... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Napoleon, imagining himself a second Alexander, was lured to the Middle East as a prelude to a March of Conquest to India WHEN Bonaparte, at the age of twenty-nine, was given the command of the Army for the invasion of England, he made a tour along the coast and decided that invasion was impos sible without the command of the sea. He thereupon declared that the Army of England should become ...

... WHEN BRITAIN HELD SICILY A Little-known Mediterranean Episode IT is not often remembered that the British held Sicily for a considerable number of years during the Napoleonic Wars-- in fact, there is a general omission of all reference to it in many books reputing to give the general story of Sicily. Yet the British occupation was never forgotten by Napoleon, to whom it was a very painful ...

... The BREAK-UP of YUGOSLAVIA The Savage Carve-up of the Kingdom between Hungary, Italy, Bulgaria, and the other Jackal States THE audacity of Yugoslavia in daring to thwart the schemes of Nazi Germany in the Balkans has brought down Hitler's wrath in a savage intensity. In his speech at the opening of war with Russia Hitler stressed his efforts to pacify the Balkans, how he had invited ...

... THE PROBLEM OF THE PACIFIC A Special Sphere Section Under the Urge of Her Axis Partners, the Japanese have been Making a Series of Gestures which have Threatened to Upset the Status Quo in the Far East. The Present Situation as it Affects all the Big Powers in those Regions is here fully Discussed and Illustrated IS AUSTRALIA IN DANGER? By DONALD COWIE THE question posed above has been brought ...

... BACKBONE OF BRITAIN This is hardly the time to talk of leisure. But, in easing the worker's lot, the tradition so long established by Ford in peace-time is continued through the war. Releasing the men from unnecessary fatigue, by providing means of mechanical lifting where lifting is necessary, by ensuring good conditions of light and air and hygiene, by seeing to the slightest scratch so as ...

... WAR ACTIONS of the WEEK GREECE, LIBYA, SUDAN, SICILY During the opening days of January, the weather conditions in Albania were so severe that it was difficult for either side to do more than struggle to live in the intense cold which had descended on the moun tains. The fingers of the combatants were so numbed with cold that it was not possible to hold a rifle or manage a machine gun properly ...

... THE R.A.F. OVER GERMANY Hitting the Enemy where it Hurts Most-- A Wonderful Record of Achievement THE increasing intensity of Britain's air offensive against Germany is revealed in maps just published for display all over the country by the Ministry of Information. These bring up to date the similar information issued at the end of September and show that in the three months October-December ...

... The Battle FOR Smolensk Special Sphere Maps and Drawings to Illustrate the Position in this Cen tral Sector, where the Germans have been Driven Back on a Wide Front IN the Smolensk sector the Russians have achieved their first big successes in counter-attack against the Germans. For the first time in this war, too, the enemy has been forced to yield up territory into which he has advanced! ...

... The NEW BURMA ROAD will be a RAILWAY This is Now being Built to Connect Up Lashio in Burma with Kunming and Chungking in China SINCE the unwarranted invasion of China by the Japanese some years ago, the Burma Road has become familiar to all. Along this road has flowed a never- ending stream of war supplies for the Chinese Nationalists, from the railhead at Lashio in Burma to the railhead at ...

... Special Sphere Maps and Drawings One way or another any enemy driving down from the north must somehow pass the Philippines on the way to the Dutch East Indies or to Singapore. The entrance to the magnificent anchorage of Manila Bay is twelve miles wide, narrowing down to a deep-water strait right in the centre of which stands Corregidor Island. This is now a heavily-armoured fortress rising ...