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... BUBBLE SQUEAK Stories from Everywhere THIS story, from the New York Times Magazine, is very popular in Algiers, where the Allies like to take cracks at each other and at themselves too:-- The scene takes place in Berlin some time after the war. A black limousine stops before the Information Bureau. A stately gentleman speaks in a Heavy British accent: I beg your pardon, he says. I am slightly ...

... The fact that goods made of raw materials, in short supply owing to war conditions, are advertised in this paper should not be taken as an indication that they are necessarily available for export ...

... THE AMERICANS CAPTURE COUTANCES in THEIR BIG SWEEP FORWARD TOWARDS THE SOUTH-WEST OF THE CHERBOURG PENINSULA a scene in the centre 01 the town just after its occupation, showing the rutted street through which the tanks had passed, Not a civilian is to be seen in this picture, and but three American soldiers. Coutances was taken by a U.S. Armoured Division, whose tanks and guns had already ...

... According to German reports. Allied warships joined in the barrage put down at the beginning of the Caen break-through and also illuminated the battlefield by directing their search lights on the low-lying clouds above the German positions. This drawing gives an impression of the scene. A concen tration of searchlights such as is shown would, if the angle of the cloud surfaces were favourable, ...

... HOW THE ITALIANS EVERYWHERE WELCOME THE ALLIES This picture was taken in Siena, which fell to French troops of the Fifth Army on July 3. It might represent any town in Italy to-day, where the revolt against Fascism is growing in intensity as towns are freed after long years of repression y TK'i-.i tt T li i ii^mrirnwa-- nfTT jiirmni ki i IT iii niw MEN OF THE RIFLE BRIGADE ON DAYLIGHT PATROL ...

... ^/hen the air attack opened, Lancasters and Halifaxes coming in from England ook the right side of the area to be covered, vith the steelworks as its main feature. They vere out not only to destroy the place but to nake craters so deep and numerous that the :nemy would find it impossible to bring tanks icross them. The left side of the area was Icn .'T'h ?s effectively by another force ol 0 ...

... I Today and every day, the C^/| r)£thQ/ well-known slogan is an 1 assurance of pleasure and satisfaction for cigarette smokers. (ssued by The Imperial Tobacco Company (of Great Britain and Ireland), Ltd NCG.561I DR. BARNARDO'S HOMES The Annual Appeal tor 500,000 Half-Crowns for food for our family of 8,000 boys and girls is now being made. Please help this National work for destitute children ...

... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Robotism My somewhat vague remarks the other day about the possibilities of the matic control of aircraft have brought me some interesting comments. reader takes me (metaphorically, thank goodness) to the railways contrasts the activities of the old-fashioned engine-driver and fireman those of the motor man. The motor man, who drives an electric train, has fewer ...

... THE FALL OF FLORENCE South Africans enter the city in the early hours of August 4 and take up on their tanks enthusiastic young Florentines mm mm m*/ ANTI-FASCIST ITALIANS IN THE STREETS OF FLORENCE engage Fascist and German snipers after the Allied entry THIS IS ONLY ONE OF THE THOUSANDS OF DEMOLITIONS WHICH THE ALLIES HAVE HAD TO FACE during their advance up the Italian mainland to Florence. ...

... On right On several occasions during recent operations in Normandy, great enemy activity has been observed around some of the chateaux with which the French countryside Is dotted. These chateaux are usually set in a woodland surrounding, with one face open to the sun. Attacks by the Allies on German-occupied buildings of this character have been made sometimes by our land forces on other ...

... The method of digging-in Panthers and Tigers originated in the Western Desert, where these powerful engines of war were put into shallow depressions in the hull-down position so that they could hold up an advance and yet present a most difficult target to our gunners. In Italy, the method was improved upon by the Germans, who utilised the turrets from knocked- out tanks to erect miniature ...