... The LOSS of the PRINCE OF WALES and REPULSE Sunk off Malaya in Action Against, the Japanese Wednesday, December 10 VY/ithin three days of the opening of hostilities with Japan, the British Navy suffered a grievous loss with the sinking of the battleship Prince of Wales and the big battle- cruiser Retoulse. Apparently, and according to their own statements, the Japanese Fleet had been ...

... BATTLE IN THE DESERT --THE THIRD WEEK General Rommel is Forced Out to the West and the Tobruk Connection is Re-established Special Sphere Diagrams On right When the two to three days of recuperation had passed, British patrols began to break out northwards, to begin the harassing of arty German or Italian forces which they were able to discover north of the T righ-Capuzzo Road. The two Panzer ...

... Alter the opening days of the offensive against General Rommel in Cyrenaica, when the Royal Navy actually participated in the land operations by bombardment from the sea, our warships have been concentrating on the destruction of the enemy's shipping and convoys carrying supplies across the Mediterranean to the sore-pressed Axis forces opposed to General Cunningham's Eighth Army. Our artist. ...

... THE UNITED STATES ON THE BRINK, Early December 1941 Impressions of a Flying Visit just Before the Devastating Attacks by Japan, which Brushed All the Trivialities and Bright Lights Aside and Brought America Grimly into the War Described by VERNON FANE AT a house on Long Island, quite close to where Walt Whitman lived, I took a glass of wine with a man who had dined in England on the previous ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...