... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... YY/eather conditions during recent B big raids on Germany have not! always been favourable for the Allied B bombers taking part. On manyB occasions the cold has been intense, fl the thermometer dropping as low asfl 58 deg. below zero which is very cold I indeed! The drawing on the IcftB depicts what happened to the pilot o(B a British Lancaster when the nose o[B his aircraft was hit by flak ...

... ONCE again the invasion season has started, and the question of the Home Guard's military efficiency comes up for discussion. There are, of course, three possibilities. There is the remote chance of a seaborne invasion coupled with an air borne invasion; there is the possibility of an airborne invasion; and finally, the comparative likelihood of the landing of airborne suicide squads whose job ...

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