... IT rom a Soviet source, we take the following poignant description There is not a single house left standing in the Don Bend, where the Germans so recently held sway. Nothing is left of the orchards in the Cossack villages only blackened fences encircling groups of charred trees. Of the village houses, nothing remains but the foundations of yellowish grey stone and an occasional tall stove, ...

... Complete Service The Austin Reed service, centred in Regent Street, London, is used by men and women of all the Allied Services in settling the details of regulation dress. Not only the uniform itself but shirts, ties, gloves and shoes are available at all these branches Aldershot, Amesbury, Barmouth, Bath, Belfast, Birmingham, Bothwell, Bournemouth, Bristol, Coventry, Dunbar, Edinburgh, ...

... Table Waters famous since IJtyO Temporarily giving place to the standard war-time product but will return with victory. The Minni Cup Norsemen toasted Thor and Odin and living kings in the minni. What the drink was we do not know possibly a kind of spruce beer but minni came to have the meaning of love, memory and the thought of absent ones and the custom survived in England down to the ...

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... . , C ENTURY HOUSE, SHAFTESBURY AVENUE, LONDON, W.C.2 (24LI Magnets He earns no medals his name will never j make headlines his way of life is modest and his work unexciting. But to us he is an individual, a personality not just a number on the time clock. He is a skilled man and more, because for j years his skill has been allied to the Philips tradition of doing things more efficiently j of ...

... , MINISTRY OF FOOD THE WEEK'S MKT;; N? 7 EvERYONE knows that we must eat for energy, and for building or rebuilding our bodies. But do you know that we can eat also to protect ourselves from illness? Science has discovered that some foods rich in vitamins and mineral salts increase resistance to infections. All the foods in the panel below are of this kind they are protective foods. They are ...

... Swan Pens are also on active service' To those on active service, a Swan Pen is an essential part of a man's equipment. For a Swan makes writing so smooth and easy, so com pletely trouble-free that he can scarcely help writing and writing often. So give him a Swan and count on lots of letters. AT PEACE-TIME PRICES: Lever- Made throughout in the British Isles less Swans 17/6 to 42/-. Visofil ...

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... The drawing reproduced here re-creates the scene during a brush with a Nazi convoy in the North Sea, recently reported by the Admiralty. During an offensive sweep in the vicinity of Ymuiden, off the coast of Holland, in the early morning of December 10, light Coastal Forces of the Royal Navy encountered an enemy convoy of four merchant ships escorted by four E- or R-boats and several armed ...

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... Xk Xk K M. M. Greys Appeal for 'AID TO RUSSIA' Russian cities, towns and villages are battlefields. Men, women and children are wounded and in pain. Medical and surgical supplies are desperately needed to save their lives. Russia has asked us to send vast quantities. As your tribute to our indomitable (krjj Allies, help to meet their call by sending Hj a donation to A/lrs. Churchill's Red ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 117 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Libya-- Waiting for News. --Until the Cunninghams and Coning ham cry Hold! Enough! all news from Libya must be partial news and (to those on the spot) stale news. In the ocean of sand, our land ships range in silence, and only once, perhaps, in twenty-four hours can communica tions from detached units be collected and collated. We at home ...