... 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 ...

... THE BATTLE IN THE LIBYAN DESERT Where the Great Clash Between the British and German Armoured Forces is Now Taking Place in the Acroma-Knightsbridge Area Special Sphere Drawings At the opening of Rommel's offensive in Libya the British line ran roughly from Gazala, on the coast, down to Bir Hacheim this line was strongly held with fortified positions and minefields. Around Bir Hacheim, in ...

... THE JAPANESE SCENE Special Sphere Diagram-drawings Showing Some of the Principal Centres of the lap War Effort The land-locked basin known as the Inland Sea is not only one of the most beautiful natural features of Japan it is now one of the most important naval and industrial sections in the whole of the Japanese Empire. It extends from Osaka Bay to the Strait of Shimonoseki a dis tance of ...

... REMEMBER the HOSTAGES of the OCCUPIED LANDS How these Unfortunate Men are Picked Out by the Nazis, and then Executed for Crimes in which ,They Took No Part and of which They Had No Prior Knowledge and the Manner in which the United Nations Should Deal with Them After the War By FERDINAND TUOHY IN the long run the public is bound to grow un thinking towards certain recurring tragedies of the ...

... The JAPS in BURMA: Methods in their Rapid Advance A PICTURE TAKEN BY A JAPANESE WAR CORRESPONDENT showing Jap infantry storming a town after their artillery and dive-bombers had prepared it for the final assault LIGHT TANKS OF A JAPANESE MECHANISED FORCE IN BURMA cross an emergency bridge built to replace the one destroyed by the British MANDALAY In the Muslim residential district after Jap ...

... THE arming of merchant ships on the outbreak of war is not a simple business. To be effective against a ruth less enemy like the Germans, it must be done quickly, as it is necessary to convince the enemy at once that attacking merchant ships by gunfire is too dangerous to be worth while. As manv merchant ships return to this country only at infrequent intervals, it is necessary for guns to be ...

... HOW THE BRITISH LANDINGS WERE MADE IN MADAGASCAR -special Sphere Drawings 'THE point selected for the invasion convoy was Courrier Bay. The British force arrived off the entrance at dawn on May 5 after a voyage which-- as Mr. Churchill has told us-- took two months to complete. The entire force, both naval and military (and its supplies) arrived at the appointed time without loss. It was ...

... THE WAR IN THE AIR Special Sphere Drawings and Diagrams YY/HEN the Battle of Britain was being fought out over the eastern and |South-eastern counties in the autumn of 1940, pilots were constantly fighting aircraft and fighter pilots were few, and when a pilot landed he never knew whether or not he would be senl up again immediately. Sometimes fighters would take the air three, and more, times ...

... How British Railways and Railway men Carried on Throughout the Blitz A Story (Which Still can Only be Told Partially) of the Way in Which our Vital Inland Communications were Kept Open at a Critical Period By CHARLES GRAVES LONDONERS, and everyone else, who live some distance away from the coast, read daily reports of daylight mosquito raids by enemy air craft on our coastal towns. Guarded ...

... A PILOT DOWNED ABOVE THE SEA is rescued by a Walrus amphibian air craft from his inflated rubber dinghy. The latter may have been dropped from another spotting aircraft DINGHY FULLY INFLATED, AND THE PILOT AWAITING RESCUE He can use the paddles to propel the craft and stowed away around the dinghy's side are various necessities and stores PREPARING TO FOLD A DINGHY FOR SERVICE, after it has ...

... All over the country we are ready to supply UNIFORMS Just a part of the AUSTIN REED service 103-113 REGENT STREET, W.l 77 CHEAPSIDE, E.C.2 Bath, Belfast, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Harrogate, Hull, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Sheffield, Southampton. ,4/.votfrAldershot, Amesbury, Barmouth, Bothwell, Coventry, Dunbar, Grantham, Hove, ...

... Vitabuoy Vita buoy And this man is st alive Most Naval men choose the Vitabuoy because its buoyancy might he invaluable in emergency. Paymaster- Lieut. R.N., lound its fire-resisting properties almost as valuable. After a long spell on the bridge, he lay down on the chart-house floor. Suddenly he woke. There was the dickens of a bang and a shower of sparks. The pistol ammunition in his pocket ...