29 AUGUST 1941, Page 28

Serial Map Service, August 1941. 25s. per annum.

SERIAL MAP SERVICE is to be congratulated on producing for August a couple of maps, with commentaries, that are up-to-date and at a glance help to answer certain questions that everyone asking. First, about Russia and the disposition of Soviet war- industries. The regions stretching from Poland to the Pacific Ocean are shown, with graphic representations of the areas when the different industries are situated—iron, machinery, oil, elec- tricity, coal, corn, timber, &c. There is a heavily marked region between the eastern Black Sea and Moscow, behind the present scenes of fighting. The second map shows the disposition of industries in Germany, and is worth examining in connexion with the nightly 'aids of the R.A.F. The letterpress is by Dr. Martin Gotz, Peter Matthews and Major Hamish Wilson.