... The WAR in the PACIFIC A Survey of the New Battle Zone which Now Stretches Over 6,000 Miles of Ocean With Special Sphere Drawings, Diagrams and Maps Guam, however, had not been fully developed, partly owing to the provision in the Washington Agreement prohibiting the construction of new bases and fortifications in certain areas of the Pacific, but mainly because, being surrounded by the ...

... GETTING THE NEW PLANES TO THE R.A.F. The Work of the A.T.A. Air Transport Auxiliary) and Its Important Part in the Present R.A.F. Expansion Described by CHARLES GRAVES THE development and expansion of Air Transport Auxiliary is one of the most brilliant improvisa tions of the war. Many Royal Air Force operational pilots would otherwise have been required to carry out the immensely important ...

... Other Things Than War A Victorian Sunday; Prophecies of 1930 Ideas A Letter of Condolence and a Note on A. E. Housman A VICTORIAN SUNDAY. --One of the grounds for my claim to be a true Victorian is that I remember the days when Society spent the week end in London during the season as a matter of course, and carried out a rigid programme of social engagements, which began with a fashionable ...

... HOW THE DESERT BATTLES WERE FOUGHT IN LIBYA Official Pictures BRITISH TANKS GOING UP INTO ACTION In the distance the enemy artillery is attacking in one of the forward areas in the foreground is a British tank, and others are on the sky-line, moving up into position. Note the scrub-covered ground and the unmistakable tracks of the heavy tanks which have already gone forward THE SORTIE FROM ...

... TIME FOR A BLACK LIST OF VICHY She Has Proved a Bigger Thorn than Italy, the Open Enemy And now that Vichy has Entered Into Almost Open Relations with Both Our Continental Enemies, the Time for such a List is Now By FERDINAND TUOHY PERIODICALLY one wonders whether we have not allowed ourselves to slip into a mental groove over Vichy, taking it for granted as a growth about which nothing can be ...

... THE STAFF AT SINGAPORE Air Chief-Marshal Sir Robert Brooke- Popham is the British Commander-in-Chief in the Far East. He is here seen holding a Staff conference at his headquarters at the Singapore Naval Base. At the opening of this week, the Governor of Singapore, Sir Shenton Thomas, signed a proclamation declaring a State of Emergency and calling up Army Navv and Air Force reservists and ...

... AN ATTACK BY MEDIUM BOMBERS ON A FACTORY AT LOCRI, IN CALABRIA Pilots reported that they saw Italians wave to them as they flew in low over the target to the attack AN ATTACK ON PORT EMPEDOCLE, IN SICILY Hits were made on the power station and a factory, and clouds of yellow and black smoke rose from the building The R.A.F. of the Mediterranean Command have been ceaselessly attacking vital ...

... By DOUGLAS GLEN WHILST Germany faces the immensely difficult task of maintaining during the winter her huge armies on the Eastern Front in fit condition to con tinue the offensive, the same intense cold presents problems of a different kind to the Russians. They have to keep their rivers open, their ice-bound ports in the north and in the Caspian navigable, and ensure their sea-routes. They ...

... THE GERMAN COMMANDER OF THE 2 1 ST PANZER DIVISION IN LIBYA AFTER HIS CAPTURE IN THE FIGHTING EAST OF TOBRUK GENERAL VON RAVENSTEIN, THE FIRST GERMAN GENERAL TO BE TAKEN PRISONER BY BRITISH FORCES IN THE PRESENT WAR Major-General von Ravenstein was the Commander of 11 one of Rommel's crack Panzer Divisions in Libya-- the 21st He was captured during the fighting east of Tobruk by New Zealanders ...

... THF I FADFRS OF THE AMERICAN ARMY AND NAVY MEET FOR A MUTUAL CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON Cach week the members of the U.S. Army and Navy Staffs meet E in conference in Washington for a discussion of affairs of ,mu^>' interest this Joint Board Meeting has no parallel in this country, where Army and Navy usually work separately-apart that is; from any directions which may be handed down to the ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 120 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. The Prince of Wales.-- Shattering blows are inevitable in any war between well-armed combatants, and the poachers who shoot their grouse before the 12th are first in the Leadenhall Market. The loss of the Prince of Wales hit every one of us on the mark and knocked our breath away. I can believe that this blow hit Mr. Churchill as hard as ...

... A FIRST PICTURE OF THE HEADQUARTERS WHENCE THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC IS BEING FOUGHT BY ADMIRAL SIR PERCY NOBLE This picture comes from Liver- pool, from the Battle Headquarters of Admiral Sir Percy Noble, Commander-in-Chief of the Western Approaches. It is from this room that the orders of the Admiral and his staff of experts go forth to the convoys and warships which bring the unceasing ...