... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 122 i, New Oxford Sxref.t, W.C.i. To 1942.-- It is not to be denied that the last weeks of 1941 were dark; as dark, in all circumstances, as any we can remember. We are no strangers to dark Decembers, nor to years ending in gloom and obscurity. I am old enough to remember pretty vividly the black December of 1899, and in recent decades I have not seldom made reference to ...

... (^)n Thursday, November 27, the last Italian stronghold in East Africa surrendered after having held out for over six months. At the fall of Gondar, 23,500 men (of whom 1 1 ,500 were Italians), under the command of General Nasi, and fifty guns, were captured after a final assault, carried out mostly by East Africans, under Major-General Cyril Fowkes. Gondar lies 7,500 ft. up roads leading to ...

... GERMAN PRISONERS TAKEN BY THE RUSSIANS ON THE KALININ FRONT THESE MEN, TAKEN IN THE VILLAGE OF N MIGHT WELL BE THE GROUP SEEN BY MR. ANTHONY EDEN DURING HIS VISIT TO THE FIGHTING LINE AND DESCRIBED BY HIM IN HIS RADIO SPEECH I ast Sunday night, during the course of his broadcast speech, Mr. Anthony Eden described his visit to Russia and his journey to the fighting front. One of the most ...

... Showing How the Germans have been Compelled to Abandon War Material in their Hasty Retreat in the Kalinin Area The pictures reproduced on these pages have just been received in London they are the first to illustrate scenes during the German retreat in front of Moscow. The haste of this retreat on the Klin-Kalinin front is demonstrated by the abandoned war material which litters all the ...

... Although there is, at the moment, a lull in the Air Battle for Britain the little ships of this country are still carrying on their work, maintaining their vigil around our shores, sweeping the channels and sea lanes clear o( mines, and enabling food and supplies to be brought safely into port. The pictures on these pages were taken recently with a minesweeping flotilla in the North Sea, as ...

... By FERDINAND TUOHY A Consideration of Some of the Adventures on which the German People may be Embarked under the Guidance of their Leader's Remarkable Intuitions HITLER'S intuitions have no doubt by now decided him where to strike next and to treat them as worthless or just comical, as has been done, is first cousin to more underrating of the enemy, which has gone quite far enough already. In ...

... ON COMMANDO Sea, Land and Air Forces Combine in Raiding German Bases in Norway Official Pictures Taken During the Operations j VAAGSO is a small island off the Norwegian coast some 150 miles from Christiansund: it has a population of about 1,250. Maaloy is another island at the entrance to the Nord Fjord adjoining Vaagso: this is a fishing centre where work is believed to have been taking ...

... JAPAN'S DRIVE AGAINST BURMA The Strange Country between Chieng Mai Railhead and Rangoon IT is now some little time since Japanese forces were first reported to be in contact with our garrisons in Burma, after having proceeded towards that country from the railhead of Chieng Mai, in Thailand-- or Siam, as we can now call it, since Siamese susceptibilities' need no longer be considered! By the ...

... First Pictures of JAPAN'S AIR FORCE Whose Activities Have Come as a Great Surprise in the Far East The pictures reproduced on these pages are among the first which Japan has permitted to be sent out of the country to show the power of her fighting forces. Hitherto the High Command of the Japanese Air Force has instituted extremely stringent restrictions in order to prevent the possible leakage ...

... Official Pictures of the Whistling Bombs The official pictures reproduced on these pages illustrate a series of German bombs which have all, at various times, been dropped on this country by the Luftwaffe. They are all of the high-explosive type, and they range from the comparatively small 50-hilo. bomb to the huge 1,800-kilo. type (nicknamed Satan,) which is over 13 ft long and weighs ...

... The Bombing of Pearl Harbour: Pictures Actually Taken During the Attack A GENERAL VIEW OF THE ROADSTEAD AT PEARL HARBOUR after the devastating air raid by the Japanese which marked the opening of the war with the Unite States: the burning battleship Arizona (from which smoke is rising) is sinking in the harbour and four other warships were also destroyed by the bombcs The damage done to the ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 123 i, New Oxford Strf.et, W.C.i. The Expectations of 1942. --Not the public only, but the com bined councils of the Allied Powers planning the major strategy of the war in 1942 and beyond, await with anxiety a detailed and tabulated balance sheet showing the credit and debit side of the achievements and reverses which culminated at the end of 1941. Such details are ...