... THE EXTRA WORK BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE SNOWS The men of the tank companies have taken to using whitewash on their armoured vehicles to make them blend with the white background. Here is an American M4 Sherman which has just been treated in this manner THE TYPE OF COUNTRY IN THE ARDENNES through which our men have been fighting the ground is very broken, with woded hills which give every advantage ...

... NEW YEAR'S DAY ON THE WESTERN FRONT A scene in a British sector, as men gather round a fire in the open. In the background, is the entrance to one of the fox-holes which forms their temporary home Below THROUGH THE ARDENNES FOREST TO THE SOUTHERN EDGE OF THE GERMAN SALIENT General Patton's men fight their way through snowstorms and tall pine forests towards the Bastogne area-- -Drawing by W. G ...

... FURTHER DISCOVERIES IN GERMANY And Scenes in Berlin's Thriving Black Market THE TEMPELHOF AIRFIELD IN BERLIN HID A FOCKE-WULF ASSEMBLY PLANT The aperture at the end of the assembly line through which the completed F.W.I 90s emerged ready for testing Berlin's famous Tempelhof airfield before the war one of the finest and best-equipped airfields in Europe became during the war an assembl) plant ...

... While the Japanese troops have been endeavouring to carry out a more or less orderly retreat into Siam, they have been forming armed camps and road blocks in order to check our advance. In spite of monsoon downpours, our troops have been giving them no respite, and flame- throwing tanks have been employed with great effect on the bunker type of defence which the enemy has been employing at ...

... On left Over the war lactone: of Japan the American bomber: are now using two deadly type: of incendiary the phosphorus bomb and the jelly bomb. It i ...

... The fiercely-contested battle for Budapest, capital city of the Hungarians, resolved itself in its later stages into a struggle in which each opponent endeavoured to checkmate the other. Intense fighting went on inside the city, until the Red Army reached the very core of the enemy positions. The Germans countered by forcing back the Russians from Esztergom, on the Danube to the north of the ...

... Correspondents on the Western Front have repeatedly described attacks and counter-attacks in the strength of at least a platoon, or with ten tanks and a hundred men. This has applied to the big pushes such as von Rundstedt's, as well as to smaller actions. Does this mean that all fighting nowadays is done in small pockets, and that there is no scope under modern conditions for massive ...

... A POIGNANT PICTURE TAKEN ON CHRISTMAS EVE Holy Night, Silent Night being sung by men of the 1 0 1 st Airborne Division in Bastogne whilst besieged by the Germans. Shortly after this picture was taken enemy bombers broke up the midnight service t ■anrii imirmnrwnn 1 1 iwn-- BRITISH TROOPS IN HOLLAND SKATING ON THE FROZEN CANALS AND DYKES with young Dutch boys and girls as teachers. Among the ...

... n the dark days after Dunkirk and the occupation of the Channel ports by the Germans, the Thames Estuary was vulnerable to enemy attack by sea and by air. As one of the counter-measures against this new menace, and to keep the Port of London open to shipping, great sea-fortresses were built at Gravesend, towed out by tugs to selected spots and sunk to the river-bed. Upon the towers large steel ...

... THERE was so much excitement at the Labour Party Conference last month over the question of Greece when Mr. Bevin supported the Cabinet, that most of the resolutions passed unnoticed in the general clamour. By and large, however, it seems that the Labour Party wants to nationalise almost everything worth having. This includes banking, land, coal-mines, the railways and all other kinds of ...

... IF YOU CABLE THEN- See that your correct Christian name or initials are telegraphed with your surname. Uncertainty as to sender's identity causes anxiety. Mark your cable 'VIA IMPERIAL' EASE THE BURDEN CABLE AND WIRELESS LIMITED ELECTRA HOUSE LONDON Introducing wimM-rrMTM A NEW DEVELOPMENT IN MAZDA FLUORESCENT LIGHTING OUTSTANDING feature of sunlight according to their psycho- the Mazda ...

... JUST BEFORE THE PRIME MINISTER LEFT HENDAYE FOR THE BERLIN CONFERENCE WITH MRS. CHURCHILL, HE POSES FOR HIS PHOTOGRAPH ON THE BEACH, wearing his famous siren suit and with bare legs. He arrived in Berlin by air on July 15 The Prime Minister's pre-Conference holiday at the Chateau de Bordaberry, near Hendaye, came to an end on Sunday last. On that day he flew to Berlin straight from the South ...