... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 196 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Even Some Nazis..-- It seems that even some Nazis have been a little embarrassed by Dr. Goebbels' last propaganda wriggles in the great campaign for humaner warfare. Memory may be (must be) as short as you please in a Dictator State, but even so it is sometimes long enough to recall events two years old, and there are Nazis alive who do ...

... SH MM ESH M 1 m LIEUT.-COLONEL THE REV. J. L. STEELE, ASSISTANT CHAPLAIN- GENERAL, at the microphone during the First Army's Thanksoivinp Service held amidst the ruins of Carthage A GENERAL VIEW IN THE HUGE AMPHITHEATRE where the Service was held near Tunis. Senior officers leaving after the Thanksgiving GENERAL ANDERSON READING THE LESSON FROM THE STAGE OF THE AMPHITHEATRE Amidst the ancient ...

... The area now under the heaviest attack from the air is encircled by the Italian islands and mainland, and by French-owned, but Italian-occupied, Corsica. The Tyrrhenian Sea flanks Italy on the west, as does the Adriatic on the east. Allied aircraft have been streaming out from their bases in North Africa, Malta and the Middle East and making for the enemy airfields in Sicily and Sardinia; but ...

... THE FINAL ACTION IN THE TUNISIAN VICTORY THE RUSH OF BRITISH TANKS TO HAMMAMET, when the First Army's armour went all out to cut the enemy off from the Cape Bon Peninsula. The Germans were convinced that no armoured division could move so fast Drawing by W. G. Whitaker Axis resistance collapsed because von Arnim and his Generals lost control of their forces owing to the dazzling speed and ...

... AFTER THE BATTLES ARE OVER. The French farmers of Tunisia resume their ploughing as British sappers clear their land of the mines laid by the retreating Germans. A scene near the road between Medjez-el-Bab and the sea 'Drawing by W. G. W hitaker Already the fishermen and farmers of North Africa are beginning to forget the war and returning to their normal peacetime occupations. Many of the ...

... On its way to bomb Duisberg recently an R.A.F. heavy Stirling bomber was hit by flak. The plane began to vibrate violently and the rudder-bar swung loosely. Despite this, the sergeant- pilot continued his run up and bombed his target successfully. Then he turned for home, but soon it became almost impossible to control the aircraft. When the Navigator went aft, he found that the rear turret ...

... The ILLNESS of the PRIME MINISTER Who is now Suffering from Pneumonia in the Middle East ()n Thursday of last week the whole country was seri ously disturbed by the news from the Middle East that Mr. Winston Churchill was ill. The news was announced to a startled House of Com mons by Mr. Attlee, who read the first bulletin signed by Lord Moran, Brigadier D. Evan Bedford and Lt. -Colonel R. J. ...

... ANOTHER OF HITLER'S 41 SECRET WEAPONS A close-up of a new German rocket gun one of a series of pictures just released, evidently for propaganda purposes, from enemy sources These three pictures are the first to reach London of the Germans' newest rocket gun which, it is claimed, is now being used with much success on the Eastern Front. It fires six rocket shells in quick succession, each of ...

... THE NEW V.C. Twenty-two-year-old Acting Right-Lieut. William Reid, of No. 61 Squadron. R.A.F., who thus becomes the seven teenth member of the R.A.F. to win this highest distinction. The award was made for a flight to Dusseldorf, during the course of which Right-Lieut. Reid was wounded when 200 miles away from the target. Despite his wounds, suffering severely from cold, and with his aircraft ...

... The PRIME MINISTER in the MIDDLE EAST Official Pictures Received by Radio MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL IN CAIRO, after his historic visit to the Turkish President A picture taken in the garden of the British Embassy, and sent by radio. From 'left to right here are Admiral Sir Henry Harwood (Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet) General Sir Alan Brooke (Chief of the Imperial General Staff) Mr. ...

... 'The attack on the Tirpitz in the Aken Fiord was made on September 22. Two days later the German official communique announced that an attack on the battleship by submarines of the smallest type had been repulsed and that prisoners had been taken. Interrogation of the crews which took part in the exploit and subsequent photographic reconnaissance leave no doubt, however, despite enemy claims ...

... Midget Submarines of the Japanese and Italian Navies As Used at Pearl Harbour, in Sydney Harbour, and Against Gibraltar It will be remembered that, when the Japs launched their treacherous attack on the U.S. Fleet at Pearl Harbour on December 7, 1941, a number of two-nian submarines participated in the assault. It had been known for some years before the war that the Japanese had been ex ...