... ACCORDING to the Republican Senator Chandler, Mr. Churchill observed to him, that he didn't see why China should be admitted as one of the Big Four in her present state. There must be many people in this country who wish the Prime Minister did say so, and this without the slightest disrespect, ingratitude, or lack of appreciation towards the Chinese; not that they haven't ex perienced an ...

... Even after the taking of Rimini and the break ing of the main Gothic Line defences, the armies fighting in Italy have not had an easy time. The Germans have given way but slowly, fight ing stubbornly in every mountain village in the centre, and holding all the rivers which flow into the Adriatic. The Eighth Army pushed on from Rimini to the Uso i River (the famous Rubicon associated with ...

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... 1^ J ;;f ^/^fter the capture of Rimini or the morning of September 21 the Eighth Army emulated the Legions of Caesar's day by crossing the Rubicon. To-day, the Rubicon is known as the Uso River it is a little stream which threads inland from the Adriatic north of the town of Rimini. Our modern Legionaries waded across it or drove their guns and lorries across, in their pursuit of scurrying ...

... IT seems to be the German plan to fight hard on the whole Left Bank of the Rhine and to rouse the nation to a sacrificial act in keeping with the words of Die Wacht am Rhein. The ground is more favourable to defence than anywhere else in the north-west, with its mixture of muddy flat lands and ruined industrial centres, minor mountain ranges and dense forests, and the broad, swift Rhine ...

... HOW THE MEUSE-ESCAUT CANAL WAS FIRST CROSSED-- by a Class Five Raft This picture was taken on the bank of the Canal de Junction de la Meuse. The Class Five Raft consists of girders on two collapsible assault rafts. From the time the material was unloaded to the time that the First vehicle was taken across the Canal took about thirty minutes. First, an assault boat was sent across with infantry ...

... YY/hen the British 49th Infantry Division the Fighting 49th converged on Havre to liberate that important Channel port, there loomed up before them the great Gothic tower and steeple of Harfleur Church. Fighting from street to street, they reached the city's vast dock areas. As they battled in from the east, along the bank of the Canal de Tancarville au Havre, seen on the left of the above ...

... VY/hen the invasion of Sicily was made in July 1943, six rocket-craft, hurriedly adapted to take part in the landings, were used to such effect and so shook the Italian garrisons in certain positions that they surrendered. Later, similar craft were used at Anzio, with equally devastating effect. For some time this weapon remained on the Secret List but now details have been released of its ...

... The task of forcing the water defences of the enemy in Northern Belgium and Southern Holland was no light one. The Albert, the Escaut. the Leopold, the W'llents Vaart all had to be crossed with the least possible delay, for time was the one thing the enemy craved after his rapid and undignified retreat across France and Belgium. It was largely to the engineers that the task of breaking these ...

... THE TWO B.B.C. WAR CORRESPONDENTS WITH THE AIRBORNE TROOPS a picture taken in London after their return from Arnhem. On the left is Stanley Maxted, who dropped with the troops on the first day, Sunday, September 17; on the right is Guy Byam, who followed two days later MAJOR-GENERAL R. E. URQUHART, D.S.O. and Bar, Commander of the British First Airborne Division, outside his Head quarters, the ...

... The military area around Trier consists of a num ber of river valleys, which are bordered by the easternmost of the Ardennes hills on the west, and by the hills bor dering the Saar on the right. These last-named stretch northward towards Coblenz. The viewpoint of the drawing above is between Echternach and Trier, with the River Sauer shown on the left. A spur of hill country runs northward ...

... FIELD-MARSHAL MONTGOMERY RETRIEVES HIS KIT AFTER FOUR YEARS During the retreat to Dunkirk in 1940 Marshal Montgomery, then in command of the Third British Division, and members of his Staff were forced to abandon their kit at a small Trappist Monastery near Poperinghe, where they spent one night. After they left, the monks hid the kit when the district had been liberated by the Canadians, a ...