... UNCONVENTIONAL WARFARE Some Suggested New Tactic How British Positions in Malaya and Elsewhere Overseas Might Have Been Held By DONALD COWIE IT is possible we have concentrated too much in this war upon defects of strategy and supply, such as apportionment of forces to various theatres, and output of weapons and trained men. Have we paid suffi cient attention to the actual use made of material ...

... SYNTHETIC RUBBER IS COMING SOON And All Our War Needs will be Met Within Twelve or Eighteen Months, According to Mr. Averell Harriman NOW that Japan has stretched out her tentacles over the Pacific, the Allied sources of supply of that precious com modity, rubber, shrink. World production in recent years has reached about 1,500,000 tons two-thirds of this vast amount was grown in the Malay ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 128 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. The Best Claret.-- Critics of our one-man Government were put in their places in The Great Debate, kissed the rod (as we thought) and left the House a Band of Brothers. In that debate, as I said, Mr. Churchill never once went on his knees. He elected for a Minister of Production, first and foremost because his visit to America satisfied ...

... HAWAII NOW PREPARES UNDERGROUND POSITIONS Native workmen and United States troops are here shown at work on new underground installations and dug-outs in Hawaii. This is an advanced first-aid post, equipped to perform surgery right at what may be the front line in any invasion of the island. This picture has been approved for pub lication by the War Department in Washington j THE PACIFIC CHIEF ...

... THE SNOW-COVERED STEPPES OF RUSSIA, where tens of thousands of Germans are now freezing in the icy blasts from the Urals A column of the enemy, with their mechanised transport, comes to a halt in the bleak, wintry countryside GERMAN WAR PRISONERS IN RUSSIA PROTEST AT THE GERMAN TREATMENT OF SOVIET PRISONERS GERMANS SIGNING A MESSAGE OF PROTEST to the International Red Cross Committee at Geneva ...

... THE ISOLATIONISTS CHANGE THEIR CLOAK But Not Their Spots! From Isolationists Urging that America Do Nothing in the War, They Have Now Become Indignationists Professing to be Enraged that So Little Has Been Done to Encourage War-Mindedness By FERDINAND TUOHY DIRECTLY after Pearl Harbour the news went forth that there was no such thing any more as an American Isolationist. The Lindberghs, ...

... NAVAL WARFARE in the PACIFIC As It Affects the American Fleet By FRANCIS McMURTRIE Ever since the catastrophe brought about by Japanese treachery at Pearl Harbour on December 7, the Naval Problem of the Pacific has occupied the attention of every student of the war in the Far East. What has happened since that tragic morning What to-day is the strength of the United States Fleet What has it ...

... A FORTRESS in the SEA One of Britain's Coastal Defences in the North A GENERAL VIEW OF THE HEAVILY ARMOURED SEA FORT, showing mem bers of the garrison lined up on the deck below the searchlight windows and (top) gun turrets commanding every approach ON ONE OF THE FORTRESS'S PROJECTING BALCONIES Men of the garrison engaged in cleaning and maintenance work on one of the searchlights. In the ...

... SAVING OUR CRIPPLED SHIPS The Work of British Divers in Salvaging Valuable Vessels and Cargoes Lost at Sea through Enemy Action Described by CHARLES GRAVES IN the old days of manual tools, divers had to use the hammer and chisel, the saw or the brace and bit. To-day, new tools are employed. There are pneu matic chisels for cutting rivets; there are rivet busters and drilling machines. These ...

... Give up your Binoculars every pair is needed for National Servica KERSHAW'S BINOCULARS British and best, the world's standard of quality, will be available later. SO HO LTD., SALES DEPT., COLHAM MILL ROAD, WEST DRAYTON, MIDDLESEX (Branch of A. Kershaw fc Sons Ltd.) SPEED and the A m FOR CE How soon can you fix ine up with a greatcoat enquired an R.A.F. fighter pilot the other day. Now, we ...

... AFTER EIGHT MONTHS OF WAR IN RUSSIA A CAVALRYMAN OF THE RED ARMY ON THE TRAIL OF THE RETREATING GERMAN ARMY. The tank in the ditch was abandoned by the enemy in their withdrawal f\n Monday last February 23 the twenty-fourth Birthday of the Red Army was celebrated throughout Russia. The Soviet has now been at war with Germany for a period of just over eight months after the first reverses, due ...

... THE SPECIAL INVASION CRAFT OF THE GERMANS These are equipped with large outboard-motors and long propeller-shafts, which also act as rudders ACCESSIBILITY Four men can lift out motor and propeller-shaft and carry them from point to point as desired HOW THE GERMAN INVASION BOATS ARE OPERATED The steersman stands up at the stern and raises or depresses the propeller-shaft as necessary AN ...