... When the Present Conflict is All Over, the Liberated Nations of the Continent will Look to this Country, Backed by the United States, for Guidance. This will be Our Opportunity to Retrieve Past Errors and Build Upon Firm Foundations for the Future By FERDINAND TUOHY WE might have said we live in an island, and care not what may be done on the Con tinent; that we think only of making money, ...

... Seen Through the Fog of War The Latest News-pictures Sent by Radio from Libya and by News-reel Operators from Madagascar I n the last war the majority of the pictures presented to the British reading public in illustration of the land and sea operations were either from direct photographic prints or from drawings by special artist War Corre spondents at the actual fighting fronts. In this war, ...

... THE LESSON OF KERCH Room in which to Manoeuvre is an Essential to the Defence in Blitzkrieg Tactics WHY have the Russians been beaten again on the Kerch Peninsula of the Crimea? The answer contains the secret of successful defence in this war, namely, that Kerch was at once too narrow and too short for the defending forces to manœuvre and so resist the tremendous blow of the German assault. ...

... THE RAID ON SYDNEY HARBOUR The Attempt by Three Jap Midget Submarines to Repeat their Pearl Harbour Performance I n their attack on the U S. Fleet at Pearl Har bour, the Japs made use of midget, two-man submarines. Using these same craft last week, they made a similar attempt on Sydney Harbour. The result was that all three vessels are believed to have been destroyed one by gunfire and the ...

... WHERE THE MONEY GOES: a -Facts -and-Fiuures Stridv of the Cost of Modern Fighting Equipment By A. P. NEWALL AT one of the pre-war Navy Weeks, so the story goes, a Cockney prolonged his visit to a battleship unduly, on the grounds that, as a taxpayer, it was his property. All right, said a burly bos'un, presenting him with a match- stick-size sliver of teak, here's your share; now hop it! ...

... THE TINIEST OF THE OCCUPIED COUNTRIES The Reckless Courage of Luxemburg, Which Has Burst Out Into Defiance of the German Occupiers and Started the First Organised Mass Attack Against the Nazis ON September 3 Germany annexed the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, which then became part of the Reich, the people having the privilege of German citizenship bestowed upon them by the gracious gift of the ...

... THE INVASION TACTICS OF THE JAPANESE Outlined in Diagram Form for the First Time in Full Completeness with Other Drawings of Japanese Tactics in the Air Japan's technique of invasion, which has paid such large and handsome dividends in the South-West Pacific, has been precise, very care fully prepared and efficiently carried out. A few weeks ago the United States War Department released ...

... The POLISH ARMY in PERSIA Big New Formations which are Now Preparing to Aid the Allies in the Middle East ONE of the most remarkable of the recent developments of the war has been the change in the condition of the 1,500,000 to 2,000,000 Poles, who were expatriated when Russia parti tioned Poland with Germany, after the latter had overrun the country as far as Warsaw. The in telligentsia and ...

... By /hi. -Gen. A. E. DAVIDSON, C.B., D.S.O. ALTHOUGH without a railway system until quite recent times, Persia has always been proud of her great highways. Though this region, in fact, runs one of the oldest and most historic of all routes-- that of Alexander the Great, the Caravan route, the Trader's route, the Conqueror's route. This easterly backdoor route starts from 1 Duzdab, where it ...

... AFTER THE NIGHT RAID ON NORTHERN FRANCE STILL WITH BLACKENED FACES, men of the supporting Infantry return home after having taken part in^the attack on the German Radio-location post at Bruneval, near Havre In combined operations on the night of February 27-28 joint forces of the Navy, Army and Royal Air Force attacked and destroyed an important German radio-location post at Bruneval on the ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 131 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. A Late Note on the New Men.-- I have always believed that one of the first and best assets of true religion was jolliness-- perhaps I am coining a word. I have. found that the best churchmen I have met were also the jolliest. This is especially true of bishops. I never had so many occasions for loud and even impious laughter as when in the ...

... AMERICA'S AIRCRAFT-CARRIERS And her Sea-borne Fighter Aircraft By FRANCIS McMURTRIE IN aviation matters the United States Navy has been fortunate in always having had complete control of the whole of its air material and personnel. There is no independent Air Force in the U.S.A., the Navy and Army each operating its own aircraft as an integral part of the organisation. Another advantage ...