... The CHANGED ROLE of the LUFTWAFFE Heavy Reverses and Losses Over Britain and Russia have Weakened that Once Mighty Striking Arm. In the Spring the Effect of these Reverses will Begin to Tell More and More ON the night of May 10 last year the Luftwaffe staged its most spectacular after-dark attack on this country. Hundreds of bombers for hours on end roared over London, dropping their lethal ...

... A VITAL TASK IN WAR How the Demolition of Strategic Bridges is Carried Out THE DEMOLITION OF A MASONRY BRIDGE IS NOT AN EASY, OR QUICK, TASK. During a rapid retreat, a complete demolition of this sort could not be carried out and a simpler method (shown in another drawing on this page) would have to be employed On left Either gun cotton or dynamite is used for this purpose. Our drawing shows ...

... No. 495 The Gauleiter wants you No. 495 was christened John Winston Smith (known to his mother as the precious lamb) His home was small but filled with all those things that money can't buy love, happiness, and laughter off the chest. His daddy hadn't much money but he had a lot of fine dreams about young J. W. and was going to struggle to make them come true. But one thing daddy forgot ...

... The above striking picture is from an official Air Ministry photograph it was taken during the course of the low- altitude daylight raid by the R.A.F. on the Matford factory, which lies 10 miles to the north-west of Paris. This raid followed on the heavier attack on the Renault Works at Billan- court on the night of the 3rd (pictures of this attack are given on pp. 326-27 of the present issue ...

... A fter performing some fine work in the Libyan campaign, the 7th Indian Brigade was cut off by the enemy when the latter recaptured Benghazi. The Brigade was operating in the SoIIuch area as General Rommel made his rapid advance towards El Gazala, it looked as if the British force would be cut off. But after much hard travelling for three days and nights, much of it through enemy territory the ...

... redetermined to switch the blame for the war on the French, the Germans insisted on the War Guilt Trial at Riom. But the proceedings are not going according to plan, if reports from Vichy be correct. The defendants include the two ex-Premiers, MM. Blum and Daladier (M. Reynaud is to follow later) General Gamelin, the French Generalissimo and other highly-placed former Ministers. Gamelin is ...

... ATTACK BY SUBMARINE The Shelling of Elwood, on the Californian Coast, and the U-boat Attacks on the Atlantic Coast Elwood is a huge oilfield and oil refinery on the Californian coast, some 8 miles north of Santa Barbara and some 80 miles north-west of Los Angeles. Here the field runs out actually under the sea it is made the more conspicuous by its giant derricks, some of which run out from ...

... The BRITISH SWOOP on the NAZIS in OCCUPIED FRANCE --Official Pictures The Raid carried out on the night of February 27-28 had as its objective a valuable German radio-location unit at Bruneval, twelve miles north of Havre; in the operations the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force each played an equally important and inter-dependent part. The carrying force of bombers (the Force Commander of ...

... A bout the middle of February a new place-name suddenly appeared in the war news. It may safely be said that the name Aruba meant little or nothing to the average lay reader, although to the oil world this oil-refinery island off the coast of Venezuela was a very well-known and notable spot. It came into the news by reason of a number of attacks by enemy U-boats. Both Aruba and the ...

... Continued from page 304) On the question of luck, there is no doubt it has been with us at least once in this war, on the sinking of the Bismarck. This brand-new thirty- five-thousand-tonner was dangerously near the safety of the French coast when, for the second time in the hunt, one of our planes defied the hail of flak to score a hit with a torpedo. This time it hit the most vulnerable spot ...

... THE FIRST AID TO RUSSIA DEMONSTRATION IN AUSTRALIA: This picture comes from Melbourne, a city notable for the number and variety of its street processions to celebrate all kinds of occasions. It shows the first Aid to Russia demonstration ever held in the Commonwealth. The scene here is the intersection of Flinders and Stanton Streets a decorated car bears portraits of Stalin and Churchill, ...

... Bv PHILIP PAGE STRANGE, perhaps, that two revivals should have been the outstanding features of 1942's theatrical activity so far-- an activity which at present is pretty healthy, and looks like remaining so. And yet not so very surprising, perhaps, when one considers that the two authors are B. Jonson and B. Shaw. Mr. Donald Wolfit rounded off his successful Shakespearean season with Jonson's ...