... THE CAMPAIGN OF THE RED ARMIES ON THE EASTERN FRONT THE RECAPTURE OF MOJAISK By the Russians AFTER an anxious period of three months, when the Germans stood in front of Moscow at Mojaisk on the big motor highway from Smolensk, the town was once again brought into Russian hands towards the end of January. Its occupation was then secure enough to admit of visits by War Corre spondents to the ...

... A NOTE ON THE LOSS OF THE BARHAM. By FRANCIS McMURTRIE FROM Press accounts of the torpedoing of H.M.S. Barham off the Libyan coast on November 25, it appears that she was one of a squadron of three battleships steaming in the formation known as line ahead, i.e., in a single column, one ship following another. Normally, ships proceeding in this formation preserve a distance of from 2½ to 3 ...

... -- BY GARY COOPER. GARY COOPER (right) gives a remarkable demonstration of how to knock yourself out in one easy lesson, as One-Punch Potts, professor hero of Samuel Goldwyui's new picture, 44 Ball of Fire. The professor has never studied fisticuffs but 44 mugs-up the subject from a book while on his way to fight Gangster Joe Lilac (DANA ANDREWS). The fight does not develop according to ...

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- AIR ace of the last war and still going strong in an administrative capacity in hp. R T. A F ATR M ARSWAT RTT.T V BISHOP is one of the officers of whom 44 shots showing them at their regular duties appear in Warner's 44 Captains of the Clouds, a film made with fullest co-opera tion from the Chiefs of the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Minister of National Defence for ...

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... THE DESTROYERS STEAM OUT To Engage the Three German Warships in the Channel H.M.S. WORCESTER AND OTHER DESTROYERS STEAMING INTO ACTION OFF THE DUTCH COAST IN THE GREAT CHANNEL BATTLE. During the action against the Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen, H.M.S. Worcester went in to within one and a quarter miles of the enemy before firing her torpedoes she was hit and set on fire, but ...

... In the opening part of the month Japan developed attacks on two points which must have engaged the immediate attention of the Australian military authorities. These points were both in Dutch East Indian possessions, the island of Timor and the island of Amboina. It was in the western (Dutch) half of Timor that the attack developed from the air. The attack was directed against the Dutch ...

... THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME IN THE AIR? Four New and Completely Unorthodox Types of Aircraft with which Designers are Now Experimenting in the United States TO increase speed and fire-power-- the two chief considerations in the design of warplanes-- designers in all the combatant countries are thinking along lines very different from those hitherto. To-morrow we must expect to see the most ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 127 9 x, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. A Vote and Note of Confidence.-- The great debate which ended in a vote of confidence in Mr. Churchill-- no, in Mr. Churchill's Government-- is ancient history now. The critics of the Government were like March. They came in like a lion, and went out into the lobby like a lamb. I hose who most truculently declared their intention to ...

... INDIAN TROOPS OF THE BRITISH IMPERIAL FORCES, setting off in lorries to meet the Japanese. This picture was taken in the jungle when our forces were holding up the enemy's advance A LINE OF ARMOURED CARS READY TO MOVE OFF Ultimately, these vehicles were sent into the jungle north of Singapore Island to contest the lananese advance down the Peninsula THE HEAVY FLOODS ON THE PENINSULA A convoy ...

... FIRST PICTURES OF THE REFUGEES FROM PENANG The scene at Ipoh Station, in Perak, as the British refugees arrived en route to Singapore. Local residents provided the newcomers with refreshments, before them selves being compelled to evacuate their homes before the advancing |apanese AT IPOH STATION A British woman, en route for Singapore, with her baby and all her worldly possessions BRITISH ...

... TWO VITAL LESSONS FROM LIBYA Infantry for Attacks on Artillery; and Artillery Support for the Tanks In discussing some of the lessons of the Libyan campaign, a special correspondent of The Times, writing from Cairo, had many illuminating comments to make. Two of the chief are illustrated by our artist here The first shows the method evolved under active service conditions for attacking guns in ...