... ALREADY considerable numbers of airmen turned out by the 100 British Commonwealth air training schools in Canada are fighting with our Forces. Many more are in training. These photo graphs, taken at an establishment in Ontario, show something of the con centrated work necessary to make a pilot, air gunner, wireless operator, or observer. Rotund and jovial Instructor H. A. Hardie is giving last ...

... A Paying Crop By Our Horticultural Correspondent RUNNER beans should now occupy attention. They can be sown outdoors from now onwards, but plants raised in the green house should not be put out for another week or two, and still further delay is advisable if the cold north-east winds continue. Nothing is more damaging to newly transplanted plants than the conditions experienced in the last few ...

... By Ashiley Courtenay Hotel Discoveries WHEN I tell people I have been living at Dulverton for some months, two questions invari ably follow. The townsman, looking rather vague, asks: Now exactly where is Dul verton? whilst the lover of country pursuits replies: Let's see now. Isn't there a rather famous sporting hotel there? There is. Sportsman's hotel well decribes the Car narvon Arms. ...

... By A. Croxton Smith THAT old joke about a dog being a pure-bred mongrel is wearing a bit threadbare, much as that is of the soldier who tells you that he is a full private. A man worked it off on me rather shamefacedly the other day when I enquired about the parentage of the rascal that was running at his heels. We all know what a mongrel is the offspring of parents of different breeds. It ...

... FILLING A WARDIAN CASE These special boxes, named after the famous Professor Marshall Ward, carry plants and specimens to every part of the world. The cases, in transport, travel on deck and the corrugated glass is specially fitted to break the rays of the sun. The plants being packed are young cocoas and are on their way to a colony. THE IMPORTANCE OF HERBS: Lack of imports makes the home ...

... SINCE I wrote of the coldest day I remembered in tournament golf the weather seems to be doing its best to produce another similar day, and it very nearly succeeded when I played in a Red Cross match at the Sherwood Forest Golf Club, Mansfield, Notts. It was a wickedly cold day; the strong icy east wind blew through one, and as there was no shelter I could find no way of keeping warm, and the ...

... By Our Air Correspondent DESPATCHES from Greece during the final stages of the evacuation of Imperial troops spoke of German air supremacy over the beaches and other embarkation points. This has led many people to ask how it was that we were unable to retain air supremacy there. I hey point to our mounting production and especially to Lord Beaverbrook's statement that in the chief operational ...

... Round the New Shows Another Winner from George Black Black Vanities IN these black-out times, Mr. George Black is certainly going all out to give London some fun. His Applesauce continues to amuse huge audiences at the Palladium. Black Vanities, which has come to the Victoria Palace after a trial trip at Brighton, is, in my opinion, an even better show. Not only are Messrs. Flanagan and ...

... THE NEW GANAL AT GIBRALTAR FIELD-MARSHAL LORD GORT, who has been appointed Governor and Commander- in-Chief at Gibraltar WHERE THE CANAL HAS BEEN BUILT at the edge of the neutral territory between Spain and Gibraltar FOR THE PROTECTION OF GIBRALTAR FROM THE LANDWARD SIDE: The new water trench, which has converted the peninsula of Gibraltar into an island, and which is spanned by only one road ...

... . Big John McMasters (CLARK GABLE) and fascinating oil-information spy, Karen Vanmeer (HEDY LAMARR). The tough partners, Square John Sand and Big John McMasters. Big John McMasters realises that his wife Betsy is the only woman he really cares for, though he has wandered and strayed a bit. Striking oil Square John Sand (SPENCER TRACY) and his partner, Big John McMasters. Square John Sand ...

... HOW WAS YOUR HEAD THIS MORNING I When you wake up with a head you ;an hardly lift, when your brain won't oncentrate and you hate the thought of getting up, it 's a sign of acidity. A disturbed night or overwork, over- worry, getting too tired, smoking too much, even drinking too much, has caused an acid condition. It 's not much good taking some- i thing to ease this pain for half an hour, if ...

... - CORPORAL MAURICE HALNA DU FRETAY was so deter mined to leave Nazi-ridden Brittany that he assembled the parts of his own small 'plane, working on it by night and camouflaging it by day. When the weather was good he flew across the Channel, risking Nazi fighters and British A.-A. fire. He made a safe landing, is joining the R.A.F., and has been decorated with the British Empire Medal ...