... There can be little doubt that one of the major causes of the collapse of Germany towards the end was the breakdown of communications among the Wehr macht formations in the field. It will be recalled that during the later stages of the rapid advance of the Western Allies a black out on all details of places reached by the advanced forces was frequently imposed. This seemed irksome at the ...

... Through pipe-lines laid along the bed of the English Channel over 1,000,000 gallons of petrol have been fed every day to supply the Allied armies on the Continent. This triumph of British private enterprise, known as Operation Pluto (Pipe-Line Under the Ocean), was revealed recently. 1 he petrol is delivered trom a I ,UUU-mile net work of pipe-lines in Britain, running as far north as the ...

... Bodies of elegance and faultless craftsmanship built individually to customers' exact requirements by coachbuilders of more than a century's experience and continuous service to the Royal House. A wide range of Rolls-Royce, Daimler, Bentley and other makes, in normal times, will be on view in our famous St. James Street Show rooms. In the meantime we can offer a fine selection of pre- war cars ...

... HEAVY BOMBERS OF THE R.A.F. ATTACK THE JAPANESE BASE ON THE ANDAMAN ISLANDS. Taken from one of the attacking Liberators, this photograph shows bombs exploding among the trans-shipment sheds and jetties on Chatham Island. The most westerly Japanese base in the Bay of Bengal Port Blair, in the Andaman Islands was attacked on May 17 by a force of R.A.F. Liberators of the strategic Air Force, ...

... Bombs are here dropping on the Japanese ships and docks. Other American carrier-based planes struck at the Japanese industrial city of Kobe, also on Honshu, on the same day, in their second major strike in two days at the heart of the Japanese homeland. The U.S. planes destroyed or damaged 731 Japanese planes, damaged at least fifteen warships, including one battleship and two aircraft ...

... It is unbelievable that a town could be so erased from the earth. This photograph was made right in the centre of what had been the town of Lidice. It was levelled in June 1942, because the Nazis believed that the town was connected with the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich near Prague. What had once been a town of about a square mile, and consisting of 662 inhabitants and 100-odd buildings, ...

... Their dearest wishes both the same are Centred on a brand-new Braemar. Now friendship's firm foundations rock, Joan's got the only one in stock. Braemar Utility cardigans and jerseys are in classical designs and six lovely colours. Everyone's after this 'utility with a difference.' So don't be down-hearted if you have to wait for your Braemar, and please don't write to the makers for it. ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 302 r. New Oxford Street. VV.C.i Black-and-White Artists. --I have a profound respect for Mr. Churchill as an artist in many fields as war leader, statesman, historian, prophet, orator and party fighter. In some of these fields, he shone out when he opened the B.B.C. electioneering racket. As party fighter he revealed Iris knowledge that electioneering paint-boxes have ...

... It became essential after the fall of France and the Low Countries in June 1940, and the consequent virtual closing of the East and South Coast ports to large ocean-going ships, that additional deep-water berths would have to be built for military traffic. There was also the great probability that certain of the remaining ports might be damaged by enemy action. Two sites were selected, one in ...

... The Arctic wastes of Spitzbergen were in 1942 the scene of a great adventure. A small Allied meteorological party established there to obtain vital weather information for North Russian convoys waged a feud against their German opposite numbers in another fiord, and they themselves lived for weeks in an old coal-mine as shelter against the Germans' daily air attacks. Crews of R.A.F. Coastal ...

... All through the month of May there was increasing tension between the French authorities and the Lebanese Government and people. The end of the war with Germany on May 8 made the two republics of Syria and Lebanon more urgent upon their insistence that they should enjoy immediately the independence promised them by France in 1941, but which had been delayed owing to war conditions. The French ...

... THE British zone which Field-Marshal Montgomery has set out to govern in characteristically clear and downright fashion will comprise the following, from east to west: a small strip of Mecklenburg, the whole of Schleswig-Holstein, all of Westphalia except a section of the Ruhr basin, an inconsider able portion of the Lower Rhineland, and almost all of Hanover (including Oldenburg and the ...