... I SUSPENSE DURING THE ADVANCE OF THE BRITISH FORCES IN SOUTHERN ITALY. This scene, from a smal town in the hills, shows a group of civilians and police trying to determine the identity of the newcomers in the car ahead-- -Drawing by Edward Osmond It Is, perhaps, not generally realised how loosely held has been the so-called line across Italy. This has permitted the nemy to leave concealed ...

... Flak Towers IN THE London Area The Elevated Concrete Defence Posts Around the Capital A/HliN the Luftwaffe V switched over its attacks from high-level bombing to tip-and-run raids on coastal and inland objectives, new dispositions were chosen for the Bofors guns of Anti-Aircraft Command defending these areas. The danger was that low flying fighter bombers F.-W. 190's, carrying two bombs each, ...

... THE FIGHTING TYPHOON, and Other New Pictures, Taken during Operational Flying in Britain and North Africa WHEN A HALIFAX CREW RETURNS FROM A BOMBING EXPEDITION. Following up the day attack on Frankfurt on October 4, Bomber Command launched a second heavy assault on the same city on .the following night. This picture was taken on a P.A.F. station from which some of the four-engined Halifaxes ...

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... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 177 i. New Oxford Street, W.C.i. The Nelson Touch.-- The epic story of the latest Arctic convoy to Russia which is coupled with the names of Sherbrooke, and of the Onslow and the Achates, may rank in history in that unbroken chain of epics of the sea which from Tudor times to the present day adorn and point the moral of British sea power. It is early days yet to speak of ...

... The March of General Leclerc's Fighting French Force from Chad up to the Tripolitanian Fighting Zone. .Described by FERDINAND TUOHY GENERAL LECLERC'S march up from Chad to menace the fortified zone of Tripoli, some 1,500 miles north of his Fort Larny starting-point, would have furnished, in any but this monster con flict, a daily front-page story of high war adventure. One can visualise the ...

... HOW H.M.S. SCYLLA (5,450-TON CRUISER OF THE DIDO CUSS) CAUGHT AND SANK A LARGE GERMAN BLOCKADE RUNNER IN THE ATLANTIC -Drawing by Montague Dawson Royal Navy in five weeks. A Sunderland of an Australian Squadron of Coastal Command shadowed the enemy vessel and then flew on a parallel course, dr give the cruiser the exact position of the enemy. Night was coming on, so that it was essential to ...

... THE sequel to Bomber Command and The Battle of Britain has just been published; and it is undoubtedly already a best seller. Prepared by the Ministry of Information for the Air Ministry, it, is a magnificently produced volume of 144 pages at the price of 28. The I took con tains 140 photographs, many of which have not before been published, ami some of the more striking of these arc ...

... r'ROM THESE WARS. iViemories and Thoughts of the Years Between --A Fortnightly Causerie By J. G. THE Parish of Auburn Parva.-- It is always difficult to write with restraint and impartiality on matters of religion and, even if one succeed to one's own satisfaction, the result may wound or irritate readers. Auburn Magna is a argish, widespread parish in Wessex, and for many years, under ...

... COLONEL DENEYS REITZ IN LONDON as the new High Commissioner for South Africa. As Mr. Sidney Watcrson has relinquished this post to take up his new Ministerial appointment. Colonel Reitz has flown to Britain to succeed him. He lost no time in getting down to work at South Africa House in Trafalgar Square, where this picture was taken a few days ago. Colonel Reltz arrived here by aeroplane so ...

... rfj m I l W 4 n id P ^^OOD-BYE to that old bugbear of the placket skirt an ugly, shape- destroying hip bulge. Literally a placket without an opening, the new Gor-ray ZWOW Fastening has no buttons or metal fastenings on the hip to stand out, cause gaping, or pull the material. Smart women everywhere welcome this further addition to the high quality of all Gor-ray Skirts. Good fashion houses ...

... Recent Radio Pictures Transmitted Direct from Moscow LISTENING TO MARSHAL STALIN On the occasion ol the cwenty-sixth anniversary ot the founding of the U.S.S.R., Marshal Stalin made one of his rare broadcasts to the people of the Soviet Union, in which he stated that the German forces occupying Russian territory were on the verge of a catastrophe. The two pictures above were taken as the ...