... upon it until it seemed the one thing of consideration. The sufferings of the besieged, the loss of life in the re lieving army, were night mares to the Queen. Con sequently, her Majesty is looking ever so much brighter and better since the relief was ...

... think that so recklessly brave are our English soldiers that if they knew these shields would send bullets glancing off, and land sword thrusts far outside vital points, they would decline to wear them, preferring to take their cbance. The only thing is ...

... Norway as a rod- where she has always been exceedingly lucky in her pursuit of the wily salmon. Her first season there she landed a 34- pounder, and cn another occasion caught seven salmon be tween the hours of five and ten o'clock. She was photo graphed ...

... on the land calls for an unprecedented effort, to be launched within a few weeks. There is a known shortage of skilled male labour and much help is expected of the W.L.A. Recruits are coming in well but where are they Certainly not on the land, apart ...

... competition for man-power. Latterly, it has been much concerned with woman-power. Much is being made, at the moment, of the fact that 50,000 women are enrolled in the Women's Land Army. It is hoped that this number will be doubled by the end of 1943- This ...

... OF PEACE. IT is a, day of armies-- armies not merely in the primary sense, for there are armies, if we may put it that way, for devo tional and for domestic, as well as for destructive, purposes, and in Paris there is an army which is at the present moment ...

... to much publicity. Miss Rothschild is a fair girl, tall with a good figure and very bright and amiable. She is a good horse woman, and has often been out with her father's stag-hounds. She is a great favourite in society and also in the neighbour hood of ...

... up and secured. W.L.A. RECRUITS have been coming in fast. Returns for April show that at the end of the month the Women's Land Army had reached a new record employment figure of 11,173, an increase of 1,41 1 on the March figure. A further 1,095 volunteers ...

... the hump, is heavy upon us all. Well, we were, after all, not in such evil case as that. We could still shop, and while a woman can shop her case is far from hopeless. Therefore said Peggie to me, I have such a lot to get through that if I wait for fine ...

... chunks of choco late, two of which were solemnly set aside for the dogs. Q (the writer's sister) says that she stayed with a woman in Edinburgh who bought a pound of pork sausages every week for her two pet dogs. And The Sunday Times reports that in Belgium ...

... most of us should think that we know, better than anybody else, what is good for our own land. The fact remains that some land is under-fertilised and that other land is over- fertilised. It is the job of County Agricultural Organisers to test soil, free ...

... as an Assistant Land Commissioner. After serving with the Border Regiment during the war, he was released from Army service to become Land Com missioner for Cumberland, Westmorland and Durham, and in 1947 was appointed Pro vincial Land Commissioner for ...