... , , -j Nice work! The 4 wood rolls gently over the velvet green the player following its i progress with sympathetic movements of his head and shoulders. Slowly it approaches the jack and, its bias accurately judged, draws and click! meets it. And remains the present undisputed winner. Its owner relaxes, amid a murmur of approval. Nice work Yes, nice work after the day's real work. ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 170 i. New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Nothing Succeeds Like Success.-- In a night, another trans formation alters the scene of war. Not one or two, but four or five thou sand miles of the coastline of Africa are added to the Allied territory of vital bases and harbours and airfields, and the Axis hold on Africa recedes to what is, comparatively speaking, a pin-point. That ...

... On Thursday, November 12, a Japanese naval force was approaching the island of Guadalcanal in the Solomons (held by the Americans), from the north, between Isabel and Florida Islands at the same time, another force a protected Japanese convoy was coming down from the north-west. On November 13, the Jap fleet from the north was caught by a surprise U.S. naval attack in the darkness the American ...

... On left Although she Is a veteran of the last war, H.M.S. Valorous (one of the famous V and W class destroyers) has already steamed 120,000 miles in this war, shepherding convoys up and down the East Coast and in the North Sea. She has shot down several Nazi planes, and in nearly three years of convoy escort work she has had many brushes with E-boats. Lieut.-Lom. W. ritzroy, K.IN., who ...

... TUNISIA THE NEW BATTLE AREA IN NORTH AFRICA A Brief Survey of the Country and Its People-- to Act as a Background for Communiques from the British First Army By ARTHUR BARRETT IN the houses of the North African Moors are said to hang keys-- taken from Spanish palaces to which they still hope to return. In Italy, they pre served no keys but the desire to reoccupy Tunisia (the old Roman ...

... DRAMA IN THE DESERT A GERMAN PRISONER IS CAPTURED ON THE DUN-COLOURED LIBYAN PLAIN, AND IS IMMEDIATELY SEARCHED. One Man goes over the Prisoner for Concealed Arms, whilst his Comrade Covers Him with a Bren Gun .1 phis official photograph from the scene of the heavy fighting in the Western Desert gives a vivid impression of some of the conditions under which our troops have been operating ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER --No. 146 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Hitler's Dilemma.-- The events of a few days (or even hours) may radically alter the position of, and the degree of optimism felt by, one side or the other in this titanic struggle. In the second week of June the position was definitely more favourable for the Allies than they could have expected in May. Hitler was still holding his hand ...

... THE BOMBING OF COLOGNE What a Study of the R.A.F. Reconnaissance Pictures has Revealed of the Damage Further pictures on the following pages Since the publication of the first pictures of the havoc wrought by the R.A.F. in Cologne, a detailed interpretation has been possible of the reconnaissance pictures. Air Ministry experts have now declared that the damage was immeasurably greater than ...

... COLOGNE The City that has Gone for Ever A Description, from Personal Experience, of the Period when Cologne-- the Recent Centre of Our Heaviest' Attack Yet was Occupied by the Army of the Rhine After the Last War, Right Up to the Year 1926; and How the German Populace Responded to the British Domination Described by FERDINAND TUOHY HOW many of the R.A.F. who flew in their legion above Cologne ...

... Some Notes on Details of the Uniform and Equipment of the U.S. Soldiers Now Serving Over Here By PETER J. ROMFORD THE American, designation of its over seas units as task forces implies a logical approach to the job of equipping each contingent for the particular task it is intended to tackle. One may assume, consequently, that the equip ment seen on members of the United States forces in ...

... How the Airborne Divisions of the British Army are Trained, the Equipment They Carry, and the Speciql Gliders in which They are Transported to the Scene of Action BRITISH airborne troops are officially designated as either parachute or air-landing units; the machines used for the latter may be either troop-carriers (usually bombers no longer considered absolutely suited for their purpose, such ...

... A Jolly Roger flag, crowded with symbols of success, is the prized possession of H.M. Submarine Proteus, which recently returned to a British base after a year's service in the Mediterranean. The central emblem of this flag, a skull and crossbones, is surrounded by devices which represent many thrilling inci dents. There are seven stars surrounding crossed gun-barrels for vessels sunk by ...