... Just before the end came in North-West Germany, the R.A.F. had the task of smashing the Nazi attempt at Dunkirk flights to Denmark and Norway. Enemy troops were filling the roads between Schwenn and Lubeck, and frantically trying to escape into Denmark before the Second Army cut them off. Tempests, Spitfires and Typhoons all took part and exacted a heavy toll of the German traffic. It was not ...

... China Scores in Shantung WHILE the Chinese people joyously celebrate victories reported from the Shantung front, General Chiang Kai-shek, now Dictator of China, cautions them against undue rejoicing over im portant but only initial successes. The warning is wise, for Japan is rushing reinforcements and calling on the nation to mobilise for a long conflict. But the effect on the moral ot both ...

... The COSSACKS of TRADITION and the REAL COSSACKS of the UKRAINE An Account of Their Origin, History and Present Position Within the Borders of the Ukraine Soviet Republic By MICHAEL COLLIN IN view of the recent developments following the Nazi occupation of the Balkans, and the consequent speculation arising as to the fate of the Ukraine should Hitler decide to invade, that province, it is of ...

... TTeports from the French army I\ authorities stated last week that the weather conditions had made the Lorraine front almost impossible for a major attack. Snow and sleet were reported in the Saar district and elsewhere, to be followed by very cold but drier weather. Great activity all down the western line was reported on Tuesday, the opposing artillery interchangingfire, and observers from ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 191 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. The Guessing Game in Europe.-- Where will the Allies strike next? It is the current guessing game. We are all at it, except a very few Allied leaders who, perhaps, know the answers. But while the Allied peoples merely speculate, the leaders and peoples of the Axis lands must not only speculate, but act and move. And clearly it is causing a ...

... BARONS COURT g? BUT EMBRACES THE BEST QUALITIES IN PETROL YOU CAN BE SURE OF ...

... FROM THE SUDAN ATTACKING THE GONDAR- -Drawing by W. Bryce Hamilton It is not so long ago thar fierce fighting was taking place around Gallabat, on the Abys- sinian-Sudan borders. This was at the time when Graziani was advancing upon Egypt and the Italian forces in Abyssinia were pushing outwards in all directions into Kenya, the Sudan, British Somaliland, and elsewhere. All that is now changed ...

... THE CAPE PENINSULA A Mighty Panorama Pictured from the Skies This unusually fine picture of Cape Town, Table Moun tain, and, indeed, the whole Cape Peninsula from Green Point to the Cape of Good Hope, was taken from an aeroplane flying at a height of 15,000 ft. and shows the whole coast-line with map-like clarity as it has seldom, if ever, before been seen in a single panoramic view. The ...

... THE ITALIAN VICTORY AT GORIZIA How Our ALLIES Carried the ISONZO Positions on August 6-9. THE EFFECT OF THE GORIZIA VICTORY Owing to the quick entry of the Italians into Cormons at the start of hostilities the Austrians at once lost much of the value of their Cormons- Gorizia railway across the Isonzo. Cormons then became a busy Italian railhead for the reception of their wounded. Through this ...

... The VICTORY that lBy ILiet!atL(Gjini2:)8il Sa5 Qipg i.C.E„s K.C.S.1U i.SoO. {Commander-in-Chief in Mesopotamia, 1 9 19-20 Quartermaster-General in India, 1920 24) There must he many men who served at Gaza in March 1917, who, even to-day wonder how it was that the First Battle was so dramatically changed from victory into defeat. General MacMunn joint author of the official volume dealing with ...

... MORE BATTLE TACTICS IN THE AIR How the German Luftwaffe Try To Penetrate the British Defences at Hell's Corner A picture reproduced from the American magazine Life Hell's Corner is the name given by American correspondents to the South- East section of England around Dover, where most of the enemy's air attacks begin. This diagram, taken from the American magazine Life, shows how the ...

... AMBUSHED WITH AN ITALIAN COLUMN A Correspondent who was Himsell Under Fire Recounts in Detail the Attack on General Mariotti's Flanking Force in Ende Gorge during the Recent Ethiopian Campaign IN the extracts given in last week's issue from Marshal de Bono's book on the Italo-Abyssinian campaign, brief reference was made to General Mariotti's column. General Mariotti was, in fact, the central ...