Reac tions Russia Invades Rumania TT7TIH the capitulation of France, Japan is seizing the opportunity V to re-assert tier Monroe Doctrine for the East, With this end in view, the French authorities in Indo-China and the British have been requested to prevent the passage of war material into China. The Petain Government ...

... THE NAVAL ENGAGEMENTS OF A STIRRING WEEK Shown in a Series of Special Sphere Pictorial Charts m 11 .i.iiiiiii i --i On left-- THE EFFECTIVE STAND OF THE NORWEGIANS AROUND OSLO Although Oslo was occupied and reinforced during the past few days spirited resistance was offered at Horten and Moss, with the result that three important German war ships were sunk by the shore batteries. The map shows ...

... ALUMINIUM-- Whence the Ore Comes, and How It Is Treated By EDWIN H. JUDD THE response of British housewives to the recent appeal for aluminium utensils and vessels of all kinds was both immediate and generous. The need for this effort was due to the fact that one large potential source of bauxite, from which aluminium is manufactured, was France, and the collapse of that country transferred ...

... THE RISE OF ITALY 1789-1940 FROM A MASS OF TINY, WARRING STATES TO A UNITED NATION-- AN HISTORICAL NOTE FROM the fall of the Roman Empire until late in the nine teenth century, there was no period in history at which Italy could be considered, politically, as a nation. Italy did not exist except as a geographical name for a portion of Europe. Belgium has often been alluded to as the cockpit ...

... THE UNITED STATES AND THE PANAMA The Strategics of the United States' Naval Policy in the Caribbean By Comm. EDGAR P. YOUNG, R.N. CLOSELY linked with the United States pro gramme of naval expansion is the revived interest shown by that country in European possessions in and around the Caribbean Sea. Both alike are the product of the tense interna tional situation of which this war is the most ...

... The R.A.F. RAIDS on KIEL HARBOUR Photographic Evidence of the Damage done to Germany's Naval Harbour as shown by Official Documents The Air Ministry have released the remarkable mosaic pictures reproduced on this and the two following pages, as evidence oj the great havoc wrought by the R.A.F'. during recent bombing raids. The first photographs (reproduced on the two following pages were ...

... Although rumours had come through from various correspondents that Germany was massing 400,000 men and ships at North German ports, there was a lull just before the launching of Germany's predatory war machine upon its latest fell adventure. The news broke on the world on Tuesday morning when it was learned that an almost simultaneous advance had been made against Norway and Denmark. The ...

... The LONG- DISTANCE RAIDS on DANZIG and NAPLES The seizure of the International Zone of Tangier by Spain was a curious comments on the offer which was reported to have been made by Hitler to Spain. Spain was in a strategic position to take Tangier and hns acquired it without reference to offers ly others who do not own it. The U.S. Government and British Government natural y have this new ...

... RUMANIA THEN AND NOW THE early history of Rumania has much in common with all other countries throughout Eastern Europe. During many centuries Rumania suffered from a long series of invasions or attempted invasions. Originally the country of the Dacians, the hordes of savage tribes, who subsequently peopled the adjacent Balkan areas, were resisted at the banks of the Dniester. The Wallachs ...

... THE RAIDS AT KIEL AND OSNABRUCK I And Diagram Maps of Thailand in Indo-China and Dakar on the African West Coast ...