... 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 ...

... COMING from north and south and expecting to meet, British forces under Generals Mont gomery and Devers are likely to see far more of France and the French than did their fathers in the last war. When one reflects, the men under French and Haig saw remarkably little of France during fifty-two months; nor did they see more than another corner on the march to the Rhine after hostilities had ...

... -*->y ■gj.ity.nftjf BOMBING THE SUPPLY LINES OF THE JAPS. The Kenghlaung Bridge, in Northern Siam, a connecting link on the strategic railway supplying the enemy troops in Eastern Burma, is knocked out by bombs from B25 Mitchells of the Fourteenth Air Force (better known as the Flying Tigers, under the command of Major-General Claire Chennault). The diversity and effectiveness of the air ...

... This island was at one time a constant target for R.A.F. bombers latterly, it has not figured so prominently in the war news. A few days ago, however, a Mosquito, with Polish pilot and navigator, left its base for an attack on tht- radio installations at Sylt, anticipating cloud cover to screen its movement towards the target from the concentrated defences of Heligoland but when the aircraft ...

... THE LUBLIN CAMP OF ANNIHILATION as the Russians found it. The cremation ovens in which the Germans daily burnt the bodies of their victims On August II, Konstantln Siminov, well-known Russian poet and dramatist, published the first part of his account of the Lublin Concentration Camp, known among the Germans as the Camp of Annihilation, where thousands of men and women of all nationalities ...

... IllLflMSllkiSllASMuS THE PILOTLESS PLANE IS PURSUED OYER SOUTHERN ENGLAND The flying bomb, looking small and flea-like, as it hurtles at great speed towards London, comes into view from behind the roofs and speeds quickly away. A moment or two later, first a Spitfire then a Thunderbolt shoots after it, but are baulked of their prey by the imminent end of the run as indicated in the drawing. ...

... GENERAL DE GAULLE during his recent visit to New York This picture has just been received in London from the United States. It shows the French leader as he stood with upraised arms on the steps of the City Hall acknowledging the tremendous ovation given him by the great crowd that gathered to witness his official welcome. The General had flown from Washington to the La Guardia Airfield, ...

... WAIFS STRAYS SOCIETY WAIFS STRAYS SOCIETY If ifs and ands were pots and pans says the old nursery rhyme, there'd be no work for tinkers. And if every child had a real home and loving parents there would be no work for us. Unfortunately there are still only too many children being badly treated or otherwise in need of wise and loving care. Since war began we have accepted 1 0,000 children, ...

... O peculation still continues about Germany's next O secret weapon. The flying bomb has been with us for some weeks now the Germans are making our flesh creep with talk about V 2 the rocket bomb. In last week's issue we pub lished pictures of a Pas de Calais target attacked by R.A.F. heavies on July 17 and July 20. Here we give further pictures of the same target, taken by a reconnaissance ...

... BESIDES removing the Führer's pants and singeing the back of his head, that pancake mine must have set people in many latitudes specu lating afresh as to the manner in which this ghastly comedian will eventually remove himself or be removed. Hitler is rich in the sense that few mortals would appear to have had such a quiverful of possible endings. Most of us have only one or two in the offing, ...