... Australian Fire Havoc AS THE FLAMES ADVANCED ON THE TOWN OF NARBETHONG, in one of the greatest bush fires in Australian history, a daring cameraman obtained this spectacular shot. Over sixty lives were lost in Victoria State and the damage to property has been immense. It was an exceptional instance of a top fire, with flames leaping through the foliage, as distinct from the usual ground ...

... elona Without Opposition Capital Fell Arouses Barcelona's Enthusiasm ■melted almost to enthusiasm, and long- ^fcarted friends and relations picked their ^Kvay among the faithful trench shelters ^fend refuges now vacant at last, queued ■up at public fountains for what scanty ■supply of drinking water was still to be ■had, or adjourned to restaurants, there ■to consume their spoil, and hopeful ...

... Flight From D n/* r I /N kj A Scenes in the City as Government 13 /V Ix X* t L 1^1 r\ Supporters Prepared to Leave AS FRANCO'S TROOPS DREW EVER NEARER these citizens of Barcelona waited for transport to take them north, away from the scene of war. Almost 200,000 people left the city when it fell and it was obvious that some had lost all faith in the Government cause, for they flocked through ...

... Irs Up to Signor Mussolini Now The Sphere's Foreign Correspondent Looks Back On the Rome Visit and, in the Light of What Happened, Surveys the Present State of Britain's Relations With Italy By FERDINAND TUOHY NEVERTHELESS, our experience has been that those princes who have done great things have held good faith of little account, and have known how to circumvent the intellect of men by ...

... Name 'Fay Pearl.' As soon as Robin beard this absurd name, he sighed with relief. And he said to himself, That girl's got to be engaged.' To call herself 1 Fay Pearl' was, in itself, a stroke of genius. It was inspired cheek. She Was Fay Pearl. She couldn't be anything else. Particularly, when she spoke her name so exquisitely, in a sort of silver whisper, on an ascending scale as though, ...

... THE QUILT-MAKERS OF COUNTY DURHAM Skilled Work by Wives of the Unemployed: The Queen Buys Five Quills for Windsor HThe magnificent quilt work depicted here is being produced in their cottage homes by the wives of unemployed Durham miners, and it is clear that it reaches a wonderfully high standard of craftsman ship. Her Majesty the Queen recently bought five of these quilts for the Royal ...

... A SPORTS CAR THAT IS SILENT The 2-litre M.G. Which Combines Silkiness and Silence With Speed and Safety By A* PERCY BRADLEY, M.I.A.E., A.M.I.Mech.E. Clerk of the Coune, Brooldands) IN the mind of the average motorist mention of an M.G. car probably conjures up a small, low-built nippy vehicle with quite a decisive exhaust note. In consequence, if one were to suggest to the middle-aged or ...

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... Notes From Far and Near M any Empire Visitors Expected During the Summer: Italy's Healing Springs Worthy of Greater Renown USUALLY this space is devoted to outward travel. This time I want to start with a note about people who are coming here. There are indications that we shall see considerable activity in travel from Australia during the summer, in fact, some are already on the way. Cooks ...

... The Mediterranean Chessboard When and If Franco Captures Spain's Whole Pyrenean Frontierland, fhe Duce Will Deem the Time Ripe to Act Says Lady Drummond-Hay THE fall of Barcelona to Generalissimo Francisco Franco, insurgent Caudillo (Leader) of Nationalist Spain, promises to bring Italian-French tension to a new, and perhaps final, climax. That is the view held very generally in diplomatic ...

... A MOTHER OF FRANCE IS GODMOTHER TO A BATTLESHIP How Madame Mons, the Wife of a Shipyard Worker, Floated the 35, 000-fon Richelieu in the Construction Dock at Brest -t ii _ _-*t THEIR DAY OF DAYS: M. Campinchi (left), the French Minister of Marine, with M. Mons, one of the workers who helped build the new French battleship Richelieu, Madame Mons and some of the ten Mons children. Madame Mons ...

... rT,liis is the story of Bimbo, just one of many thousands of South African coloured folk brought up in the primitive conditions of the kraal and, in the fullness of his young manhood encouraged to go to work in the great mines of the Rand. Bimbo, like all his kind, is a simple soul with many quaint ways, and when lie wanders about Johan nesburg in his leisure hours it is not difficult to ...