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... MR. FRANK SLATER, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, has caricatured the cast of Grouse in June, produced in a German Prisoner of War Camp. The Officer in Charge of Entertainments, Lieut. M. W. V. Maude, says The production of plays forms quite an important part of the life in this Camp, and I wonder if any of your readers have some acting copies of recent plays which, from the point of view of ...

... A.D. 2049. Now what 's the matter Short again (Left.) Sorry, I can't disturb hirr now important conference.' Tell him the husbanc of the important conferencf wants to see him. Drawings by LEA of Vienna ...

... I Farming Round I The Houses Middlesex Deals With The Odd Corners MIDDLESEX has succeeded in doing a very difficult job of farming by putting an extra 10,000 acres of land under cultiva tion since war began. To a country county, this may not seem a vast achievement, but in a county so heavily built over, it means a farming increase of just one-third. There are no rolling plains to take over ...

... The Organ isatio of a Farm Sale ALTHOUGH modern custom tends to a public sales, there is much to be said fo where the animals can be seen in their hoi informal conditions than are possible at thi also a far more intimate atmosphere at a d inspected, before the sale commences, wit buyers wandering at will among the farm bu are working among their charges. Then tl farm-sheds helps to create a ...

... AN R.A.F. STATION SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND: BY MEL Somewhere in England must always be just a manner of speaking, for, as is common knowledge, our Air Fighters may at any moment be here, there, or anywhere. The Boche has also some definite knowledge as to this. They have recently been putting the stencils on a place called Stavanger, and there are many more to come. The fact that the enemy has ...

... A SPOT OF BOTHER WITH A 'PLANE- BY VINC-COMMANDER E. C. OAKLEY BEUTTLER What has happened is that the helmsman, or man at the wheel, as the land-lubber might say, has swung his helm hard over and the good ship, handy as a lady's maid, has heeled over to port, causing the bit of a roll we see. It is unlucky that it should have happened just as they were hoisting a Swordfish in board, and the ...

... No. 7 FOULED ANCHORS BY WINC-COMMANDER E. C. OAKLEY-BEUTTLER There is nothing fantastic about this, as all sailors know What has happened may be explained like this. So often, when letting go your anchor on a bottom of which you are not quite certain, you may easily pick up a cable also. With two anchors out, wind and tide sometimes cause the ship to swing in a circle, and if the anchor-swivel ...

... FIGHTING UNITS No. 18 THE Nth BATTALION THE WILTSHIRE REGIMENT By MEL This week our artist returns from his excursus to the skies and the men that look after them and brings us back to the sort of fighting man who has been going on ever since the first caveman dotted his neighbour one on the nose the P.B.I. Not that I. is necessarily so P.B. nowadays when they have buses like the one in the ...

... A HOLDING BATTALION ROYAL CORPS OF SIGNALS Every picture is supposed to tell its own story, and it is felt that this one does to them as knows The artist's sitters will most certainly appreciate all the noms de guerre which are bestowed, and no doubt will be very ready to admit that the portraiture is of the highest order. The mess would appear to be a cheery spot in which any officer might ...

... OFFICERS OF THE DEPOT BATTALION, ROYAL SIGNALS The artist himself being a serving officer in the Royal Corps of Signals, his sitters were naturally easier to come by than many of his others, who at times have been scattered very far afield. Colonel C. P. Prescot, the old C.O., was in Palestine before this war happened, and the new C.O., Lieut.-Colonel W. E. Rayner, who got a brevet in 1936, ...

... SERVICE UNITS No. 25 THE Nth BATTALION THE WILTSHIRE REGIMENT- -By MEL Although a good many of the gallant officers included in our artist's very attractive gallery are depicted smoking the calumet of peace, this is only camouflage, for this battalion, like all the others of the Wiltshires, is hard at work preparing for bloody-fronted war, and from a sure hand we have it that it is fighting ...