... DRAMA IN THE DESERT A GERMAN PRISONER IS CAPTURED ON THE DUN-COLOURED LIBYAN PLAIN, AND IS IMMEDIATELY SEARCHED. One Man goes over the Prisoner for Concealed Arms, whilst his Comrade Covers Him with a Bren Gun .1 phis official photograph from the scene of the heavy fighting in the Western Desert gives a vivid impression of some of the conditions under which our troops have been operating ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER --No. 146 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Hitler's Dilemma.-- The events of a few days (or even hours) may radically alter the position of, and the degree of optimism felt by, one side or the other in this titanic struggle. In the second week of June the position was definitely more favourable for the Allies than they could have expected in May. Hitler was still holding his hand ...

... THE BOMBING OF COLOGNE What a Study of the R.A.F. Reconnaissance Pictures has Revealed of the Damage Further pictures on the following pages Since the publication of the first pictures of the havoc wrought by the R.A.F. in Cologne, a detailed interpretation has been possible of the reconnaissance pictures. Air Ministry experts have now declared that the damage was immeasurably greater than ...

... COLOGNE The City that has Gone for Ever A Description, from Personal Experience, of the Period when Cologne-- the Recent Centre of Our Heaviest' Attack Yet was Occupied by the Army of the Rhine After the Last War, Right Up to the Year 1926; and How the German Populace Responded to the British Domination Described by FERDINAND TUOHY HOW many of the R.A.F. who flew in their legion above Cologne ...

... LADY DIANA COOPER GOES TO MARKET Since her return from Malaya, Lady Diana has resumed her chicken-farming in Sussex. This picture, taken during a recent visit to Barnham Market, where she purchased some chickens, shows Lady Diana stopping for refreshment at one of the stalls AERODROME CONSTRUCTION FOR THE R.A.F. in the modern manner a com paratively short time ago, the levelling and ...

... -By Vernon Fane Two Authors and their Peripatetic Ponderings A Victorian Family Album A Ffovel of Wartime England DURING the past three years Mr. Hesketh Pearson and Mr. Hugh Kings mill have managed to walk themselves into a very entertaining book, and to have gone their way round England with at least sufficient mental energy to have produced THIS BLESSED PLOT (Methuen. 8s. 6d.). Naturally, ...

... THE BOMBING OF COLOGNE (continued) ANOTHER SET OF BEFORE-AND-AFTER PICTURES To the north of Cologne lies the great industrial suburb of Nippes (now a part of the city) Here ar twc pictures of the great Koln-Nippes railway workshops, taken before and after the 1 ,000-Bombers Raid. Hardly a roof is intact: walls, machines, factories-- all have gone as a result of the concentrated battering by ...

... Pictures of M. Molotov's Visit to Britain and the Scenes at the Foreign Office and at No. 10, Downing Street at the Signing of the Twenty Years' Treaty with the Soviet f\n the morning of May 20 a giant Russian aircraft alighted in North Britain it bore M. Molotov Russian Commissar for Foreign Affairs M. Sabolev, of the Moscow Foreign Office Lieut. -General Shelevski, Major-General Isayev, and ...

... THE STORY OF PENELOPE The British Cruiser now known as H.M.S. Pepperpot Because of the Thousand-odd Shrapnel Holes Suffered During Concentrated Attack while in Dry-Dock at Malta 'FHE cruiser Penelope had seen considerable service in the J- Mediterranean. She took part some months ago in a battle off Taranto, in which a small British Naval force sunk two Italian convoys of ten ships despite ...

... LIBYAN PORTFOLIO continued Tanks and Artillery in Concentrated Action AN IMPRESSION OF GENERAL GRANT TANKS IN ACTION NEAR THE CAULDRON These compact monsters weigh 28 tons, and thus are officially classed as mec urn tanks, but their hitting power is tremendous. This is due to their two guns one of which is a 37-mm. weapon and the other a 75-mm. The latte is fitted to the right of the Grant, ...

... LIBYAN PORTFOLIO (continued) THE GUN WHICH HAS BEEN DOING A GOOD DEAL OF USEFUL WORK IN LIBYA-- The mobile 25-pounder which has been in continuous action in the fighting round The Cauldron, and in the Knightsbridge battles. (On the left is the ammunition limber) Our mobile guns have proved a great success in Lioya prominent amongst these is the 25-pounder, of which two impressions whilst in ...

... THE KING ON BOARD THE U.S. FLAGSHIP With him is Admiral Stark, C.-in-C. U.S. Naval Forces in Europe behind the latter in this picture is Rear-Admiral Robert C. Giffen, in command of the American force inspected by the King. The visit to the battleship followed after the inspection of an American cruiser THE KING BEING PIPED ABOARD H.M.S. NORFOLK, a 9,925-ton cruiser of the Dorsetshire class. ...