... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 196 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Even Some Nazis..-- It seems that even some Nazis have been a little embarrassed by Dr. Goebbels' last propaganda wriggles in the great campaign for humaner warfare. Memory may be (must be) as short as you please in a Dictator State, but even so it is sometimes long enough to recall events two years old, and there are Nazis alive who do ...

... SH MM ESH M 1 m LIEUT.-COLONEL THE REV. J. L. STEELE, ASSISTANT CHAPLAIN- GENERAL, at the microphone during the First Army's Thanksoivinp Service held amidst the ruins of Carthage A GENERAL VIEW IN THE HUGE AMPHITHEATRE where the Service was held near Tunis. Senior officers leaving after the Thanksgiving GENERAL ANDERSON READING THE LESSON FROM THE STAGE OF THE AMPHITHEATRE Amidst the ancient ...

... The area now under the heaviest attack from the air is encircled by the Italian islands and mainland, and by French-owned, but Italian-occupied, Corsica. The Tyrrhenian Sea flanks Italy on the west, as does the Adriatic on the east. Allied aircraft have been streaming out from their bases in North Africa, Malta and the Middle East and making for the enemy airfields in Sicily and Sardinia; but ...

... THE FINAL ACTION IN THE TUNISIAN VICTORY THE RUSH OF BRITISH TANKS TO HAMMAMET, when the First Army's armour went all out to cut the enemy off from the Cape Bon Peninsula. The Germans were convinced that no armoured division could move so fast Drawing by W. G. Whitaker Axis resistance collapsed because von Arnim and his Generals lost control of their forces owing to the dazzling speed and ...

... AFTER THE BATTLES ARE OVER. The French farmers of Tunisia resume their ploughing as British sappers clear their land of the mines laid by the retreating Germans. A scene near the road between Medjez-el-Bab and the sea 'Drawing by W. G. W hitaker Already the fishermen and farmers of North Africa are beginning to forget the war and returning to their normal peacetime occupations. Many of the ...

... On its way to bomb Duisberg recently an R.A.F. heavy Stirling bomber was hit by flak. The plane began to vibrate violently and the rudder-bar swung loosely. Despite this, the sergeant- pilot continued his run up and bombed his target successfully. Then he turned for home, but soon it became almost impossible to control the aircraft. When the Navigator went aft, he found that the rear turret ...

... F wo more enemy vessels, which attempted to break through the Allied nations' blockade, have been scuttled after interception by ships of the Royal Navy. One of the blockade runners, the German armed ship Silvaplana, of 4,793 tons, was inward bound from the Far East with a valuable cargo of rubber and tin. She was sighted by the cruiser H.M.S. Adventure (Captain R. G. Bowes-Lyon, M.V.O., R.N. ...

... Headquarters in the Field are Now Mounted on Wheels, for the Swift- Moving Battles of Modern Warfare D apidity of movement is a necessity in every branch of war to-day. It applies to all forms of headquarters. Sometimes a com mander can indulge in the luxury of a chateau or villa but the necessity for instant movement has made the H.Q. on wheels a much more desirable residence. The snatching ...

... HThe Germans just packed up at Cape Bon. That was said by a British major who had been through Dunkirk, and who had witnessed the amazing final scenes on the Peninsula. It seems to summarise the general impression of all who were present at the great dis integration of the Axis forces after the fall of Tunis and Bizerta. The prisoners came in by the hundred, by the thousand, and by the ten ...

... THE NEW BEY OF TUNIS IS INSTALLED General Juin walks with the Bey du Camp, Sidi Lamin (the deposed Bey's uncle), after the ceremony at the Palais de Bardo HOW THE AXIS PRISONERS CAME IN Quite on their own, unescorted by their conquerors, some of the Germans came in on horseback, others in pony-carts. All seemed gay and carefree, and went ta the hastily-erected compounds almost with eagerness. ...

... i LITTLE-KNOWN ASPECT OF NIGHT FIGHTING. The blinding flash when the guns are fired in the darkness. The flames from the exhaust are shielded from the pilot's vision, but the eight guns to starboard and port are not- --Drawing by Roland Davies Vhen a fighter-pilot goes up at night conditions are, obviously, different from those to which t has been accustomed during daytime patrols. There is no ...

... THE ROYAL FAMILY Some New Photographs THE KING INSPECTS THE HOME GUARD, and is greatly interested in their new Spigot mortar, details of which have just been released Members of the Home Guard are now using this new weapon during their training and manceuvres by its means a large bomb can be projected for a considerable distance. The gun has some revolutionary features, one of which is that ...