... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 118 x, New Oxford Street, W.C.i Grounds for Satisfaction. --In these dark days of winter and the war, we have some solid grounds of comfort. It is hard pounding, gentlemen, and we shall continue to get some nasty jolts and setbacks all along the line at sea, in the air and on land, from Murmansk to Benghazi, and thence to Dover, and perhaps across the oceans to Hong Kong ...

... GREAT AIR JOURNEYS THAT STEER THE WAR The Development of the Long-distance Aeroplane has Made Possible Many Diplomatic Contacts and Movements in All Parts of the Globe. Some of the Journeys Already Achieved During the War are Here Described By FERDINAND TUOHY ONE day in the winter of 1870-71 the Prussians on Mt. Valérian overlooking besieged Paris were flabbergasted to see a balloon rise from ...

... 'Phe recent loss of the Ark Royal has once -L again drawn attention to the aircraft- carriers. Since the outbreak of the present war we have lost three of these vessels Ark Royal, in the Western Mediterranean, Courageous, tor pedoed in September 1939, and Glorious f sunk off North Norway in June 1940. Despite these grievous losses, the aircraft-carrier force is as strong as ever it was. There ...

... The map on the left is a key to the larger drawing of Sebastopoi repro duced above. It shows the position of the city on the spur of land projecting into the southern side of the Bay of Sebastopoi. The main railway station lies to the south this connected the city with Perekop, and then across the Isthmus with the Russian mainland. The town harbour is officially known as Meridian Bay and it is ...

... I AN ANTI-TANK WEAPON IN LIBYA^fc g| A Deadly British Device Used to Destroy Enemy Tanks in the Western Desert, Now First Revealed by the Cinematograph Camera i J The series of pictures reproduced here are from a cinema film taken 8Hj|: J by an operator of the Military History and Information Section of J the Australian Imperial Forces. They show one of the deadly British J anti-tank weapons ...

... THE MIDDLE EAST ARENA A Collection of Pictures from Malta and the Mediterranean, Showing British Activities in this Vast Theatre of War BRITISH G.O.C. AT MALTA Major-General S. J. P. Scobell, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O.. retired in 1939. He returned to the Army, and is now in command of the troops on the Island. He has had considerable experience in Somaliland, Turkey and India THE VICE-ADMIRAL AT ...

... Which Show the Conditions under which Warfare is now being Waged on the Eastern Front. (See also pages 308-11 of this issue THE CITY FROM WHICH THE GERMANS HAVE BEEN DRIVEN This is a street scene in Rostov on the Don, which the Germans recently occupied after a long and bitter struggle and from which they have now been ejected by the Russians. More than this, their armies have been streaming ...

... GENERAL AUCHINLECK, C.-IN-C., MIDDLE EAST, WITH MAJOR-GENERAL FREYBERG, V.C., WHO IS IN COMMAND OF THE NEW ZEALANDERS THE MEN IN TOBRUK Captain E. D. P. Goldsmith and Captain R. P. Chalmers (both from Leicester city), with a Midland County Regiment in a forward position at Tobruk JUST BEFORE THE BATTLE BEGAN General Auchinleck paid a visit to the Western Desert and watched battle exercises ...

... WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN AT DJIBOUTI? The New Vichy Governor is Bitterly Anti-British, but Surrender is Regarded as Inevitable in the Near Future FRENCH SOMALILAND has had a difficult posi tion to maintain throughout the present war. She started it, in September 1939, as an ally of Great Britain (who occupied British Somaliland adjoining) and on terms of guarded friendship with Italy, whose ...

... THE WARTIME BOOM IN BOOKS The Reading Habit has Grown Enormously During the War Months Here is a Review of the Present Publishing Situation; What the Public Want and the Sales Achieved by Certain Types of Literature FOR the first time since the early '20's, authors are enjoying sales of their books which run into several thousands. It was the circulating libraries, acting more or less as ...

... THE SINKING OF H.M.S. ARK ROYAL: A DRAMATIC PICTURE TAKEN AS A DESTROYER WENT ALONGSIDE THE STRICKEN AIRCRAFT-CARRIER TO TAKE OFF THE SURVIVORS JUST BEFORE THE TORPEDOED VESSEL SANK The sinking of H.M.S. Ark Royal brings to an end a story of the sea, and of brilliant achievement under the most rigorous wartime conditions. Where action was brewing there was to be found the Ark Royal, playing ...

... BATTLE in the DESERT A Complete and Connected Narrative of the Opening Stages of the Libyan Conflict, Covering the First Week of the Desert Campaign Illustrated with a Special Series of Diagrams and Drawings The complete disposition of the enemy at the opening of the battle >s here indicated. From a point to the east of Solium, down to Sidi Omar, the enemy's line was strongly held. It was to ...