... TY-JR n[ TCCI A VJ HTRf^YY TRY 17 Q How the Female Battalion of Death Held the A ■Tll-j fx vJ 1 l\vy OLiHiO Winter Palace Against the Bolsheviks. So far as can be gathered from the letters of correspondents in Petrograd, the situation there strongly resembles that in Paris during the earlier stages of the Reign of Terror. Some of the incidents, as reported by a French correspondent of L' ...

... . By R. P. Hearne. Queen Alexandra and Princess Victoria paid a visit recently to the works of Messrs. F. W. Berwick and Co., Ltd. Under the guidance of Mr. F. W. Berwick the royal visitors started with the ambu lance room, and thence passed to the checking department, at which each of the 1,500 workpeople is required to report on entering and leaving the works. Exactly half of those employed ...

... A Word to the Men Extension of Harrods Sections devoted to Men's Requirements OUT of the criss-cross of questions of dress economy, of standard cloths, of cut prices, of make shifts and make-believes of one sort and another, one fact stands clear. It is that the poor quality article looks ever what it is, is never really satisfactory, never really reliable, above all, never a real economy. ...

... . In his brilliant and informative book, An Airman's Outings, published by Blackwood, Contact throws some interesting light on the importance of weather conditions during flying. Clouds to the flying officer on active service, he writes, are either useful friends or unstrafable enemies. The hostile clouds are very high and of the ice-crystal variety. They form a light background, against ...

... A only yourself to blame for wet-feet colds. Your own fault, too, if your boot bills are big. Your own fault for wearing ordinary leather soles instead of securing DRI-PED'S protection and DOUBLE WEAR. Dri-ped, the Super -Leather for Soles, is absolutely waterproof, and the more leather prices advance, the more Dri-ped' s DOUBLE WEAR saves you. War needs restrict Dri-ped supplies for civilian ...

... . The national programme requires an increase of one additional acre of plough land for every four previously ploughed, and those in closest touch with the rural districts believe emphatically that with good ploughing weather during the first three months this result will approximately be obtained. A report from Wiltshire states that a unit of seven tractors has ploughed 117 acres on an ...

... , B.. F. Hearae Major C. R. Freemantle recently gave me some very interesting details concerning the work of the Motor Transport Volunteers in conveying soldiers at night across London. At several of the railway stations I have had the opportunity of watching the work in progress, and I have nothing but admiration for the volunteers who render such grand service. f ondon is the great clearing ...

... WITH THE FRENCH ON THE WESTERN LINE The Martyrdom of the City of Rheims. With the French Gunners irv the Oise District A Heavy Gun on the New Front French troops are fighting shoulder to shoulder with the British, and blue mingles with khaki in the trenches at the front. Beside our khaki army has grown very quickly an army in blue the cornflower blue of the French poilus. So writes Mr. Philip ...

... . GERMAN PRISONERS WITH THEIR GUARDS RESTING BY THE ROADSIDE IN FRANCE British official Met it re The men who have been fighting with such dogged determination in France and Flanders have many of them been carrying on through hard days and sleepless nights with no break for rest. Mr. Philip Gibbs writes of them as follows: Little bodies of troops marched up towards the battle line, led ...

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... THE GREAT WORLD WAR wweekby THE WAR IN THE AIR On Saturday of last week Major-General E. B. Ashmore, commanding the Aerial Defences of London, unveiled a tablet recording the establishment of a cot in memory of children killed in an air raid on London at the Cripples' Hospital at Alton, and in the course of his speech made a most encouraging statement on the question of enemy air raids. The ...

... THE THIRD GERMAN THRUST Mapped. The Broken Bridge at Venezel Quite close to the eastern outskirts of Soissons, where the Germans crossed to the northern suburbs French official Section Through the Aisne Ridge from North to South It was across this ridge, rising to a height of some 600 ft., that the Germans stormed on the morning of May 27. Their chief attack was at the eastward end of the ...