... IT is said the sea-mine was invented by the Russians. All sides used land-mines in the last war, but mainly as controlled charges for the sapping of strongholds. Then there was the curious minenwerfer, a mortar for the projection of what were really the originals of to-day's pancake mines. But nobody thought of the mine as a large-scale substitute for artillery-- till the German Army, with ...

... QUITE naturally, it is the women in corduroys and green jumpers who figure most in the land news these days. But there is another Land Army made up of wives and daughters of permanent land workers. Here are Mrs. Birkenshaw and Mrs. Collis, mother and daughter, not in uniform, because they were land u workers before the war, and so are not eligible for the W.L.A. With their dogs Duke and ...

... THE annual spring show and sale of pedigree Sussex bulls was held at Haywards Heath on March 5. The entries numbered forty-five, but only one bull was included in the class for animals born before December 1, 1941. With two or three exceptions, the prices realised were not high. It is possible that this was partly due to the war change from grass to arable in the districts where the Sussex is ...

... IT is not easy to buy the best Percheron stallions at any time and at present there is something bordering on a shortage of them. The British Percheron Horse Society, with its admirably arranged series of shows and sales, is enabling breeders to keep the flow of horses moving steadily and is, in fact, able to record a gratifying increase in the number of registrations. Even so, breeders are so ...

... athedral and Village Church, Schoolroom and Theatre, the Pilgrim Players Find Their Stage t Soon after the outbreak of war, the Pilgrim Players were founded by producer Martin Browne, under the auspices of the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts. They took the name of Pilgrim Players because they originally set off from Canterbury. The object of the Players is to bring the best ...

... Colonel the Rt. Hon. Oliver Stanley, M.C., M.P. The Earl of Derby's Son is Secretary of State for the Colonies In November 1942, Colonel Oliver Stanley succeeded Viscount Cranborne as Colonial Secretary. Conservative M.P. for Westmorland since 1924, his first ministerial appointment was as Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Home Office in 1931, since when he has occupied the posts of ...

... 1 lie latler and Bystander's Review of Weddings Richardson Williams Major W Nigel Richardson, R.A., eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. IV. R. Richardson, of Woodbury, Humbridge, Harrogate, married Clare Nesta Nightingale Williams, only daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W Humphrey Williams, of Chippenham House, Monmouth, at St. Mary's, Monmouth Evans, Monmouth Youngs Osborn- Jenkyn Major William Raul Youngs, ...

... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Transnort and Tvnhoonerv TO subordinate all other matters to the winning of the war is the only sane course at the present moment. Yet there are one or two ways in which war-winning activities minister to peace-winning activities. (In speaking of winning the peace I use the current jargon which carries with it the unfortunate implication that the coming of peace ...

... THE APPROACH TO THE KASSERINE PASS Bren-gun carriers passing down one of the many wadis during the advance by the Grenadiers A FIRST ARMY PATROL CAPTURES GERMAN PARATROOPS. A War Office photographer accompanied men of a Recce Regiment on a patrol which ended in the moppmg-up of a nest of Germans in the Tally-Ho Corner sector near Sedjenane. German infantry were known to have set them selves up ...

... EAST AFRICANS SAVE AN R.A.F. PLANE by building a long runway on a mountain-side in Kenya. The aircraft had made a forced landing above the forest belt on the rugged slopes of Mount Kenya the crew, led by the warrant officer pilot, made their way to safety. It seemed as if the aircraft would become a total loss, until 150 natives of Meru village near by volunteered to build a runway. Their ...

... WATER IN THE DESERT How Supplies to the Eighth Army of a Liquid Just as Precious as Petrol are Maintained WADDLING about the Mediterranean before the war used often to be seen an ugly old two-funnelled ship of about 4,000 tons. She rejoiced in the name of Citta di Siracusa, and her mission in life was to produce drinking water for II Duce's garrisons in North Africa, by distilling sea water ...

... THE COMING OF THE THAW IN RUSSIA The Unwelcome Rasputza which Held Up the Red Army's Advance in the Donetz A long the fighting line in Russia a most unwelcome thaw has occurred. It was first definitely reported on February 20, though hard frosts were predicted as being likely throughout March, and even in April as far north as Leningrad. But so far the thaw has continued, and in the Donetz ...