THE "WEEKLY PRESS."

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16146, 26 February 1918, Page 2

THE "WEEKLY PRESS."

1 Among the articles in '"Reading for Everybody" in the issue of the "Weekly Press" coming out to-dav. is one on the superiority of tho Allies in air fighting. 6n the illustrated pages is graphically pictured the operations described in the article, and the two make a thrilling contribution to the war items. Something of what goes on behind the lines is shown in a comprehensive picture, another describes one of the many scene 6 connected with the arrival in Jtaly of Allied assistance, a third shows some of tho guns captured from the enemy, and a fourth depicts the lonely sentry at an outpost on the sands of tho East. Then readers get portraits of Britain's new Sea Lord, Sir Rosslyn 10. Wemyss, and of Trotzky and Lenin, who liaye so largely helped Russia into her position of chaos and helplessness. Fallon tre«s to impede an advance,-the work of tho motor-boat patrol, and a mascot bear, are other engravings savouring of the war. In local matters space is given to good illustrations of the Wanganui and Hawera races, to the whale that -was stranded at New Brighton, and to two subjects that will prove most interesting to both old and young residents of North Canterbury. The following story comes from a Midfand war hospital: — First Orderly: "We've just got a chap in who has lost his voice, and the M.O. says he -won't get it back unles he has a, bit of a shock/' Second Orderly: "I think I can put him right. I'll give him some of that 'ere marmalade in the morning, and if that don't bring out a few •words then 'e's absolutely hopeless I"