... PARACHUTISTS ARE (AS ON PREVIOUS OCCASIONS) IN THE NEWS AGAIN HERE IS A CLOSE-UP OF OUR OWN PARACHUTE TROOPS A picture taken during last Sunday's demonstration, which was witnessed by the King Cince the invasion of the Low Countries, parachutists have been consistently in the war news, and in Crete we are now witnessing the most serious attempt yet made by the enemy to capitalise to the full ...

... Where New Zealand, British, and Greek Troops are Fighting the Parachute Troops Dropped by the Germans in Successive Waves A special Sphere Section -ItKt int itvtKtil MbmlNb HAi I AKEN PLACE IHt MALEME-CANEA AREA IN CRETE From Maleme aerodrome (which at the beginning of the week was in enemy hands, although commanded by our gunfire) to Canea is an eight- to ten-mile stretch. It is .here that ...

... A BRIEF communique by the Admiralty in March, to the effect that H.M.S. Leander had encountered the fast Italian merchant-ship R.A.M.B. armed with 4-7-in. guns, and acting as a raider, and had forced her to surrender with her fifth salvo and in May, an equally brief one that a German armed merchant-cruiser had been intercepted and sunk by H.M.S. Cornwall, twenty-seven British merchant- seamen ...

... THE MEN WHO DO THE WORK The Officers and Sergeants of the Royal Air Force RANKS in the Royal Air Force seem to be more confused in the mind of the average man than those of any other Service. That is perhaps natural, for there are Flying Officers who have never flown, Squadron Leaders who have never commanded a squadron, and even some Wing Commanders who do not know one aeroplane from another. ...

... OTHER THINGS THAN WAR The Passing of Dinner and of Courtesy in Diplomacy Chance Immortality The Fog of Political Controversy AND NOW DINNER. --You may remember Duffer's Drift and how in one of his dreams of its defence, Lieutenant Backsight- Fore thought, beaten as usual by the Boers, had been ordered by his captors to surrender one by one his arms and pieces of equipment, and how at last ...

... Water Culture Vegetables and Flowers Without Soil By R. H. Stoughton, d.Sc. (Professor of Horticulture, University of Reading) and Capt. S. R. Mullard, M.B.E., M.I.E.E. THE growing of plants in liquid nutrient solution, or in sand or gravel watered with such a solution, has recently at- tracted much attention in fact, the deplorable word hydroponics, imported from California,' where it is ...

... by L. F. Newman THE post-war basis of agriculture turns on one fundamental question. Is the home food position so important that the production of basal foodstuffs must be encouraged even if the cost of production is uneconomic? In an ideal world where inter- nationalism and a state of assured peace are established, there is no doubt that wheat and meat should be imported. Low costs of ...

... by E. L. Hawke, M.A., F.R.A.S. OLD beliefs die hard. Over 2,000 years ago an astronomer named Geminus, who lived on the island of Rhodes, wrote a book in which he took it upon himself to declare that Spring and autumn began at the times of the equinoxes, about March 21 and September 23, and summer and winter at the times of the solstices, about June 21 and December 22. 1 hese definitions of ...

... THERE are reasons why farmers with empty silos should now be planning with energy and confidence to fill them all before the autumn. The demonstrators of silage making have been working overtime in very difficult circumstances of late, but the foundations of their work were so soundly laid last year that they no longer lack audiences or support. Where they were telling farmers last year how to ...

... By Our Flying Correspondent MANY rumours had been spread about the use by the Germans of troop-carrying gliders; but it was not until the attack on Crete on May 20 that any detailed information about this form of war became available in this country. As was to be expected, the Germans used their glider troops in conjunction with their parachute troops and they followed up the air attack with ...

... I KEY-WORD I Practical I TWEED COATS AND SPORTS FROCKS CAMOUFLAGE stripes flatter your figure in this unusual coat from Gorringes, Buckingham Palace Road. Of hard-wearing tweed, woven in a wide herring-bone pattern, it is made in either navy, black or brown with white, and costs 81 guineas. For more formal days, there is another model for the same price in wool romaine, wide-sleeved and ...

... C^ecldaili to Port SOUTH AMERICAN insect specimens once sent to Ger- many for identification now go to the United States. The Nazis, of course, are too busy sending their own insect specimens to the rest of the world and hoping they won't be identified. He I'll be utterly wretched when my leave is up and I have to go back. She: Oh, darling! If I felt quite sure of that I'd be terribly happy. ...