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... Britain's Fast. Expanding Navy- Launchings H.M.S. RODNEY FIRES HER A.A. GUNS during gunnery exercises off Portland where the Home Fleet forgathered last week. A picture taken from the deck of H.M.S. Nelson and showing off-duty men in the foreground. Rodney's biggest guns are of 16-in. calibre and the cost of firing a triple salvo is £700 THE NELSON'S GUNS ROAR: Off-duty men watching as the ...
... In Praise of the French Army With Daladier Playing the Role of Carnot, the French Republic Has Built Up a Wonderfully Efficient Defence Force By FERDINAND TUOHY AT the risk of being squashed by military his torians, it looks to this humble student that the present is the sixth French army, as a distinc tive type and organism, that has appeared in the past 300 years. I take off with Louvois, ...
... FRANCE COULD BY-PASS GIBRALTAR The Possibilities of Developing the Midi Canal, the Link Be tween Bordeaux and Marseilles ANYONE who buys an ordinary street guide to Marseilles will notice at the base of the plan some curious dotted lines. They look like a litho graphic error, because they appear utterly out of proportion to the rest of the plan. There is no error, however, for these dotted ...
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... YELLOW AND BLACK, the smartest colour combination for town suits. Burberry's have pleated this slender skirt across the front and have meticulously tailored the pale yellow duvetyn jacket, with its new, very low front fastening VEILED PILL -BOX in white gros-grain, accented with navy blue ribbons and veiled exuberantly in blue with graduated white chenille spots. Caught at the back so that it ...
... Devon's Glorious Coast Line A County of Rare Charm Which Finds Its Most Perfect Exbression in June Ilfracombe and Its Three Hills-- Clovelly, the IJo Horse Village WE are not going very far this time. It is well now and then to reflect on some features of the vast contribution the homeland makes to the world of travel, and Whit week is an appropriate occasion, for in the past few days most ...
... Ottawa The Capital TO THE THUNDEROUS CHEERS OF A POPULATION SWOLLEN TO MANY TIMES ITS NORMAL SIZE the King and Queen drove through Ottawa in an open landau drawn by four bay horses, with scarlet-clad out riders, and accompanied by a mounted escort of the 4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards. This was the first big event of the Royal visit to the capital city, a visit that lasted from the morning ...
... CAMERA CLOSE-UPS OF THE ROYAL TRAVELLERS Some Charming Studies of the King and Queen Taken During the Tour THE SMILE THAT CHARMED A CONTINENT: The' Queen greeting a disabled war veteran after the ceremony at which the King unveiled Canada's National War Memorial at Ottawa. This particular incident of the tour aroused immense enthusiasm as the King and Queen deliberately departed from the pre ...
... J p-- p I p I p^ From Toronto, Across tho Continont to tho V I INI t 1 I t 3 U P lilt I L/ U lx Great Divide, and Back to Niagara Falls 2850 AND 6057 DO THEIR BIT Above on left-- A vision in Royal blue, silver, and gold. The Canadian Pacific locomotive which drew the Royal train on its 3, 000-mile journey from Quebec to Vancouver and above the Canadian National locomotive which was used on ...
... Sunday at Hyde Park MEMORIES OF CRATHIE: One of the Royal cars leaving St. James's Church, Hyde Park, New York State, following the morning service which was attended by the King and Queen and President and Mrs. Roosevelt on Sunday, June 11, when Their Majesties enjoyed a welcome day of rest after their visit to New York. On rig/it The Rev. Frank Wilson, Rector of St. James's, Bishop Tucker, ...
... FAREWELL TO CANADA HALIFAX, JUNE 15, 1939 In the setting sun of a perfect summer's day the King and Queen sailed for home from Halifax, I\ova Scotia, with the God- speedof 1 2,000,000 Canadians who, it is safe to say, will never forget the time that 7 heir Majesties spent amongst them. 7 o mark the occasion the Canadian Prime Minister presented the Queen with a grey silver fox stole on ...
... NEW BRUNSWICK'S LIEUT. GOVERNOR escorts the Queen into the New Brunswick Parliament House at Fredericton. This was one of the last halts on the Royal tour before Their Majesties embarked, at Halifax, Nova Scotia, for Newfoundland and home AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE, CHARLOTTETOWN: The King and Queen make a final appearance on the balcony. Charlottetown is the capital of Prince Edward Island, to which ...