... A WAR JHS. NEWSLETTER -No. 98 i. New Oxford Street. W.C.i. 5 to I on Freedom. I feel it in my bones that there are quite a number of people in the Reich to-day who are resuming the function of educated men and doing a bit of private thinking on their own account. I dare say a big percentage of those who have resumed their private reasoning powers were a year ago confirmed, dazzled, doped Nazis ...

... AMERICA FORMS a SCREEN of ATLANTIC ISLANDS --Part of Her New Strategy of Securing the American Mainland from Axis Attack by Air or by Sea from Enemy Island Bases Out in the Atlantic Ocean Described by FERDINAND TUOHY PRESIDENT CARMONA, Portugal's veteran soldier Chief of State, should by this time have landed on the Azores, eight hundred miles in mid- Atlantic, from Lisbon. Officially, the ...

... PANAMA'S BRIDGE of WATER The Great Artificial Link which Separates North and South America, but which Connects Atlantic and Pacific THE idea of a navigable channel across the isthmus is as old almost as the discovery of the Western Hemisphere itself. Nevertheless, it was left to M. de Lesseps to make the first serious attempt, and the world is acquainted with the terrible failure of the ...

... A BRITISH TORPEDO UNDERGOES ITS TESTS: A heavy type being fired on the range. It will later be fitted with a war-head In the Navy three sizes of torpedo are used 14-in. by the smaller naval vessels 18-in. and 2 1 -in. The weight of the latter is nearly I J tons and its length 22 ft. In the last war the efficient range of a torpedo was some 7,000 to 10,000 yards, and it would require about ...

... The NEW FLOATING RESCUE STATIONS of the R.A.F. First Official Pictures of the Stations to be Moored in the Channel ast autumn most of the battles in the air were fought over British territory. To-day the R.A.F. are waging war over France and on the far side of the Channel; thus, when pilots are forced down, they often find themselves a long way from home. It is now announced that floating ...

... The WORK of In this War Little Attention h( Service whose Members Ha\ in the Pursuance of their Dut/i THE ground which has already been won in Syria has involved con siderable fighting, and every branch of the Army is entitled to a share in the honours. Stretcher-bearers take by no means the last place on the list of courageous acts. They had a particularly sticky job last night when they ...

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... In one of our recent attacks on Germany, the loss of twelve of our machines was reported. This can be attributed to the extraordinary weather, which provided the defence with ideal conditions, as depicted in the above drawing. Strato-cumulus clouds were piled in layers up to 18,000 ft. without a break over the North Sea. Thunder and icing made the passage through them vet more difficult. One ...

... i; ^T^ithin a very short space of time after the opening of the campaign in Syria, the V Vichy forces were compelled to evacuate the city of Damascus, second only in importance E to Beyrout, the capital. Damascus was occu- pied by British and Free French forces on f: June 21 and they were cordially received by the mixed population. The capitulation of the city was, happily, accomplished ...

... The SCORCHED EARTH How the Kussians are Carrying Out btalin s Orders First Pictures from the War Zone in Russia In his broadcast to the Russian people at the outbreak of the war between his country and Germany, Stalin said that in the case of retreat We must not leave a single pound of grain. Forests must be fired, bridges blown up, trains wrecked. All valuable materials that cannot be taken ...

... THE NAVAL CRANE A Note on an Important Piece of Equipment I yhe cranes fitted in H.M. ships carrying seaplanes or amphi bians, as distinguished from aircraft-carriers, prove extra ordinarily useful for many purposes. They are specially designed with steel girders to get the greatest strength with the least weight, and they can tackle very heavy loads. Ships designed to carry aircraft from the ...

... T ONDON TRANSPORT engineers are organised J--' to deal with any type of bomb damage. Gangs are ready to begin work at any hour of the day or night and dumps of specially selected material are available at key points, so that passenger services may be restored at the earliest possible moment. These four pictures show how the engineers repaired a large hole made in an Underground railway tunnel ...