... A Recent Four-day Attack, and a Two- day Attack by German Submarines And the Air Cover which Shore-based Aircraft now Provide for the Convoys Special Sphere Drawings and Diagrams A Norwegian escort group, which has been protecting British convoys in the Atlantic for over a year, recently won its first battle honours. In a forty-eight-hour fight, they beat off relays of U-boats, which attacked ...

... MALTA PREPARES FOR WINTER AndN°\hZ°r A BUILDING IN FLORIANA IS TORN DOWN TO GET AT THE BEAMS AND WOODWORK |n readiness for the coming of winter, the Demolition and Clearance Squads on Malta are pulling down blitzed buildings to get out the wooden beams which form part of their structure, for fuel. Where it is impos sible to pull down a whole building, the wooden balconies (of which there are ...

... U.S. and British Officers who are in Charge of the Widespread Operations A s has previously been stated /i. in these pages, the Allied land operations on the North African coast are under the supreme command, of Lieut.- General Dwight D. Eisenhower, of the U.S. Army. Under him, as second-in-command, is Major- General Mark Clark just pro moted to Lieut. -General by the President for the secret ...

... AUSTRALIAN TROOPS, HELD UP BY A GERMAN STRONG-POINT, lay down a dense smoke-screen to hide their movements, and then rush in from all sides. This picture shows them advancing just before the strong-point fell A PICTURE TAKEN IN THE THICK OF THE BATTLE just after the capture of the strong-point by the Australians it shows a wounded German being helpc I back to a dressing-station by British ...

... PINNING PRUSSIA AS THE CURSE What is the Truth About the Junker in Germany To-day? By FERDINAND TUOHY REMARKS made by Dr. Goebbels while touring Germany in the wake of R.A.F. raids have given wing again to an old idea-- that of stig matising Prussia in front of the other German States, in the hope that these will blame the Berlin Bully for their unhappy lot domestically and before the world. ...

... CUTTING the AXIS LINES to EGYPT The British Submarines at Work Off the Italian Coast Really fine work in preventing supplies from reaching Rommel in North Africa has recently been accomplished by British submarines operating over a wide stretch of the Mediterranean. The number of supply vessels sent to the bottom is already a large one; and the work is still continuing! Some little time ago, ...

... ■w 1 1 --i vih^KK ^^mr. .v STALINGRAD and VORONEZH in RUINS How the Two Cities Look To-day After Months of Bitter Fighting Pictures just received from a neutral source A MASS OF WRECKED BUILDINGS FROM WHICH CLOUDS OF SMOKE RISE CEASELESSLY A view of Stalingrad to-day, after three months of incessant artillery and aerial bombardments which have reduced whole areas to mere masses of smoking ...

... THE NEW WEAPON WHICH HELPED TO BEAT ROMMEL'S PANZERS IN EGYPT THE GENERAL SHERMAN TANK, BUILT IN THE UNITED STATES-- a picture taken when the new tank was shown to the Prime Minister and senior Officers on the Horse Guards Parade some time ago The General Sherman is a new American heavy tank which might be described as the perfected General Grant. It is said to be the most powerful Allied ...

... EVER WARMER FOR QUISLINGS What the Future Holds for the Men who Betrayed Their Countries to the Nazis By FERDINAND TUOHY A RISING from the forcetl-labour-in-Germany decrees and the prospect of a terrible winter of hunger, cold and terrorisation, the latest grindings of revolt on the Continent will naturally receive great impetus from the Mediterranean campaign and the holding victory of ...

... THAT drumfire of the night of November 1-2 was, perhaps, the decisive blow-- a concentrated barrage not only of shells, but also of bombs, on an Axis army which, for all its strong system of field fortifica tions, had no adequate protection against it: indeed, little psychological defence, either, for hitherto these young Germans and Italians had known chiefly a different kind of war. lowering ...

... THE MEN AND WOMEN OF BRITAIN The First of a Series of Three Articles on the Country's Man and Woman Power and the Work of the Ministry of Labour By CHARLES GRAVES A SERIES of compliments has recently been paid to British industry and the British nation by American experts. They voice astonishment at the efficiency of woman labour and the amazing output per head of the population. The Cabinet ...

... playing at it I to- day- w To-day he plays to-morrow he lives for he's one of the people of To-morrow. His turn will come. But will his chance come Will he have that opportunity which will enable him to plunge wholeheartedly into the career that really interests him. Or will he be a square peg in a round hole? Now is the time to save to give him that chance Start saving to enable your ...