... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... AS A ROCKET-FIRING L.C.I. LAYS DOWN A BARRAGE ON THE ALREADY-OBSCURED BEACH AT PELELIU, a wave of Alligators churns towards the island to storm the Jap defences. This picture, taken at the start of the invasion, shows the tough little amphibious tanks, with their turret-housed cannon, going in as the American barrage lifts at zero hour on September 15 A SCENE ON THE INVASION BEACH The ...

... WHEN THE GERMANS WERE IN PARIS and two pictures from the maginot THIS IS HOW THE FAMOUS PLACE DE L'OPERA IN PARIS LOOKED DURING THE GERMAN OCCUPATION. There were signs by the score, each indicating some office, or organisation, or headquarters, run by the enemy in occupation. The only cars to be seen in the streets were German. Since the liberation of Paris the signs have all been pulled down ...

... NIGHT LIFE AND GEORGES CARPENTIER RETURN TO PARIS: The Lido Club during the Grand Reopening Night. Despite all reports to the contrary (the most recent was of his arrest in Bordeaux), Georges Carpentier i now in Paris. Furthermore, he is back at his old post After four years, the Lido Club, largest night-club in the capital, has reopened its doors, and Carpentier is there in his old role of ...

... 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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