... W .Jf. f QUEEN MARY recently spent the afternoon with members of the Women's Land Army living at a Gloucestershire War Agricultural Committee Hostel at Mickleton, near Chip ping Campden. After inspecting this modernised sixteenth- century house in the Cotswold Hills, her Majesty took tea with the girls. After tea came an address by her Majesty and the presentation of Good Service Diamonds to ...

... A O HEARING-TIME varies both with the different O breeds and with the climate. It also depends on the natural rise of the wool in late spring, and from now till the end of July the clippers will be busy. To-day many flocks are sheared with mechani cally-worked clippers, but there are still many of the old-time hand workers. They usually sheared five sheep and then stopped for a rest and to ...

... DURING the present month millions of seedling vegetable plants will be ready for a move from the seed-beds to the plots in which they will be grown on to maturity. From these seedlings thousands of tons of valuable foodstuff will be gained or lost according to the manner in which the transplanting is carried out. The job is a simple one, but it does not permit of hap hazard methods. Lettuce ...

... The AMERICAN CAPTURE of ATTU The Island Near Kiska, in the Aleutians, on which the Japs were Wiped Out Within Three Weeks First Pictures of the Fighting from the U.S. A ttu was one of two islands in the Aleutian group held by 1 the Japanese. It lies some 200 miles to the westward of Kiska, on the couthem side of the Bering Sea, and within the Arctic Circle. It is a foggy, rocky, ice-bound spot ...

... C:M ASKING SUNDAY: The ceremony of blessing the crops on Rogation Asking Sunday once played a regular part in English country life. It had been dying out since the days of the industrial revolution even in the hands of the country clergy. The spiritual revival which is a notable feature of the war has given a new meaning to the old words and in many parishes the ancient custom is being ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 196 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Even Some Nazis..-- It seems that even some Nazis have been a little embarrassed by Dr. Goebbels' last propaganda wriggles in the great campaign for humaner warfare. Memory may be (must be) as short as you please in a Dictator State, but even so it is sometimes long enough to recall events two years old, and there are Nazis alive who do ...

... SH MM ESH M 1 m LIEUT.-COLONEL THE REV. J. L. STEELE, ASSISTANT CHAPLAIN- GENERAL, at the microphone during the First Army's Thanksoivinp Service held amidst the ruins of Carthage A GENERAL VIEW IN THE HUGE AMPHITHEATRE where the Service was held near Tunis. Senior officers leaving after the Thanksgiving GENERAL ANDERSON READING THE LESSON FROM THE STAGE OF THE AMPHITHEATRE Amidst the ancient ...

... The area now under the heaviest attack from the air is encircled by the Italian islands and mainland, and by French-owned, but Italian-occupied, Corsica. The Tyrrhenian Sea flanks Italy on the west, as does the Adriatic on the east. Allied aircraft have been streaming out from their bases in North Africa, Malta and the Middle East and making for the enemy airfields in Sicily and Sardinia; but ...

... THE FINAL ACTION IN THE TUNISIAN VICTORY THE RUSH OF BRITISH TANKS TO HAMMAMET, when the First Army's armour went all out to cut the enemy off from the Cape Bon Peninsula. The Germans were convinced that no armoured division could move so fast Drawing by W. G. Whitaker Axis resistance collapsed because von Arnim and his Generals lost control of their forces owing to the dazzling speed and ...

... AFTER THE BATTLES ARE OVER. The French farmers of Tunisia resume their ploughing as British sappers clear their land of the mines laid by the retreating Germans. A scene near the road between Medjez-el-Bab and the sea 'Drawing by W. G. W hitaker Already the fishermen and farmers of North Africa are beginning to forget the war and returning to their normal peacetime occupations. Many of the ...

... On its way to bomb Duisberg recently an R.A.F. heavy Stirling bomber was hit by flak. The plane began to vibrate violently and the rudder-bar swung loosely. Despite this, the sergeant- pilot continued his run up and bombed his target successfully. Then he turned for home, but soon it became almost impossible to control the aircraft. When the Navigator went aft, he found that the rear turret ...

... N.Z. ITEMS FROM THE ALLIED GET TOGETHER CONCERT IN CAIRO. THESE two excellent New Zealander items were among the turns given at an Allied get together Command per formance in that very social centre of the Allied Forces Cairo. British and American troops of both sexes formed both audience and performers, and the occasion was one of a number of Middle East meetings arranged to bring Americans ...