... THE AMERICANS CAPTURE COUTANCES in THEIR BIG SWEEP FORWARD TOWARDS THE SOUTH-WEST OF THE CHERBOURG PENINSULA a scene in the centre 01 the town just after its occupation, showing the rutted street through which the tanks had passed, Not a civilian is to be seen in this picture, and but three American soldiers. Coutances was taken by a U.S. Armoured Division, whose tanks and guns had already ...

... According to German reports. Allied warships joined in the barrage put down at the beginning of the Caen break-through and also illuminated the battlefield by directing their search lights on the low-lying clouds above the German positions. This drawing gives an impression of the scene. A concen tration of searchlights such as is shown would, if the angle of the cloud surfaces were favourable, ...

... HOW THE ITALIANS EVERYWHERE WELCOME THE ALLIES This picture was taken in Siena, which fell to French troops of the Fifth Army on July 3. It might represent any town in Italy to-day, where the revolt against Fascism is growing in intensity as towns are freed after long years of repression y TK'i-.i tt T li i ii^mrirnwa-- nfTT jiirmni ki i IT iii niw MEN OF THE RIFLE BRIGADE ON DAYLIGHT PATROL ...

... ^/hen the air attack opened, Lancasters and Halifaxes coming in from England ook the right side of the area to be covered, vith the steelworks as its main feature. They vere out not only to destroy the place but to nake craters so deep and numerous that the :nemy would find it impossible to bring tanks icross them. The left side of the area was Icn .'T'h ?s effectively by another force ol 0 ...

... I Today and every day, the C^/| r)£thQ/ well-known slogan is an 1 assurance of pleasure and satisfaction for cigarette smokers. (ssued by The Imperial Tobacco Company (of Great Britain and Ireland), Ltd NCG.561I DR. BARNARDO'S HOMES The Annual Appeal tor 500,000 Half-Crowns for food for our family of 8,000 boys and girls is now being made. Please help this National work for destitute children ...

... R.A.F. reconnaissance Mosquito has brought back ground-level pictures of a large b R TP1''6 strL!ctu,fe 'n f>as Calais area after two attacks were made on it V heavies. The structure, believed to be connected with the enemy's I /nnn USe l°ng-range rockets, was attacked in daylight on July 17 with r' ^-pounder bombs, and on the evening of July 20. The works, built at the edge 3 were. mainly ...

... OF all the wild Schemes the Germans have hatched, that by which they are credited with the hope of joining with the Russians and marching against the West must appear to us as the craziest. Apart altogether from such solemn engagements as the Anglo-Russian Alliance and Teheran, how could anyone conceive it to be possible that the Russians would contemplate even as temporary assistants a people ...

... The scene pictured by our artist here was described in a recent despatch from France in the following terms One minute there was silence the next, the thunder which has been named 4 Mont gomery's Symphony was splitting the skies, smashing against our eardrums, lighting the landscape with piercing flashes. When it grew dark, men seemed to move in a sun over which a giant was flicking a shutter ...

... HP he pictures reproduced on these pages equal, if they J- do not surpass in result, the heavy artillery bombard ments along the Western Front during the last war. Yet this destruction was not effected by heavy guns, nor did Un the east bank or the Urne at Caen are the industrial suburbs of Vaucelles and Colombelles. At the latter place there is or rather was a huge factory with fourteen ...

... On right This photograph shows the U.S. Liberty ship, s.s. Henry Bergh, as she lay helpless after going aground early on the morning of May 31 on the jagged rocks of the Farallone Islands, 30 miles off San Francisco. The ship was returning to the latter port with more than 1,000 Navy personnel en route from the Pacific war theatres. Shortly after going aground by the stern the ship was ...

... LET any European war break out-- the war, perhaps, between the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente, which so many journalists and politicians in England and Germany contemplate with criminal levity-- if the combatants prove to be equally balanced, it may, after the first battles, smoulder on for thirty years, and what will be the population of London or Manchester, or Chemnitz or Bremen or ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 257 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i God Moves in a Mysterious Way.-- Hitler, Goebbels assures the Germans, is under the direct pro tection of God. His enemies can't touch him even with a big bomb at 6-ft. range. I do not penetrate the mysteries of Heaven's methods, but crave leave to doubt that Hitler is the fortunate youth or Germany the safer and happier for his escape. ...