... GALLOWAY cattle are well known for their hardiness and they will fatten well on poor exposed grazing land in the cold and wet climate of their native country. They are in great demand for crossing with other breeds for beef production, and the Galloway- Shorthorn cross is perhaps the best-known type. If white or light-roan Shorthorn bulls are used most of the progeny are polled and blue-grey. ...

... . By D. H. Watson-Wood COURSING par excellence. Such aptly describes the standard of the trials held at Druids Lodge on November 24, 25, and 26. Quite apart, however, from the meritorious tests provided by a succession of strong running hares, there were other features associated with the meeting which will render it memorable in the history of South of England coursing. Outstanding was the ...

... IN the autumn of 1942 the Lancashire W.A.E.C. undertook the reclamation of about 200 acres in the valley of Kirkby Pool a narrow stream situated between Ulverston and Barrow-in-Furness. The whole area was covered with a thick mat of rushes with bent grass and all of it was liable to flood. The Upper Lonsdale Catchment Board has carried out a scheme for widening and cleaning the bed of the ...

... LONDON RUGBY UNION helped Guy's Hospital to bring their centenary cele brations to a proper conclusion at Honor Oak Park at the end of last month. London came into being some years before the last war with the laudable intention of enabling the four Rugby counties of Middlesex, Kent, Surrey and Eastern Counties to combine in one strong team against the might of touring sides from the Dominions ...

... By A. Croxton Smith SPORT is a great social equaliser. Indeed, one might say that it has played an important part in bringing all sections of the com munity together. Those of us who have been reared on the land know what fox-hunting means to the countryside. While reading a book on the chase, I came across a news paper cutting pasted on a page in the chapter on the Duke of Beaufort's pack. ...

... C O T V The Coty Beauty Service has spun a girdle of loveliness around the worfd. The excellence of Coty Creations is acknow ledged in every land their exquisite charm is beyond compare. All the more reason for treasuring your Coty to-day the supply is strictly limited. The Beauty Service that has made the name Coty famous must be but a shadow of its former self till Victory allows the ...

... THE THREE-POWER CONFERENCE IN NORTH AFRICA: MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK, WITH MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL DURING THE RECENT TALKS, which Madame Chiang attended throughout, despite the delicate state of her health For the first time in this war, Mr. Winston Churchill and President Roosevelt have met Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek at an historic full-dress conference at the Mena House Hotel, near Cairo. The ...

... He EIGHTH ARMY CROSS the SANGRO RIVER IS IS THE SANGRO, NOW CROSSED IN FORCE BY THE EIGHTH ARMY. The slope beyond the river was held by the enemy, who had dug himself in extensively, but without avail. On the left is the bridge of nineteen arches across the Sangro which was thoroughly demolished by the retreating Germans. The break-through by the Eighth Army was considerable, despite the heavy ...

... A VISIT TO THE PARTISANS OF YUGOSLAVIA Carried Out by a British Naval Party from the Dalmatian Coast THE LEADER OF THE BRITISH NAVAL PARTY, mounted ready for his ride through wild country to the headquarters of the Partisans. The latter are the patriots of Yugoslavia who are carrying on bitter and unremitting warfare against the German invaders of their country ON THE WALL OF A DALMATIAN ...

... Just at a moment when the Air Ministries of the Aliies had written off the Stuka as an obsolete weapon, owing to its vulnerability to fighter attack, the Germans brought off their three successive coups in the Dodecanese Islands mainly by the employment of this very weapon. It was unfortunate to say the least that no fighter bases were within easy striking dis tance of Cos, Leros and Samos had ...

... The MEETING of the BIG THREE Official Pictures taken during the Far East Conference near Cairo, between Mr. Churchill, President Roosevelt and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek THE THREE PRINCIPALS AT THE MEETING-- MARSHAL CHIANG KAI-SHEK, MR. ROOSEVELT AND MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL photographed during the course of the Conference which decided on the steps to be taken to crush the Japs in the Far ...

... STRIKING AT THE JAPS IN THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC General MacArthur's Forces Seize the Gilbert Islands and Land Upon Bougainville in the Solomons IN the South Pacific General MacArthur has been almost continually in action against the enemy since last July, gradually forcing Japan to relinquish islands she had won so easily in the early months of 1942. The island group of New Georgia, among the ...