... WOMEN'S splendid war work in factories has been marred by distressing acci dents through their hair becoming entangled in machinery. The vast majority of these injuries could be avoided by the wearing of a suitable head-covering, and to discover this, Rootes Securities, Ltd., who have more than ten busy factories in their group, staged amongst their 40,000 workers, an interesting contest in ...

... . Our Neiv Year portrait shotvs the RT. HON. WINSTON CHURCHILL bent in characteristic attitude over his desk at No. 10, Downing Street. Hard at I work as the photographer takes him, the Premier has just blown a ring of I smoke from his cigar and is as always the picture of determination. PHOTOGRAPH BY A. C. COOPER, A.R.P.S. ...

... . Music plays a most important part in the home life of the Royal Family. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN is an excellent pianist, and her daughters, T.R.H. PRINCESS ELIZABETH and PRINCESS MARGARET, have inherited her talent and are already good musicians. Our beautiful photographs, taken at Windsor during a short vacation, shoic the Queen listening to Princess Elizabeth at the piano, while Princess ...

... . Warmly wrapped up in their new woollen smocks, A.T.S. GIRLS search the night skies of England for enemy raiders. Lengthy experimental trials have proved that in this, one of their latest duties, the girls are thoroughly capable of taking over from the men whom they replace. More pictures appear further on in this issue. ...

... . A MEMBER OF AN ALL-A.T.S. SEARCHLIGHT CREW adjusts the carbon in the searchlight. In the beam of the searchlight, THIS MEMBER OF THE A.T.S. is seen beside the apparatus on the look-out for enemy raiders. THIS YOUNG OPERATOR kk drives the beam to the required angle. By means of this gear she adjusts the searchlight according to instructions from Control. PRIVATE TAMEA MULLA (formerly a mother ...

... THE TURKISH PRESIDENT, MADAME INONU AND OZDEN. HIS EXCELLENCY ISMET INONt), President of the Turkish Republic, who conferred with Mr. Churchill at Adana posed xcith his favourite daughter, OZDEN. The inauguration of a 44 knitting week for Turkish ladies MME. INONt) centre presides at a meeting of workers. PHOTOGRAPHS BY W. BOSSHARD. MR. CHURCHILL'S 44 surprise visit to Turkey after the ...

... . Ambassadors'' Court St. Jameses Palacey is now the ENQUIRY BUREAU, PRISONERS OF WAR DEPARTMENT of the British Red Cross. A general view of the. Throne Room filing clerks at work with the SHROUDED GOLD CANOPY in the background. CLERKING IN THE THRONE ROOM: Red Cross workers at deal tables under the famous Lawrence portrait of George IV. Henry Villus portrait gazes down on a girl clerk ...

... THE FIRST BRITISH WOMEN TO ENTER BENGHAZI AFTER ITS OCCUPATION BY THE EIGHTH ARMY Three Queen Alexandra Nursing Sisters in their battle-dress on the water-front of the harbour |\|ow that the tide of battle has flowed past Benghazi, this important Cyrenaican town is rapidly being repaired, and its harbour being cleared to receive supply vessels from Egypt and to act as an advance base for the ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 175 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.t. Annus Mirabilis. --We shall no doubt set up 1943. -4 or -5 as annus mirabilis, the year of victory and peace. I shall still put forward the superior claims of 1942, For never in any year we have known has a blacker worst turned the best to the brave. I won't go into historical details. 1 note in mv own diary that the week of February ...

... WRITERS throughout the ages have dis cerned a gnomic quality in the German --a dog-in-the-manger attitude that leads to extraordinary acts of mean and petty spiteful ness when things go the wrong way with him. This was first exemplified on a grand scale in the last war, especially at the time of Nivelle's abortive advance. Where the Ger mans had retreated, the land was not only devastated by ...

... HORROR has piled on horror in this war, but it is doubtful whether any of the major theatres has known the sheer, concentrated terror of the otherwise diminutive Papuan cam paign. We are just beginning to learn of the extraordinary conditions under which our young Australian and American allies have been fighting in this distant abode of former head hunters; the climate and terrain have been ...

... THE CAMERA VIEWS ART, DUTY A 'OMANCE ON THE ALLIED FRONTS. Eats and drinks tasted twice as good to representatives of the Allied Nations at the 44 Store Door Canteen New York when SERVED BY FAMOUS BEAUTIES. THE CONOVER COVER GIRLS. MAJOR DAVID NIVEN, Rifle Brigade, the film star, and MRS. NIVEN, formerly Miss Primula Rollo, are admiring their three-weeks-old baby. THESE RUSSIAN WOMEN are ...