... THE SEASON OF STOCK SHOWS AND SALES Romney Marsh Sheep WITH the great increase in our arable acreage comes a new demand for sheep, so all important in balanced farming. At Maidstone's famous Michaelmas store stock sale, 11,000 head of sheep were sold, and 65 guineas was paid for the Champion Romney Marsh shorn yearling ram. It has been said that Romney Marsh sheep will thrive where others will ...

... THE hobnails in Army boots have made deep inroads in the stone staircases and corri dors of private houses which have been taken over by the military, but those same hobnail boots have been doing great work in many derelict country-house gardens. Indeed, in some the appreciation outside might well offset the unavoidable depreciation to the house. These pictures show the transformation to the ...

... The Little Foxes (Piccadilly) LET no diligent reader of The Illustrated sporting and Dramatic News be intrigued by the title of the above play into imagining that it has anything whatever to do with fox-hunting. The reason for such a title is the quotation-- Take us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines. There is but a single mention of sport of any kind, and that is when one ...

... A REVIEW of the U-BOAT WAR And the Tactics of the German Wolf-Packs in the Under-water Battle of the Atlantic By DOUGLAS GLEN IN 1917, when sinkings brought us peril ously near defeat, it was the convoy system that saved us. At the outbreak of the present war Germany possessed seventy submarines, and again, but for the con voys, our sea-borne supplies could not have been maintained. Now, after ...

... VETERANS OF THE ROYAL NAVY: C.-in-C. on His Own Quarter-Deck ADMIRAL SIR JOHN TOVEY, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE HOME FLEET, on his quarter-deck with a naval visitor, Vice-Admiral S. S. Bonham-Carter Sir John went to the Home Fleet as its Commander in 1940, after having served since 1938 as Rear-Admiral (D.) commanding the Destroyer Flotillas of the Mediterranean Fleet. Previously he had served, ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 165 i, New Oxford Street, W.i. Christian Smuts.-- He had the welcome which he deserved and we expected. His address to Parliament proved an historic occasion and a fine contribution to war oratory. He put things in their right perspective, with out fear or favour; and the poor old British Empire emerged looking all the better for the advocacy of its best friend and ...

... NAVAL SURGEONS AT SEA How They Care for the Wounded During Action Described by GEORGE A. KENT 'THERE is another thin red line that Kipling might have versified, if his thoughts had run more in the direction of the Navy, instead of the Army. It is the thin red line on the gold-braided cuff that marks the naval surgeon, be he the humble Surgeon-Lieutenant just entered, or the exalted Surgeon ...

... A JAP FROM THE ALEUTIANS is brought to Dutch Harbour, for questioning by Lieut. -Commander Peter C. Holm, of the U.S. Navy. He was one of five captured after a naval engagement N TRADITIONAL CROSS-LEGGED POSITION, a Jap prisoner from the Aleutians eats his meal in the brig of the U.S. ship which carried him to Dutch Harbour, in Alaska AMERICA SETS HER HOARDS OF SILVER TO WORK IN THE WAR EFFORT ...

... WOMEN WORKERS REPLACE MEN AT KING'S CROSS STATION Girl telephone operators, who have taken over men's work in the Engineering Office at this London terminus. The men they replace have either gone into the Forces or have taken over more important tasks in connection with the country's war effort TONS OF COAL FOR THE WINTER DUMPED IN LONDON Thousands of tons of coal are being stacked up on the ...

... HERBERT TERRY SONS, LTD., HERBERT TERRY SONS, LTD., When we go back to gracious living, the rERRY ANGLEP01SE will resume its proper place in our homes by cosy fire ancl bedside, in library corner, on bureau, desk md studio board taking up any one of 1;001 angles at a finger-touch, staying put in any position till needed, casting its gently diffused beam on the ob ject, not in the user's eyes ...

... THE English Jersey Cattle Society held a most successful Show and Sale at Reading, in more ways than one. Members of the Society, backed by the Council, secretary and the auctioneers (John Thornton, Hobson and Co.), made a gift of eighteen calves, which realised £1300 for the benefit of the Red Cross Agriculture Fund. The occasion was thus stimulated and enlivened, and brisk business followed ...

... THE Research Station at Long Ashton, Bristol (University of Bristol, Department of Agricul ture and Horticulture), has made a special study of the utilisation of surplus fruit crops. Under the direction of Mr. Vernon L. S. Charley, who is in charge of the Fruit and Vegetable Products Section, methods have been evolved which will safeguard apple crops by turning the surplus into apple ...