... The Campaign in Russia On left Out of the confused welter of conflicting reports, it is now possible to envisage the Battle for Moscow and how the two armies stood at the end of last week. There had been reports that the Germans were within 25 miles of the Russian capital one report even went so far as to say 19 miles The map published on the left represents the true state of affairs as it was ...

... FIRST FRUITS OF VICTORY The Prisoners Taken in the Opening Stages of the Offensive-- A Series of Official Pictures For further action-pictures, see also pp. 358-3S9 of this issue A LONG LINE OF PRISONERS BEING BROUGHT BACK FROM THE FORWARD AREAS, with a single trooper of a British tank unit as armed escort All these men are g pea ed caps of the German North Afrika Corps, some of Rommel's ...

... WAR in the PACIFIC The Relative Strength of the United States and Japanese Fleets A Note by F. C. BOWEN The vast sphere of the Pacific Ocean (any thing but pacific to-day is dotted with small islands. These are mainly cable stations, wireless stations or flying bases for the Pacific Clippers. Midway Island Fanning Island, Wake Island, Guam and many another have a significance which was ...

... THE CAMPAIGN IN RUSSIA-I The Rout of the Germans at Rostov, and the Astonishing Flight back towards Mariupol By ROBERT FINCH THE Nazi drive for the riches of the Ukraine and the oil of the Caucasus began with a thrust to Zhitomir, an important focus of routes some 120 miles west of Kiev. By the middle of July 1941, the Hungarians had reached the Dniester, which, in its lower reaches, formed ...

... The CAMPAIGN in RUSSIA-II and III ICE and SNOW in RUSSIA What Happens During the Great Winter Freeze-Up SEVERE winter conditions, such as are now extending an icy grip over the whole of the territory of the Soviets, are not necessarily to the sole advantage of the Russians. The freezing of rivers and lakes, for instance, means greater mobility for tanks and other armoured vehicles; roads which ...

... SAVED BY A U-BOAT, according to a Berlin statement These R.A.F. men were picked up recently in the Atlantic by a German U-boat, according to an enemy report. They are here seen leaving a canal lock-house, after interrogation, for a prison camp in Germany THE FOHRER ADDRESSES OLD FIGHTERS The German cap- tion to this picture runs as follows Arriving unexpectedly in Munich on the evening ...

... The War Against the Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleet For fifteen hours an officer and an Able Seaman clung perched astride the stempiece of a tanker which had been blown in two, reeling and swaying 100 ft. above the gale-lashed Atlantic. The tanker had died hard. Three torpedoes had sadly battered her till she was doubled up, but still she held together a triumph of the shipbuilders' art. It ...

... EXIT MUSSOLINI'S ROMAN EMPIRE The Second Roman Empire of the Fascists Crumbles Away By FERDINAND TUOHY IT is hardly an extravagance to expect that by mid-December advance forces of General Cunningham's Eighth Army will be pushing along the coastal motor-road towards Tripoli town, last Italian overseas capital. But, even without that happening, there is justification for considering the ...

... Other Things Than War A Royal Date Notes on Esquires, Bogles and the Cokes of Norfolk CALL IT A DATE (DECEMBER 14).-- December 14 is the birthday of our present King George VI. On that day his father, the Duke of York (George V.), wrote down in his diary at York Cottage these words: a little boy was born weighing nearly 8 lbs. at 3.40 S.T. [which meant Sandringham, not summer, time; i.e., ...

... J t had been known for some yaars that the Japanese have been experimenting with midget sub marines. According to reports they are now in mass production and cost little more than a good- class motor-car This theory is now confirmed by the capture of one of the pocket submarines by the U.S. Navy at Pearl Harbour. The vessel is 41 ft. long and is divided into five compartments, as shown in the ...

... I BATTLE in the DESERT --THE FOURTH WEEK SIDI REZEGH IS AGAIN CAPTURED, and the British forces begin to exert westward pressure against the main German concentrations- -Drawing by G. Lambert On left At the end of the week, on Saturday, December 13, the renewed activity over the battlefield of Tobruk brought out the welcome fact that the German Panzer force had been seri ously reduced in ...

... A Review of Some of the Outstanding Personalities who Made the Head lines During the Year which has Just Passed By FERDINAND TUOHY THE war rolls into its fourth separate year, 1939-40-41-42, and the tale of those summoned to occupy its stage lengthens. Already forgotten are many upon whom a year or two years ago the spotlight fell. Always more move forward or are propelled by circumstance. ...