... 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. ...

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... II t/ T. S. Douglas THE world historian of a thousand years hence describing the middle of the twentieth century may well ignore wars, revolutions and economic disasters and state that the period saw the dawn of the Age of Plastics. To him the second World War and the great political changes will seem, perhaps, insignificant beside the introduction of a new basic material destined to ...

... WAY OF THE WAR By Foresight Expectancy WHEREVER facts can penetrate, and faith in ultimate freedom has survived, there is expectancy. It is in the very air. There is an atmosphere of renewed urgency and fresh confidence. It is, perhaps, a natural sequence to these last few weeks of com parative calm which has kept us, as well as the enemy, guessing. Now that the lull is ending there is ...

... Rommel on the Screen Eric von Stroheim as the Afrika Korps Field Marshal in Five Graves to Cairo Five Graves to Cairo (Plaza) brings Rommel to the screen and Eric von Stroheim back to Hollywood after three pre-war years in French films in France and two years on Broadway and on tour in Arsenic and Old Lace. His make-up is accurate, from medal ribbons to candid cahiera. Franchot Tone, as a ...

... rM jfl /i m*' i l gendry ll THc S°n' v. In 1941 the Hon. Elspeth Ironside Field- Marshal Lord Ironside's only daughter, married Lt. Andrew Gilbert Hendry Black Watch, only son of the late Andrew Hendry and Mrs. Hendry of Gagie, Angus. They have a small son called Michael Andrew. Lord Ironside, who was Chief of the Imperial General Staff in 1939, and C.-in-C. Home Forces in 1940, received a ...