... A Striking Feature of the Action Against the German Battleships, when British Destroyers Got Inside the Range of the Big Guns of the Enemy With Special Diagrams and Drawings ONE of the strange features of the daring attack of the British destroyers on the German battleships steaming up-Channel from Brest was the inability of the enemy's heavy ships to do material damage to the swarm of lighter ...

... I mil II W1 11 w f S4tr tSfeSflseF^ gy- ■■ian w' ■■j't ^4tnert- ,WLr aiiiiiipw*^ if r T.-i HOW THE GERMANS ATTACKED FROM THE NORTH, penetrated the outer defences of the harbour-fortress, and then pressed south by way of Inkerman The German assault on the fortress of Sebastopol developed principally against a fortified line protecting that part of the harbour-fortress which lies on the ...

... The AMERICAN ATTACKS in the SOLOMONS Where Landings were Made on Tulagi and Other Islands of Great Strategic _ Importance in the Pacific SINCE the Japanese conquest of Malaya, the enemy has been creeping closer and closer towards the great Australian continent, until a semi circle of occupation had been completed to the north-west amongst the large and small islands with which the vast Pacific ...

... Below VY/hen the Japanese forces succeeded in capturing Lashio there was some doubt as to whether they would then strike towards China or towards India. It was soon evident, however, in the opening days of May, that the intention was to strike northwards from Lashio to the Chinese frontier. This movement was strongly resisted, but the enemy succeeded in reaching Wanting, the frontier position ...

... WASHINGTON'S FOUR LINES of WORLD STRATEGY How the United States Army is being Distributed To-day Over the Whole Globe TO the casual observer it might appear that the United States of America is at present tending to fall into the major strategic error of great oceanic Powers at war-- namely, dispersal of forces. in scattered campaigns conducted along exterior lines. Already units of the ...

... TUC ClirrCCCCIII DCTIDCMCUT CDAM DIIDMA The Route Across the Chindwin River and the Road Taken by the I Mt jULttjJrUL KtllKtmtlMI rliUrl DUKrlA British Forces Over the Burmese Hills towards Assam and India BATTLE IN THE SALWEEN GORGE. WHERE THE CHINESE IN RETREAT SUDDENLY TURNED ON THE lAPS as the result of a sui-Drise fiphter raid bv the Ameritan Volunteer Group, swarmed back across the great ...

... BOMBERS from AIRCRAFT-CARRIERS? Was the Bombing of Tokyo Carried Out by this Means A Consideration of Some of the Many Difficult Factors Involved YY/HEN the British cruisers Dorsetshire and Cornwall were attacked off Ceylon and sunk by the Japanese, it was noted that the enemy did not make use of torpedo- carrying aircraft, but used dive-bombers alone. The comment was then made that this was ...

... COULD NEW ZEALAND BE INVADED? Some Questions Answered by a Pacific Authority I IS there really any threat to New Zealand at the moment? Such a threat may seem incredible, with the distances involved, and Japan's commitments elsewhere, but Japanese Imperial Headquarters themselves said the other day that one of their fleets was steaming in the direction of New Zealand. Perhaps that was a kite ...

... WAR IN THE INDIAN OCEAN? The Vast Area to which the Japanese are now Slowly Creeping Described by ROBERT FINCH THE Japanese are in the Indian Ocean. They have already seized the ports facing the Straits of Malacca and become masters of the Burmese coast and islands from the the Isthmus of Kra northwards to Moulmein. The battles of the Atlantic and the South-west Pacific have so claimed our ...

... The GERMANS OCCUPY TOULON To Find the French Fleet Scuttled at its Moorings, On November 27, 1942 At 4 o clock on Friday morning, November 27, the German tank formations and other specialised troops entered the Toulon zone in order to take possession of the vessels of the French Fleet assembled in Toulon Harbour. The occupying army rapidly threaded their way down the roads through the high ...

... INDIA IN DANGER Cities in the Eastern Zone which Lie Under Immediate Threat from the Japanese Special Sphere Drawings The LAST SEA SENTINEL EAST of SUEZ A Note on the Defence of Ceylon CEYLON, British Crown Colony, is an island of 25,481 square miles (or three times as big as Wales) at the south tip of India; its population is about five million (or over three times that of New Zealand), and ...

... MAKING FILMS FOR THE GOVERNMENT The Work of the Films Division of the Ministry of Information, which has Already Produced a Number of Real Money-Makers as well as Propaganda and Information Efforts Described by CHARLES GRAVES IT is safe to say that of all the various activities of the Ministry of Information, the talking pictures made under the direction of its Films Division has met with ...