... Thank you, and may be the dawn of happier times The other day one of our branch managers, in the course of a report to Head Office, said The assistants at this branch are all girls some very young, three with husbands in the Forces, and two with families. They are carrying responsibility with cheerfulness and resource, and their loyalty is beyond ques tion. They are keeping open the jobs for ...

... V son and heir was born to Acting Squadron Leader Sir David Cunynghame, Bt., R.A.F., and the Hon. Lady Cunynghame on Christmas Day. The Cunynghames were married in 1941. Before her marriage, Lady Cunynghame, who is Lord Stanley of Alderlev's second sister, was well known on the stage for nearly ten years, acting under her maiden name of Pamela Stanley. She played with great success the part of ...

... 0 A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Royal Christmas THE King's speech on Christmas Day, which was transmitted throughout the Empire and the U.S.A., was universally hailed as one of the finest he has yet made. Enabled by the vast improvement in the position of the Allied Nations since he last spoke to paint a much happier picture than he could in his broadcast after the gloomy events at ...

... . PHOTOGRAPHS nY LENARE. PRINCESS ALEXANDRA OF KENT is the only daughter of His late Royal Highness the Duke of Kent and of H.R.H the Duchess of Kent, and was born on Christmas Day, 1936. Our delightful new portrait studies show her with her elder brother, PRINCE EDWARD OF KENT, who was born on October 9, 1935. They have a baby brother, Prince Michael, who will be a year old in July next. ...

... I When the Sherwood sisters (ROSALIND RUSSELL and JANET BLAIR) take a basement flat they don I realise that the windows are uncurtained I The cop on the beat, Officer T^onigan (DONALD MACBRIDE) views the sisters I Sheneood with a certain amount of suspicion. Eileen is the devastating blonde. J I s tricky work even changing one's stockings in a flat without doors which lock, and with an ...

... THE COMMANDER OF THE BRITISH TROOPS IN NORTH AFRICA LIEUT. -GENERAL K. A. N. ANDERSON, in the armoured car in which he travelled whilst directing recent operations of the First Army in the Tunisia fighting yyhen British troops landed on the North Africa coast, the supreme command of military operations was vested in Lieut.-General Dwight Eisenhower, of the U.S. Army and the First Army, ...

... HOW THE JAPANESE STRONG-POINTS ON THE NORTHERN STRIP OF NEW GUINEA ARE CONSTRUCTED A star-shaped machine-gun post at the edge of the jungle, wit! snipers concealed in the branches of the trees above a favourite enemy device- Drawing by W. C. Whitoker The Japs in the Buna-Gona triangle of Papua have only been able to survive so long owing to the terrain, which is particularly suited to their ...

... The French Colonial troops who were in occupation of Central Tunisia soon began to develop operations against the Axis after the adherence of French North Africa to the Allied cause. The chief area of their activity was based on the central foothills of the Atlas range and the points of contact with the enemy stretched from Pont du Fahs, in the north, to west of Sfax and Gabes, on the south. ...

... From Sicily to Tripoli, and from Sicily to Bizerta and Tunis, is the big gap controlled by the Luftwaffe. All shipping bound for Malta from the west must pass through this gap-- the Sicilian Channel, or Bomb Alley, as the merchantmen call it. There is no way of avoiding this dangerous area, no way round-- except by the Cape, many. many thousands of miles round. bo long as this Channel is ...

... In New U.S. Aircraft and in New British Bombs I. Focke-Wulf F.W. 190H.-- This has proved to be Germany's best single-motor fighter; but in action it has been outclassed by our own Spitfire. It should, therefore, not prove very formidable against our newest and improved Spitfire! The Focke-Wulf is a low-wing monoplane, powered by an air- cooled B.M.W. power unit: this is a 14-cylinder. two-row ...

... WALK A LITTLE, WADE A LITTLE, SWIM A LITTLE. With full packs, U.S. soldiers ford a stream in New Guinea, followed up by native porters carrying their equipment and supplies. U.S. troops in this area have made use of every type of transportation, from aircraft and boats to their own tired feet! SURE-FOOTED NATIVES CARRY EQUIPMENT AND AMMUNITION across a log bridge in the heart of the jungle. ...

... Weather Conditions on the Russian Front BEFORE THE SNOWS CAME, THERE WAS THE MUD. A Nazi Divisional Commander's car in difficulties during the rainy autumn weather, which preceded the snows and which hampered German movements, preventing them from preparing for the Russian counter-thrusts. Many of the roads behind the fighting front are un-metalled and were never intended for use by heavy ...