... Good News for 1941 Season But No Coronation Stakes Entries Fees Problem An Aintree Grand National The Late Alfred Sadler ALL-ROUND satisfaction is expressed in regard to the Jockey Club's publication of their foundation plans for racing in the coming season. The writer, who has just received a letter from a friend in Cairo imploring him to give us every scrap of racing news that there is, ...

... FRESH powers have been given to drainage authorities to enable them to get on with their big job without pettifogging delays. Machinery is being provided by the Government to do the work quickly and efficiently, and every effort is being made to secure additional labour and to make effective use of it. Grants are offered for every kind of work, from hill pasture to river estuary. The small ...

... 8/ Our Flying Correspondent THE other day I sought to weigh up the advantages gained by Britain and Germany in the bombing campaign and to strike a balance. Now is a good moment to look at the larger war situation; to take the past twelve months of aerial operations of all kinds and to see how we stand. Much is unknown and will remain unknown until long after the war is over. For instance we ...

... By our Horticultural Correspondent Three Ways of Growing Winter Lettuce A COMPLETE gardening season has elapsed since we were first urged to increase food production in our gardens. On the whole, I believe the response to the Govern ment's appeal has been good, but it is evident that enough vegetables are not yet being grown to satisfy the country's needs. The present shortage of onions gives ...

... MART HARDWICK-- PRO. Mary Hardwick, the Wightman Cup player who has been playing in matches up and down the United States (with vary ing success) ever since war began has at last turned professional. Here she is signing up with Jack Harris who is putting her on tour with Alice Marble Budge and Tilden. She announces that a large part of her earnings will go to war charities. In the rec ent ...

... J gaga in) ,1 iM 'I 1 in ii 11 1 1 w iUL IjEjJjLAJB VirG^ 7j FERRy ROADi TOPSHAM. The House of Sir William Follett. 4 born 1798, famous Attorney-General who, being paralysed, addressed the House of Commons from a high chair. Yet another famous number with smokers is m Player's No. 3 that well-known cigarette of delight- ful mellowness and excellent flavour, distinguished m for the finer ...

... f; ;-*g^g3Sajg BRANCH DESERT ROADS WHICH LEAD SOUTHWARDS INTO THE SUDAN In addition to the 1,200-mile motor road described on the fore- going pages, there are a number of desert roadways developed along the caravan routes to the Sudan and other areas to the south. These are developed from the mere worn track to a good hard, well-defined highway, as circumstances dictate, just as in French ...

... E VULNERABLE L' ITALIA? NO! In a recent broadcast Lord Beaverbrook, Minister of Aircraft Production, gave some interesting details concerning aero planes coming from our own factories and from America. .After disclosing that our fighter-pilots are using a new type the Whirlwind he went on to say that the British Air Commission in the United States, 350 strong, has bought all the aeroplanes and ...

... ICELAND WHERE OUR TROOPS KEEP WATCH AND WARD DURING THIS WARTIME CHRISTMAS SEASON ALL OVER THE ISLAND BRITISH AND CANADIAN TROOPS KEEP WATCH ON VITAL POINTS OF DEFENCE On this strange island, where nature throws fire and ice in violent juxtaposition, soldiers from Britain and Canada have to guard a rugged coastline from possible attack. Their chief complaint ruling out the weather, which ...

... A DIARY of the WAR (Outstanding Dates from September 3, 1939 to the Christmas Period of 1940) SEPTEMBER 1939 3. Great Britain and France declared war on Germany War Cabinet of nine formed with Mr. Winston Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty. 8. Germans advance rapidly into Poland. 1 1. Arrival of British Expeditionary Force in France. 17. Russian Troops invade Poland. 19. Hitler, at ...

... WINTER -AND THE GREEKS PURSUE THE ITALIANS i i 'g-v _ WHERE ROCK-PERCHED HIMARA LOOKS DOWN ON THE LITTLE SEAPORT BELOW As the Greek advance crept northwards from the frontier, so fresh areas j of Albania came into the news. After the evacuation of Santi Quaranta, the Italian forces began to return up the coastal road which, as one writer put it, goes rocketing upwards towards Valona, by way ...

... ike Escapism's the Thing By James Agate THERE, is no point in concealing the fact that the much-praised film at the London Pavilion, Our Town, was a considerable disappointment to this ever- sanguine, ever-eager-to-be-delighted onlooker. I had heard excitsd talk of new technique, new method, wonderful pathos, wonderful acting, primitive strength. What is the new method and technique f Merely ...