... THE DAM-BURSTING EXPLOITS OF THE R.A.F. THE MOMENT ON THE AFTERNOON OF OCTOBER 7, as Lancaster of Bomber Command attacked the Kembs Dam across the Rhine a 1 2 ,000-lb bomb bursts at its western end and makes a huge gap in the immensely important dam in the Belfort sector During the past few days the R.A.F. have made three very important dam- bursting raids on Germany and German-held Europe. ...

... A THAMES BRIDGE BUILT SINCE THE OUTBREAK OF THE WAR AT WESTMINSTER This emergency bridge near the Houses of Parliament was erected for use in the event of the permanent bridges in the vicinity being put out of action by enemy bombs. It is now being used by pedestrians who normally used Hungerford footbridge, since the damage to the latter by German flying bombs. This picture reveals the ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 268 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. In Moscow.-- If I had the use of a magic carpet and invisible cloak, I should be in Moscow to-day at the time of writing. I should like to make a first-hand study of the relations of Stalin and Mr. Churchill. No one can read history without reaching the sure and alarming conclusion that the destinies of nations depend far more on the ...

... At last a gap has been made, ten miles north of Aachen, through the formidable defences of the Siegfried Line, which had been strengthened by every device known to the enemy-- dragon's teeth, con crete and steel pill-boxes, anti-tank ditches, foxholes, mines and heavy wire. After a week of bitter and con centrated fighting the American rirst Army, under General Hodges, achieved a great success ...

... The island of Walcheren is one of the most interesting portions of the territory making up modern Holland. It is the most westerly of the large islands bordering the Scheldt, and its western side faces the open waters of the North Sea. It is roughly diamond- shaped. It was at the western apex that the heavy bombs (12,000 lb.) of the R.A.F. broke the sea barrier near Westcapelle. A continuous ...

... d 1 1 n iW After a landing of limited size in Albania, the Allied Command launched another attack, this time in Greece itself, in a district lying to the south of the first one. Patras, where the Allied troops landed on October 4, lies at the head of the Gulf of Corinth, and is, or was, the chief commercial port and city of Greece. Nearly all exports and imports flowed through Patras, which ...

... THE UNSPEAKABLE SCOT.-- More than once in the past twenty years I have commented on the bitter reactions by scores of Englishmen (as evidenced by my correspondence from readers of The Sphere) to any friendly reference to, or praise of, Scotland and the Scot. Some of these critics are quite obviously urgent cases for the alienist. A few have pro- 1 bablv left it too late. The most brilliant ...

... For some months now the Nazis have been experiencing trouble with the Danes, who have never taken kindjy to the German occupation of their country. On September 19 last, matters came to a head when the Germans tried to storm the Amalianborg Castle in Copenhagen, the residence of King Christian. A fierce battle raged around this point when an attempt was made by a Nazi naval detachment to seize ...

... 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 ...