... A. F. Pears Ltd. A. F. Pears Ltd. We regret that Pears Transparent Soap is in short supply just now. Preparing to be a Beautiful Lady Sylvia loves to make drawings of everything she sees. She is very serious about it, and intends to be an artist when she grows up. Sylvia herself is a subject for any artist, with her lovely complexion and the light playing on her nut-brown hair. Her mother is ...

... BRITISH TROOPS MOVING UP TO THE ATTACK IN THE MARCHE AREA, in the northern part of the big German bulge into Belgium It is now known that British infantry and armoured units have been taking part in the counter-offensive on the northern side of von Rundstedt's salient. They are under command of Field-Marshal Montgomery, who is also in command of the First and Ninth U.S. Armies as well as the ...

... THAT positively-named branch, Intelligence, has been having a draughty Press on the other side of the Atlantic. General Peyton March leads the critics' chorus. Members of the Intelligence Services, he pronounces, appear to have been un aware of a German force of 200,000 men. Imagine the population of Richmond, Virginia, being assembled across the Potomac and we not knowing about it! ...

... THE ROAD TO PINWE, IMPORTANT MILESTONE ON THE ROAD TO MAN- DALAY Men of the British 36th Division moving up to the front. Heav>^ fighting preceded the capture of the Burmese town of Pinwe on November 30, 1944, by the British 36th Division, veterans of the present cam paign against the Japs. One month later, following a link-up with the 4th Corps (which had advanced from the west bank of the ...

... 1 THE PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT TO THE BELGIAN BATTLEFIELD, DURING WHICH HE MET FIELD-MARSHAL MONTGOMERY AT THE LATTER'S HEADQUARTERS whilst the battle against the Germans in the Salient was still raging. Accompanied by Sir Alan Brooke (Chief of the Imperial General Staff), the Premier is here leavino Headauarters to motor to an airfield from which he flew back to England rollowing swiftly on his ...

... y' nr-1^ s 3 A* W s L„ *T C. StX^y^^lBiiiMUltttiittAiinMi&iiilMi&mi i HBBBw1 ffil m *-*i AN IMPRESSIVE PICTURE FROM THE E.L.A.S. SIDE, TAKEN JUST AFTER THE FIRST CLASH BETWEEN THE PARTISANS AND THE GREEK POLICE Shouting demonstrators point to the bodies of two of their number a man and a woman who were the victims of a conflict between demonstrators and police on December 3 in a street in ...

... Emm Above Some of the incoming cargo-ships dune past weeks have been taking it green as they forge their way up-Channel to British ports during weatK which has been phenomenal in many ways. Conditio? have been wintry in the extreme, with intense cold, fo and mist during clearer conditions of visibility, gak up to 60 miles an hour were frequently reported eve when the wind has abated somewhat, ...

... WAR COMES TO THE ARCTIC A party of American Coast Guards land on the shores of Greenland. This landing resulted in the capture of sixty Germans, who had been sent to establish weather outposts on the island MANNED BY A PRIZE CREW OF TWENTY-EIGHT U.S. COAST GUARDS, the Nazi armed trawler Exsternsteine approaches Boston Harbour after a 3,000-mile trip from Greenland, where she was cornered in ...

... A NEW PACT IS SIGNED WITH ETHIOPIA Lord de la Warr, Chairman of the British Delegation, photographed during his interview with Haile Selassie at Addis Abbaba whilst the negotiations between the two countries were in progress AN UNDERGROUND ARSENAL IN CHINA cut out of the solid rock to defeat the Japanese bombers Here is a view of the entrance to the arsenal and factory built in a mountainside ...

... THE ARMY STOVE WHICH HAS BEEN MANUFACTURED OUT OF USED 25-POUNDER SHELL-CASES This simpt* petrol-vapour stove was first drawn and produced by Captain Scarisbrook, Army Catering Corps Major R. R. Newton, R.A.S.C., and Major R. Venning, R.A.S.C. It is made from used 25-pounder shell-cases. The case is cut into three portions. The top piece is cast aside. The centre portion is used for the ...

... RELIGION IN VILLAGE LIFE.-- No subject under the sun is more dangerous and troublesome for a journalist who desires peace than that of religion in any aspect. Every writer will agree that readers who differ from his opinions on religious matters express their disagree ment with more bitterness and uncom promising ferocity than do his critics in any other field. That relierion demands ...

... n these two pictures, taken at 10,000 ft. over Breteuil by the U.S. Eighth Air Force, striking comparison is shown between night id day photography. The upper picture as taken in daylight the lower, in the dead night by the use of flash-bombs and an ttremely fast lens. So clearly is the target illuminated that individual tree shadows along the road may be counted. The picture on the right ...