... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 200 r, New Oxford Street, W.C.i Hitler?-- If the Führer does not soon make another brief appearance on the stage, all the crop of rumours about his continued existence and /or mental state will spring up again, like the weeds in our gardens. For, indeed, the mystery surrounding him grows deeper and more stimulating. One has no need to be a C.I.D. man or an Intelligence ...

... Official Pictures Taken Before and After the British Landings Pantellaria surrendered to the Allied forces bombarding the island from the air and si on June 1 1 the fall of Lampedusa came shortly afterwards. On these pages, and d pages 14-19 of this issue, we publish the first official pictures to reach England of tli scenes immediately preceding and following these events. By the capture of ...

... THE IMPROVED DEFENCE OF ALLIED CONVOYS And the Employment of Hospital Ships under Wartime Conditions Recent Admiralty communiques in connection with the Battle of the Atlantic have made mention of H.M.S. Biter. This ship is one of the Royal Navy's new weapons in the fight against the U-boat-- an escort aircraft-carrier. Many of them are being built or converted out of fast merchant ships and ...

... PANTELLARIA fell as the result of the heaviest air bombardment yet ex perienced in any theatre of war. The principal targets were the harbour of Pantellaria itself, the adjacent dock, the flanking forts and aerodrome. The last named was separated only by a short distance from the other objectives, which all lay close together. None of them were large the harbour is small and can only ...

... n our issue of June 19, we published a number of pictures showing how the capture of V Attu Island in the Aleutians was effected by U.S. forces landed there on May 1 1 J'e are now enabled to publish a further three pictures which have just been received Washington. In the capture of Attu both the Amchitka-based aircraft and Bie U.S. Navy co-operated. And now that America possesses Adak Island ...

... The Royal Marines Make a Landing In Preparation for the Coming Assault on Hitler's Europe J he pictures reproduced on this page were taken recently at a Training Establishment for non commissioned officers of the Royal Marines in Southern England, to show part of the varied activities of this famous corps of Britain's sea soldiers. Formed in 1664 and trained for service ashore or afloat. ...

... THE RISKS THEY RUN This is a message of grateful acknow ledgement to the Royal Navy, the Merchant Navy, and all those who go down to the sea in ships, for the risks they run in bringing their precious cargoes to these shores. Once here it is our bounden duty to see that they are not wasted. Amongst the thousands of tons of goods daily pouring into the country, Timber has its rightful place. ...

... TTn Sunday, June 20, his Majesty visited Malta, Britain's island-fortress in the Mediterranean. He was met by Viscount Gort, V.C., Governor of the Island, on arrival and then proceeded to inspect some of the most-bombed parts of Malta accompan ied by the parish priests. The streets of Valetta, the capital, scarred by heavy enemy bombings, were crowded as his Majesty drove through the town when ...

... THE END OF A GAULLIST CHAPTER The Transference of the Centre of French Resistance from London to North Africa By FERDINAND TUOHY WHATEVER transpires among the Algiers French in a rapidly evolving situation whose true bearing lies much deeper than some people here have set themselves to realise, one chapter of France in the war has come to an end. I refer to The London Experience, as I feel ...

... Fortresses Meet with Disaster Over the Sea The Capture of Pantellaria by Air Power Alone The Naples Bombing Route Special Drawings by Sphere Artists IN mid-June an official U.S. communiqué made public the loss of twenty-six American Flying Fortresses during a daylight raid on Kiel. This loss was so out of the usual that an examina tion of the circumstances surrounding the par ticular raid is ...

... MOST of the principal havoc caused by our bombers at Pantellaria was confined to an area around the town and harbour and the aerodrome. Here the devastation was complete and, at first, apparently irreparable. The port is really a tiny village grouped round a very small harbour, where the 3,000 fisherfolk of the island used to keep their boats. To-day this is a scene of desolation. 1 he jetties ...

... AMERICA ATTACKS the ALEUTIAN ISLAND! First Pictures from Amchitka Island, and Furtht Pictures from Attu Island, from Both of which ti Tap Base at Kiska, in the Bering Sea, is Threatens The Aleutian Islands of the Bering Sea project |g semi-circijar sweep from the mainland of Alaij down into the Northern Pacific. Soon after their cut into the war, the Japanese occupied Kiska, in the R, Island ...