... HUBBLE SOUK A K Stories from Everywhere AT a course for transport officers in India one subaltern had not paid a great deal of attention to the instruction imparted, and on the last day he was asked by the commandant to step forward and tell the age of a mule. The young officer opened the mule's mouth in gingerly fashion and peered inside inquiringly. Then he said: Well er sir, I don't think ...

... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Civil Air Many moves have been made since I last wrote on the subject of civil aviation. The general out come of them is that I think we can now be said to be getting ready for a real effort. We shall soon have done what can be done to provide the right administrative and organizational structure and the responsibility will pass to the manufacturers and operators. ...

... Pri nfP Rirhard and His Mother, The Duchess of Gloucester Born on August 26 at Northampton, little Prince Richard, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester's second son is getting on for two months old. He is Queen Mary's ninth grandchild, and is fifth in direct succession to the throne, coming immediately after his brother, Prince William, who will celebrate his third birthday in December. When the ...

... Greta Gynt Norwegian Dancer and Actress D Eight years ago Greta Gynt made her first appearance in London as principal dancer in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Open-Air Theatre in Regent's Park. Since then she has travelled far, and now ranks in the forefront of young actresses rapidly making a name for themselves in British films. In her most recent film, Mr. Emmanuel made by Two Cities ...

... Irish Racing At Phoenix Park, Dublin Mr. J. V. Rank, with Mrs. Hubert Hartigan (wife of the trainer watched his much-fancied Prince Regent beaten at the post in the Templeogue Plate Lord and Lady Fingall came together. Before rejoining his old regiment at the outbreak of war, Lord Fingall was Joint- Master of the Ward Union Staghounds Col. the Hon. Edward Corbally-Stourton, D.S.O., escorted ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 268 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. In Moscow.-- If I had the use of a magic carpet and invisible cloak, I should be in Moscow to-day at the time of writing. I should like to make a first-hand study of the relations of Stalin and Mr. Churchill. No one can read history without reaching the sure and alarming conclusion that the destinies of nations depend far more on the ...

... At last a gap has been made, ten miles north of Aachen, through the formidable defences of the Siegfried Line, which had been strengthened by every device known to the enemy-- dragon's teeth, con crete and steel pill-boxes, anti-tank ditches, foxholes, mines and heavy wire. After a week of bitter and con centrated fighting the American rirst Army, under General Hodges, achieved a great success ...

... The island of Walcheren is one of the most interesting portions of the territory making up modern Holland. It is the most westerly of the large islands bordering the Scheldt, and its western side faces the open waters of the North Sea. It is roughly diamond- shaped. It was at the western apex that the heavy bombs (12,000 lb.) of the R.A.F. broke the sea barrier near Westcapelle. A continuous ...

... d 1 1 n iW After a landing of limited size in Albania, the Allied Command launched another attack, this time in Greece itself, in a district lying to the south of the first one. Patras, where the Allied troops landed on October 4, lies at the head of the Gulf of Corinth, and is, or was, the chief commercial port and city of Greece. Nearly all exports and imports flowed through Patras, which ...

... THE UNSPEAKABLE SCOT.-- More than once in the past twenty years I have commented on the bitter reactions by scores of Englishmen (as evidenced by my correspondence from readers of The Sphere) to any friendly reference to, or praise of, Scotland and the Scot. Some of these critics are quite obviously urgent cases for the alienist. A few have pro- 1 bablv left it too late. The most brilliant ...

... For some months now the Nazis have been experiencing trouble with the Danes, who have never taken kindjy to the German occupation of their country. On September 19 last, matters came to a head when the Germans tried to storm the Amalianborg Castle in Copenhagen, the residence of King Christian. A fierce battle raged around this point when an attempt was made by a Nazi naval detachment to seize ...

... WE should hand one thing to the Nazis: they tell others in advance what they propose to do. Twenty years ago Hitler was sitting in Lands berg, writing most of what came off during the years 1933-42. And now here is his Gang giving us a preview of what they mean by resistance to the approaching occupation of the Reich. Some of it is screamed from the platform and in print some of it comes out ...