... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 191 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. The Guessing Game in Europe.-- Where will the Allies strike next? It is the current guessing game. We are all at it, except a very few Allied leaders who, perhaps, know the answers. But while the Allied peoples merely speculate, the leaders and peoples of the Axis lands must not only speculate, but act and move. And clearly it is causing a ...

... THE tiny islet of Betio, lying within the atoll of Tarawa, one of the many atolls forming the group of Gilbert Islands, will long be remembered by the American Marines. Its capture was only effected after a deadly toll had been paid by the men of America's most famous corps, the toughest fighting force of the United States. Betio Island, minute in size-- a mere two miles long by less than a ...

... Of the four separate operations begun simultaneously by Allied troops on a 700-mile front extending from New Guinea on the west to New Georgia on the east, the last-named-- that against New Georgia-- unfolded itself as an amphibious operation of considerable complexity. Owing to the number of Japanese troops which were understood to be occupying various positions on the islands, the assault ...

... Special Sphere Maps and Diagrams THE LINE ACROSS ITALY AT THE OPENING OF THE BATTLE OF THE VOLTURNO, showing the position of the Fifth and Eighth Armies from Termoli to Capua After the capture of the city of Naples, the Nazis as was expected fell back to the line of the Volturno River. For the assault on this line, the Eighth Army linked up with the Fifth, to provide a (more or less) ...

... When the big Japanese convoy recently started out from Rabaul, with the object of replenishing Lae and possibly other points with badly needed supplies, a serious departure from former practice became evident on the part of the enemy. Instead of sending single ships, or two or three, out at intervals with in structions to travel as much as possible by night and to take cover against wooded ...

... AT THE GATEWAY TO THE MEDITERRANEAN The Threat to Allied Prestige at Tangier, Whose International Status was High-handedly Suppressed by Spain By FERDINAND TUOHY MORE than once, of late, the newspapers have told how the Allies have already conquered a whole continent. This sounds splendid, but conveniently ignores the tiny north-north-western tip of Africa, Spanish Morocco, very importantly ...

... The Campaign to Cut the Life-lines by which the German Divisions in the North of the Country are Sustained Described by FERDINAND TUOHY GERMANY, the cables tell, is looking anxiously to her communications with Italy. And well she may. The outcome and duration of the coming cam paigns in North and maybe Central Italy look to be dependent on the degree in which Hitler is able to utilise the ...

... The Fortified Seaport of AUGUSTA Entered by Our Invasion Fleet on July 13 Jt was Irom Rome that the first news of our entry into Augusta came, via the radio on July 13, when it was stated that units of the Allied invasion fleet were already lying in the roadstead at the former Axis naval and seaplane base. Augusta lies almost at the edge of the Catanian plain it was here that a large number of ...

... Now that the war in Africa is over, certain details connected with the surprising collapse of the Axis have emerged. It would appear that the rapidity of the break-through by the British First Army and U.S. Second Corps on the morning of Friday, May 7, was such that a complete breakdown in communications took place between the various Axis com mands which had been holding the many sectors of ...

... A NEW OIL SUPPLY FOR THE EMPIRE Discovered in North-West Canada and Linked Up with the Great Alaskan Highway IDerhaps it was oil that prompted the switch of the Alaska Highway to a more eastern route than that originally intended, for the final choice brings the Road within what would appear to be a practicable approach to a proved oilfield of great potentiality. Following the discovery and ...

... The Increasing Importance of the Now-vulnerable Eastern Seaboard of the Italian Mainland. Described by FERDINAND TUOHY IT doesn't matter where the Allies attack between Sardinia and Rhodes; even if they don't attack at all, but choose some other part of the Axis perimeter-- the Adriatic Sea is back in the war. One might almost say that this A marissima-- most bitterly loved sea of D'Annunzio ...

... The Hill Town of RAGUSA Captured by Americans and Canadians on July 1 3 The Canadians advanced from the south-east and the Amer;. ins from the west, both forces converging upon the town. Its position was of considerable importance to th Allies, being a road and railway centre. Two railways from Syracuse. eady occupied by the British forces, united Ragusa with the famous port. One railway came ...