... The General Electric Co. Ltd may: AaayA a/ J /9/^. magnificently ornate pendant in rich gilt colour brass was the last word in G.E.C. lighting fittings for the smart drawing room of 1914. But designs change. Lighting methods improve. Science never stands still. The G.E.C., pioneers in everything electrical for the home, continued to progress during the last war. In this war, also, the G.E.C. ...

... PERSONAL-BY AIR Dear Mr. Gerald: I take up my pen in good time in order to send you Best Wishes on the occasion of your Birthday which should reach you five weeks from today. All at the Hall are well except old Mr. Macgregor who sustained a slight flesh wound near his asparagus beds by a bow and arrow dis charged by a young evacuee. This evacuee is one of the ones stopping at the Lodge, and Mr ...

... In olclen times only the fittest survived. The same is true today: only the fittest can survive the strain and worry of war conditions while keeping their health and vitality. Nerve versus Nerves --yesterday and today Once life was calm and unhurried; now for most of us it means extra worries, long hours of unaccustomed work and extra strain. Small wonder that seven out of ten people today ...

... THE SURRENDER OF THE ITALIANS AT WALCHEFIT PASS IN ABYSSINIA-september 28, 1941 During the subsidiary, mopping-up operations in Abyssinia after the final surrender of the Duke of Aosta with the main Italian armies at Amba Alagi, certain of the enemy forces were pursued towards Gondar, where the final resistance of the Italians was staged. On September 28, however, the enemy holding Walchefit ...

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... ^1 Gjood King Wenceslas looked out On the feast of Stephen Where the rough lay round about, Deep and most uneven. Gloomy was the good feing's plight- |ll. Playing like a rabbit- When a member came in sight Birdies were his habit. Hither, Pro., and stand by me, J If thou knoivest it telling, i Yonder member, why is he Fore so loudly yelling k See, he hits a mighty ball Bring my clubs, set up my ...

... WINTER COMES TO RUSSIA What Conditions are Really Like from the Far North to the Caspian By C. L. R. BRADBURY OWING to the failure of Hitler's invasion time-table, his armies must now face the rigours of a Russian winter, and only in the extreme south can they hope to escape conditions of the utmost severity. During the winter, ex cepting a small strip from the Sea of Azov, skirting the ...

... Two drawings by William McDowell T^etails have been received in London of the wonderful manner in which Malaya, during recent months, has been prepared to counter any move directed against Singapore or Australasia. One correspondent alone during the course of his tour has actually touched down at more than twenty R.A.F. aerodromes, each of which has been torn out of the thick forest and worst ...

... (2) FEEDING the NAVY A World-wide Catering Job THE modem Navy has such a high standard of catering that the N.A.A.F.I. has a very hard task in victualling it all over the world in peacetime. In war, when ships are constantly unexpectedly appearing out of the blue, and disappearing into it again at the shortest notice, or being diverted by wireless to a spot hundreds, or even thousands, of ...

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... HUNTLEY PALMERS The King's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard ,_Xe BISCUITS WILL ALWAYS STAND SUPREME HUNTLEY PALMERS ...