... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 70 32-34, St. Bride Street, E.C.4 CHRISTMAS ARMISTICE. --I felt certain there would be a Christmas armistice from night bomb ing in the west-- whatever the leaders said or did not say. There was. As at Christmas 1914 in the trenches of France and Flanders, so at Christmas 1940, over the ravaged cities of Britain and Germany, there was no death in the air during two or ...

... FIRST PICTURES from the WESTERN DESERT Some of the Many Thousands of Prisoners and Stores of Italian War Material Captured Before Sidi Barrani HUNDREDS OP ITALIAN PRISONERS BEING ONLY TNE BRITISH SOLDIER WAS ,t TH£ nuhE S,DI r wawTs iiT^Rjs'isrjsr, back t° e (Jne of Hie most vivid episodes of the war has been the wonderful advance of British forces in the Western Desert. Masses of war ...

... THI BLOCKADE OF ITALY'S EAST AFRICAN POSSESSIONS Where the Kenya Forces are now Closing the Frontiers to the South THIS sparsely populated and little-known Frontier Province of Kenya can offer nothing to attract travellers or planters. Except for a few isolated military posts to ensure frontier protection and prevent raids by cattle thieves, there are few signs of civilisation. Rains are so ...

... The SEA PATROLS in WINTER Snow and Ice which Add to the Hardships of the Crews at Sea By FRANK C. BOWEN THE reports of the Greek Army driving the Italians back through the snow-filled moun tain passes came as quite a surprise to many people, who always regard the Mediterranean as one of the Navy's warm-weather stations, where officers and men disport themselves in whites, or at the worst in ...

... GOOD RESOLUTIONS THAT MIGHT BE At this Turn of the Tear here are a Few Ideas which Might Profitably x Considered by Those in High Places AIR COMMENTARY- -By C. G. GRE;.Y (rounder of The Aeroplane BEFORE starting a New Year one is supposed to make Good Resolutions. That is a bad habit, because Good Resolutions are always the first casualties of the year; just as the first casualties in any war ...

... AN OVERHEAD VIEW OF THE WASHED-UP NAZI BUOY, USED AS A REFUGE FOR GERMAN AIRMEN SHOT DOWN IN THE CHANNEL WITH THE RED CROSS PAINTED ON THE EXTER.OR ANOIHiR VIEW OF THE LUFTWAFFE'S REFUGE-BUOY FOR GERMAN AIRMEN J t was reported a few weeks ago that the Germans had erected a number of refuge-buoys in the English Channel close to the coast of Northern France. This was presumed to be for the ...

... The GREYHOUNDS, DF the FLEET -AND TWO NEW IDEAS FROM AMERICA The Mosquito Craft Now Being Used. he Royal Navy and the R.A.F. A HIGH-SPEED LAUNCH USED BY THE R.A.F. FOR RESCUE WORK IN OPEN SEAS THESE VESSELS ARE ARMED WITH LEWIS GUNS AMIDSHIPS AND AFT, AND THEY ARE USED TO RESCUE AIRCRAFT PERSONNEL SHOT DOWN OVER THE CHANNEL AND NORTH SEA A MOTOR TORPEDO-BOAT ON PATROL AT HIGH SPEED. WHEN ...

... The German Attack on British Shipping A Detailed Analysis of the Very Serious Situation Brought About by the Enemy's Attacks at Sea THE very serious losses of mer chant ships by enemy action, interesting every person in the country by reducing the tonnage space available for the im portation of foodstuffs and luxury commodities, have been given very serious notice by Mr. Ronald Cross, the ...

... rHE GUILDHALL AND NINE CHURCHES DESTROYED IN THE CITY INTERIOR OF THE BEAUTIFUL CHURCH OF ST. BRIDE, FLEET STREET, AS IT NOW IS The Gothic church of St. Brigid the Virgin of Fletestrete was burned down in the Great Fire of London and was rebuilt in 1680. Walls and steeple still stand THE CHURCH WHICH FLANKED THE ENTRANCE TO GUILDHALL YARD AS IT NOW The church of St. Lawrence Jewry was burned ...

... CONCEALMENT WHICH LED TO A SUCCESSFUL SURPRISE Against the Walled and Entrenched Italian Forts in the Barren Libyan Desert EXTEMPORISED CONCEALMENT IN THE DESERT During the preparations for the big attack on the Italian Army of Invasion, every type of concealment became a pressing necessity. As we have already recorded in these pages, even an old Roman tomb was made use of in this connection. ...

... RINGED IN BY A CIRCLE OF FIRE: ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL IN THE MIDST OF THE BLAZING CITY, SUNDAY NIGHT, DECEMBER 29 Sunday night, in the words of the official communique, the enemy made a deliberate attempt to set fire to the City of London. In the early hours of the evening thousands of incendiary bombs were dropped over the historic area known as the City. Dramatic damage was done within the ...

... NECESSITY BROUGHT FORTH INVENTION IN THE DESERT: Owing to the pressing need for cover in the exposed stretches of flat desert, all kinds of burrows were invented. Here is a desert Jack-in-the-box with his Bren gun, waiting for an enemy plane which might seek to indulge in a low flying strafe. His camouflaged gun could come into action in an instant THE VARIETY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF THE BRITISH ...