... SCENES DURING THE HEROIC DEFENCE OF STALINGRAD Still Unsubdued After Weeks of the Intensest Fighting GERMANS CLOSING IN ON A GUTTED RUSSIAN FACTORY IN THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE CITY. Enemy infantry are being carried on the tanks, whilst other soldiers follow the leading tank closely on foot. Later in the Stalingrad fighting, the use of tanks was found to be impracticable by the Germans GERMAN ...

... COASTAL COMMANI in ATTACK and RESCUI The Latest Air Ministry Pictures of Scenes Off the French Coast and in Mid-Atlantic Tn the early morning recently, a Coastal Com nan 1 Whitley flew low from the dark Atlantic towards 11 coast of France just as dawn was breaking over the land The pilot, a Wing Commander, headed for St. Na d a i the Nazi-occupied U-boat base. A ship at anchor lo nna up, but ...

... How the Islanders Live To-day Under the German Yoke, and the Culmination of the Raid on the Night of October 3 With Special Drawing and Diagram ALTHOUGH so near England, almost complete silence fell upon the Channel Islands after their occupation by the Germans on July 1, 1940. Now, at last, some news has come out through the action of the Germans, which forced the Govern ment to admit that ...

... TWO NEW First-Class BATTLESHIPS in COMMISSION with the NAVY H.M.S. Anson and H.M.S. Howe Photographed for the First Time Since Their Commissioning Mr. A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty, retently announced, in the course of a speech in Sheffield, that Britain had made up all her losses in capital ships in the past two and a quarter years. Thus the two additional battleships of the ...

... THE MINISTRY OF WORKS PREVENTS FURTHER DEMOLITION OF LONDON'S ROMAN WALL steps to prevent further damage to the remains of London's Roman Wall at Cripolegate are now being taken. During the demolition following a severe blitz, additional bastions were brought to light which now enable the line to be traced in a manner not known for hundreds of years. Here workmen are seen on the site between ...

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... THE LIGHTNING CLASS- ■Latest and Biggest of British Destroyers The Lightning class of destroyers are Britain's latest and most up-to-date. There are fifteen of them, and the names of all begin either with L or with M. Work on them was begun in the year 1938, and so far as is known eight have already been completed and are serving with the Royal Navy. The Lightnings are of an enlarged Javelin ...

... The MARSHES of the QATTARA DEPRESSION A First Impression of the Great Natural Hollow which Guards the Left Flank of the British Line in Egypt The Scene at Dusk as Flights of Duck Wheel Over the Marshes and Lakes Drawing by Edward Osmond The Qattara Depression to the south of the British line in Egypt is once more figuring largely in news from the Middle East. According to the latest propaganda ...

... The LONDON of the FUTURE What the Royal Academy Have Planned for the City After the War Shown in a Series of Drawings Now On Exhibition at Burlington House TOWARDS the end of last week, an Ex hibition opened at Burling ton House in London which will probably have a con siderable effect on post-war plans for the development of the City. This Exhibition (which will remain open to the public ...

... PICTURES FROM THE WAR FRONTS come by CABLE AND WIRELESS LIMITED the all-British overseas telegraph company which operates the largest telegraph system in the world, with 300,000 miles of submarine cable and oversea wireless routes. (J This all-British undertaking carries the over seas telegraph traffic of the Empire at war, keeping the lines of communication open. Qf Far-reaching developments ...