... If one is asked whether bombing can ever be precise, in the sense that gunnery is precise, the answer is undoubtedly yes, with the proviso that it is rarely worth trying, because it can be terribly expensive in the face of determined opposition. Theoretically, one big bomb in the right place will put paid to a ship, a bridge or a dock just as effectively as half-a- dozen bombs in a pattern. ...

... IT is possible that by the time this appears in print, the Ministry of Economic Warfare will have been dispersed except for its Intelligence side. Lord Selborne, the present Minister, announced recently that he expected it would be the first war time Ministry to close, and it looks as though the time has now arrived. The last ball-bearings have rolled out of Sweden; Turkey has put an embargo ...

... 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 ...

... Tn the Hertogenbosch and j Beveland areas in Hoi- land, the Nazis have sus tained a series of heavy j defeats during recent weeks. In the result, the Scheldt has been cleared of the enemy and the island of Beveland occupied. In the Venraij area, towards the German borders in the south-eastern part of Holland, similar suc cess has attended British I arms. Of the mass of fine photo graphic ...

... mmammmmmmmmmmmmmmtmammrn rhe important town of Moerdijk guards the approach. to the two great bridges which span the Hollandschdiep (or Lower Rhine) one was for r il, and the other for motor, traffic. It was taken, af er hard fighting, by a Polish Tank Division. Their vehic 'es rushed forward and took the town by storm, after smash ng the concrete pill-boxes and walls which the enemy 1 ad ...

... Mow that the Americans are speeding up their attacks on the Japs, operations are proceeding and satis factorily at a number of points in the Pacific. Soon after the landing on Pelelieu, in the Palau group, came the invasion of the Central Philippines, where a vast armada of 600 ships put American troops ashore on the island of Leyte on October 20. In the earlier stages of this invasion, not a ...

... POLITICAL warfare must be as old as war itself. Coming down to our own times, it played a big part in Germany's giving in in 1918. Ludendorff was to admit how the rain of air-pamphlets telling of annihilating Allied superiority got his troops into a giving-in frame of mind, and how the deceit practised by President Wilson over the Fourteen Points finished matters. And this tale of Germany ...

... Uor long the Americans have been experimenting with helicopters and autogyros these strange aircraft are now in use in some of the battle areas of the world notably in Burma, where the jungle masses render a straight up and down aircraft a de sirable adjunct to the land forces. The two pictures reproduced on the right demonstrate how the U.S. Coast Guard make use of these strange inventions. ...

... MEET THE ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY- -IN THEIR MUSICAL REVUE MEET THE NAVY. Seven pretty Canadian Wrens come out of a huddle during one of their precision-dance scenes. Backstage (I. to r.) WREN ALICE NELSON, of Montreal, cousin to the famous Canadian ace pilot, 44 ScretcbaU Beurling WREN BARBARA DAVIS, of Neicmarket, Ontario and WREN DOBSON, the wardrobe mistress. Attractive in rehearsal garb WRENS ...

... PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT GOES TO THE POLL Seated in his car out side the Town Hall at Hyde Park (New York), where he recorded his vote during the Presidential election. Talking to Mr. Roosevelt is Mr. Elmer van Wagner, the District Supervisor VICTIMS OF THE NAZIS HONOURED IN BELGIUM A general view of the cemetery at Schaarbeek, where 261 executed persons are buried. In 1889 2 National Shooting ...

... A NEW PERSONALITY IN CONGRESS Helen Gahagan, formerly an actress, has just been elected Democratic Congresswoman in California. She is the wife of Melvyn Douglas, a well-known film star in Hollywood, and she has two children, aged eleven and six years. After her election, she was referred to as a Glamour Girl in opposition to Mrs. Clare Booth Luce, the Republican Congresswoman and critic of ...