... Dy a tremendous, all-out attack the Allies broke through the much-talked-of Gothic Line on September 2, for a length of 20 miles. It was a splendid achievement, for the enemy had spent nearly a year on building up the defences of this line, which was to be one of the main walls of the Fortress of Europe. 1 he Line was erected on the narrowest portion or the long peninsula, running from above ...

... EIGHT HUNDRED CRATERS ON ONE ENEMY AIRFIELD This striking photo- graph shows the destruction caused by Bomber Command to one enemy airfield. It was taken from an aircraft of the Photographic Reconnaissance Unit following Bomber Command's attack on September 3 on the Volkel Airfield, twelve miles to the north of Helmond, in Holland. The total reconnaissance showed 800 craters on the field, ...

... WITH the end of the war in sight, it is only proper that the Government should investi gate all possible forms of export. The export of motor-cars is a major problem which influences the alteration of the horse-power tax so deservedly publicised at the moment. Another is the invisible export of attracting tourists to this country with the object of their spending money here. That is the ...

... CURIOSITY-- a Duty of Citizenship.-- Invited (or pressed) the other day to deliver a talk to a Women's Institute, I turned over various subjects of which my little knowledge might be adequately camouflaged. Literary subjects I rejected as likely to be too soporific, and in the end I proffered a talk on the origins, history and present organisation of our various Courts of Tustice or our Local ...

... THE FALL OF FLORENCE South Africans enter the city in the early hours of August 4 and take up on their tanks enthusiastic young Florentines mm mm m*/ ANTI-FASCIST ITALIANS IN THE STREETS OF FLORENCE engage Fascist and German snipers after the Allied entry THIS IS ONLY ONE OF THE THOUSANDS OF DEMOLITIONS WHICH THE ALLIES HAVE HAD TO FACE during their advance up the Italian mainland to Florence. ...

... On right On several occasions during recent operations in Normandy, great enemy activity has been observed around some of the chateaux with which the French countryside Is dotted. These chateaux are usually set in a woodland surrounding, with one face open to the sun. Attacks by the Allies on German-occupied buildings of this character have been made sometimes by our land forces on other ...

... The method of digging-in Panthers and Tigers originated in the Western Desert, where these powerful engines of war were put into shallow depressions in the hull-down position so that they could hold up an advance and yet present a most difficult target to our gunners. In Italy, the method was improved upon by the Germans, who utilised the turrets from knocked- out tanks to erect miniature ...

... nBHnHHHBMHHHMHHHBBIPPSBHHMKESiPQ AFTER THE CAPTURE OF COUTANCES. An American tank which was wrecked while passing along a mined street in this strategic key-point. Those sections which were not razed during the battle for the town were found to be heavily mined by the Germans. Coutances fell to the Americans on July 28, when two of their armoured columns joined up a mile to the north and then ...

... AUGUST being the traditional holiday month, it is perhaps excusable-- even though the war is still on-- to speculate about, and even to for mulate, plans for post-armistice vacations. After all we have read all this widely publicised post-war planning by various Government departments, so why not some individual post-war planning of our own? The first piece of good news I have acquired this ...

... Tt has now been definitely decided that Mr. Roosevelt is to stand for a fourth term of office. Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the Republican nominee, will oppose him. Mr. Roosevelt's nomination was decided upon at an enthusiastic Convention at Chicago, of which we re produce a number of pictures on this page. But Vice- President Wallace will not run in harness with his present chief, as Senator ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 268 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. In Moscow.-- If I had the use of a magic carpet and invisible cloak, I should be in Moscow to-day at the time of writing. I should like to make a first-hand study of the relations of Stalin and Mr. Churchill. No one can read history without reaching the sure and alarming conclusion that the destinies of nations depend far more on the ...

... At last a gap has been made, ten miles north of Aachen, through the formidable defences of the Siegfried Line, which had been strengthened by every device known to the enemy-- dragon's teeth, con crete and steel pill-boxes, anti-tank ditches, foxholes, mines and heavy wire. After a week of bitter and con centrated fighting the American rirst Army, under General Hodges, achieved a great success ...