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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16155, 8 March 1918, Page 3

AND FOLLOWING DAYS PROMENADE OBMBBBBBBBBMBrnHMI : :. AT THE D.1.C.! A Grand Exhibition of Latest Best Fashions for Antnmn and Winter, 1918. Each Department An excellent opportunity to beeozne pleasantly acquainted with the New Styles. »EVEEYBODY CORDIALLY INVITED 1432—9573* ;

Food shortage in England i 6 acute, as the following sketch indicates:—"Her troubled eyes searched the twilight with furtive intentness before she slipped into the doorway of an empty house. ; Here, screened from observation, s he drew from her valise a long waterproof : and a thick veil. With hasty, trembling j fingers she slipped the former over her i neat costume, and, fastening the veil i round her hat, looked at herself in a : tiny mirror. Surely she was safe from - recognition! Never, never had she thought to come to this, but she must not fail. Only the direst necessity 1 would have nerved her to it : only the j need of those dearer than life would i have given her courage Swiftly e she passed into the High stre?t, through r the darkened doorway she slunk, her r head bent. 'A quarter of butter,' she t mumbled, and they did not know they f had served her before that day." 11 <