... The Spanish o Refugees How hrance is lackling the Problem of (he 300,000 Homeless Men by Constructing a New and Up-to-Date Camp By FERDINAND TUOHY YOU have doubtless heard of the impasse between France and Franco over the return of the Spanish refugees to Spain. About 500,000 trekked northwards over the Pyrenees in tragic February. Nearly five months later, just under 300,000 remain on French ...

... FRONTIER TENSION in EUROPE Scenes In and Around Poland's Two Vital Ports THE MINED ROAD TO THE FREE CITY A view of the Gdynia-Danzig road looking towards Danzig. On the left of the picture can be seen the Polish anti-tank barricades which leave only the mined half of the roadway available for traffic UNDER MILITARY SUPERVISION The situation in Danzig is exemplified by this picture of an ...

... The New Geographical Situation described by NIGEL TANGYE YOU can now fly east and you can now fly west. By air -liner you can fly east from London over Holland and Belgium into Germany, and on to Warsaw, Moscow, and beyond or you can fly in a matter of hours right into the heart of the Balkans and on into Turkey; or you can fly as swift as an eagle over sea, mountain, and desert to India, ...

... BY RAIL TO SOUTH WEST II XT A How the Tonkin Line Climbs to the V^nllNA Yunnan Plateau YOU have to get into China by the back door, for the front door is held by the Japanese. There are several paths leading to the back door, but the one through Russia and Turkestan is long and difficult; the most direct is the railway which runs through Indo-China. During the years that the French were ...

... FROM NARBONNE A Newsletter _ _ _ from Southern AND MONTPELLIER France EXCEPTING amongst wine merchants, Narbonne, situated only 6 miles from the Mediterranean Sea, on the way to Perpignan and Barcelona, is one of the least known French towns, although it is an extremely up-to-date place of over 30,000 inhabitants. Narbonne combines what is ancient and modern in rather a curious way. In the ...

... THE KING GOES BY RIVER TO GREENWICH AND DINES IN THE PAINTED HALL A Banquet Given by the Lords Commissioners of Admiralty in Order to Celebrate the Restoration of a Wren Masterpiece THE BANQUET IN THE PAINTED HALL: This was the scene as the King, accom panied by the Duke of Kent, sat with members of the Board of Admiralty, senior naval officers, and other guests at a banquet held last Tuesday ...

... A Top Price for a Whistler At the Piano Evokes Eager Bidding at Christie's WITH July the summer season in the salerooms is very near its end, but some of the best sales are reserved for it. There was great in terest in the sale at Christie's on July 7, when the pictures be longing to the late Sir Edmund Davis, of Chilham Castle, were sold. The high moment of the afternoon was when Whistler's ...

... CONTINENTAL HOTELS BELGIUM. Antwerp. Grand Hotel de Londres.-- Best position in town. Highest service at reason able rates. Telegrams: Lonhotel. Anvers. Knocke-Zoute. Rubens Hotel. Finest Hotel facing sea. Near Casino Golf Tennis. Knocke-Zoute. Palace Hotel. Sea front. Near Golf. Casino. Bathing. Tennis. Special early season rates. FRANCE Antibes. Grand Hotel du Cap D'Antibes et Pavilion Eden ...

... Guarding the East Coast 1^ 1^ 1^ A 1^ yy T I K I A Well-equipped Exhibition Against Aircraft Attack \i Ix. L I I l^i^l Train Demonstrates A.R.P. AN ANTI-AIRCRAFT DEMONSTRATION: General Viscount Gort, Chief of Imperial General Staff, accompanied by the German Military Attache, Baron von Bechtolsheim, and a group of military experts, seen at Weybourne, Norfolk, recently, where they watched men ...

... Described by MICHAEL TERRY bus for Croydon airport where at 11 a.m. you take off for Marseilles. There you transfer to the Far Eastern Service for your destination 5½ days away. fares include everytnmg. transport to ana irom aerodromes, notel accommodation, all meals on land or in the air, even the regulation 10 per cent, for tips. The Dutchman goes even further and throws in free beer or ...

... Summer Studies In Essex and Kent WILD Bushes laden with fragrant blossom which nnrrr year has lasted longer owing to the KvJjtj cooler weather. This picture was taken at Stebbing Green, near Braintree, Essex THREE VARIETIES The most common species, pale pink to white, is seen on the D/^cc 'e^' The smaller, delicate sweet briar rose is in the centre, OF DOG ROSE while that on the right is ...

... THE SWISS NATIONAL EXHIBITION Zurich Exhibits a Colourful Array of Switzerland's Creative Production THE MODERN KEYNOTE A steel balustrade surmounted by a modernistic statue overlooking the exhibition grounds. This is the first exhibition of its kind held in Switzerland since before the war. Below The largest Swiss artillery gun yet made, seen in the Armaments Section THE GUARDIAN One of the ...