... The Lords on Soil and Health By Our Parliamentary Correspondent WESTMINSTER, Monday, February 14TH. THE relation of the soil to health was the subject of an extremely interesting debate in the House of Lords. It took place on a motion by Lord Teviot, asking the Royal Commission on the birth rate, to consider the condition of the soil in relation to the health of man, animal and plant. There ...

... TO make a little occasion of Air Chief Marshal Sir Sholto Douglas's birthday on December 23, King Farouk invited the Chief Marshal and other officers to a shoot over the Royal Preserves at Tel-el- Kebir in the Canal Zone. Sir Sholto Douglas has just recently been appointed Air Officer Commander-in-Chief Coastal Command. AIR CHIEF MARSHAL SIR SHOLTO DOUGLAS chatting with General Abrahim Atellah ...

... MANY thousands of pounds- worth of splendid pedi gree cattle change hands annually at the Aberdeen-Angus Show and Sale in Perth. Buyers in peacetime come from all over the world to select stock for breeding purposes, and even in wartime travel long distances in order to be present. The Duke of Norfolk, Joint-Parlia mentary Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture, and the Earl of Rosebery, ...

... Film Premiere for the Y.W.C.A. Phantom of the Opera at the Odeon The first performance of the Technicolor film Phantom of the Opera directed by Arthur Lubin, was held in aid of Mrs. Churchill's Y.W.C.A. Wartime Fund. The premiere was attended by Mrs. Churchill, who is President of the Fund, and by many other distinguished people, some of whom appear in these pictures Mr. Anthony Eden the ...

... Light and Shade Pictures by R.A.F. Cameramen Exhibited at the Camera Club Make and Mend by F/Lt. H. Hensser With the R.A.F. in France: an air craftman repairs his camouflage netting Knots and Crosses 99 by F/0. T. Lea The Italian sun casts a pattern on a member °J the R.A.F. Regiment fixing camouflage netting over positions on a recently captured airfield Seen from the Wings by F/0. W. Bellamy ...

... The Tatler and Bystander's Review of Weddings Sandiford Hall Dr. Diehard Hugh Sandiford, son of Brig, and Mrs. II. A Sandiford, of Morpeth Terrace, West- mint: r, and Miss Mary Rose Hall, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Hall, of Croydon, were arried at the King's Chapel of the Savoy Lynes Waller Capl. Charles Humphrey Lynes, The King's Shropshire Light Infantry son of Mr. and Mrs. Humphrey ...

... AIR COVER FOR THE BEACHHEAD-- ONE OF THE FACTORS IN THE IMPROVED ALLIED SITUATION AT ANZIO. Spitfires of the R.A.F. fly over the Italian mountains on their return to base after a sortie over our newly established positions south of Rome Mr. Winston Churchill's reassuring statement concerning the Anzio Bridgehead last week-end came after a period of some days of anxiety concerning the outcome ...

... Following up the occupation of the Gilbert group and the two landings on New Britain, the Americans have now invaded the Marshall Islands and captured a number of small but valuable strong-points. These islands all lie within the area mandated to Japan after the Great War. They consist of two main chains-- the Ratack and the Ralick. Hie former lie to the east and the latter to the west. In all ...

... A GERMAN SUPPLY ROUTE IN ITALY PEPPERED BY ALLIED BOMBERS This picture, taken by an R.A.F. reconnaissance pilot of the Desert Air Force (now operating in Italy) shows bomb-hits on the road and railway bridges spanning the River Tordino at Giulianova. The river is some 36 miles long and flows into the Adriatic just south of the town. The Germans have been using both the railway and the road for ...

... Many picturesque phrases have been used to describe conditions in the air over the Nettuno bridgehead. The Allies have variously been credited with air mastery and supremacy; correspon dents have commented on the absence of the Luftwaffe from the skies; while other reports have interjected tales of quite determined, if brief and localised, Nazi ground-strafing of the beaches and shipping. ...

... ON AN ENGLISH FISH FARM A scene from Nailsworth, in Gloucester shire, where fish are netted so that their eggs may be secured for restocking our trout rivers THF SQUIRREL WHICH TAPS FOR HER BREAKFAST A study of Miss Nellie Nutkin at the window, asking for food. Ac brkf,t-time every mornint, in the woodside cottage of Mrs. Jobson. a beautiful red squirrel with a big and bushy tail calls for her ...

... LAND drainage in Great Britain is not a new discovery. In the days of the manor, the need for drainage was well understood although the system employed was the ditch or open drain carrying off water to the nearest stream. Walter, of Henley, writing on agriculture in the thirteenth century, stated that to free land from too much water, marshy ground should be ridged and the water made to run. ...