... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 102 I, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Signs and Portents.-- it is difficult, even while we accept the hard truth that the shots in Hitler's locker are very many and very devastating, not to feel the dawnings of a new optimism, which even counterstrokes and bitter setbacks cannot altogether banish. The Russian business had, in the seventh week, thrown on the screen of Europe the ...

... TWO AIR MINISTRY PICTURES WHICH DEMONSTRATE HOW THE R.A.F. CARRY OUT THEIR ATTACKS ON ENEMY SHIPPING T widespread range of operations carried out by our bombers is well exemplified in the two p! es above. The one on the left shows an aircraft of the Bomber Command attacking a vessel o; 00 tons off the west coast of Holland two hits were scored on the stern of the ship, w!.. ...

... V WARFARE-- ITS CHANCES AND RISKS The Revolution by Radio, in which the Subject Peoples of Europe are Being Schooled to Organise Against Quislings, Occupation Troops, New Orders, etc., is Here Discussed in All Its Implications By FERDINAND TUOHY I HAD come to associate the V sign with a mysteri ous Colonel Verdun, first to begin courageous underground operations against the Germans in ...

... WAR AND PEACE: Some Contrast ing Scenes from Different Parts of the Country A BOYS' BRIGADE CAMP AT ETON COLLEGE The vanguard of 600 London boys, members of the Boys' Brigade, are now encamped on the famous Agar's Plough at Eton, owing to the kindness of the Headmaster, who has given them permission to do so. Throughout the month of August the boys will occupy the site in relays of 150. Here ...

... The German at home may fondly imagine that British ships are being sent to the bottom at a fantastic rate a certain number of them are being sunk in the Battle of the Atlantic but, pro rata, German and Italian shipping is suffering much more heavily at the hands of the R.A.F. And the enemy's need for what remains of his mercantile fleet is even greater than our own. More and more, owing to the ...

... A Series of Pictures of the Huge American-built Bombers which Carried Out the First Stratosphere Raids on the Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau SEATED WELL UP IN THE NOSE, a Squadron Leader of the R.A.F. operates the controls of the huge bomber he has with him in the aircraft a crew of from seven to nine i.-- i-- AN EXTERNAL VIEW OF ONE OF THE GUN POSITIONS There are five rifle-calibre guns, and ...

... How GERMANY has Worked on JAPAN: But Japan herself has yet to Decide her Own Destiny By HERMIONE BEAUCLERK AND Japan? Very small. Yet not so small as to have escaped the machinations of Nazidom, and large enough for politicians of every nationality to have to keep a weather eye aware of Japan's activities. Large enough to have overrun Korea and Manchuria, Formosa and the Peninsula of ...

... THE BURMA ROAD, LOOKING TOWARDS THE CHINESE FRONTIER and the native- built bombers which the Japanese are using in their air operations against China Working from their newly-acquired bases in French Indo-China, the Japanese are now within striking distance by air of the Burma Road. The bombers they are likely to use for this task are the Mitsubishi Otori 96, shown above. The Otori (which ...

... THE WAR IN RUSSIA: CONDITIONS ARE NOT EASY FOR THE PANZER DIVISIONS OF GERMANY IN THE ROUGH COUNTRY OF THE UKRAINE |_|itherto even in Greece the German Heavy Divisions n have been able to operate in country possessed of goodish roads, so that their tanks have been able to move from point to point with terrifying rapidity. Thus Holland and France were terrorised, and thus Greece and ...

... THE WAR IN RUSSIA The Latest Pictures from both German and Russian Sectors in the Eastern Campaign GERMAN TANKS AND INFANTRY ATTACK ING THE TOWN OF BRODY Like a number of illustrations on these pages, the above picture and its description comes from German sources. Readers must therefore make allowance for this fact wBZSk. H -m VBMH A SOVIET WOMAN SOLDIER AS A PRISONER OF WAR According to the ...

... SOVIET SOLDIERS COME IN TO THE GERMAN LINES This is a German picture, and knowing the German penchant for such things the scene may have been staged for propaganda purposes. According to the Germans, these Soviet soldiers are deserters and the implication is that they came in of their own will. But the Russians are making similar assertions that great numbers of German troops are coming in to ...

... Japan's Position in the Pacific Described by FRANK C. BOWEN THE action of Japan in Indo-China has caused no surprise in the Democracies, for they have been preparing for it for months, and this absence of surprise robs it of many of its dangers, although its possibilities are naturally very serious. Japanese politicians appa rently consider that Russia will now have her Hands too full with her ...