... THE SEA FORTS OF THE THAMES The Great Structures Raised on Stilts at Key-Points in the Estuary MILITARY SEA FORTRESSES The seven towers comprising one of the Army forts planted on our shipping lanes to beat off mine-laying planes. The towers are of steel, mounted on concrete legs six of them carry A.-A. guns and the seventh is a control tower A CLOSE-UP OF ONE OF THE TOWERS The steel box is 36 ...

... I THE RED ARMY LIBERATES PRAGA. On the right is the Russian Marshal 1 Rokossovsky, Commander of the First Belorussian Army in the centre is Colonel- I General Bulganin on the left is Major-General Bewzjuk, Commander of the Polish I Kosciuszko Division. This picture was taken just after the Russian entry I A VIEW OF THE CITY OF WARSAW, as seen from the fortress of Praga, I now in the hands of ...

... A GERMAN SPECIMEN OF A LONG-RANGE PETROL TANK Like many of our own similar devices, this is made of compressed paper it is attached to fighter aircraft for the purpose of increasing their range on operational flights. When the petrol within is used up, the pilot can then jettison the tank. The specimen above was found near Brussels AN IMPRESSION OF THE GREAT GERMAN CONSTRUCTION AT WATTEN, now ...

... THERE are several hundred thousand men and women in this country who can judge of the authenticity of atmo sphere and detail in Mr. Hubert Nicholson's new novel, in which the constant background is a wartime factory and the dubi ous, brief joys to be snatched from the industrial town in a worker's spare time. HERE WHFRF THF WORL D IS OIJIFT (Heinemann. 8s. 6d.) seems to me very definitely to ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 266 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Epic of Arnhem.-- Pereunt et imputantur. Thousands of gallant young men have died, been wounded or been captured in this epic struggle by a Division of the Airborne Army to hold Arnhem and its bridges. It was not to be. The Germans were too strong. Their powers of resistance were perhaps under-estimated and the difficulties of the terrain ...

... THE SKYBORNE TROOPS IN ACTION WITH 3-IN. MORTARS, firing on enemy positions across the Rhine. Many of the men were said to be so tired that they smiled as if it hurt them to move their mouths GERMAN PRISONERS ROUNDED UP BY BRITISH PARATROOPS At one time many hundreds of them were captured, but- presumably had to be released later at the withdraw MAJOR jOCK NEILL (ON LEFT), C Company of a ...

... A FLYING BUTTRESS TO THE WALL OF THE HOUSES OF PARLIA MENT along Westminster Bridge. The buttress effect was achieved by covering the concrete strong-point inside with canvas and painting to harmonise with the architecture of the Parliament buildings PART OF THE DOWNING STREET DEFENCES A massive concreti fortification which blends with the masonry of the Homt Office in Whitehall. In the ...

... A NEW TYPE OF RIVER FERRY NOW BEING USED BY THE ALLIED ARMIES IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM i first went into action for the crossing of the Seine at Elbeuf-- Drawing by 8. C. Wood. This craft (which i ferrying a Bren carrier and trailer) consists of two decked barges connected by girders. It carries a ramp at eat end, raised or lowered by means of wire ropes operated by the motor and winding-drum on ...

... KEPHI r ^^vJT-' I L ^9mes J*? GERMAN CIVILIANS, YOUNG AND OLD, ORDERED TO BUILD REICH DEFENCES. The full-scale defence of the Rhineland has been ordered by the German High Com mand, and the Todt Organisation has conscripted every available man and woman and youth to speed up the building of fortifications and defences. The German radio has declared that the war on German soil will be fought ...

... I ONCE described the Irish as the Spaniards of the North. Equally, I can now describe the Argentine as the Eire of South America. From the Psychological point of view, there is very much in common between the two neutrals. The Argentinians are proud and sensitive. They do not like to be told what to do by other countries, and the more outside pressure is brought to bear on the existing ...

... Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE RICHARD III (New).-- By far the best achieve ment of the Old Vic Company at the New Theatre is its production of Richard III, with Mr. Laurence Olivier as Richard. Indeed, I would go so far as to say this is the most notable Shake spearean effort for some years (and I am not for getting the admirable work of Mr. Donald Wolfit). Mr. Olivier deserves the chorus of praise ...

... THE CHANNEL PORTS-- THE LAST PHASE THE NAZI BATTERIES IN FRANCE OPEN UP WITH HEAVY FIRE to get rid of their ammunition before the ports fall to on Armies. A British cruiser is caught in the beams of a German searchlight while replying to the enemy fire, while a destroyer lays a smoke-screen t protect the Channel shipping Drawing by Wm. McDowell One by one the Channel ports are falling to our ...