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Show BRIEFS. . . &y Baukhage Best seller in Britain today is a booklet on how to stretch a clothes coupon. Called "Make Do and Mend." the booklet offers the British Brit-ish housewife a wealth of information informa-tion on how to utilize her old clothes and household linen to the last thread by methods which would have made her shudder in peacetime. peace-time. The booklet is one of the most popular publications. The Nazi-controlled Rome radio told the Italian people that the Russians Rus-sians are insisting on keeping their offensive going because they can do nothing else since they need successes suc-cesses to strengthen the home front. Revealing that attacks on German soldiers have become common in Greece, a public notice printed in the Nazi-controlled Greek press has warned the population that henceforth hence-forth German military authorities would shoot 50 Greeks for every murdered German soldier. Two hundred Australian girls recently re-cently attended the first meeting in Melbourne of a club whose membership mem-bership is limited to Australian girls either married to or engaged to American servicemen. The object is to enable girls who may later become be-come neighbors in America to become be-come acquainted in Australia. They feel they can be of mutual assistance assist-ance in solving new problems. French patriots and partisans in northeastern France have become so audacious they often stop Germany-bound freight trains and distribute dis-tribute merchandise from the cars to the residents of the countryside. t Bears, wolves, wolverines and foxes have staged such a comeback in Norway during the past three years that they have become a plague to the Norwegian farmers. Stripped of their firearms by Nazi order, the Norwegians are unable tc combat the pests. |