... IN THE GREAT STRONGHOLD OF TOBRUK troops crossing one of the principal thoroughfares of the town, which is now gradually CRUMBLING AWAY UNDER THE CONSTANT ATTACKS BY ENEMY AIRCRAFT Elsewhere in this issue we publish a new series of pictures dealing in general with the life of British and Imperial forces in the Western Desert, and in the beleaguered fortress of Tobruk, in particular. This town ...

... THE PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA, Mr. Mackenzie King, is greeted by Mr. Churchill at No. 10, Downing Street Mr. Mackenzie king arrived in this country by bomber, having flown the Atlantic, on Thursday of last week. He is known to dislike flying, and he has also stated that nothing but a grave crisis would make him leave Canada. He breakfasted, shortly after his arrival, with Mr. Peter Fraser, the ...

... THE NEW ATLANTIC CHARTER-AND THE OLD LEAGUE Is a New League of Nations Foreshadowed by the Roosevelt-Churchill Charter If so, There Are Many Lessons to be Learned from the Failure of the Old League to Maintain Peace Throughout Europe By FERDINAND TUOHY THE clauses of the Atlantic pronouncement set one's mind roving forward and backward. For them ever to come to anything, some form of pre ...

... CRUISERS OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY ome Special Features which Give Them a Very Distinctive Silhouette The cruiser is a type of warship which has a special appeal both to the layman and the expert. The very special and varied work which she has to carry out, and her brilliant record of accom plishment both in the last war and in this, put her in a very high place in popular estimation. The ...

... TARGET FOR TO. HAY* And the Men Who Bom>> it I /vrvvj C I rui\ I KJ-U/\ T A Series of Official Pictures |argets in the Rhineland were amongst the objectives attacked by aircraft of the R.A.F. on the night of Saturday, August 16. The Secretary j of State for Air, Sir Archi bald Sinclair, accompanied by the Under Secretary of State for Air, Sir Hugh Seely, flew to an R.A.F. station on that ...

... HOW A DAYLIGHT ATTACK IS CARRIED OUT: THE BOMBERS AND FIGHTERS AT THE RENDEZVOUS Stirling bombers (one is seen on the right) form up with their fighter escort over the south-east coait preparatory to crossing the Channel for France. The huge Stirlings have four engines the fighters are single-engined Hurricanes FIGHTERS AND BOMBERS ON THE WAY The Hurricane fighters have closed in on the bomber ...

... THE 44 ARK ROYAL OUT ON PATROL Som e of the aircraft flown from her wide flight deck are actually seen in the air. The carrier has accommodation, under actual war conditions, for sixty of these. This picture was taken, whilst out on patrol, from an accompanying destroyer ANOTHER EPISODE IN THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: AN AMERICAN-BUI A GERMAN FOUR-ENGINED FOCKE-WULF BOMBER, which was attempt ...

... PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL OF REGENCY Colonel H.H. Prince Aditya, a nephew of the ex-King Prajadhipok, and one of the two members of the Regency Council ruling the country during the Boy King's minority PREMIER AND FOREIGN MINISTER General Luang Bipul Songgram, who holds both posts and who is regarded as the strong man of the country. He was educated at a French military college. The General was ...

... THE HON. OLIVER LYTTELTON VISITS SYRIA A picture taken during his visit to the historic ruins at Palmyra THE REPATRIATION OF VICHY TROOPS: General de Verdillac (Com mander of the Field Forces of Vichy during the Syria campaign) with a British Major-General on the quayside at Beyrout duhing the repatriation THE HON. OLIVER LYTTELTON WITH GENERAL WILSON AND GENERAL CATROUX Mr. Lyttelt n now has ...

... THE HORSE IN MODERN WARFARE Despite Mechanisation, Thousands of Horses are Still Employed in and Behind the Battle Front By W. H. CHALONER THE pre-war publicity given to cavalry mechanisa tion and the present struggle to counter the menace of the Panzer division have overshadowed the services still being rendered to man in this war by the horse, his second oldest ally in the animal world. For ...

... SOME PHASES 0 VARTIME ACTIVITIES HOW A VICTORIA CROSS WAS WON BY SERGEANT WARD OF THE R.A.F. This picture shows how Sergeant James Allen Ward, of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, tackled a fire which broke out in a Wellington bomber when returning over the Zuider Zee after an attack on Munster an act of most conspicuous bravery for which he was awarded the V.C.. Sergeant Ward volunteered to ...

... EIGHT WEEKS OF WAR How the Campaign between Germany and Russia has Progressed since July 22 A Complete Diary-Record Specially compiled for The Sphere JUNE 22-23.-- German troops invaded Russia at 4 a.m. without warning. and crossed the River Bug, the frontier between German and Russian Poland, meeting Russian amphibian tanks. The German Army consisted of 185 divisions, under the general ...