... THE BLACK GUARDS IN THE ORDER OF BATTLE The Reasons for the Introduction of the Waffen S.S.-- Hitler's Elite-- into Occupied France, and the Strange Manoeuvres of the German High Command to Fog British and Russian Intelligence Officers as to the Enemy's Real Strength in the East and in the West Described by FERDINAND TUOHY THE present is a period when brains and secret endeavour are devoted in ...

... AMERICA'S LATEST AIRCRAFT-CARRIER The U.S.S. Essex is Launched at Newport News, Virginia the First of a Class of Eleven April 28, 1941, the keel of the U.S. aircraft-carrier Essex was laid at the yard of the Newport News Company of Virginia. She is one of seven vessels of her class another four were also ordered from the Bethlehem Company of Qumcy. The Essex has just been launched, fifteen ...

... YY/ith the exception of the two portraits reproduced on these pages, all the pictures given here come from enemy sources or are disseminated through organisations known to be agents of- the Nazis. Malta is, and has been since Italy's entry into the war, a sharp thorn in the side of the Axis the more so since Rommel's need for reinforce ments in North Africa became so vital. With the Island in ...

... THE question whether the Axis would make any advance southwards towards the desert routes leading to the Nile has frequently been under dis cussion. The difficulties of transport, water and supplies were thought to have rendered such an advance by any considerable force quite impossible of achievement. And, in fact, no move was made by the Axis until the closing days of last month, when it was ...

... WHAT the NEW R.A.F. BOMBS DO An Illuminating Picture After a Raid on a Pivotal Point of the Western Germany Railway System On the night of July 29-30 the R.A.F. attacked Saarbriicken for the first time since November 1940. This is a pivotal point of Western Germany's railway system which, before the war, gave Ger many a fifth of her pig iron and steel and one-tenth of her coal. Reconnaissance ...

... centre, round Ruweisat, and the southern flank of the front. The best way of taking ridges, in any type of war, is by getting round them as far as possible and then creeping up in fairly open line. A column trying to mount a ridge like Roman road- builders would suffer great casualties. So men advanced in the 1914-18 fashion again. In that rather abortive minor offensive of the last week of ...

... I THE BALLET GOES TO AN EAST END PARK A great welcome has been given to the Sadler's Wells Ballet Company, who have been giving special Holidays at Home performances in Victoria Park, Bethnal Green. First-class ballets have been presented to packed houses at a charge of sixpence each. Eager not to miss a single moment, these youngsters have taken their seats in the gangway for a performance of ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 154 I, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. The New School of War Literature.-- Lord Elton, as a broadcaster, is not exactly my cup of tea. His technique is excellent. He has the intimate,, conversation-à-deux manner in which Lord Ponsonby shines, and his latest discourse on books in wartime showed some sound and shrewd observation. He said with truth and courage that this war has ...

... The Organisation of Hunger as a Determining Factor in War is Now Being Carried to its Logical Conclusion by the Nazis. Possibilities Arising Out of the Russian Campaign are Discussed Here in the Light of what has Already Taken Place Throughout the Occupied Territories By FERDINAND TUOHY THERE exists a comfortable school of thought which maintains that, even should Timoshenko go back and back, ...

... The BATTLE LINE in EGYPT New Official Pictures from the 8th Army ADVANCED BRITISH MOTOR COLUMNS HARASS THE ENEMY The type of men who take part in the attacks on the German lines of supply Reports from Egypt before Auchinleck's big offensive told of the splendid work carried out by our men in operations actually within enemy territory in the Alamein sector. Motor brigades, such as those ...

... ART AND INDUSTRY IN LAKELAND The Work of the Royal College of Art in its Wartime Home in the Lake District The Ro/al College of Art is the oldest in the world it was evacuated two years ago from Kensington to a small town in the Lake District, with its Principal (Mr. P. H. Jowett) and a number of distinguished Professors and instructors in painting, sculpture, engraving, weaving, pottery, etc. ...

... The Probable Reasons Behind the Present Policy of the Luftwaffe, Discussed by PATRICK HAMILTON OVER half the German fighter strength, and possibly 25 per cent, of the bombers, are still in Western Europe. The fighters are kept well occupied-- the R.A.F. sees to that. But what occupation has Goering been able to find for the bombers, and why are they retained in Europe when they would obviously ...