... A London Newsletter 32-34 St. Bride Street, E.C.4 Wednesday, May 3, 1939. GOD-SPEED.-- It is many months since the announcement of the projected tour of Their Majesties to Canada and America was hailed as an event of first-rate importance. There have in our times been many famous Empire tours made by the Royal Family, and an extensive literature grew up round each of them. There was the Sera ...

... European Round: ewe as Political Discussions FRANCO-RUMANIAN TALKS: M. Daladier, M. Tataresco, Rumanian Ambassador in Paris, and M. Gafencu, Rumanian Foreign Minister, pictured as they dined together at the Rumanian Embassy in Paris during M. Gafencu's visit. Previously M. Gafencu had visited London and Berlin, and in all three capitals he helped to clarify Rumania's position. In so far as ...

... A Percy Weds THE WEDDING OF THE WEEK Lady Diana Percy, younger daughter of the late Duke of Northumberland, seen as she left her home in Princes Gate, Kensington, for her marriage in Westminster Abbey to Viscount Brackley, only son and heir of the Earl and Countess of Ellesmere. Standing on the right are two of Lady Diana's neighbours, Eunice and Bohhv Kennedy, children of the American ...

... Bombers in Abundance THE DUKE OF KENT SEES BLENHEIM BOMBERS UNDER CONSTRUCTION: His Royal Highness pictured during his tour of Rootes Government Airframe Factory at Speke, near Liverpool. The progress of our aerial rearmament is considered most satisfactory, while R.A.F. recruiting is on a scale that would have been deemed phenomenal a few months ago. The daily average for inquiries at the Air ...

... DUTCH INGENUITY This heavy, armoured steel machine-gun nest is in use in the Dutch Army. It can easily be transported by truck, so that in the event of a not too rapid retreat it could be saved from enemy hands. Below These retractable steel arms have been fixed at a Dutch bridgehead to prevent the passage of mechanised forces SWEDISH RESERVISTS IN ACTION G unners giving a demonstration of one ...

... L'Armee DE L'AIR Sr-fetS Big Purchases Made in the United States THE French are a naturally air-minded people-- far more so than the British. French pilots are among the finest in the world, and the general populace have a marked interest in aviation, as is evidenced by the great crowd that hovers around even the smallest French aerodrome whenever there is any flying. It is all the more ...

... 1 Some More Notable Pictures A JL Zs Z/ From Burlington House THE TIRED LITTLE DANCER By Ethel Gabain THE VISCOUNTESS DAWSON OF PENN By Fldra Lion TRIAL AND ERROR By Meredith Frampton, A.R.A. THE HOLIDAY, DEVORAN VALLEY By S. J. Lamorna Birch, R.A. FREDDIE'S FIRST VISIT By James W. Tucker BRIGHTON IN THE REGENCY By Anna Zinkeisen FILMING A YOUNG MAN'S FANCY By W. Russell Flint, R ...

... THE ORCHID BRIDE: Lady Priscilla Willoughby steps forward to shake hands with the sergeant of the guard of honour following her marriaqe at the Royal Military Chapel, Wellington Barracks, to Lieut. -Colonel Sir John Aird, of the Grenadier Guards. The bride is the younger daughter of the Earl of Ancaster, Lord Great Chamberlain of England AND THEY CALL IT A LIVERY COMPANY! The Master of the ...

... Where They wont Walk EVERYONE RIDES: Cars streaming down Wilshire Boulevard, Hollywood. There are fine pavements, but few people seem to use them, and many a doctor shakes his head as he contemplates the decline of the pedestrian THERE IS NO PAVEMENT on this highway linking two suburbs of Los Angeles. Could there be clearer proof of the way pedestrians are dying out in the golden west? TRUCK ...

... WAIFS STRAYS WAIFS STRAYS 1 f F tfllJfyW* m ME LESS and 5TITUTE 4 children j RECEIVED j VERY DAY 4,800 CHILDREN N O W I N OUR CARE Please send to help feed a child for one week SOCIETY KENNIHGTON LONDON, S. E. 11. _____ __ Bankers Barclays Ltd. ...

... idA Backdoor to China How Goods for the Republic are Being Trans ported Along the New Highway from Burma Described by a Correspondent Familiar with the Route IN view of present conditions in China and her difficulty in obtaining supplies through Russia (a long and difficult route) and French Indo-China (where there have been various obstacles to transportation and where, in any case, the ...

... ALONG THE TRAIL OF '38 The Story of Yellowknife, Canada's Gold Boom Town BUSIEST of Canada's un developed mining camps last year was the Yellowknife area in the North-west Territories, 650 miles due north of Edmon ton, the nearest primary source of supplies. Reports of spectacular gold Unas have come out of that region and every major mining com pany in the Dominion has engineers working there ...