... Both the Communists and the Chinese Government have been greatly impressed by President Truman's statement of American policy in China, his desire to see peace and order established there, and the Government broadened to include representative parties. China wishes to be regarded as a Great Power and to take her place among the Big Five dealing with the vital matters now facing those who have ...

... The OFFENSIVE ACROSS the SANjGRO RIVER How the Bridgeheads on the North Bank were Established and the Mountain Country which Now Flanks the Eighth Army's Left Wing Special Sphere Drawings The easternmost section of the Eighth Army (operating with its extreme right flank touching the Adriatic coast) is flanked on its landward side by a huge and impenetrable mountain mass known as the Majello. ...

... ■■Fffijol- y --:vr- VHFRF I HE EIGHTH ARMY OFFENSIVE WAS LAUNCHED FROM THE SANGRO BRIDGEHEADS Thp Ca^nli-Orcnona-^an Vim arps nvprrnn hv Rritish frnnn? in thp first days of the attack and partially regained by the Germans later. The attack started from the river level and climbed to 1,000 ft.- -Drawing by E. G. Lambert ollowing General Montgomery s announcement that the Germans were to ...

... HOW THE GERMAN DIVISIONS LINED UP ALONG THE BORDERS OF RUSSIA FROM THE BLACK SEA TO THE LATVIAN FRONTIER I I 1 kJi 1 J I P J L L.An.k, (.Am Waffarn The one big question which had been occupying the mind of European statesmen during the past weeks is now answered, and the reason why Germany had built up such strong forces within striking distance of the whole of Russia's western frontier is now ...

... WAR MAPS of BOTH EAST and WEST FRONTS THE ATTACK ON THE WEST THE points at which three waves of German infantry and massed tanks utterly failed to break the French de fences in a German counter-attack directed against French positions on the Saar Front in the Nied Valley, which crosses the Franco-German frontier 15 miles to the south-east of where the river Moselle forms the border of Germany ...

... THE SECRET PROVINCE OF KAZAKSTAN BEYOND THE URALS THE SOVIET REPUBJJC OF KAZAKSTAN East of the Caspian Sea, between that region and the Chinese borders, lies the Soviet Republic of Kazakstan. It is an area of nearly 3,000,000 square miles, or 14 per cent, of the entire territory of the Soviet Union. Before the Russian Revolution this region of dense forest and wide steppe was a land of grain ...

... FINIS AUSTRIAE The Close of a Sad Chapter in Middle Europe BY C. F. MELVILLE THE great Austrian tradition --from Charlemagne to Schuschnigg-- has passed in a night. Finis Austriae! For Herr Hitler has now declared Austria to be a province of the Third German Reich. Adolf Hitler, the ex-house-painter's assistant, is now the Führer of a Greater Germany, an Empire greater in power and expanse ...

... PRINCESS ENA'S BRIDAL PROCESSION THE ROUTE FROM EL PARDO THROUGH THE LOYAL CAPITAL OF MADRID TO THE CHURCH OF ST. GERONIMO 'a J RTP riN-FYF VTFW OF MADRID, SHOWING THE ROUTE OF THE PROCESSION BRITISH EMBASSY MADRID Alter receiving the members of the municipal council, who welcomed PrincesB Ena in the name of the capital city of Madrid, the Princess passed the night at the royal castle of El ...

... The First Serious Operation Turco-Italian War. HOW TRIPOLI WAS BOMBARDED BY THE ITALIAN FLEET ON TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY OF LAST WEEK DRAWN BY JOHN DUNCAN The early half of last week witnessed the first important operation of the Turco-Italian war, three vessels of the Italian fleet the sister ships, Francesco Ferruccio, Varese, and Giuseppe Gar.ba'di opening fire on the Turkish forts which ...

... THE EEL-FATEB ROCKS IN FERROL HARBOUR. Two British warships, the super-Dreadnought Collingwood and the battleship, Agamemnon, were injured last week through striking what the Spanish Hydrographical Commission has since detected to be three uncharted rocks in the channel at the entrance to Ferrol harbour on the north coast of Spain. 1 he lollowing ofhcial state ment was issued from the Ad ...

... 1 . The famous Fram is at the present time engaged in another ^Arctic task which will necessitate seven years of consecutive work among the ice. In attempting to solve the question of polar ocean drift it is quite possible that the Fram may pass over the Pole. The above chart shows the drift according to Dr. Nansen and according to Professor Mohn. The points at which buoys have been ...

... THE WESTERN FRONT Why the Germans Retired. THE ADVANCE ON THE WESTERN FRONT The advance of the British forces in the Bapaume sector continues steadily though slowly. More fortified villages have been evacuated by the Germans, including the desperately-contested position of Gommecourt. Ligny, Le Barque, Puisieux, Irles, and Thilloy have also been abandoned, and our line is in places only three ...