... IT is a curious fact that, at the nadir of its dark night of the soul, modern Mexico has discovered what Cortez was looking for-- gold. The goldfield, mostly a placer field, is situated about 12 miles from the one- time sleepy town of Magdalena, in the state of Sonora. Magdalena is no longer a sleepy town. To-day it is the off-take or the springboard to the goldfield, a boom town, with its own ...

... European Kaleidoscope: BELGIUM'S APPEAL When the representatives of the seven nations comprising the Oslo Powers met in Brussels last week King Leopold FOR PEACE made a stirring appeal for peace. Above, from left to right, are M. Bech (Luxembourg), M. Pierlot (Belgium), M. Richard Sandler (Sweden), M. Koht (Norway), M. Munch (Denmark), M. Erkko (Finland), and M. Van Kleffens (Holland) ...

... A SNAPSHOT IN WHITEHALL on Thursday afternoon, August 24, when the district was thronged OUR FOREIGN MINISTER visits the Premier. Below-- Sir Samuel Hoare, Home Secretary (on left), walking to Downing Street mwjA. -v Xtmi y viauw wnrvv. ..-4.. THE CROWD AT WESTMINSTER ON THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, AS THE COMMONS MET TO PASS THE EMERGENCY BILL SIR ROBERT VANSITTART, chief dip lomatic adviser to the ...

... The Astonishing Russo-German Pact Scenes at the Moment of Signing in the Kremlin, Moscow The two pictures given above record one of the most astonishing pacts made in the course of European history. It is hard to find a case where two important nations, endeavouring to make an agreement with a third nation, are suddenly informed that a fourth party has negotiated a definite pact at the same ...

... A.R.P. PREPARAT ions in London PILL-BOXES FOR THE SENTRIES AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE The sugarloaf metal shelter was being placed around the courtyard of the Palace at the beginning of the week. This form of shelter is intended to provide cover for the solitary worker SANDBAGGING THE HOSPITALS OF THE METROPOLIS All over London preparations for possible air raids have been made this week. Count- ...

... THE OLDEST HANDWRITING A Claim from La Vendee mHE oldest handwriting in the world is 1 how Dr. Marcel Baudouin describes the 275 hieroglyphics which he has deciphered on a pre historic stone found at Poire de Vie in La Vendue and which he says represent an octagonal zodiac engraved on the stone about 6,800 B.C., that is in the time of Neolithic man. Dr. Baudouin, who is the founder of the ...

... ADD LONDON M.K.r. PREPARES EXTRA London policemen seen leaving POLICE Scotland Yard last week after being EQUIPMENT equipped with gas masks, which are contained in canvas haversacks A LONDON A new block of buildings under con- WAR-TIME CASUALTY struction for a big London hospital CLEARING STATION is having built into its foundations a war-time casualty clearing station A LODGE-KEEPER'S ...

... THE DAY ol the WAR DECLARATION Scenes in Whitehall on the Sunny Sunday Mornino the PRIME MINISTER SETS OUT FOR It was an extraordinary scene early-autumn THE HOUSE ON SUNDAY MORNING sunshine streaming down on Whitehall as the Premier's car left for the House amid heartfelt cheers from the spectators THE CROWD OUTSIDE 10, DOWNING STREET A large crowd gathered ovtsidel ON SUNDAY MORNING, ...

... 1,400 MILES THROUGH CRISIS BRITAIN A Wifely Odyssey from ihe Soufh fo the North ONE crisis day last week, two naval wives received wires from their husbands suggesting that they should visit them during a respite ashore. I was one of those wives who obediently set off by car in the afternoon, after hectic packings and arrangements, with the intention of reaching our destination the next day, ...

... KHAKI AGAIN A FAMILIAR SIGHT in London NIGHT-TIME By means of a special camera it was possible SNAPSHOT to secure this very clear picture of Picca dilly after dark during crisis days last week. The khaki escort was once again in evidence TO REINFORCE GOVERNMENT Post office reservists of the Royal Corps TELEPHONE STAFFS of Signals who recently arrived in the capital to augment the telephone and ...

... The Same With A Difference ALL READY TO LEAVE They were waiting with their luggage on the morning of August 30 to THEIR PARIS SCHOOL start out for the station where they were to entrain for the inciK r a ia country. Very varied were the bags, cases, clothes, and footgear GAS-MASKS FOR PARIS Two mothers are here seen leading their children IT,-^ homewards after receiving gas-masks', (in metal ...

... THE PERSONAL TOUCH At War's Outbreak ROYALTIES IN TOWN The Duke and Duchess of Kent. DURING WAR-TIME in residence in Belgrave Square, take their chow for a walk^ THE STEEL HELMET BECOMES This Westminster warden reads over the latest FAMILIAR FEMININE HEADWEAR regulations with another warden. The people about the streets appeared quite undisturbed A MINISTER AND HIS WIFE CARRY Sir Samuel Hoare, ...