... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 304 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Welcome Signs of Pro gress.-- The week-end of mid- June brought several welcome signs of progress despite, and in the harle quinade of, electioneering. The whole House and country welcomed the British offer to India, a sincere and large-scale effort to end the deadlock since the Cripps proposals were refused, to secure a united front in ...

... YVVhen the Air Forces of the American Army came over to Britain to join the R.A.F. in the great assault on Nazi Germany, Lease-Lend was reversed. To accommodate the American planes and airmen, Britain provided airfields, camps and depots, and in the allocation of con structional labour the requirements of the U.S.A.A.F. ranked equally with those of the R.A.F. The execution of this great ...

... Away back in April on the 26th of that month the war correspondents wired that the 15th Army Group had stormed Verona, the gateway to the Brenner. It looked then that the passage of that Army Group through the historic Pass was assured. But events entirely upset this supposition. The tide of Allied victory did not flow through the Brenner from south to north. It flowed, in totally unexpected ...

... No sooner had the enemy's undersea threats to shipping ceased when Nature herself stepped in to cause grave trouble in the Atlantic. This occurred in the neighbour hood of the famous Newfoundland Banks, an area of comparatively shallow water covering a submerged land- shelf extending westwards from Newfoundland. Part of the bank lies due south of Cape Race, the most southerly point of ...

... AMERICAN PREFABRICATED HOUSES ARRIVE IN LONDON A mobile crane lifts the packing-cases containing the sections and places them on the site ready for unpacking and erection. The first American Lease-Lend temporary house arrived at a site in Weir Hall Road, Tottenham, a few days ago. Packed in seven cases, the house was brought straight from the dock to its site on the back of two lorries The ...

... IMVPI After the invasion of Tarakan was well under way, a second Australian attack was opened against Jap positions in British North Borneo, Labuan Island and the State of Brunei. About a fortnight after the attack on Tarakan, the combined naval, land and air operations opened up in a wide semi-circle facing Brunei Bay. Labuan Island was the centre. This tree-fringed tropical island rises to ...

... T mmediately after the surrender of the great German armies massed in north-west Germany, the Allied military authorities were confronted with appal ling chaos. Hiere were millions of soldiers to dis arm, feed, and sort into camps there were the ordinary civilians multiplied by the hordes of refu gees from Berlin and eastern Germany, arriving by road or sea, under no supervision and without ...

... Bad Oeynhausen, Field-Marshal Montgomery's new Headquarters, lies on the right bank of the River Werre, a tributary of the Weser. It occupies a pleasant position under the West phalian hills, just where the Weser breaks through a narrow gorge known as the Porta Westphalica on to the Hanoverian Plain, on which Minden lies. These hills form the north-eastern face of the Teutoberg range of wooded ...

... JAP SUICIDE PLANES ATTACK A BRITISH CARRIER IN JAPANESE WATERS TWO UNIQUE PICTURES FROM THE PACIFIC SHOWING THE SCENE ON THE FLIGHT DECK AFTER A JAP SUICIDE PILOT HAD CRASHED HIS AIRCRAFT ALONGSIDE THE CONTROL TOWER A feature of the recent naval operations off the Sakishima islands in support of the Okinawa invasion was the suicide attacks by Japanese aircraft on the warships taking part. ...

... MR. HAROLD LASKI MAKING AN ELECTION SPEECH, during the course of which he gave details of his attitude towards Mr. Churchill and the coming Election. On June 22 Mr. Laski made a speech at the Fortescue Road School in Collier's Wood. 1 his picture was taken during the course of it, as the speaker was out lining his attitude on current political affairs. Mr. Laski is the national Chairman of the ...

... r Hpn MHHJHHppf A TERRIBLE INDICATION OF THE FATE WHICH AWAITS MANY A JAPANESE TOWN This was the capital city of Okinawa Naha to-day it has just ceased to exist. Before the invasion by the Americans, 65,000 Japanese lived in Naha. To-day it lies in ruins, after continuous bombing by U.S. aircraft attacking from the air in support of the Tenth Army on the ground. Scarcely a building remains ...

... THE REMARKABLE SET OF SIX PICTURES GIVEN HERE RECORD THE CRASH OF A HELL-DIVER on the flight-deck of an American Essex-class aircraft-carrier the rescue of the crew and the smothering of the fire which broke out on board as a result of the crash I. With its wheels tangled in the ropes of the barrier on the deck, the Hell-diver approached amidships after its tail hook had failed to catch the ...