... uc>ndon Newsletter 32-34 St. Bride Street, B.C. 4 Wednesday, June 7, 1939. HOMEWARD BOUND.-- Their Majesties are homeward bound. In a fortnight we shall welcome them back to London. The heaviest part of their programme-- long days and nights in the Royal train-- is behind them. The dust of the prairie, the first tremendous impressions of the Rockies, the enchanting descent into the greenery of ...

... NINETY-NINE MEN PERISH IN THE SUBMARINE THETIS After Vain Attempts to Refloat the Vessel in Liverpool Bay The Worst Disaster of Its Kind on Record Four Use the Davis Escape LATE LAST SATURDAY EVENING this Admiralty deep-sea dive wer: I down to the sunken submarine Thetis, but, so swift was the c urrent j he was often unable to keep his feet and it then became a oarer: I that there was little ...

... THE KING AND QUEEN AT CALGARY: Their Majesties in conversation with Blackfoot Indians during their visit to this great city of the prairies on their west-bound trip across Canada. Up to now the tour has been a veritable triumph and The Sphere is planning to record it in detail in a special issue which will be published on June 24, immediately after Their Majesties' return A SIGNIFICANT ...

... LATVIA ACCLAIMS ULMANIS And France Once Again Commemorates Her National Heroine LETIS GO GAY: To mark the firth anniversary of Latvia s authoritarian regime under Karlis Ulmanis there were big celebrations throughout the Republic and in Riga many citizens donned national costume. A party of them is seen (above) walking past the Liberty Statue. Right A section of the cheering throng of ...

... Strong Meat From Wales Rhondda Roundabout, a Brilliant Cross-section of Life in a Mining Valley Welsh Amateurs Lend Local Colour to a Brilliant First Play By Philip Page IF Welsh mining villages are as interesting as the plays written about them I must spend my next holiday making a tour of such places. Since the doubt is considerable, it would probably, on second thoughts, be wiser to make ...

... I BEST SELLERS Just Printed but they are the big Successes of the Mid-Season Collections T7EW things are more shattering than mistakes in prints. This summer choose well-defined patterns, clear and bright, or small and neatly formalised. Among the best of the bunch are lilac prints for garden party and evening dresses, lace patterned prints for day frocks, hot-looking flower prints closely ...

... What Other People are Doing Pictures With a Mainly Feminine Angle FASHION GOES VEILED Mrs. Fred Astaire, wife of the popular dancer, pictured wearing a smart hat fashion at the christening in the crypt of the House of Commons of the baby son of Mr. Henry Hunloke, M.P. The Duchess of Kent wearing a black straw hat and hair net veil during her visit on prize-giving day to the Royal Masonic ...

... More Budget Reactions How the Molor Industry is Re-aligning lis Policy to Meet the New Situation By A. PERCY BRADLEY, M.I.A.E., A.M.I.Mech.E. (C/erlc of the Course, Drooklands THERE is no getting away from the fact that the motor manufacturers and traders are more than worried over the projected increase in the horse-power tax. Several firms have announced that they themselves will pay the ...

... Capitals of the North Cities to See During the Hotter Months THE term Northern Capitals has been used for a long time, and I have an idea it originally applied only to the Baltic ports, but no amount of elasticity is going to precipitate an international crisis. Oslo, off the Skagerrak, must be admitted with Copenhagen, Stockholm, Tallinn, Riga, and Helsinki, but there are others, capitals ...

... WHERE FRANCE HAS THE ASPECT OF SPAIN A Glimpse of Life in the Busy Pyrenean Frontier Town of Perpignan PERPIGNAN is a delightful town where every body talks a great deal, but nobody says anything! Here are nearly 90,000 inhabitants, of whom probably 70 per cent, are French Catalans, most of them children of Spanish Catalans who, for political reasons, left Spain for ever over thirty years ago. ...

... THE TASK OF SPANISH RECONSTRUCTION Many Damaged Works of Religious Art ^pHE destruc- J- tion of the works of art in Spain has been almost entirely directed against those of a reli gious character and inevitably involves an im mense task of reconstruction. Spain, through out the centuries, has remained profoundly Catholic. Its religion has ani mated every form of spiritual activity, but the ...

... AFTER THE COMPROMISE IN THE PROMISED LAND Haifa, the Immigrant Port, and the Smuggling Racket A 24=Hour Curfew Imposed in Jerusalem in the Interests of Order WHEN NIGHT FALLS ON HAIFA the town and harbour look wonderfully Impressive i from the slopes of Mount Carmel and, so animated is the scene, it is difficult to believe that this is the gateway to a land of bitter discontent. While hosts i ...