... 1 Hen completed, the new Yunnan-Burma Railway will connect with the ingoon-Lashio Railway in Burma and then continue on to Kunming it will pplement and relieve the congested supply route to China along the Burma ad and speed up Lease-Lend material from America to China. It will also valuable for Chinese military movements to the Burma front. Most im- rtant is the fact that the new line will ...

... THE JAPANESE IN CALIFORNIA are sent to neutral areas At Manyanar, in the State of California, an evacuation centre has been established for more than 60,000 Japanese evacuated from the defence areas around Los Angeles. Here the enemy aliens will soon be living and working where they can do no harm. Note the food supplies in the foreground ready for the kitchen staff to take over for the ...

... THE Japanese advance northward from Rangoon, which has been taking place in the form of two columns, one on the left and the other on the right bank of the river, has centred attention on this mighty, broad-bosomed stream, which flows; from the easternmost Himalayas out to sea through, numerous mouths. the Padaung ot to-day clusters Between tne ni' s and the river edge. On the opposite bank, ...

... THE KING VISITS THE TROOPS IN THE SOUTHERN COMMAND: TALKING TO THE LEADER OF A NIGHT-ASSAULT PARTY, whose face has been blackened to facilitate operations in the dark [)uring his recent visit, the King spent a whole day with the Southern Command. At one point he walked over a mile along a roadway lined with soldiers during his inspection His Majesty saw anti-tank guns, and watched men with ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 137 i, New Oxford Street, VV.C.i The Vatican and Japan.-- The keys of St. Peter fit the locks of Heaven's and Hell's gates. Whether we be heretics or of the faithful, we shall be well advised to defer judgment until we have heard the summing-up, and have before us all evidence necessary for forming a verdict. That some explanation is called for irom the Vatican, no one can ...

... A mong the little-publicised but nevertheless extremely dangerous tasks of the Royal Navy is that of minelaying. Night after night the minelaying vessels slip out to sea, to lay fresh danger-fields for enemy warships round the shores of Britain and at the approaches to the enemy's shores. British minelayers have sown thousands upon thousands of these deadly mines in the shipping pathways ...

... Towards the end of March, after almost four months of continuous fighting, the Japanese Command evidently determined to crush the brilliant defence of the Bataan Peninsula. General Wainwright (who had taken over the com mand after the retirement of General MacArthur to take up the Australian Command) held on as long as his troops could endure the continuous strain. From sheer fatigue, induced ...

... WHEN A CRUISER GOES INTO ACTION How it is Handled and How it is Steered from the Compass Platform when Under Fire Article by FRANCIS McMURTRIE, with special Sphere drawings and diagrams IN action a cruiser is controlled by her Captain from the compass platform, the name given to the highest deck of the bridge structure. There also will be found the Navigating Officer and the Chief Yeoman of ...

... DODGING dangers from the air and from under-water craft implies some very vigorous and prompt helm work on the part of the naval vessels so threatened. Destroyers, of course, are often flung round on their heels in order to avoid, or intercept, the enemy's pressing attacks they may, in fact, complete the best part of a circle during such manceuvrings. Aircraft-carriers, too, despite their very ...

... 84 The LEADERS of MODERN CHINA The Men who have Resisted the Japanese Armies During Five Years of Bitter Struggle PRIME MINISTER AND MINISTER OF FINANCE, Dr. H. H. Rung, whose headquarters are at Chungking and one of whose tasks is to finance the costly war against Japan GENERAL HSU YUNG CHANG, Minister of Operations, indicating a zone of combat on a map in his office in Chungking GENERAL PAI ...

... MEMORIES OF FIFTY YEARS- An Experiment in Autobiography-- VIII By J. G. A DOUBLE LIFE.-- I joined the majority in London which earned its living, and the minority which enjoyed the social sweets of the capital of the world, towards the fag-end of the Edwardian reign and era. It needs no research to pile up an indictment against that era. The men- tality of the early 1940's can gather scarlet ...

... Vitabuov TrnAt W/irL' -Vitabuov Una A T rnAss Mnrlf LIFE-SAVING COAT The Vitabuoy in appearance is simply a smartly cut service great-coat in a two-fold Egyptian Navy Cotton Gabardine, triple proofed but interlined with a new material called Tropal, which is four times warmer than wool and only one quarter the weight. The lining is distributed and anchored inside the coat on scientific ...