... AMERICAN AERIAL PROTECTION FOR THE CONVOYS. These Avenger torpedo-bombers are based on a U.S. Navy escort carrier they are here sweeping in low as a convoy makes its way across the ocean with material for Allied ports. The escort carriers from which these aircraft fly have been co-operating with warships to protect convoys in the Atlantic for some time. They work usually with destroyers or ...

... IN a few days' time the bookstalls of Great Britain will be piled high with copies of Eighth Army, the latest of the Government publication series of best sellers. Over a million copies are being printed, and no doubt the ultimate sales will achieve at least double this quantity. As usual, the name of the author (in this case Colin Coote, a London journalist) will not appear. As usual, it ...

... LOST IN THE FOG-- THE FLYING FORTRESS WHICH RETURNED TO BRITAIN, but which then disappeared and was never seen again- Drawing by Roland Davies Two Flying Fortresses that were heard, but never seen, somewhere in a great curtain of fog over England after recent raids on Germany have been listed as missing in action. The mystery of their disappearance is still un solved. Returning crews reported ...

... pH THE U.S.S. LAFAYETTE, FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE NORMANDIE, CRACK FRENCH LINER, being towed to an East Coast shipyard for conversion into an American transport. This is the vessel which sank at her berth in New York after a disastrous fire she was raised after months of hard work and is now to be refitted at a cost of some millions of dollars. All her superstructure was cut away under water, ...

... THE YORK the world's most modern transport plane With the return of peace, the wings of commerce will once more take the air. In the front rank of post-war air transport will be the York the world's most modern transport plane. Powered with four Rolls-Royce Merlin engines it represents Britain's newest contribudon to the commercial aviadon of tomorrow. ROLLS-ROYCE MERLIN ENGINES For Speed and ...

... THE MASTER TOUCH The dress illustrated was created by Norman Hartnell from his own exclusive print. Posed by Mrs. Robert Nesbitt. Imperial Leather Toilet Soap created by Cussons. TOILET SOAPS CREATED FOR THE DISCRIMINATING BY 1 CussonS OF MANCHESTER ...

... FhetN.F.U.'s New President MR. J. K. KNOWLES, Lancashire born, but farming in Derbyshire, is the youngest President elected by the Council of the National Farmer's Union, with the exception of Sir Reginald Dorman Smith. Sir Reginald, elected in 1836, was 35. Mr. Knowles is 40. He left school at the age of 14 to become a farm pupil in Staffordshire, and subsequently studied at the Midland ...

... By D. H. Watson-Wood A GREYHOUND that had never previously seen a hare upset all calculations in the Salisbury Stakes for all ages at the South of England meeting at Druid's Lodge on January 19 and 20. This was Mrs. I. Cleeve's Valentine Castle, by Irish Castle out of Trellis Work. This bitch was more or less a case of Hobson's choice for Mrs Cleeve, as the dog she intended to nominate in this ...

... By Dr. H. Hunter, National Institute of Agricultural Botany TO quote no less an authority than the Prime Minister, the British Isles is temporarily a fortress, and its garrison, like many another in time of siege, have been compelled to study their own immediate re sources and to husband them very carefully. Among other things, the inhabitants of these islands have been obliged by ...

... Australian Turf Affairs The Melbourne Cup I AM indebted to an Australian corres pondent for an interesting review on racing events in the great Common wealth, together with some notes on horses and personalities which, to the best of my belief, have not hitherto been published. He writes: The determination of the racing authorities in the Mother Country to carry on, though veritably under fire ...

... ONE problem of the Army Command in Syria the pro vision of fresh meat for the troops in that area has been solved by the establishment of a farm so that local stock can be purchased and fattened for slaughter. The animals arrive in very poor condition unkempt, thin beasts with bones showing under the skin but care and a few weeks on a suitable dietary converts them into rations for our troops. ...

... H.M. KING FAROUK of Egypt is keenly interested in all the various aspects of agriculture, and his estate Tafteesh el Inches, near Cairo, is a fine example of modern methods adapted to special conditions of climate and environment. The estate includes a small zoological collection and a botanic garden, but its main features are a fine stud of pure-bred Arab horses and another of the famous ...