... Life in Malta I o-day After Uninterrupted Bombing Attacks by Day and by Night by Aircraft from Sicily and Italy Special Sphere drawings and sketches From last December, when the Luftwaffe returned to the attack from bases established in Sicily, Malta has endured-- with only brief periods of slackened in tensity-- a succession of raids of continued violence, which made the previous period (as ...

... KEEPING A LOOK-OUT FOR SURPRISE NIGHT RAIDERS A searchlight crew at a strategic point on the Australian coast sweeping the sky with their powerful beams. All posts are now manned OFFICER AND MEN STRIPPED TO THE WAIST A Pay Parade of Australian troops stationed at Darwin, principal defence point of the north coast, where the menace of Jap invasion is greatest AUSTRALIA IS PUTTING EVERY OUNCE ...

... CRUISER TANKS USED BY OUR SOLDIERS IN EGYPT AS A BAIT FOR THE ENEMY: The Germans run on to a line of concealed General Grants during the fighting on the Ruweisat Ridge only the turrets of the Grants showed above the ridge. Drawing by E. Byatt The element of surprise is not peculiar to the Germans alone. During the fighting at Ruweisat German panzer formations came into the attack in the face ...

... THE SCIENCE OF ASTROLOGY AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE WAR The Newspaper Astrologer has been Active for a Number of Years; but Since the Outbreak of War his Activities have Increased in all Manner of Fantastic Ways. The Following Article is the Result of an Enquiry into Certain Objectionable Manifestations of the New Science By CHARLES GRAVES QUESTIONS in the House of Commons and letters to ...

... GENERAL FREYBERG, V.C., AFTER HE HAD BEEN WOUNDED IN THE FIGHTING AT MERSA MATRUH. THE GENERAL IS LYING IN A SLIT-TRENCH AFTER THE ENEMY HAD BEGUN TO SHELL THE FIELD DRESSING-STATION TO WHICH HE HAD BEEN CONVEYED I ieut.-General Sir Bernard Freyberg, V.C., was the G.O.C. the New Zealand Division at the battle for Mersa Matruh during the last war he was wounded on innumerable occasions, and at ...

... new ACT AT I rtM kn DAMDCDi Three Aerial Views of Sebastopol and WE V Hj I H I I V/N Dy DUrlDCrV. Tobruk After Heavy Attacks from the Air *a yssiraJHHi iwp SEBASTOPOL AFTER WEEKS OF INCESSANT POUNDING FROM THE AIR A picture showing the scene of devastation in the central part of the town mm rr tbwbwf ir n n w TOBRUK UNDER ATTACK BY THE R.A.F. Wellingtons scoring direct hits on important ...

... THE AUSTRALIANS ARRIVE AT EL ALAMEIN Moving up to the forward area with their own 25-pounder anti-tank guns. Their arrival so soon on the scene of battle apparently took the Germans by surprise J v TANK REINFORCEMENTS ARRIVE A new Valentine being unloaded at a desert railhead. Men of the Royal Tank Regiment take delivery and prepare the new arrivals for battle 'WARE MINES British troops and ...

... A UNITED STATES WARPLANE CIRCLES OVER A SHIP in an Allied Convoy as troops, equipment and supplies reach Port Moresby, in New Guinea. This picture was made from the deck of another ship in the Convoy TROOPS AND STEVEDORES AT WORK ON A RECENTLY-ARRIVED CONVOY RUN FOR SHELTER as an air-raid alarm interrupts their work. Port Moresby has been subjected to continuous and heavy attack for months ...

... Bayonets, Trenches and Reserves are Amongst Old Methods which should not be Entirely Abandoned in the Present War By DONALD COWIE THE title of this article is a quotation from, of all places, a modern German military manual; and it condenses a very important truth, the ignorance of which has often brought disaster to the more rigid type of military mind. Supposing, just for a hypothetical ...

... GERMANY'S SELF-CONFERRED TROJAN HORSE Every Fourth Worker in the Reich Will Soon be a Foreigner Because Germany's Crying Need (as in the Last War) is for More and Still More Soldiers. Flow the System of Recruitment Works, and How the Millions of Foreign Workers Resent This Forced Labour, is Described Below By FERDINAND TUOHY THERE can be no doubt that Hitler counted on a novel use of ...

... SPIKING ENEMY GUNS AT EL ALAMEIN Captured enemy equip ment being demolished by New Zealand Sappers. These guns are of no use to the Allied Forces, so they are destroyed THE R.A.F. MAIL RUN TO BENGHAZI The daily load of bombs being delivered. The harbour at Benghazi is so frequently bombed that the pilots have named sorties to this target the Mail Run. This is the celebrated Cathedral Mole (so ...

... THE ROYAL NAVY IN ACTION In the Channel and in the Mediterranean (With a note on the Dodecanese Islands by Douglas Glen) THE Dodecanese Islands have recently been receiving marked attention both from R.A.F. bombers and the Navy. Aerodromes have been strafed and the Island of Rhodes bombarded at night. These attentions are probably due to the reports of various forms of activity in this ...