... Monocles and After By Wing-Commander E. G. Oakley Beuttler Chief Petty-Officer Electrical Artificer Philip Morter has made Naval History. As an instrument-maker in civil life he had worn an eyeglass for four years, and did not mean to give it up when he volunteered for the Navy. A rating with a monocle was a phenomenon without precedent, and as King's Regulations contained no ban, something ...

... September Sales by The Tout Hyperion stock was in strong demand at the recent September Sales at Newmarket. For his Silver Birch filly by Hyperion, Mr. Ernest Bellaney, who is a director of the National Stud, got 7100 guineas, the purchaser l>cing Frank Butters on behalf of the Aga-Ali Khan partnership. Major L. B. Holliday, who trains with Bob Colling at Newmarket, gave 6100 guineas for the ...

... J Part of Italy long and low and whitc- lrough an outer gate, and now wearing services in the field is rarely publicised. and orderlies are accustomed to acclaim from the general public, ever stinting in their praise of the 1 S'ngly from the often overworked 'lie! f^Ve sucre(' a more than usually fth' victims have mostly been ls experience, it has been stated that e within the ranks of the R ...

... by The Tout The five men seen in this picture are well-knotvn members of Headquarters, R.A., of a famous Armoured Division, stationed somewhere in England. They were sketched in the mess by The Tout. One of them, Capt. Gwynne Evans, was a double Blue (cricket and Soccer) at Oxford just before the war 44 The Tout 99 ...

... Grim and Gay Getting Mine-Sweeping Gear Outboard By Wing-Commander E. G. Oakley-Beuttler What goes on here? Well, these nautical technicalities are not easy, but the idea is to get the cigar-shaped object, known as an 44 Otter, outboard, without a hitch, one on each quarter of the ship, and tow them along astern. The otter floats and flies a red flag to mark its position. Near its nose is the ...

... 'phe drawing by Sir. Osmond reproduced i above reconstructs the scene at an Advanced Dressing Station of the R.A.M.C. on the Fifth Army front just south of Mignano, during the recent heavy fighting within that area. As the artist has vividly depicted, the battle line is not so distant shells are actually bursting up on the ridges above the buildings at a range of a very few hundred yards. Yet ...

... At the Sign of the Stork; By Wing-Commander E. G. Oakley Beuttler This touching picture embroiders a trvie stOry ad infinitum. The story itself was broadcast by Lt. J. C. Y. Roxburgh, D.S.O., D.S.C., commander of the submarine United, on her safe return to base in the Mediterranean. He was expecting news from his wife about a highly important event, but the cable had not arrived by the time he ...

... MR. FRANK SLATER, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, has caricatured the cast of Grouse in June, produced in a German Prisoner of War Camp. The Officer in Charge of Entertainments, Lieut. M. W. V. Maude, says The production of plays forms quite an important part of the life in this Camp, and I wonder if any of your readers have some acting copies of recent plays which, from the point of view of ...

... The Organ isatio of a Farm Sale ALTHOUGH modern custom tends to a public sales, there is much to be said fo where the animals can be seen in their hoi informal conditions than are possible at thi also a far more intimate atmosphere at a d inspected, before the sale commences, wit buyers wandering at will among the farm bu are working among their charges. Then tl farm-sheds helps to create a ...

... And Then the Gun Jams By Wing-Commander E. G. Oakley-Beuttler It 's happened more than once one of our submarines steals into an Italian harbour, surfaces, finds herself presented with a sitting target and then the gun jams. Here is our artist's version of the incident, portrayed with much local colour and nautical detail. The conning-tower and gun arc just clear of the water the gun's crew, ...

... Walt Disney Goes South American Way Saludos Amigos (Hello, Friends!) is the Latest Donald Duck 5o Uute'V^ ^rl0f0 Id tak'8 sWr ',ro m w o?*.r:M, 0t M V7;^ Disney's latest Saludos Amigos brings together again our old friends Donald Duck and Goofy. As an American tourist, Donald finds himself in Argentina, Brazil. Chile, Peru and Bolivia. On his travels he meets two entirely new friends, Joe ...

... The D.D.S. and T., London District, and his Staff Most people are apt to take the question of how the Army and the R.A.F. gel their food as a matter of course. It arrives, is cooked and eaten, but behind all this is a highly, efficient and complex organisation, whose job it is to gel the right food to the men at the right time and place under all conditions. In these modern times of highly ...