... BRITISH ARTILLERY MEN TAKE THEIR PRIEST SELF-PROPELLED GUNS INTO ACTION BETWEEN THE APPIAN WAY AND ANZIO. When the Germans launched a number of fierce counter-attacks at the beachhead formations, these formidable weapons played a part in repelling them. The Priest, mounted on a Valentine tank chassis, has been used by the British Army since the days of the heavy fighting in the Egyptian ...

... GREATCOATS FOR OFFICERS When you slip into one of our greatcoats you know at once that it has been made by somebody who has spent a lifetime in making clothes for men. You feel it as the coat moulds itself to your J shoulders, and in the way it fits and gives that grand sense of easy roominess which marks it a friend for many years to come. We like to think that every garment we make for an ...

... LAND drainage in Great Britain is not a new discovery. In the days of the manor, the need for drainage was well understood although the system employed was the ditch or open drain carrying off water to the nearest stream. Walter, of Henley, writing on agriculture in the thirteenth century, stated that to free land from too much water, marshy ground should be ridged and the water made to run. ...

... Jnyce Barbour is in A Soldier for Christmas 99 Joyce Harbour has a part after her own heart in Reginald Beckwith's comr at Wyndharn s and looks like fepeating her 44 George and Margaret success. In private life the wife of Richard Bird, Joyce is as much at home in straight comedy as she is in musical. Her last appearance was in 44 Take It Easy Alexander Bender Oiane Gardiner the young premiere ...

... -/4 By Sabretache Militarism PERHAPS, under the prevailing circumstances, it was a virtual certainty that we should turn from being a harmless nation of shopkeepers into a savage and warlike tribe hardly safe to be allowed at large without muzzles. But happily, or unhappily, so it is, and our old repose and serenity seem to have been exchanged for a positively dangerous snappishness. The more ...

... Officers of a Fleet Air Arm Station Somewhere in the North Front row Pay/Cdr. I. T. Rees, Cdr. E. W. Beetham Capt. V. N. Surtees, Major F. B. Brown (R.M.), Lt./Cdr (E.) H. Bott. Second row Major J. Ballantyne Came r anions), Pay/Lt.-Cdr. N. J. Rowlatt (R.N.V.R.), Lt./Cdr. C. R. G Wilkinson D. R. Stuart Officers of the Directing Staff of an Infantry Division's Battle School Front row Capts. J. ...

... Plain or Patterned, It 's the Fringe That Gives the 1944 Look Here is yet another form of fringe-- the mate rial itself frayed and knotted. This is Dorville's idea, and in the form of a scrub- green scarf adds a touch of inspiration to the seve rity of the plain navy dress with which it is worn. Delivery not a very cer tain factor in life to-day should bring this model to Harrods in April or ...

... -^elerJiniri S -^elerJiniri S ^^eeloaL Elegance in J ersey 1 °r cn' spying collection of attractive jersey suits and dresses Smart simplicity is the keynote of this spring jumper suit in fine wool jersey. Black, nigger, navy or platinum grey. Two sizes (12 coupons) (Knitwear Department-- First Floor) -,MAM44M. WIGMORE STREET, W.I (Dawm'Si I ...

... THIS is February 18, 1944. Before many more issues of this journal are published the invasion of Europe will have begun. Are we prepared to play our share in it, or are we to wait, like sheep, to see what are the Government's plans for feeding the people and for maintaining essential services ? It is recognised that plans are ready for looking after the big cities, the smaller towns, and even ...

... CONGRATULATIONS are due to the recently formed English Ayrshire Cattle Breeders' Association on their first Show and Sale, held at Reading on February 3. Over 100 lots were listed, including drafts from some of the best pedigree herds in the country. There were eight classes, including two for non-pedigree stock, and two challenge cups one of these was presented by the Auctioneers, Messrs. ...

... IT was a pleasure to meet Fred Robson again after some years, and to find him looking just the same. It would be hard to think of anyone with a greater sense of humour and a better memory. Fred excels at telling tales, and he can get more out of a golf incident than ever was there; in fact, liis natural way of embel lishing such tales makes him second to none as a raconteur. Addington, where ...

... |\l UVV mar wrens* a-ie uuuwg r IN the Navy's activities, mixed hockey has been introduced as one of the sports ventures of the Royal Naval School of Photography. The Navy's conservatism has been successfully overcome, and the innovation has met with an enthusiastic re sponse. The men have found that at this game the Wrens can give more than equal support, and the School's first three games ...