... c riiifjv IT is the fifth year of war. We are weary. We are five years older, and often look it. Clothes, homes and minds alike are out-at-elbows, jaded. The strain of keeping up cheerful appearances begins to tell. Personal tragedy has touched thousands, will touch thousands more. Physical weariness has its antidotes in sleep and other forms of relaxation. Mental weari ness is harder to ...

... II I L APRIL APRIL FOOLS say SOAP AND WATER ARE GOOD ENOUGH FOR M Y FACE Wash your face with soap and water, then, getting a good cleansing lotion and a clean piece of cotton wool, work the lotion into your face and wipe it off with the cotton wool. The result if you have done it properly, working around the nostrils, ears, scalp and chin will show you that when your face is really dirty, ...

... Planting a window-box calls for no special gardening technique. They are easy to plan and need very little care beyond a daily watering. Two or three packets of seed will spring up into a shower of colour in a very short time, and at the least expenditure of trouble when the first fitting has been done. Home-made window-boxes can be made in several simple ways. A protective board across the ...

... Sir Charles Portal, Chief of the Air Staff since 1940, is the only Marshal of the R.A.F. holding an active appointment. His previous jobs have included those of Director of Organisation at the Air Ministry, Air Member for Personnel on the Air Council, and Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Bomber Command. Sir Charles belongs to an ancient Huguenot family which came to England from France in 1695. ...

... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Drift Landing THE ordinary aircraft, when landing and taking off, is like the fat old woman who, when she got jammed up in the entrance of the crowded bus, was adjured by the conductor to go sideways, and who replied: I ain't got no sideways. In other words the ordinary aircraft must land direct. It cannot land sideways because its main undercarriage wheels are ...

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... The name KERSHAW on any scientific instrument constitutes a definite guarantee of highest precision workmanship. There is no better instrument made in the cine matograph world than the KALEE projector In these times of stress and strain entertainment and refreshment of mind is being provided for millions of workers and members of the forces in their short periods of recreation, by KALEE ...

... BRITISH RIFLEMEN IN ACTION AT CASSINO ENSCONCED BEHIND ROCKS AT THE FOOT OF A SLOPE OVERLOOKING THE TOWN. The battle for Cassino and Monastery Hill began on March 15, when medium and heavy bombers rained bombs on many objectives for four hours (see pages 14-15 of this issue). This was continued by the greatest artillery barrage so far laid in the Italian theatre of war, to cover the advance of ...

... The concerted attack on Cassino opened from the north. Allied infantry and tanks advanced towards it along what was described as a specially-constructed road leading up to the northern outskirts of the town. A creeping barrage and smoke-screens gave protection to the infantry, who advanced in short rushes from cover to cover. This cover was provided by the masses of fallen debris from the ...

... 1939: A far-away land of which we know little. 1944: A near-at-hand country of which we'll hear much. SUCH, I venture to suggest, will prove to be Czechoslovakia during the next five years which. President Benes assures us, are to form a separate period in the history of our State from the first twenty years of the Republic. We shall hear much of Czechoslovakia for an assortment of reasons ...

... PERIODICALLY, military experts descend upon the tank and declare it to be full of grievous defects-- if not altogether obsolete. In Parliament, a secret debate is taking place on this subject. The experts have had reports of shells knocking out the tanks and setting them on fire, when caught in some position into which they should not have been sent. The fact-- not yet fully realised in ...

... CAPTIVE AMERICAN FLYING MEN. The German caption claims that all these men were shot down in one day over Occupied Europe. The men are en route to a prison camp for internment. The Germans quote their American prisoners as saying that the anti-aircraft defences had been so awful that they thought they were in the infernal regions THE R.A.F. ATTACK ON THE AIRCRAFT BEARINGS FACTORY AT LA ...