... THE AMERICAN-BUILT GENERAL GRANT TANK, WHOSE GREAT HITTING POWER IN THE LIBYAN DESERT PROVIDED ROMMEL WITH ONE OF HIS BIG SURPRISES. These new vehicles were first engaged in the Battle of Knightsbridge and have been in action ever since It has been publicly stated that in our desert operations of a year ago a large proportion of our tanks became unservice able on the road before ever they ...

... FIRST PICTURES FROM COLOGNE Taken by Reconnaissance Aircraft of the R.A.F. T'he attack on Cologne on the night of May 30-31 created history. For the first time in air warfare over 1,000 bombers were sent to the attack of a single objective Cologne. The force despatched included our biggest bombers, and every aircraft participating had been made in Britain. Cologne is (or perhaps one should ...

... THE COASTAL AREA OF THE AMERICAS, WHERE U.S. SHIPPING HAS BEEN THREATENED BY THE U-BOATS The danger-zone has been extended from the Atlantic seaboard of the United States to the Caribbean, and then southwards to the Brazilian coast many hundreds of miles away A NEW MOTHER-SHIP FOR U.S. SUBMARINES An artist's impression of a new-type submarine tender, one of several such vessels now being ...

... A SUB. -BUSTER OF THE U.S. COASTGUARD SERVICE CO-OPERATES WITH A BLIMP In the first four months of the war, it has been estimated that the United States lost 180 merchant vessels. To-day, patrol bombers, blimps and sub.-busters are co-operating to fight the menace of the U-boat. Hundreds of fast. 83-ft. vessels are now being built for the Coastguard Service one such is shown above. They can ...

... MEMORIES OF FIFTY YEARS- An Experiment in Autobiography-- XII By J. G. THOMAS CREEVEY.-- Lytton Strachey, in his Books and Characters, published in 1922, put in a typically light and contemptuous footnote on Thomas Creevey. His information, of course, was all derived from Sir Herbert Maxwell's Creevey Papers,- which had been given to the world (and delighted it) in 1904. Thomas Creevey, a Whig ...

... , , -j Nice work! The 4 wood rolls gently over the velvet green the player following its i progress with sympathetic movements of his head and shoulders. Slowly it approaches the jack and, its bias accurately judged, draws and click! meets it. And remains the present undisputed winner. Its owner relaxes, amid a murmur of approval. Nice work Yes, nice work after the day's real work. ...

... THE Council of the National Farmers' Union meets monthly, members coming to London from all over England and Wales. Eighty-five out of ninety members of the Council recently met to discuss business and to listen to Dr. Topley, of the Agricultural Research Committee. Dr. Topley's plea for closer co-operation by farmers was warmly applauded, in spite of the heavy calls which such co-operation ...

... By J. G. Stewart, O.B.E. DESPITE all the ploughing up, grass is still our most extensive crop and for the the maintenance of our animals the most important. Haymaking continues to be the principal method of conserving grass for winter feeding, and given fine weather it is the least laborious. We shall have to look to hay to replace a large part of the missing imports. Quantity alone will not ...

... cmcf (Jte/aucl OWNERS of horses which normally race under National Hunt rules are unlikely to be able to run them in this coming (or, shall we say, going!) season. The Government may review their provisional decision later, but that is the way the wind is blowing. Now, jumping whether under N.H. rules or Point-to-Point, has in the past played a big part in our national life. It is a grand ...

... Sex -Linkage The New Cambridge Varieties THE sexing of newly- hatched chicks is of special importance to-day, for this is not the time to feed unwittingly, even for a few weeks, cockerels, when it is eggs which will be so badly needed. Of the two known methods of sexing, vent examination, exploited by the Japanese over here, has had a good deal of publicity recently, when these sexers were ...

... HOWEVER controversial the question of post-war planning may be, the fact remains that it is one which can at least be tackled now, in 1942, in certain of its aspects. Post-war agriculture is one such aspect, in volving as it does the problem of feeding mass populations over the (post-war) crisis period, the transition period and the peace years to follow. It is thus an encouraging sign that ...

... Will His Majesty's Racing Luck Hold TO-MORROW'S New Derby, to be run on Newmarket's famous heath, is almost dominated, as these notes are written, by the glamour attached to the King's colt, Big Game. It may none the less be advisable, if only for purposes of record, to set out the wider aspect and implications of the race --the third of the war series and, like its two predecessors, to be run ...