... MOSS BROS MOSS BROS Naval Mili ary R.A.F. and General Outfitters. COVENT GARDEN Corner of King St. and Bedford St., W.C.2. TEMple Bar 4477. Also 3-5 Upper Union St., Aldershot 76 Park St., Bristol; 5 St. Ann's St/., ManchestaA 13 The Hard, Portsmouth. And Boscomhc, Camberley, Dorking, Droxtwich, Hey sham, Hove, J Salisbury, Shoreham, Shrivcnhatn and York. Need we give up our RIDING habits Even ...

... A year ago a bomb fell on the pavement outside a private hotel in Kensington Gardens Square. To-day that crater is a flourishing little garden. There was good soil beneath the paving-stones, and since It had been well stirred a guest at the hotel set about planting it. The proprietress is now picking tomatoes. Runner-beans climb up the walls and portico there are marrows too, to come, and ...

... The DRAMATIC SEIZURE of SPITZBERGEN A Series of British Official Pictures SPITZBERGEN ABLAZE AS THE CANADIAN TROOPS LEFT The burning coal dumps as seen from the air after 150,000 tons were burnt to prevent the Germans us ig it. Everything of value to the enemy's war effort was destroyed, and fires were blazing long after the Canadians had sailed away for Britain A BRITISH DESTROYER ALONGSIDE A ...

... Once Again Figuring in the News from Iran, this Road was the Scene of Extra ordinary Exploits by Dunsterforce in 1918 THE Hamadan Road, along which the British forces now occupying certain parts of Iran advanced, was the scene of one of the most remarkable episodes during the latter part of the Great War 1914-18. Towards the end of 1917, a number of officers, carefully selected for various ...

... The Bristles and Bumps How the Fighting Aircraft of the R.A.F. are being Developed Under Actual Wartime Conditions By LEONARD R. GRIBBLE ON an aerodrome somewhere in England three veterans of the Battle of Britain stood surveying one of the latest Spitfires after return from a successful Channel sweep. You can't deny, said one, with a touch of wist- fulness in his tone, that we 're losing ...

... No- 9 Frederick, Duke of York, 1763-1827 IT was five o'clock in the morning. The broad Mall was deserted. Lon don still slept. Even the roisterers in the gam bling clubs of St. James's Street must have been yawn ing. From a side door of Carlton House, overlooking St. James's Park, crept a portly figure. He had the air of a conspirator and rightly so, for he was in disguise. But there was ...

... Stories of the Kmerican journalists who haffe Raised the. J oh of Foreign Correspondent to a Finnacle of \mportance N eyer h.ttai?ied before. By Ferdinand Tuohy. OF the several great services Mr. Churchill has rendered the nation since his accession to the Premiership, some may rate at the top his handling of America. Un less we could win the sympathy and under standing of the United States, ...

... On On t it By Jane Gordon A.T.S., W.R.N.S., W.A.A.F.S., A.R.P. workers and the girls who work in war factories are doing a grand job of work for the country. They work very hard while on duty and when they are off duty they deserve all the enjoyment they can get. The woman who is taking care of other people's children never gets off duty. She has none of the glamour of uniform end- 1 less ...

... 9 THE illustrations on the opposite page show some of the difficulties confront ing amateurs in the harvest field. A windy night, for example, will blow down all the stooks wrongly put up, and few things annoy the farm-hand so much as the extra work of correcting the mistakes of others-- whilst corn, even in sheaf, on the ground, is exposed to wet and soon goes rotten. Vital harvesting is now ...

... N MOST gardeners can still find room for a few flowers, even though the kitchen garden is cropped to capacity. Pictured on this page are some extremely useful hardy perennials which possess the virtues demanded of them in war time, viz., low cost, ease of culture, and suitability as cut flowers. Plants to flower next season may be obtained from the plant nursery and planted during the next ...

... THE Percheron, picturesque, powerful, docile and agile, is playing a big part in the war production effort and is more than complementary to the tractor it has many uses that the tractor lacks. No wonder that the breed is in greater demand than ever, as shown by the B.P.H. Society's Show and Sale at Histon last week. The auctioneers, Messrs. John Thornton, Hobson Co., recorded some splendid ...

... By Our Motoring Correspondent A PLAINER realisation of the problems of fuel supply has come to all motorists as a result of the war. There have been discussions and articles in the motor Press about the relationship between the petrol available and the shipping required to carry it. In peace time it is true to say that our flow of supplies from overseas had become so regular and so automatic ...