... A London Newsletter SWISS NATIONAL EX HIBITION: ZURICH.-- On May 6 the great Swiss National Exhibition opens at Zurich, a city which somehow never fails to cheer and charm. The everlasting, snow-capped mountains, the great blue lake round which the city is built, its walks and forest paths, its baths and gardens, its colour and sun shine and cheerful architecture, all contribute to make it the ...

... TARRAGONA TAKEN BY FRANCO'S ARMY A Significant Event in the History of the Long-drawn-out Civil War The Town Deserted THE historic city of Tarragona fell on January 15 as the result of the steady advance of General Franco's army across Catalonia; thereafter the insur gents pushed on with such determination that on January 23 the Fifth Navarrese Division, crack unit of the insurgent army, came ...

... Sailors Take Wings How the Reef Air Arm is Being Trained PREPARING TO GO ABOARD! Midshipmen putting on their flying kit before starting the day's work at the No. 1 Flying School at Netheravon where men from all ranks of the Navy are now being prepared by R.A.F. instructors for their work in the rapidly expanding force known as the Fleet Air Arm. It was only a short while ago, it will be ...

... War Photographers of the Crimea and the Mutiny The Remarkable Work of the Pioneers Now on View in an Exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum AN extremely interesting exhibition commemorating the centenary of photography was opened in Room 73 at the Victoria and Albert Museum on January 25. The exhibition covers a period irom about 1840 to 1900 and includes photographs of the Crimean War, ...

... I* A p/^F| A I I rCC/\MC Passive Defence Methods in Catalonia and U /A Ix V Li L I N /A and IIS Ll J jL/I N J What They Teach London's A. R. P. Authorities EMERGING from the tragedy of the Spanish civil war are many valuable lessons that Britain and other countries interested in air-raid precautions cannot afford to ignore. One man who has made an intensive study ol A.K.P. methods in Govern ...

... About POONA But It is One of India's Most Charming Cities on the Southward Route from Bombay INDIA is such a stupendous subject that it almost confounds anyone who attempts to present its wealth of travel interest in the compass of one of these pages. So in previous articles I have followed some of the most travelled routes. Foremost among these is that between Bombay and Calcutta which links ...

... 32-34 St. Bride Street, E.C. 4 Wednesday, August 2, 1939. THE HUDSON-WOHLTAT TALKS.- -I confess myself fuddled by the whole business of the Hudson- Wohltat talks. They are ancient history now. July 20 is in the limbo. Probably no one remembers anything about them. What happened? The Telegraph had a great splash about these talks on the same day on which The Times was practically silent about ...

... Thrilling Yacht Duels at Cowes A BRILLIANT VISITOR TO BRITISH WATERS: Mr. Harold Vanderbilt's yacht Vim, which has been dominating the 12-metre class since she started racing on this side of the Atlantic at the beginning of the summer, seen leading Jenetta. At Cowes, however, she has not had it all her own way and on the first day Mr. Sopwith sailed Tomahawk to such purpose that she got the ...

... Poland's Fa Units That Could ITH IN CAVALRY: r^tpwin, ON May 3, Poland's National Holiday commemorating the establishment of their Constitution in 1791, there was a review of those troops comprising the garrison of Warsaw. This garrison is composed of almost every branch of the Polish army, and no one who saw that parade could fail to be impressed by the bearing and the physique of the men ...

... |j A A Fast Developing Force 111 I D KA A 'C D M V Recruits Much of Its O ^\lxl*l I i Strength in the Hill Country ON April 1, 1939, Burma completed two years as a separate country, and its own army also completed two years as a separate defence force. It takes two years to bring a raw recruit from the wild hills of Burma and turn him into a trained soldier, so the result of this period of two ...

... WHERE JAPAN IS WAGING TWO WARS AND A DIPLOMATIC BATTLE Scenes in China in the First Month ot the Third Year of Hostilities The Blockade at Tientsin Fighting in Mongolia FLOODS IN SHANGHAI A car ploughing its way through one of the Inundated streets of the city where the floodwaters have caused considerable havoc. Of late Shanghai has again been the scene of bitter fighting, and on July 24 it ...

... Memung's Fairy-tale World A Magnificent Exhibition of Forty-six of His Works is Staged by the Town of Bruges THE town of Bruges was happily inspired when it decided to organise an exhibition of the works of Hans Memling. It has always been possible, of course, to see some of this fifteenth-century master's best works in Bruges, at the HÔpital St. Jean and the Musée Communal but the present ...