... IT COSTS SO LITTLE BUT IT MEANS SO MUCH Please help to send a Red Cross Parcel EVERY week. Give generously and regularly to THE RED CROSS AGRICULTURAL FUND 29, Belgravc Square, S.W.I sf This space kin illy donated by Benbow's Dog Mixture Company Ltd. ^jacjiiat C he finest ecu o f its class in the world I l S S C A R S LTD I COVENTRY f i QdnJrt-aMl 3flaert£on At a glance, a Maenson Suit or ...

... Samsons of the APnimal PF irld By Frank W. Lane j AN American scientist was watch- ing an ant carrying a piece of a leaf. He caught the ant and weighed both it and the leaf it was carrying. He found the ant had been carrying a burden ten times its own weight. That ant had been carrying this weight at a speed of more than three feet per minute up a steep grade. To appreciate fully the wonder of ...

... Old Tales Re-told The Arab Amazon Yhjonder Written and Illustrated By F. Matania, R,L CONSIDERING their love of poetry, music and nature, it is amazing that the Arabs of ancient times had such cruel and savage customs. Even a superficial glance at the Muallakat, that famous collection of their literature assembled in A.D. 777, makes it difficult to reconcile the delicate lyrics on the subjects ...

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... Prospects of Peace AFTER more than four years of strenuous effort we realise the true value of many things we took as a matter of course in the days before the' war. The restful ease of a Minty Chair, for instance, and the pleasure to be obtained from a well filled Minty Bookcase are treasures that we appreciate to-day more than ever. Prospects are brighter, and we may look forward with ...

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... By 'Foresight Prophecy THE Prime Minister has proclaimed that the months of this summer may bring full success to the cause of freedom by the victories of the Allies. He was referring, in a speech at the Mexican Embassy, to the cam paign to free Europe which has started with such success in Normandy. He made it clear that the Allies had not embarked on the great battle without being in full ...

... Among the oldest of all the weapons of war, and among the least publicised, the mine is still going strong on both land and sea. It is a weapon peculiarly dear to the German mentality. Mines are essentially such simple devices that a large number of changes can be rung in the method of func tioning. Some are designed to be projected waist or shoulder high by a small charge of explosive, so ...

... ^/ith heavy fighting taking place all along the line in Italy, striking pictures are now coming through to show the nature of the sanguinary battles in which the Fifth and Eighth Armies have been engaged. Some of them are reproduced on these and the succeeding pages The Gustav Line no longer exists it has been cracked wide open and thrust aside. The Hitler Line is going-- if, indeed, it has ...

... Dritish sappers, officers and men, played an heroic part in the bridge- building which was the key to success in the opening stages of the Rapido battle. On the first night of the offensive all efforts to construct one particular tank-carrying bridge across the 75-ft. span of the river had ended .in failure. Many casualties had been inflicted upon the sappers by enemy mortars, machine-guns and ...

... WAY OF THE WAR uBy Foresighf Flashback ROME four years ago was a city of sunshine, good food, serious conversation and some gaiety. But it was mainly false gaiety. For in those days the people of Rome spent their days hoping against hope. Their constant hope was that Italy would keep out of the war. At cocktail parties, in the hotels, even in shops people argued that there was no reason why ...

... The Way Ahead Dav j Niven in a Film of the British Arn y, written by Peter Ustinov 9 Th Way Ahead is a film about civilians, about the pluml the baker, the candlestick maker in fact all th. .ie men, the black coat, the artisan, the agri- cultur worker who in 1940 found themselves uprooted and d osited in some strange part of the country there to be aught a new profession the ancient trade of ...