... The Percheron Some of this Famous French Breed at Chivers' Farm LlMON, the pride of Histon. His season has ended and he is now having a well-earned rest for a few weeks. He is seven years old. K>V>V s-.'jste: .i IT S NOT A BAD LIFE The foals are enjoying themselves while they may. Their war effort will not be long delayed. PROUD OF HIS TEAM The driver of the cutter has a friendly word with his ...

... THERE was a very jolly regatta at Shrewsbury last Saturday in which all branches of the Services stationed in the Western Command took part from the King's Shropshire Light Infantry to the L.D.V.'s (Home Guard). Races were for Senior and Junior Fours, and Scullers and crews were raised from the Royal Army Pay Corps, the K.S.L.I., Royal Air Force, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, Royal Artillery, L.D.V. ...

... THE Home Guard now has its own fleet of motor boats to help in maintaining a day and night patrol of the Upper Thames. Hundreds of river craft have been lent for the purpose by mem bers of the various sailing and motor boat clubs above the upper reaches of the Thames, and last Saturday some of the boats and crews in the Henley districts were re viewed by Rear-Admiral Sir Basil Brooke. On ...

... Worksop on the I Alert J IN the thickly wooded country which sur- I rounds the College the Worksop O.T.C. I has been receiving special training in the I tactics likely to be adopted by Home Guards H on patrol in similar country, and for these H exercises they have been making use of night- H glasses, which restrict the vision to the range I of a night of average darkness. The Cadets are I also ...

... HERE we are, Marianne- and Jane, at Le Meurice again. With lots of new material, including a timely sequel to She Had to Go and Lose It at the Astor called She Really Meant to Keep It Till She Married; a rather hearty skit on Miriam Verne (I Had Hitler Doing the Splits Until His Krieg Was Absolutely Blitz)' and a very camp saga indeed, entitled They Won't Have Robert in the Guards. ...

... At the Cinema BROADWAY MELODY OF 1940 (now ot the Regal) is the first co-starring film of the nimble partnership of Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell. Eleanor may lack the ethereal appeal of Ginger Rogers, but her twinkling feet follow Fred's with perfect grace and rhythm over enormous and elaborate sets to the tunes of Cole Porter. The set used for the Begin the Beguine sequence this song-hit ...

... INSIDE KNOWLEDGE THERE'S A WEALTH OF ENTERTAINMENT IN A large number of the informative diagrammatic drawings, chiefly by that well-known artist G. H. Davis, which have been published from time to time in THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, are now avail able in collected form in a special 32-page publication entitled INSIDE KNOWLEDGE. This will appeal to all who want to know the inner workings of ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER- No. xlviii _ 32-34. St. Bride Street, E.C.4 TO TRY OR NOT TO TRY?-- Much that is false or misinformed is still obtained from German and disseminated by American and other neutral journalists, by our own Intelligence ser vice and by a study of the contemporary presses of the Axis and controlled states (which presses are not quite so colourless and controlled as most people ...

... INI ^VIP I J\ TO HAV Section of the Near East which Has Been Left in an IN J I IX I r\ I V-/-L/A-\ I Uncertain State by the Collapse of France's Imperial Policy FRANCE has long coveted Syria. Her claim is based on the Latin kingdom established in Syria at the time of the Crusades. Its duration was brief, but French memory is enduring, and this far-distant claim was actually brought forward at ...

... IN DESERTED 5 ►YRIA J*, It! k'l lift lOKKlVj An Historic Land Where Crusaders Fought and Arab Blades Have Flashed, Now Left to an Unknown Fate by the Fall of France SYRIA STILL HOLDS RECORDS OF ITS STORIED PAST s Among the hills of Syria the bastions and curtain walls of Norman castles erected in the days of the Crusades still stand AN EXTRAORDINARY FEATURE OF AN ANCIENT SYRIAN CASTLE: THE ...

... With the BOMBERCOMMAND Some New Pictures of their Unceasing Work in the Nifcht Skies THE REAR GUNNER GOES ABOARD: Here is the I lower gunner of a Hampden bomber climbing into his tiny compartment where he will remain throughout the course of the flight. A companion has another gun turret to himself above the fuselage in a similar position. but looking upwards; still a third gunner can be ...

... By LT.-COL. C. B. COST1N-NIAN, M.C. THE Monroe Doctrine has only succeeded in the past because the command of the seas has been in hands which respected it. The full realization that only the British Empire now holds America's front line has at last stirred all the Americas. If we fall the Statue of Liberty would hold her torch in the front line-- in her other hand she now seizes a sword. ...