... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 176 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Strange Bedfellows in North Africa.-- it seems that the sight in Algiers of is one which certain American eye witnesses, and many British, do not view with equanimity. Party leaders in the street, Maintaining with no little heat Their various opinions, On the contrary, warnings of the danger to the Allied cause, and of the ...

... THE BEGINNING OF A U.S. CARGO SHIP. This bow section of a Liberty ship weighs 50 tons and is 60 ft. high. It is being swung into position at a shipyard on the east coast of the United States. Yards in that country are turning out freighters with increasing speed by pre-fabricating whole sections and then assembling them on the ways. One West Coast yard recently launched a 10.000-ton vessel ...

... THE RESIDENT MINISTER IN BRITISH WEST AFRICA, LORD SWINTON, during an interview to British war correspondents on a visit to the vital Gold Coast area. After Italy's entry into the war, the African areas became of great value to Britain and her allies, and the Gold Coast as one of the points of entry- became a most important link in the supply routes to the Middle East. Lord Swinton has, for ...

... THE ISLAND THAT WAS A SHIP A Jap camouflage idea which failed in its purpose in the New Guinea fighting Japanese naval units have, during recent weeks, been observed by Allied aircraft to be still lurking off the New Guinea coasts, despite the hammering they have been receiving from Australian and American pilots. A hawk-eyed pilot of a Liberator bomber has just reported a new idea in ...

... TAKING IT GREEN over the BRIDGE An incident during 11 Viscount's four- day fight against Atlantic U-boats In rough seas that sometimes swept their decks and obscured sight of their quarry, escorts of a British- bound convoy fought a four-dav-and-nighl battle in the Atlantic with U-boats recently, sinking two and damaging several others. One U-boat broke surface ahead of H.M.S. Viscount the ...

... Few generals in the history of warfare have had to conform to so rigid a time schedule as Montgomery with his Eighth Army. From the beginning it was a race against time to train and mass the troops at El Alamein so that the break-through could be achieved in readiness for the simultaneous departure of the French North Africa expedition. Atter that it was urgently necessary tor Kommel to be ...

... THE DOUBLE V.C. SUBMARINE RETURNS AFTER HER EVENTFUL VOYAGE Some of the crew of the vessel with their Jolly Roger flag after arrival at a British base PETTY OFFICER T. W. GOULD, V.C. (on left), WITH LIEUT. H. S. MACKENZIE, D.S.O., captain of the submarine Thrasher Thrasher has just returned to port after a war patrol of 40, 000 miles, in which she has sunk 40,000 tons of enemy shipping ...

... THE GIFT OF ONE TONGUE The Invention of a Universal Pidgin by a Young Engineer of Oldham. I By FERDINAND TUOHY AMONG the important problems of an inter national kind to be promoted now and after the war is a means of expression in a language easily learned and used by all civilised peoples. The international Morse code is an example of an accepted system of alphabetical and numerical ...

... i FAST SHIPS or SLOW Would Ocean Greyhounds Outmanoeuvre the Submarines The Pros and Cons of Wartime Shipping Problems Discussed by A. D. McCracken TO convoy or not to convoy was the big shipping controversy of the last war. Fast ships or slow ships is the big issue in the present struggle. The maximum speed of most of the cargo-ships now being built is 11-12 knots; in convoy they probably ...

... When the Allied Armies descended upon Morocco and Algeria on November 8, the French forces in North Africa were presented with a difficult position. They were pledged by oath of obedience to Marshal Pétain, and yet they were growing anxious to assist in the real liberation of France. The fixed defences on the Tripoli frontier-- the Mareth Line-- had been reduced under Italian supervision, and ...

... THE COMMANDER OF THE BRITISH TROOPS IN NORTH AFRICA LIEUT. -GENERAL K. A. N. ANDERSON, in the armoured car in which he travelled whilst directing recent operations of the First Army in the Tunisia fighting yyhen British troops landed on the North Africa coast, the supreme command of military operations was vested in Lieut.-General Dwight Eisenhower, of the U.S. Army and the First Army, ...

... HOW THE JAPANESE STRONG-POINTS ON THE NORTHERN STRIP OF NEW GUINEA ARE CONSTRUCTED A star-shaped machine-gun post at the edge of the jungle, wit! snipers concealed in the branches of the trees above a favourite enemy device- Drawing by W. C. Whitoker The Japs in the Buna-Gona triangle of Papua have only been able to survive so long owing to the terrain, which is particularly suited to their ...