... A BRITISH DESTROYER'S HAUL A captured German l-boat after it had been sailed into tsrindisi Harbour under a prize crew. On the night of November 9-10, H.M.S. Quilliam and H.M.S. Raider, two destroyers of the Fourth Flotilla, intercepted a Siebel ferry with an escort of two German I-boats off Corfu. The ferry, containing ammunition, was blown up with Quilliam s third salvo, and the I-boats were ...

... THE decision of Mr. Ernest Bevin to direct youths from all walks of life into the coal mines on a ballot system has caused mixed feelings and given rise to conflicting opinions. On the face of it, as a means of getting more coal immediately and tiding us over the next few vital months, the scheme would appear to have little practical value. A speaker in the recent debate in the House of ...

... Rabaul is the most important of the Japanese bases in the whole South-Western Pacific. To-day, American troops are within 270 miles of this key point by reason of the New Britain landings. Early in November it was reported that nineteen Japanese warships were in the harbour five heavy cruisers, three light cruisers, five destroyers, two corvettes and lighter craft. Consequently. Rabaul was ...

... KODAK FILM is -in the Factories helping to ensure flawless aircraft parts Illustration shows an aircraft engine cylinder head about to be X-rayed. Internal faults in the casting which might prove disastrous in operation will be revealed on the film before the part is assembled. J3* 1 Next time you have difficulty in fF getting a spool of 'Kodak' Film, remember it is because such vital work ...

... MR. CHURCHILL REGAINS HIS STRENGTH IN THE SUNSHINE AFTER HIS ATTACK OF PNEUMONIA, THE PRIME MINISTER IS AGAIN ALLOWED TO SIT UP and take the air in the open. This is the first picture of him since his illness in the Middle East On December 16 the first announcement of the Prime Ministers illness was made to a startled House of Commons. Since then, however, the patient has made rapid progress, ...

... The Arrival of the Scharnhorst Survivors The British Officers who Took Part in the Action And the Sinking of the German Blockade-Runner in the Bay of Biscay On pp. 38-39 of this issue we publish drawings and diagrams of the destruction of the German battleship Scharnhorst by the Home Fleet on December 26. The pictures reproduced here shov the final scenes the return to port of the Flet with ...

... THE DESTRUCTION OF THE SCHARNHORST On December 26 by the Home Fleet near Bear Island within the Arctic Circle Jt is now known that the British force was disposed in two main formations. One, under the immediate command of the Commander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, flying his flag in the battle ship H.M.S. Duke of York, was covering the convoy at a distance against possible attack by ...

... 'The invasion of New Britain, southern bastion of the Japanese in the Pacific, was launched by the Americans at dawn on December 15. The landing took place at a point on the south-western shore, at a considerable distance from Gasmata (the important Japanese base which is second only to Rabaul) and between Gasmata and Cape Gloucester. It would appear that the landings already effected have no ...

... THE NAVY RESCUES REFUGEES IN ITALY. Surrounded by their remaining belongings, these women are waiting on the quay for transport to their villages after a voyage in a British ship. Among the many war jobs of H.M. ships operating in Italian waters are humanitarian duties, such as that of transporting hundreds of civilians back to their nearest home port after they had been driven from their ...

... And Official Pictures of the Damage done to Leipzig during the Raid on December 4, 1943 The development of a new bombing technique has just been announced by U.S. Eighth Air Force. Their Bomber Command, employing the latest scier- devices, arc now able to operate by daylight on targets the pilot cannot act see, when the cloud cover is solid, or 10-I0ths, as airmen call it. The annoi ment of ...

... On more than one occasion recently reports from the Eighth Army area have referred to the burning of villages by the enemy. It has been an eerie sight to witness these hilltop towns and villages blazing away in the night, lighting the hillsides with a fiery glow. The enemy apparently wished to destroy what he could not hold, and thus deny the use of the villages to the Eighth Army. Two groups ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 227 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Commanders in the Field. --There is something still of old- world chivalry in the democratic way of waging total war. As I ven tured to say the other day, if the Nazis were rabbits, our slow-motion, deliberate steps and announcements regarding the impending fortress- crashing would by now have mesmerised them into a dither. When we ...