... A FORMER NAZI BIG SHOT Dr. Robert Ley, still wearing pyjamas after he had been found near Berchtesgaden: Leader of the German Labour Front, Dr. Ley was found in a house 45 miles from Hitler s Bavarian headquarters. After complaining that he was suffering from a heart complaint, he unsuccessfully attempted to commit suicide UNPLEASANT PEOPLE This unattractive couple are Franz Schwarz and his ...

... Won by Australia in the Last Over A ustralia beat England by six wickets in the last over of the day at Lord's on May 22. The weather was changeable throughout the match, but the play was good and enthralled a large crowd of devotees enjoying their first Test free from the menace of bombs or V weapons. The Australians fielded a strong team, but England had made such a good start that it was ...

... i ■MM IsilSRIiill u The infamous Heinrich Himmler was captured on May 21 near Bremervoorde, 35 miles from Hamburg. He was disguised and bore papers to show that he was a discharged sergeant of the German Field Security Police. He was taken to the headquarters of the British Second Army and there thoroughly searched despite this, he managed to swallow a phial of poison and died within twenty ...

... At 10 a.m. on May 24, the farce of the Flensburg Government was brought to an end. By order of the Supreme Commander, Grand- Admiral Doenitz, General Jodl and all the other Ministers were arrested by British troops and taken off as prisoners of war. Not a shot was fired, and only one man died Admiral von Friedeburg, who took poison. The dissolution of this Cabinet brings to a close the final ...

... The penetration into Trieste and the surrounding area by Yugoslav forces brought about a period of very considerable tension. The trouble arose from the fact that this area was reserved for occupation by the Allied Military Forces, pending a final settlement when the matter of the final dispositions had been settled. The port especially was necessary to the armed forces, as the area, not only ...

... A SCENE ON THE ISLAND OF OKINAWA A great shell-burst as the japs opposed the U.S. Marines at the crossing of the second ridge in their sweep south from the American bridgehead. The Marines are racing to shelter to avoid fragments from the giant shell THE JAPANESE USE LAND-MINES AGAINST LOW-FLYING AMERICAN AIRCRAFT This is a new wrinkle in the desperate Jap defence attempt against the hard ...

... THE LIBERATION OF PEGU, ON THE ROAD TO RANGOON Troops of the Fourteenth Army mopping up in the burning city after its capture A CORPORAL (FROM CARLISLE) HAS CAPTURED A JAP PRISONER He was found sniping near Pegu, and was brought in, in the usual scanty attire of the jungle-bred Japs, after having been blindfolded. Pegu is a vital road-and-rail junction fifty miles to the north of Rangoon, on ...

... IN THE BAVARIAN ALPS Tanks of the U.S. 10th Armoured Division enter the famous resort of Garmisch Parten- kirchen. In the background, the snow-capped peaks lend a most attractive touch to the grim war scene below WHERE HERMANN GOERING LIVED IN THE MOUNTAINS NEAR HIS BELOVED FUHRER AT BERCHTESGADEN The ruins of his summer residence after the R.A.F. had bombed it and the surrounding district. ...

... WAY OF THE WAR By Foresight Secrecy THERE is so much free talk these days about the prospects of another Three Power Conference that I am compelled to wonder if, now that the war in Europe is over, we shall be told the precise time and place of the meeting in advance, or will there be a continuance of that insistence on secrecy which shrouded even the most successful of the activities of the ...

... Romance with Music in Three Incarnations Ivor Novello's Perchance to Dream, at the London Hippodrome I Kis uk B>'ck mont on ...

... A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country The Royal Family THEIR MAJESTIES have been spending a few days' holiday in Scotland, staying privately at Birkhall, the small and comfortable residence near Balmoral where they used to spend their summers as Duke and Duchess of York. This choice minimised the staff neces sities, and enabled the arrangements for the brief Royal respite to be made more ...

... ^4 By Sabretache Jockeys SUPPOSING A had something tried good enough to win the Grand National-- or, let us say, the Grand International-- would he go out of his way to pick a chalk jockey to ride him, when the best professional in the profession was available, and had, moreover, already steered the horse to victory over some of the worst raspers-- and brimful brooks-- ever imagined in the ...