... A WEASEL DEALING WITH CASUALTIES IN BELGIUM This little tank-type vehicle is the only one of its kind that could be used on the snow and ice which recently covered the battlefield. It is here being operated by doctors attached to the 78th Division. A date on the chassis indicates that it was built in May 1944 A GERMAN SECRET WEAPON, found on the American Third Army's front In the foreground, ...

... HE NEW ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY MAKES AN APPEARANCE IN PUBLIC Dr. Fisher presided last week at the opening of the Spring Session of the Church Assembly in the Central Hall, Westminster. At the beginning of the proceedings the Archbishop of York expressed the best wishes of the Assembly to the new Archbishop, who is here seen making his opening speech AFTER THE THAW THE FLOODS As a result of ...

... I, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Mr. Churchill's Mind.-- I was glad to hear Mr. Churchill's slow, deliberate oratory on the air again. It seemed to me that his Woodford speech told us more about his private thoughts on past and present events than hearsay and stable chat have been able to do. He admitted frankly his disappointment and, I think, surprise at the landslide of his followers. A big ...

... THERE has been a tendency to associate the Anglo-Franco- American talks with Switzerland in the main with stopping the Germans pickling away loot in that neutral country, and with the dis continuance of freight-in-transit. to Kesselring over the St. Gothard. But, surely, just in the background is a new and more direct proposition? Surely the situation of Switzerland vis-a-vis the war begins ...

... Once a fashionable Paris hotel, the Hotel Scribe is now the nerve centre of all the news from the Western Front. Teleprinters, wireless trans mitters, broadcasting and recording studios have been installed in the bedrooms, and cables and wires have been laid along the corridors. Some of the bathrooms have been turned into photographic dark-rooms, and the reading rooms into map rooms. This set ...

... A ctual experience of the fighting conditions on the northern- most sector of the British line at the opening of Mont gomery's new offensive impressed correspondents with the fact that the battle had resolved itself into a war of causeways. The roads leading south-eastwards from Nijmegen are raised only three or four feet above the normal water- level it was therefore impossible for ordinary ...

... British naval strength in the Pacific is building up steadily for the final and decisive battles against the Japs, to which this country has more than once been pledged. Recent reports have already indicated the names of some of the vessels co-operating with the Americans in those far-Eastern waters, including ships of the Australian Navy. Included amongst the capital ships is the huge King ...

... BWWHWBi ■paHgHHi On left and below HP o attack Chumphon, Japanese supply and transhipment centre on the east coast of 1 the Kra Isthmus, R.A.F. Liberators and B-24's j of the Strategic Air Force, Eastern Air Command, flew their longest bombing raid. The distance b covered by the aircraft from their Bengal bases was 2,300 miles. The crews were airborne for I fifteen hours. The Japanese defences ...

... SHE has led a Trojan horse into her own gates, and there it will be awaiting the future. A few million defranchised men will be inconvenient guests when home security becomes a paramount problem for a tottering Nazi administration. With the above, trom 1943, taken as a text, let us now bury another illusion. It is this that the liberating armies are going to get much practical help from the ...

... THE primary purpose of my going to the Con tinent as a war correspondent was, of course, to see the R.A.F. and the Front Line. It was impossible, however, not to fill my notebooks with masses of details and impressions about the lines of communication, welfare, civilian life, the behaviour of troops on 48 hours' leave-- in fact, the whole busy life behind the Front. Among tne nrst people i saw ...

... KING FAROUK'S BIRTHDAY PARADE IN CAIRO With Ferik Ibrahim Attala Pasha, he takes the salute. The King of Egypc reviewed his army in Abdin Square, Cairo, on the occasion of his birthday. He took the salute during a march-past lasting two hours. Many senior Allied officers were present, including General Sir Bernard C. T. Paget, K.C.B., D.S.O., M.C., Commander-in-Chief, Middle East, and Air ...

... The series of photographs reproduced on this page are the first to be released for publication in England. They show details of a newly-captured, self-propelled 380-mm. mortar, or howitzer, which has been mounted by the Germans on to a fortified Mark VI, or Royal Tiger, chassis. This unusual vehicle was taken in Oberembt, Germany, by an infantry battalion of the 19th Corps of the American ...