... Just before the end came in North-West Germany, the R.A.F. had the task of smashing the Nazi attempt at Dunkirk flights to Denmark and Norway. Enemy troops were filling the roads between Schwenn and Lubeck, and frantically trying to escape into Denmark before the Second Army cut them off. Tempests, Spitfires and Typhoons all took part and exacted a heavy toll of the German traffic. It was not ...

... The COSSACKS of TRADITION and the REAL COSSACKS of the UKRAINE An Account of Their Origin, History and Present Position Within the Borders of the Ukraine Soviet Republic By MICHAEL COLLIN IN view of the recent developments following the Nazi occupation of the Balkans, and the consequent speculation arising as to the fate of the Ukraine should Hitler decide to invade, that province, it is of ...

... 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 ...

... FROM THE SUDAN ATTACKING THE GONDAR- -Drawing by W. Bryce Hamilton It is not so long ago thar fierce fighting was taking place around Gallabat, on the Abys- sinian-Sudan borders. This was at the time when Graziani was advancing upon Egypt and the Italian forces in Abyssinia were pushing outwards in all directions into Kenya, the Sudan, British Somaliland, and elsewhere. All that is now changed ...

... 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 ...

... THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY VORTREKKERS-- THE ROUTES BY WHICH MOTORISTS HAVE BEEN ATTEMPTING TO TRAVEL FROM BRITAIN TO THE CAPE A sketch-map showing the two converging roads from north to south of the African Continent. Most of those who have essayed the journey, largely because they could not get passages by boat and yet had jobs waiting for them in South Africa, have motored down to Marseilles, ...

... Out of the ages, Winchester has distilled a golden peace, a contemplative calm. She wears her beauty like a cloak of quiet, slashed with the rich colours of history and tradition. Once these streets were turbulent with the busy life of a capital r 1 city for to Saxon and Dane and Norman, Winchester was the seat of govern ment, chief city of them all, the place of coronation for their Kings. ...

... 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 ...

... By Dr. G. B. SHIRLAW (Who Worked for a Year in a Moscow Clinic, After Service in the Spanish War) THE tremendous effort which the Soviet Union was making to achieve and surpass European standards of hygiene was plain to all who encountered the Russian medical observer at the Spanish front. His name, which he gave as Kluss, concealed the identity of an army surgeon of high rank, and in all that ...