... Touring the night of September 23 the most paralysing blow of the war was struck against the Ruhr, when the Dortmund-Ems Canal, main bottleneck in Germany's water system, was breached by a force of ninety-six Lancasters. The canal is now dry, and so far there has been no sign that the Germans have begun the long and difficult task of repairing the damage. The canal was attacked at a place ...

... C'oming ever nearer to the mainland of Japan itself, on September 20 the first attack on Manila, capital of the Jap-held Philippine Islands, was carried out by carrier aircraft of the American Third Pacific Fleet. They hit again and again at shipping in Manila Harbour and in Subic Bay, across the Bataan Peninsula at the Cavite naval base, just south of Manila and at Clark Field and Nichols ...

... The northern branch of the Rhine, here known as the River Lek, is crossed at Arnhem by the road bridge on the right and by another bridge, carrying the railway line, on the left. The original plan was to drop the Airborne Division near the town but so intense was the flak that the R.A.F. could not land them nearer than eight miles. Even so, the air borne troops reached Arnhem at the end of the ...

... The daring actions by which Allied Airborne troops captured important bridges in I Holland far in advance of the land forces enabled General Dempsey's Second Army to rush forward at great speed, to cut off the Germans in the western part of Belgium and Holland. This method met with its greatest success at Nijmegen. The airborne troops were landed on Sunday, September 1 7, dropping to the south ...

... 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 ...

... WE should hand one thing to the Nazis: they tell others in advance what they propose to do. Twenty years ago Hitler was sitting in Lands berg, writing most of what came off during the years 1933-42. And now here is his Gang giving us a preview of what they mean by resistance to the approaching occupation of the Reich. Some of it is screamed from the platform and in print some of it comes out ...