... By Dr. G. B. SHIRLAW (Who Worked for a Year in a Moscow Clinic, After Service in the Spanish War) THE tremendous effort which the Soviet Union was making to achieve and surpass European standards of hygiene was plain to all who encountered the Russian medical observer at the Spanish front. His name, which he gave as Kluss, concealed the identity of an army surgeon of high rank, and in all that ...

... BATTLE in the DESERT -THE SECOND WEEK OF THE CAMPAIGN Continuing the Detailed and Connected Narrative Begun in Last Week's Issue Illustrated with a Special Series of Diagrams and Drawings One of the most notable events to be recorded in this second series of diagram pictures of the Libyan battle was the sortie of General von Rommel (he is believed to have accompanied the expedition himself) ...

... The NEW BURMA ROAD will be a RAILWAY This is Now being Built to Connect Up Lashio in Burma with Kunming and Chungking in China SINCE the unwarranted invasion of China by the Japanese some years ago, the Burma Road has become familiar to all. Along this road has flowed a never- ending stream of war supplies for the Chinese Nationalists, from the railhead at Lashio in Burma to the railhead at ...

... Special Sphere Maps and Drawings One way or another any enemy driving down from the north must somehow pass the Philippines on the way to the Dutch East Indies or to Singapore. The entrance to the magnificent anchorage of Manila Bay is twelve miles wide, narrowing down to a deep-water strait right in the centre of which stands Corregidor Island. This is now a heavily-armoured fortress rising ...

... -A Note by DOUGLAS GLEN SINGAPORE and Pearl Harbour dominate the Pacific scene, whatever facile successes Japan has secured for herself by her initial treachery. Geographically, Japan is in a strong defensive position, for she enjoys the advantage of being able to fight in the near neighbourhood of her home bases. Taking into account the air and naval bases scattered over the islands, she is ...