... By Ferdinand Tuoky I HAVE to chance the war being over by the time this article appears. I have got to chance the subject with which it treats being over too: solved. I sincerely hope it will be. But, Nazis being what they are, I very much doubt it. Let us face an unfortunate fact, ror longer than you or I should care to remember, it has been the habit in these wise isles to debate on the ...

... Glimpses of Old May fair Impressions of a Changing Scene By Wilma Buckley LONG after Mayfair-- as we know it-- has ceased to be, the name will survive as the symbol of an idiosyncratic standard of obsolete elegance, the quintessence of careless, glamorous (what other word will serve so well?), fashionable living: everything that is epitomized in the twentieth-century expression West End and ...

... MATERIALS 8 oz. Sirdar Super Shetland 3-ply 4 buttons No. 9 and No. 11 needles. MEASUREMENTS Round bust, 34 ins. length, 20 ins. sleeve seam, 18 ins. TENSION 7 sts. and 9 rows to 1 in. THE BACK AND FRONT Start at join of yoke on No. 9 needles and work downwards, making 2 pieces as follows Cast on 56 sts. Work 4 rows k. 5th row. K. twice into first st. K. to end, ending k. 2 tog. 6th row. P. ...

... THE CHANNEL PORTS-- THE LAST PHASE THE NAZI BATTERIES IN FRANCE OPEN UP WITH HEAVY FIRE to get rid of their ammunition before the ports fall to on Armies. A British cruiser is caught in the beams of a German searchlight while replying to the enemy fire, while a destroyer lays a smoke-screen t protect the Channel shipping Drawing by Wm. McDowell One by one the Channel ports are falling to our ...

... HOW THE COASTS AND PORTS OF BRITAIN WERE DEFENDED: TWO OF THE SEVEN CIRCULAR TOWERS OF A FORT BUILT IN THE SEA, to 'guard our shipping lanes against German mines and mine-laying planes. Primarily they were formed as First Line Invasion Defences. Each of these towers was constructed ashore, towed out to sea, sunk on sandbanks and joined up with cat-walks (see also page 3) On this and the ...

... Before Rimini fell to the Eighth Army, some very heavy fighting was experienced by the British, Canadiap and Indian troops advancing through the hills. Our progress was most marked on the hills near the coast, particularly on the Coriano-Sansovino ridge. Canadian troops fought their way up to Coriano from the low foothills British and Indian troops stormed into the village of Passano ...

... I HRpHIIVJNpRHH i .mm i mm A INFORMAL DISCUSSION ON TOP OF THE CITADEL AT QUEBEC Mrs. Churchill, the Earl of Athlone (Governor-General ol Canada) and President Roosevelt enjoy a joke together ANOTHER DEGREE FOR MR. CHURCHILL At the Citadel, honorary degrees of I McGill University, Montreal, were conferred on both President Roosevelt and I Mr. Churchill. The picturesque ceremony, for which the ...

... . ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■I 1-mHu THE KING and QUEEN and PRINCESS ELIZABETH visited a wartime nursery at Graigentinny School during their recent stay in Edinburgh. His Majesty held two Investitures at the Palace of Holyroodhouse. GROUP CAPTAIN PETER RUSSELL r Johnnie 91 WALKER is an R.A.F. Ace, who won the D.S.O. in 1942 and the D.F.C. in 1940. In our issue of Sept. 20 ice published this ...

... JENNY JDNES -SET IN COAL-MINE, COTTAGE AND ABBEY. CAROLE LYNNE as Dilvs in George Black's new musical shoic Jenny Jones' at the London Hippodrome. 44 An Episode in Havannah speciality dancer TOMMY LINDEN and f/ie Corps de Ballet in the operetta set in Nelson's day. Dilys and Penry as the lovers in An Episode in Havannah CAROLE LYNNE and RONALD MILLAR. 44 The Story of St. Ceiriog spectacular ...

... c (Pin=up r^/irl. )/a 10. (SMhe'ffyilkams. Beautiful swimming champion ESTHER WILLIAMS heads the spectacular Water Ballet, featured in M.-G.-M.ys new Technicolor production, Bathing Beauty and appears in some decorative bathing, diving and swimming sequences. Red Skelton stars in the picture, and Harry James and his band add to its attractions. The film, which is showing at the Empire, ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 266 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Epic of Arnhem.-- Pereunt et imputantur. Thousands of gallant young men have died, been wounded or been captured in this epic struggle by a Division of the Airborne Army to hold Arnhem and its bridges. It was not to be. The Germans were too strong. Their powers of resistance were perhaps under-estimated and the difficulties of the terrain ...

... THE SKYBORNE TROOPS IN ACTION WITH 3-IN. MORTARS, firing on enemy positions across the Rhine. Many of the men were said to be so tired that they smiled as if it hurt them to move their mouths GERMAN PRISONERS ROUNDED UP BY BRITISH PARATROOPS At one time many hundreds of them were captured, but- presumably had to be released later at the withdraw MAJOR jOCK NEILL (ON LEFT), C Company of a ...