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THE CHINA MAIL.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1932.

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WON THE IRON CROSS,

Mr. Winston Churchill, has, writ- ten an appreciative foreward to, a book published under the title "I Was a Spy." The author is Marthe McKenna, and Mr. Churchill, de- scribes her book as thrilling. That- it most certainly is. Milo. Marthe Cnockaert, now happily married to an Englishman, was a young Bel gian girl at the beginning of the. Great War. Her story opens with one or two terrible pictures of, the Gorman invasion of her country. Es 'caping the worst brutalities of the invaders, she remained, for several She years in occupied territory.

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wounded to the parade. She did. small moulds previously wet inside and to study other well-turned-out{ Aided Prisoners. The story of her work is as varied the, inevitable risks of bombing, round with cream or pass rich cream it is discovered that these women They were badly bombed." She ran on individual serving plates. Sure women in society and on the stage. as it la exciting. There was, of course, the routing work of collect worked berolcally to mitigate the sweetened.

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spoon on buttered, baking, sheets these need more detail and fuller Admired Enemies.··

14 inch apart and bake to a golden lines. Somes are petite, and they The point is that Marthe brown in a hot oven. A pan of must guard against anything fussy. from other spy stories of the war Cnockaert, as nurse, was not playing water may be placed in oven dur Then there are full-figured women

nurse, just as she was a very good hard and brown. a part. She was an admirable ing baking to prevent baking too who must pay special attention to spy. That was why she avoided discovery so long and at last was caught through a careless little alip. That was why, oven after she had. been found out, her relations with

Importance of being fitted for foundation garments, since it is no the medical authorities were still

longer a matter of boning, but one friendly, and why, even while strain-

of cutting, which gives the correct ing every nerve to kill Germans, she

line. Many beautifully fitted corsets speaks in the highest terms of the We used to have time to plan have no bones at all. **** German doctors.

ahead and, get ready for certain For the rest, the book gives s'eventa where clothes were the im- vivid account of Life in occupied ter-portant feature of the occasion but ritory. What impresses, one most, nowadays, the, smart, woman, has, to perhaps, is that even so near the be ready all, the time, and her ward line, so much of the life that had robe has to be so adaptable that Some undercoat afternoon gowns been. normal still had to go on. But there is, no festivity to, which it are in two colours and of two one notes also Mme. McKenna's cannot, lend a charm, that seems na-materials, which are linked. by a evidence, though she writes bitterly tural and not just "hatched up for merging of the bodice and the skirt of the horrors of the invasion, that the moment."

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