... 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 ...

... HOW THE COASTS AND PORTS OF BRITAIN WERE DEFENDED: TWO OF THE SEVEN CIRCULAR TOWERS OF A FORT BUILT IN THE SEA, to 'guard our shipping lanes against German mines and mine-laying planes. Primarily they were formed as First Line Invasion Defences. Each of these towers was constructed ashore, towed out to sea, sunk on sandbanks and joined up with cat-walks (see also page 3) On this and the ...

... Before Rimini fell to the Eighth Army, some very heavy fighting was experienced by the British, Canadiap and Indian troops advancing through the hills. Our progress was most marked on the hills near the coast, particularly on the Coriano-Sansovino ridge. Canadian troops fought their way up to Coriano from the low foothills British and Indian troops stormed into the village of Passano ...

... I HRpHIIVJNpRHH i .mm i mm A INFORMAL DISCUSSION ON TOP OF THE CITADEL AT QUEBEC Mrs. Churchill, the Earl of Athlone (Governor-General ol Canada) and President Roosevelt enjoy a joke together ANOTHER DEGREE FOR MR. CHURCHILL At the Citadel, honorary degrees of I McGill University, Montreal, were conferred on both President Roosevelt and I Mr. Churchill. The picturesque ceremony, for which the ...

... 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 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 ...