... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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... Drtf rot in full flower, f WOOD PRESERVING STA I N AND WHITE ANT DESTROYER LTD. Donington House, Norfolk Street, Strand, London-, W.C.2 WHEREVER TIMBER IS USED PROTECTS IT For forty years Solignum has been used all over the world for the protection of timber against attack by Dry-Rot, Damp and Insect Pests but never before has this protection been of such vital importance as now. In this ...

... MEN OF THE RED ARMY The fine types of Russian who are now taking their place in the fighting line. This picture was taken as truckloads of Soviet troops passed through Moscow on their way up to the Central Front SOME OF THE MEN WHO DROVE THE GERMANS BACK FROM MOSCOW These soldiers are tank crews attached to the First Moscow Guards Motorised Infantry Division. They were amongst those who ...

... f.t Staraya Russa, on the East Front, our Allies have sur rounded the whole of the German 16th Army and are slowly closing in on it in the First stages of the attack the Russians routed the 290th Infantry Division of the 2nd Army Corps, the 30th Infantry Division of the 10th Army Corps and an ^.S. Division, 12,000 Germans being killed. The fact that tie 16th Army has been surrounded is ...

... THE JAPANESE ADVANCES IN BURMA The Abandonment of Rangoon and the Cutting of the Burma Road The position of the city of Rangoon is a curious one, inasmuch as it has no connections overland with India (as one might expect from looking at the map). In between Rangoon and Chittagong is a trackless, mountainous area: consequently, com munication with Calcutta has, of necessity, always been by sea. ...

... Saving the Lives of the Merchant Navy J-T very week now, new im provements and life-saving devices to help the men of the Merchant Navy are being taken up by the Ministry of War Transport. Fireproof hoods for the crews of tankers anti- explosive suits fitted with elec tric lights, so that the wearer can be spotted at night; and motor lifeboats fitted with auto matic radio, vitamin rations and ...

... H.M.S. MACKAY, DESTROYER, ATTACKS THE GERMAN HEAVY CRUISER PRINZ EUGEN 99 By coming so dose up to the German, the latter was unable to hri„„ her big guns to bear on the smaller vessel and could only employ her secondary armament-- -Drawing by Wm. McDowell l he Prinz tugen was lying somewhat astern of the battleships in the great run up-Channel. Whilst the bigger vessels were being engaged ...