... ht. n*Ti 'iMtj nwrrrif Sbszss'Sbkses??-?: s:-^e^L! THE FORWARD POST OF A PUNJABI REGIMENT IN BURMA. This picture was made within sight and sound of an advanced Japanese position. The post has been roofed with logs and has been well camouflaged ON THE ARAKAN FRONT. A Punjabi infantryman in a forward position overlooking the 7th Division Box. At the time this picture was taken the Division was ...

... FOLLOWING their practice of fishing for care less replies, the Germans have been focusing our attention on Holland and Belgium, where a variety of extreme, last-minute moves to counter invasion are said to have been taken under the personal supervision of Rommel and Rundstedt. Reading through the German boasting, one deduces that the populations will be crippled in order to prolong the ...

... t C 7 ft KSS^EufiwrHi^ ■vPinnHfinMiH Quring a storm of such violence that men were unable to stand upright on the deck of an Escort Carrier, a young naval airman recently made an amazing landing back on the parent ship (sec two drawings at right). 1 he wind strength was so great at the time that the normal landing conditions had to be reversed, and instead of approaching over the stern with ...

... THE ARTILLERY PARK AT GRENOBLE, before the French patriots blew it up on the night of November 13. Great damage was wrought in the subsequent explosions THE FIRST BIG EXPLOSION LIGHTS UP THE NIGHT SKY. The munitions stored in the Artillery Park blew up at intervals throughout the entire night J V tmrnm. SMASHED ARTILLERY AT GRENOBLE THE MORNING AFTER THE GREAT ACT OF SABOTAGE. Fifty tons of ...

... THE EVACUATION OF HELSINKI, IN FINLAND. In the streets of the city long columns of sleighs carried furniture and household effects from the bombed flats to new abodes. Owing to wartime restrictions, there are very few motor-cars to be seen to-day in Helsinki. The Russian raids on the Finnish capital were very severe A MOSQUITO GETS HOME, minus a wing-tip and with a damaged engine The Mosquico ...

... i |MB A modest, almost unacknowledged and comparatively unknown treasure is a shop named Pollocks in Hoxton, near Shoreditch. A little, dark, shop in a narrow, sooty, slum street, its dusty, small-paned windows reveal a curiously mixed merchandise. Packets of stationery, children's school exercise books, faded skeins of darning-wool, buttons, bootlaces, cheap hair-slides and packets of ...

... THE FIRST PICTURES OF BRITAIN'S ROCKET PROJECTORS IN ACTION. MEN OF THE HOME GUARD FIRING THE HITHERTO SECRET WEAPONS during a night attack bv the Luftwaffe. showing the nroiectiles in flight with flaming tails This is one of the first pictures allowed to be taken of the rocket projectors which are now strengthening the anti aircraft defences of Great Britain. Home Guards have been trained ...

... The Admiralty Islands lie off the northern coast of New Guinea, about 300 miles north-west of New Britain (which contains the important Jap base of Rabaul), and 250 miles north-east of New Guinea (which contains another Jap base at Wewak). The islands form part of the Bismarck Archipelago, their total area being some 600 square miles. There are some forty islands in the group, the largest ...

... GIBRALTAR'S NEW GOVERNOR. THE NEW GOVERNOR, LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR THOMAS RALPH EASTWOOD, signs the oaths of his new office, while the Chief Justice, his Honour J. H. G. McDougall, looks on. Major-General F. G. Hyland stands in the foreground A CRISS-CROSS OF FIRE AS BEAUFIGHTERS TORPEDO AND CANNON-GUN AN ENEMY MERCHANTMAN. Beaufighters of R.A.F. Coastal Command, escorted by Spitfires of the Air ...

... Electric HEATING by A fire in tasteful design, of a type or finish for any scheme of decoration this is Creda Electric Ileatinu from which you *et j warmth without work. Make a note for \our post-war home. Issued by SIMPLEX ELECTRIC CO. LTD. OLDBURY, BIRMINGHAM Why we need LEGACIES BEQUESTS The need of ex-Servicemen of All Wars, including the disabled and their dependants, and the care of ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 238 i. New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Kherson.-- The fanfares and feux de joie of Moscow carry their heady sounds far beyond Russia. The achievements of Russian arms are inexpressibly glorious and deserve every fanfare. Their effects on the heady in America and Britain are sometimes dangerous. T. hey induce in some quarters a style of war com mentary which suggests that Russia ...

... THE SLOOP STARLING, LEADER OF THE SECOND ESCORT GROUP commanded by Captain F. J. Walker (D.S.O. and two bars), comes back to Liverpool after the patrol in which six German _ submarines were sunk during the course of a twenty-day battle in the North Atlantic he sloop Woodpecker goes into the attack, and Captain Walker shouts encouragement to her through the loud-hailer Go on, Woodpecker,' do ...