... I he war on the East Front is being carried out on an unprecedented scale. For hundreds of miles the battle rages, right down to the Hun garian Plains. Last week we gave a diagram-drawing of the East Prussia area to-day we switch to the south, to show the inroads made by the Red Army in their dnve towards Budapest, the River Danube, and, ultimately perhaps, Vienna. Moving from the west, Szeged ...

... NOW ON EXHIBITION IN LONDON A map showing how the capital was defended from the German flying-bombs. The defences began with the gun belt along the coast and extended right up to the London suburbs The Exhibition is on view at the Piccadilly showrooms of Rootes, Ltd. it was opened by Mr. Duncan Sandys. Prominent among the exhibits are a complete Hying-bomb, which was recovered almost intact, ...

... The area stretching south-east from Nijmegen to Venlo, in Holland (where the Allies advanced towards Venraij), is very difficult country for the attackers, consisting as it does largely of marsh and woodland. The move ments against the Germans were carried out mainly at night to make such operations possible, use was made of the searchlights to create artificial moonlight by projecting the ...

... Commission of the Vatican City State, officiated at the ceremony of the Transition, which was held at the tomb of St. Francis. In the after noon, oil for the votive lamp of St. Francis (which is kept burning in the Basilica) was brought to Assisi from the Roman Campagna and offered by the Mayor of Salerno, Avellino and Benevento in the name of all the Italian provinces the oil was carried in a ...

... j There is no doubt, that the German has, like all military men faced with defeat in our time, suddenly acquired a concrete complex. But there is, equally, no doubt that no matter how massive are the concrete and metal obstructions placed on or dug into a road or field or wood they can be quickly blasted aside by high-explosives. A man with a Bazooka has been known to destroy at one shot a ...

... THE BRITISH LANDING AT WESTKAPELLE On the Island of Walcheren The final phase of the battle to free the approaches to the Belgian port of Antwerp began on November 1 when Royal Marine Commandos landed at dawn at Westkapelle, the westernmost point on the island of Walcheren. By dusk the town had been captured and a bridgehead 3,000 yards long to the south had been established. From this ...

... 1WT any months after the so-called Liberation of France, it will doubtless come as a blow to many English people to realise that the Germans have not everywhere been forced to sur render in that country, or to evacuate the ports and harbours. Along the Atlantic coast a force of some 60,000 Germans still remain in possession of practically all the towns and harbours from Lorient down to the ...

... The capture of Hertogenbosch was by no means a simple operation. It was effected by the adroit converging movement of several columns, whiclHjad to advance through a typical stretch of Dutch polder country One column advanced from the eastward by way of a linking road which flanks the big canal known as Zuid Willems Vaart. They fought their way along this road through Heeswijk to Berlikum. At ...

... ONE OF THE RESULTS OF THE R.A.F. RAID ON COLOGNE ON OCTOBER 28. The large highway suspension bridge which was completely demolished Cologne, the worst-damaged city in the whole of the Ruhr and Rhineland, was given its heaviest attack of the whole war by Bomber Command in the daylight attack on October 28, when Lancasters and Halifaxes dropped a great weight of high-explosive and incendiary ...

... THE Prime Minister having announced that he could not predict, much less guarantee, the end of the German war before the spring or early summer of 1945, the future of British industry is likely to be still further behind its Allied competitors (notably the United States) than most people had thought. Since last August, a large amount of American industry has been turned over to the manufacture ...

... mar mkiami THE LIBERATION OF GREECE I The British Entry into Athens and the Blocking of the Corinth Canal by the Germans Late at night on October 13 a party of British troops boarded a Greek caique and entered the capital. At that moment the last German troops were leaving and the people of Athens were not aware of the presence of the British. By dawn on October 14, the photographer who took ...

... ARTIFICIAL MOONLIGHT IN ITALY: THE CROSSING OF THE SAVIO RIVER BY THE EIGHTH ARMY UNDER TERRIBLE CLIMATIC CONDITIONS. To aid the troops, British searchlights played on the clouds to light up the dangerous river-crossing. After our troops had passed to the northern side they were cut off from supplies for some days and had to be reinforced from the air (See notes at left Drawing by W. G. Whitaker ...