... A RECORD TOW IN THE SOUTH ATLANTK A SUNDERLAND flying-boat which was forced to alig on the sea through engine trouble was recently tow hundreds of miles across the South Atlantic to its base West Africa by a naval corvette. No flying-boat had ever before been towed such a distait over the open sea. The tow lasted for 74 hours, during rni| of which time there was a heavy swell and a cross ...

... THE PRIME MINISTER WITH THE TWO LEADING COMMANDERS IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE Mr. John Curtin is on the right with him are General Douglas MacArthur (C.-in-C. of the United Nations Forces in the South-West Pacific) and Lieut.-General Sir Thomas Blarney (Commander of the Australian Defence Forces and Australia's most famous soldier). This picture was taken just after the Premier had attended a ...

... MAINTAINING the BRIDGE of SHIPS A Stupendous Task But It Must Be Done By ALFRED GRAHAM FROM the slips at Bremen, Kiel and Rostock, from Taranto and Spezia the U-boats are being launched as fast as the Axis labourers can be made to turn them out. From the yards on Clyde, Tees and Tyne, from California, Virginia and Hog Island the merchant-ships are being delivered as fast as the riveters can ...

... Russian Thrust and German Counter-Thrust The Relative Strength of the Two Armies To-day and the Strategic Signifi cance of an Equal Balance Discussed by DONALD COWIE SO much depends on the mighty campaign now in progress in Russia that it is a pity we cannot secure more definite estimates of the relative strengths of the forces engaged. Any discussion of what is happening breaks down at once ...

... FRONTIER One of the Famous British 25-Pounders Firing at German Transport Vehicles 1/ nightsbridge was the scene of some of the heaviest fighting of all it was here that General Ritchie established one of his Boxes, from which attacks on the enemy's armour and transports were carried out and to which the 8th Army retired when hard pressed after the evacuation of Bir Hacheim. It was at once a ...

... GIVING the NEWS to EUROPE The Work, of the European Service of the B.B.C., and How the Continent is Kept Informed Over the Air of the Real Progress of the War Described by CHARLES GRAVES NOW that the B.B.C. European transmission of the news in English takes place at 10.15 p.m. (as well as at 10 a.m. and 3.30 p.m.), it is acquiring a vast audience in this country as well as on the Continent. ...

... Read the Austin Magazine it contains useful tips 4 d monthly from your newsagent 8Di5o lv/ i YOUR SPEEDOMETER PROVES IT The proof of the car is in the mileage. If your Austin is an old friend the substantial total on your speedometer will confirm the well-known fact that every Austin is a good long-term investment. Austin owners whose cars are in constant use on war work are finding, even in ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 145 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Libya.-- Something of the strain, still very little of the nature and technique of desert fighting by arm oured units in broiling heat and dust, has filtered to us through the dust- storms of Cyrenaica. Rommel is a doughty fighter whom our men respect, and there is evidence that old-world chivalry has been found on either side. Certainly ...

... When the Present Conflict is All Over, the Liberated Nations of the Continent will Look to this Country, Backed by the United States, for Guidance. This will be Our Opportunity to Retrieve Past Errors and Build Upon Firm Foundations for the Future By FERDINAND TUOHY WE might have said we live in an island, and care not what may be done on the Con tinent; that we think only of making money, ...

... Seen Through the Fog of War The Latest News-pictures Sent by Radio from Libya and by News-reel Operators from Madagascar I n the last war the majority of the pictures presented to the British reading public in illustration of the land and sea operations were either from direct photographic prints or from drawings by special artist War Corre spondents at the actual fighting fronts. In this war, ...

... THE LESSON OF KERCH Room in which to Manoeuvre is an Essential to the Defence in Blitzkrieg Tactics WHY have the Russians been beaten again on the Kerch Peninsula of the Crimea? The answer contains the secret of successful defence in this war, namely, that Kerch was at once too narrow and too short for the defending forces to manœuvre and so resist the tremendous blow of the German assault. ...

... THE RAID ON SYDNEY HARBOUR The Attempt by Three Jap Midget Submarines to Repeat their Pearl Harbour Performance I n their attack on the U S. Fleet at Pearl Har bour, the Japs made use of midget, two-man submarines. Using these same craft last week, they made a similar attempt on Sydney Harbour. The result was that all three vessels are believed to have been destroyed one by gunfire and the ...