... AND^rAMATIcSr Go To It IVlth TjtMpleK T and Get I here! Friday, april a, 1941. (j$ The Illustrated SPORTING and DRAMATIC News SPORT COUNTRY ...

... By Ashley Courtenay TRAVELLING on that slowest of trains, the Tivvy express, which seems to invariably start late from Exeter and dawdle its way up the Exe Valley, I got into conversation with a parson from Kent, who enquired tenderly after the fishing prospects in the Exe and the Barle, and from fish the subject naturally drifted to hotels. He asked about the Carnarvon Arms at Dulverton and ...

... The Army's Agriculture cheme THERE is a popular idea that the Army authorities are encouraging the troops to establish pig farms, to help in the harvests and, in their spare time, to cultivate little garden plots. This is so, but what is not generally realised is that, for some time past, the military have been creating an organisation designed to achieve a serious food-producing effort. This ...

... CONSIDERABLE areas of land are, of course, already being farmed by War Agricultural Executive Committees, and the scope of their work is being extended every day. One wonders, in fact, where it is all going to end. The answer, we suggest, is that appropriate action should soon be taken by the Government to take over and farm some of the larger areas permanently, that is, after the war. It is ...

... Stocking thi Tool Shed By Our Horticultuil Correspondent TO completely stock the tool shed with every implement and every item of equipment which one may require at some future date may cost as much as the value of the produce in the first season. A good many people therefore adopt the very sensible plan of buying the tools required for immediate use, adding others as their use becomes ...

... SPLENDID trade with average prices well in advance of last year's figures is reported from the Reading Cattle Market where the fourth spring show and sale of Dairy Shorthorns organised by the Shorthorn Society was held last week. A number of beef shorthorn bulls were also entered by members of the Southern, Midland and Welsh Shorthorn Breeders' Association. Entries were good though slightly ...

... Current :ilms Stories by Shaw and after Conrad, direction by Hitchcock and the Co-operation of the U.S. Navy, make a lively selection MAJOR BARBARA With a suitable flourish of trumpets the first film premiere for a long long time in fact 44 Major Barbara has come to the Odeon. Like 44 Pygmalion the film has had Shaiv's special care and attention he wrote the scenario and all the dialogue and ...

... Worth-while Easter C*it*ts IN the main, the giving of presents this Easter should be dis couraged, but there is one form of gift-- the gift of money to deserving causes-- that should not be discon tinued, whatever other economies are ractised. The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, is in urgent need of funds. Bombed homes, evacuation, and the loss of a parent on active ...

... And the Advance on Diredawa, in Abyssinia Further pictures on pages 20-21) HOW KEREN WAS CAPTURED ON MARCH 27 THE ALMOST IMPREGNABLE KEY POSITION IN ERITREA: Right in the heart of Italy's colony of Eritrea, and astride the railway from the port of Massawa to Agordat and beyond, Keren was garrisoned by some 40,000 men. The drawing above shows how the defences were penetrated. The British ...

... AN ANALYSIS of the ROUNDABOUT SHOWN on the LEFT and BELOW- The running fight and the roundabout are the two forms of air combat which have most commonly been registered in photography. These two pictures show the same battle. The probable height of this was 25,000 ft., and the narrow ellipse shows it to have taken place several miles away-- probably over the south-eastern suburbs during an ...

... No' 4 ^0%v General James Wolfe V* General James Wolfe THE house had three gables-- as it has to-day-- and it stands at the foot of the little hill leading up to Westerham Green. A pleasant Elizabethan manor house, had thought Colonel Wolfe. His wife liked it, too, although, when the time came when the infant James was due to arrive, she spent the fateful hours a hundred yards up the street at ...

... 1 ■T$Sr S SB r- I^Hi&^^HB' aagSSr jask^M H^^n| MTwa g^ mk S^rfll No fewer than five Continental Countries, with a population of over seventy million people, have their free and legitimate Governments now established in England By Ferdinand Tuohy LIBERATION is on the way. The only thing is, should it be merely awaited or should one help in achieving it? I hear you reply, without hesitation, ...