... THE THREE-DAY ATTACK The Newsreel Records Incidents During July 22-24 THE VERY EFFECTIVE MULTIPLE POM-POMS of a British warship in action during the engagement in the Mediterranean THE SKY FILLED WITH EXPLODING SHELLS, sent up by our ships against the enemy aircraft during a bombing attack A CLOSER VIEW OF THE WARSHIP SEEN ABOVE A picture taken during the heat of the bat when the vessel was ...

... SCENES from the EASTERN FRONT Further Pictures of the Russo-German War are given on pp. 202-03 of this Issue GERMAN LORRIES MOVE UP TO THE FRONT A scene on the Minsk- Moscow highway, with a lorry convoy passing through a Russian town which has been bombed and burned WHAT REMAINS OF THE RUSSIAN TOWN OF LUCK, after a series of aerial attacks by the Luftwaffe THE GERMANS STILL CLAIM SMOLENSK This ...

... BRITAIN'S FAR-FLUNG AIR FORCE Like the Navy, Britain's Air Squadrons are Spread all Over the World, and Performing Vital Tasks Over Three Continents By A. B. AUSTIN GERMAN air superiority, says Mr. Churchill, has been broken. When he made that cheerful statement in the House of Commons, the Prime Minister must have been thinking of this island. He must nave meant tnat no longer could the ...

... PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL AT DIVINE SERVICE ABOARD H.M.S. PRINCE OF WALES ON august IO, 1941, WHEN THE ANGLO-AMERICAN EIGHT-POINT CHARTER WAS CONCLUDED There is no need to add to the comment caused throughout 1 the world by the dramatic announcement of the meeting between the President 6f the United States and the Prime Minister of Great Britain. On this and the following ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 103 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. The Open Secret.-- The British Press deserves a tribute for its integrity, generally, in the matter of Mr. Churchill's voyage. The tempta tion to be first with the news must have been tremendous, and that temptation was too much for many men in responsible positions in the Civil Service. I heard on August 6 that Mr. Churchill had left this ...

... PRESIDENT AND PREMIER MEET Pictures Taken During the Historic Meeting Between the Two Democratic Leaders THE PRESIDENT COMES ABOARD H.M.S. PRINCE OF WALES: Accompanied by his son, Captain Elliott Roosevelt, both salute the quarter-deck. The meetings between Mr. Churchill and the President were held on the Prince of Wales and on the American 9,050-ton cruiser, Augusta MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL ...

... THE HOODED MEN COME OUT INTO THE OPEN The Aims of the Cagoulards, Who Intend to Police France with Men of Their Own Breed: The Full Story of this Amazing Organisation is Here Fully Described By FERDINAND TUOHY IN France the Ministry of the Interior has long been the post most coveted by men who want to run the country in their own way. In the days of the Third Republic, when there would be ...

... TANK WARFARE How the Monster Machines of To-day Wage War By J. EDMUNDSON MACHINES have always been regarded as inhuman, and in the stupendous tank battles now raging on the Russian front one is apt to think in terms of armour- plating, cog-wheels and machine-guns, for getting that basically any tank battle, pro vided that mechanically both sides are of almost equal strength, is a struggle, ...

... Other Things Than War Autumn Reading; Queen Victoria; Japan Twenty /ears Back; Tidying-LIp MRS. WOOD AND MISS BRADDON.-- Those two great masters of Victorian melo drama in fiction-- Mrs. Henry Wood and Miss Braddon-- are my stand-by for escape literature these days-- still with Trollope I find I have read twenty-five Trollopes and at least a dozen of these ladies' novels since 1940. The London ...

... BRITAIN'S EXPORT TRADE-V Australia and New Zealand, though they are situated Down Under, obtain between 40 and 45 per cent, of their imports from Britain RUSSIA in Europe is a gigantic country, as the Nazis are finding out to their cost, but our Dominion of Australia is twice the size of Russia, or about three-quarters the size of all Europe, while New Zealand is roughly the size of Great ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 100 i. New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Night Bombing.-- MR. STOKES: Will the Prime Minister consider making a convention with the German Government for the cessation of night bombing and the bombing of cities? LORD PRIVY SEAL: No, Sir. High authority (Mr. Stokes slipped in), in cluding military authority, has more than once described these practices as contagious lunacy. ...

... TANKS and the SCORCHED EARTH in RUSSI/ 11 'T'he pictures reproduced on these pages have I reached London within the past few days: some ai obviously of German origin, but all are interesting in that hey show the type of warfare now being waged along the wh e fighting front, from Leningrad to the Black Sea. The .ctures of Russian tanks are of especial interest it was nc until the opening of ...