... Jt is now generally known throughout Finland that, whether or no Germany wins the war against Russia, the Finns have quite definitely lost it. Yet the country is still in a very stubborn mood, despite M. Paasikivi's recent negotiations with the Soviet and this stubbornness arises mainly from territorial considerations. Finland is greater than most people in this country realise it is 700 miles ...

... iThe GERMAN THRUST Ito FRANCE How the Initial Attack Burst Through the rdennes THE ARDENNE GATE WHICH WAS LEFT OPEN 'The concentration of such a huge mass of tanks as the Germans A assembled in the forest country or the Belgian Ardennes was a puzzle to military critics. A study of the bird's-eye view, maps and views given here will show the nature of the country. It seems a territory in which ...

... The Trans-Canada and Alaskan Highways The Construction of which are Strategic Achievements of the First Importance. Described by EWING GRIFFITHS EARLY in December the 1,600-mile Alaskan High way, now known as the Alcan Highway, will open for traffic. Its northern terminal, Fairbanks, is within easy flying distance of Russian territory, across the other side of the Bering Straits (which are ...

... The BATTLE for EGYPT The Huge New Areas which Confronted Rommel in his Advance Towards the Nile Basin A special Sphere Section, with diagrams and drawings of the new Battle Zones FOLLOWING on the fall of Tobruk on Sunday, June 21, Marshal Rommel's forces at once began their advance towards Mersa Matruh (which was abandoned by the 8th Army) and farther east. The Battle for Egypt had begun! But, ...

... THE GERMAN AIR ATTACKS ON THE SHETLANDS AND OTHER EAST COAST POINTS AND WHAT SUCH FLIGHTS ENTAIL IN MILEAGE There was a fierce burst of anti-aircraft fire when a German machine believed to be a Heinkel bomber visited the Shetlands on November 26. This Sunday call made the ninth air expedition of the Germans to the Shetlands, the lonely group of islands to the north-east of the Orkneys. To ...

... The New Secret Weapon of the Germans The Wireless-Controlled Projectile Which was First Described by the Prime Minister Last Month A Drawing by Roland Davies of the Rocket- Assisted Glider Which Releases Its Bombs from a Height and Directs Them to Its Target T n last speech to the House of Commons September 21, the Prime Minister ga, tails of still another German secret v.v jn. He said ...

... The OFFENSIVE ACROSS the SANjGRO RIVER How the Bridgeheads on the North Bank were Established and the Mountain Country which Now Flanks the Eighth Army's Left Wing Special Sphere Drawings The easternmost section of the Eighth Army (operating with its extreme right flank touching the Adriatic coast) is flanked on its landward side by a huge and impenetrable mountain mass known as the Majello. ...

... ■■Fffijol- y --:vr- VHFRF I HE EIGHTH ARMY OFFENSIVE WAS LAUNCHED FROM THE SANGRO BRIDGEHEADS Thp Ca^nli-Orcnona-^an Vim arps nvprrnn hv Rritish frnnn? in thp first days of the attack and partially regained by the Germans later. The attack started from the river level and climbed to 1,000 ft.- -Drawing by E. G. Lambert ollowing General Montgomery s announcement that the Germans were to ...

... HOW THE GERMAN DIVISIONS LINED UP ALONG THE BORDERS OF RUSSIA FROM THE BLACK SEA TO THE LATVIAN FRONTIER I I 1 kJi 1 J I P J L L.An.k, (.Am Waffarn The one big question which had been occupying the mind of European statesmen during the past weeks is now answered, and the reason why Germany had built up such strong forces within striking distance of the whole of Russia's western frontier is now ...

... WAR MAPS of BOTH EAST and WEST FRONTS THE ATTACK ON THE WEST THE points at which three waves of German infantry and massed tanks utterly failed to break the French de fences in a German counter-attack directed against French positions on the Saar Front in the Nied Valley, which crosses the Franco-German frontier 15 miles to the south-east of where the river Moselle forms the border of Germany ...

... THE SECRET PROVINCE OF KAZAKSTAN BEYOND THE URALS THE SOVIET REPUBJJC OF KAZAKSTAN East of the Caspian Sea, between that region and the Chinese borders, lies the Soviet Republic of Kazakstan. It is an area of nearly 3,000,000 square miles, or 14 per cent, of the entire territory of the Soviet Union. Before the Russian Revolution this region of dense forest and wide steppe was a land of grain ...

... A Survey of How Far Japan has been Able to Carry out her Ambition of Dominion Over All Asia and of the Factors which have Limited these Efforts to Certain Parts of China and Indo-China By COMMANDER EDGAR P. YOUNG, R.N., Ret. Former'y on the Staff o/ the Commanaei'in-Chief, China Squadron) THE recent conclusion of an alliance between Japan and the Axis Powers, with whom we are at war, though, ...