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... WITH SILENT FRIENDS By RICHARD KING Chinese Scene ALL around me there creeps stealthily from the horizon the impenetrable mystery of night. How calm it all is! How almost impossible it is to imagine that, maybe within a few hours, most of us may be taking shelter from the danger of falling bombs. The countryside which but a year ago looked as if nothing would ever disturb its quiet loveliness ...

... By SABRETACHE NETT results are the only things which count in peace or in war. What are the proven facts estab lished beyond all question or doubt by certain recent happenings? The answer is an easy one neither in attack nor defence is the Hun as good as we are. Our defence is as air-tight as makes no particular matter: our attack devastating. These are hard facts, not Grimm's fairy-tales. ...

... THE WAY OF THE WAR By FORE-SIGHT Our Resistance ALTHOUGH there have been in the last eight days signs of increas ing tension in the Balkans which may well prove embarrassing to the Axis: all foreign affairs are domin ated by the offensive resistance put up by this country against German air attack. It is true that in German and Italian controlled Europe the truth has not yet made its way in, ...

... Lady Charles Cavendish (Adele Astaire) Driving a Tractor at Her Irish Home Photos. Frank O'Brien The Irish people are delighted that the American-born Lady Charles Caven dish, sister-in-law of the Duke of Devonshire, has elected to remain in her adopted country in spite of the threat of German invasion and air attack. She is working very hard indeed on the land helping to get the harvest in, ...

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