... A VISIT TO OXFORD IN WARTIME The Life of the Undergraduates is Hard, and Each has to do His Stint of National Service. Food, Luxuries and High Living are Rarities, and Against all Scholastic and Social Endeavour Looms the Background of War and Grim Preparation for It By CHARLES GRAVES IT was with a kind of contemptuous envy that I went up to Oxford this week. But that mood changed very quickly ...

... THIS IS NASHCRETE, a concrete which can be sawn and nailed In a factory near London women are busily turning out this new wartime building product invented by Mr. T. F. Nash It looks and behaves like concrete, but it has the added advantage that it can be sawn, and nails can be driven into it with ease. This is because it contains a large proportion of sawdust a waste product. Miss Elsie Bell ...

... THE INFANTRY CARRY ON IN SPITE OF A SPOT OF RAIN IN HAMPSHIRE Dangling bayonet and gas mask, these stalwart young men of Britain's new Infan try plough through the mud and slush with the disregard for comfort of Old Soldiers THE R.A.S.C. DISGUISE THEM- The four-legged beasts are not ousted alto- SELVES DURING A MOVEMENT geth f|,°m *!?e Army. The R.A.S.C. still Tun^nru u/on rw rniinmv have ...

... BRITAIN'S WAR-TIME COUNCIL OF TEN The Ministry of Supply and Its Plans For the Better Conduct of the War Described by NOEL THOMPSON IN time of war one should, I suppose, change one's perspective from the individual to the national, from the perfect miniature to the vast canvas of a great task. I admit to finding this difficult, but an examination of the newest of our ministries, the Ministry ...

... REDUCING THE NIGHTLY TOLL OF THE ROADS If Suggestions Are To Be Made To the Recently Set Up Committee of Investigation, Let Them Be Practical Ones (C/erl ...

... STRICTLY OUR OWN AFFAIR Or, a Quiet Night in Hertfordshire THE COMPERE Mr. C. Matania, a figure of wit who provided the audience with a broad outline of the show NOW ALL TOGETHER, PLEASE: To the doubtless nos talgic strainsof Home Town everybody joined in with Mr. A. Henley, who contributed a selection of songs DISTINGUISHED AUDIENCE CORNER A picture which might be more aptly titled A Smile ...

... FOR the dignity of the past and the improvements of modern times. The Kings Hotel Brighton Specially reduced terms for long term residence. PEACE IN THE FOREST Forest ponies as placid as ever. Cattle browsing in our acres of meadowland. The sunlight playing daily on our lake. Fruit and garden produce awaiting your daily consumption. Come now. BlIllLEY MANOR HOTEL AT BURLEY HEART OF THE NEW ...

... SYMBOLS OF ENDURANCE War, Export and Home Production Since 1885, through crises and wars, depressions and good times, the Avon Company has continued to contribute its full share towards the evolution and development of Tyres and General Rubber Goods. Today the Company is proud to use its resources in furthering the common task, and the demands of His Majesty's Government receive absolute ...

... Little lives, once sad, may, with your help, be lifted up where brightness shall follow gloom, and laughfer take the place of tears. 5000 children now in our care. ...

... For years now before and since the opening of the war people in the I free countries of the world have doubted many of the atrocity stories brought out of Germany by anti-Nazis. Some have thought them lies, others have thought them gross exaggerations. The pictures reproduced here have been taken by Allied photographers accompanying our armies in Germany, and they have been officially circu ...

... Jhe incident depicted in the drawing above occurred a few week-ends ago. On two successive nights, the enemy sent out strong forces of E-boats. On both occasions they were intercepted. First contact was made by a Wellington of R.A.F. Coastal Command. In the early hours of the follow ing morning, the enemy was engaged by a British destroyer and frigate. A fierce action then ensued, during which ...

... The diagram-drawing reproduced above has been made to illus trate the co-operation between tanks and infantry which has marked the British advance into Germany at those stages where definite enemy resistance has been anticipated. The column of infantry plods phlegmatically forward the men carry all sorts of light equipment to meet the diverse situations which may lie ahead rifles, pistols, ...