... By A. Croxton Smith FAR distant may be the millennium in which the Lion will he down with the lamb, but for all that examples are constantly occurring in animal life of the strong befriending the weak. Dogs notoriously exhibit altruistic instincts towards those that they seem to know instinctively are in need of protection. Young children and puppies, the more helpless of their own kind, fall ...

... ElementaryTactics for Parashooters A WEEK ago we gave some elementary instructions on how to handje a rifle by cadets in the Officers' Training Corps of the Imperial Service College, Windsor, and this week the boys have co-operated in a further i demonstration. This time by showing very clearly the right and wrong way to do things, they give an example of rudimentary tactics which may be of ...

... KING LEGEND'S FIRST SUCCESS At the distance in the i\ miles Payne Stakes at Newmarket D. Smith had King Legend in the lead and Cliff Richards on Constitution (No. iff), did not give Sir Abe Bailey's good horse a hard race when he found King Legend had his measure. Lovely Trim who finished second is the third horse. Mr. James V. Rank's four-year-old son of Queen Iseult was an even-money chance. ...

... THE lakes and rivers of England are far too chilly for the turtle, and the European Tom Tortoise, which flourishes in various parts of the Continent, is the only reptile akin to the turtle which is found in large numbers outside Australia and the Americas. We are probably rather fortunate, for turtles are highly destructive of fish and game, which they kill in astronomical numbers every year. ...

... WHEN I arrived at Leicester to play a thirty-six-hole match against W. J. Branch over his home course, an official of the club said he hoped I would not be too disappointed with the course and the financial result of the day. I have to report that the day was a huge success, approximately £400 being collected for the Red Cross Fund. The course of the Leicestershire Golf Club is only three ...

... C PEED WAY racing is not every- body's idea of sport, but the young men who indulge in it make magnificent despatch riders, motor cycle machine-gun troops and airmen. These pictures were taken at the Oxford Stadium at Cowley last Sunday, when the Oxford Motor-Cycle Speed way Club, a purely amateur-run club, decided the final of the Bolton Trophy. As can be seen from the tiny tanks fitted to ...

... Regan, the water-front bully, fearing that the new steamboat will wreck the shibbuildins industry, stirs up the moo to set fire to the ship when it is only half-completed. Fulton s friends help to extinguish the Jlamcs and work is started again, although money is difficult to obtain. The Barkers, Jack and Daphne r are painting the town blue at the Cafe de Paris. Tou Don't Have to be Old to be ...

... ON SALE NOW AT ALL BOOKSTALLS AND NEWSAGENTS i d Captain of a U-boat in the last war yet free to roam through Britain because his country was NEUTRAL GATLING looked up at the sky his chief had told him that a Heinkel had passed over the course while Lopke had been playing the day before. Remembering his chief's suggestion that a message might have been dropped in a golf ball, Gatiing decided ...

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... HIS MAJESTY THE KING-- GOD BLESS HIM! The latest portrait of Our Gracious Majesty taken very shortly before he delivered his heartening message to the Empire on May 24 Empire Day. His Majesty's example of steadfast courage in these times of acute crisis is a magnificent tonic to the subjects of this Realm throughout the world c Hu°h Cecil ...

... RECENT WEDDING BELLS A FAIR PEAL OF THEM Mr. and Mrs. Eustace Maxwell The bridegroom is a subaltern in a very renowned Highland regiment and the bride, Vivien, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Bellville, so well known in happier times in The Shires reference Woodland Pytchley, of which Mr. Bellville is an ex-Master A Perthshire Wedding Mr. and Mrs. Donald Molteno after the ceremony at West ...

... WITH SILENT FRIENDS Everyday Life in Nazi Germany. By RICHARD KING REALLY, I am getting rather bored by the opinion of posterity! Per haps we have been somewhat sur feited by moral indignation against German atrocities which, we are persuaded, are as good as military triumphs. They aren't. Posterity may-- and if it be van quished, certainly will-- condemn Germany wholesale. But little the ...