... By Brigadier R. S. Scott, C.I.E. THE advance of mechanisation has resulted in a very great decrease in the number of horses and mules em ployed in Army formations, but in the Mountain Artillery, the mule, immortalised by Rudyard Kipling, still carries the screw- guns, as well as the equipment and ammunition necessary for the front line. No internal-combustion engine as yet devised can replace ...

... THE Perth Spring Shows and Sales of Shorthorns and Aberdeen-Angus respectively produced some splendid cattle, for which exceptionally high prices and averages were realised. There was keen com petition from abroad, in spite of shipping difficulties but in the main English and Scottish breeders managed to keep the best stuff at home. Successful exhibitors in either case replaced the supreme ...

... By A. Croxton Smith THAT wise old sportsman, General W. N. Hutchinson, lived a hundred years ago in a day when men depended more upon their own exertions for breaking their gundogs, as the art was then called. Most of the moderns prefer to use the word training, which is really more expressive. Our grandfathers wanted to break them of their faults we desire to teach them. Those were the ...

... WAIFS STRAYS WAIFS STRAYS SOCIETY JOEL STREET, PINNER, MIDDX. Bankers: Barclays, Ltd. We are handing on an extraordinarily difficult world to the next generation, and we owe it to the children to think of their welfare, and certainly the homeless children. It is for such children we plead Gifts however small gratefully received. CHURCH OF ENGLAND ...

... Natural Hazards IJnusuul Dangers Encountered t>f, Acitttors During M'lging II v Frank W. Lane BY far the biggest danger was from birds. We ran into flocks of lapwings, swallows, geese and even herons. This remark was made by the pilot of one of our machines after a recent hedge-hopping raid over the Continent. Several other members of the aircrews of aeroplanes engaged on these raids ...

... Iland Knitted s Conserve Coupons MATERIALS 7 ozs. Lister's Lavenda -3-piy, beige 1 oz. contrast 3-ply No. 10 needles. MEASUREMENTS Round bust, 34 ins. length, 20 ins. sleeve seam, 18 ins. TENSION 8 sts. and 9 rows to 1 in. THE FRONT Cast on 104 sts. in beige. Work k. 1, p. 1 rib for 5 ins. Continue rib and m. 1 st. at beg. and end of every 4th row until there are 136 sts. Work straight until ...

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... HOW THE JAPS PROBABLY LAUNCHED THE AIRCRAFT WHICH FLEW OVER SYDNEY LAST MONTH. It is thought that the machine was a seaplane, launched from a submarine in the manner shown in the above diagrams- -Drawing by Roland Davies A few weeks ago, an enemy plane, apparently from a submarine (according to the official statement), was located on the Australian coast. Later, the city of Sydney was blacked ...

... An Analysis by an Expert of a Recent Naval Night Photograph On a pitch-black night in the Channel recently, a Nazi convoy attempted to sneak through the narrows. During the course of the action which followed, the photo graph given on the right was taken. It shows a confusion of beams of light, masses of dark cloud, and other groups of light and shade most difficult for the layman to ...

... BRITAIN'S DOGS AT WAR What Has Happened to Our Three-and-a-Half Million Dog Population Since the Early Days of September 1939 Described by CHARLES GRAVES THE dog population of Great Britain was 3,500,000 in 1939. To-day it is about 2,250,000. There are two reasons for this noticeable drop. Rumours were spread that dogs on the Continent went mad under aerial bombardment and rushed around biting ...

... I A PITCHED BATTLE in ENGLAND During the Largest Offensive Exercises Yet Carried Out by the Home Forces GENERAL SIR BERNARD PAGET (C.-in-C. Home Forces second from right), with General Andrews (in command of the U.S. Troops in Europe in centre), and the King of Greece (on left) listening to details of progress from a General in the field ARMY AND AIR WORKED AS ONE IN THIS GREAT MANtEUVRE. ...

... RUSES THAT SHAPE BATTLES Some of the Tricks in This, and the Last, War which Have Fooled the Enemy High Command Described by FERDINAND TUOHY THERE was a refreshing whiff about Admiral Cunningham's tale of how he chose as golf partner on the eve of Matapan the Japanese Naval Attache in the Middle East-- the blunt edge of the Axis. One can almost read the flash that must have been sent to Rome ...