... THE English Jersey Cattle Society held their autumn Show and Sale at Reading on October 5. There was a large attendance and keen competition. Channel Island breeds have maintained a high level of value, as it is still uncertain how far the German occupation will affect the future of the native island cattle. Mr. H. L. Basden was judge for the female classes, and the President acted in a ...

... [From Our Parliamentary Correspondent.] Westminster, Monday, November 6. IN the House of Commons Mr. Hudson is being badgered about the absence of a Government statement on post-war agricultural policy. The general view was recently summed up by Miss Megan Lloyd George when she said, We are all eagerly awaiting a declaration of Government policy. We hope that it will not be delayed very much ...

... Wilson The Life Story of a Great American President Who Fought for Peace Wilson, the life-story of a schoolmaster who became President of the United States of America, is expected to reach this country early in the New Year. It has been made by Darryl F. Zanuck under the direction of Henry King and sets out to tell the story of Woodrow Wilson, the schoolmaster, lover, father, prophet and ...

... Left Mrs. Anthony Gray seen with her year-old daughter, Gillian was Pamela McClintock, and married S/Ldr. Anthony Gray two years ago. A former member of the 601 Squadron of the Auxiliary Air Force, her husband fought in the Battle of Britain, and is now serving with the R.A.F. Mr and Mrs. Lionel Devitt have two children, Judith and Michael. Mr. Devitt, grandson of the late Sir Thomas Devitt, ...

... Hollywood Wedding Nigel Bruce's Daughter Married 0 Scores of filmland personalities thronged All Saints Episcopal Church in Hollywood when Jennifer Bruce, younger daughter of British actor Nigel Bruce, was married to Lt. Jay Gould III. Jennifer is the niece of Sir Michael Bruce, Bt., of Stenhouse, Stirlingshire, the author of several historical hooks and a well-known authority on Scottish ...

... ^4 By Sabretache Tantivy IN normal times we should now be well launched upon a form of sport with which, according to the concoctors of fiction, the word at the head of this paragraph is connected, but, as things are by no means normal, and are not likely to be for some time to come, I am afraid that we shall have to deny ourselves the indulgence of ejaculating this peculiar word, which never ...

... may not be a serious thing in itself. The wheels will go on turning as before, the will to continue is not affected. On the other hand, it is not a phenomenon that one would like to see repeated next spring or summer. Plainly, these psychological ups and downs can be no good thing amid ONE does not have to circulate long in London these days to be conscious of an atmosphere of disappointment. ...

... I he war on the East Front is being carried out on an unprecedented scale. For hundreds of miles the battle rages, right down to the Hun garian Plains. Last week we gave a diagram-drawing of the East Prussia area to-day we switch to the south, to show the inroads made by the Red Army in their dnve towards Budapest, the River Danube, and, ultimately perhaps, Vienna. Moving from the west, Szeged ...

... NOW ON EXHIBITION IN LONDON A map showing how the capital was defended from the German flying-bombs. The defences began with the gun belt along the coast and extended right up to the London suburbs The Exhibition is on view at the Piccadilly showrooms of Rootes, Ltd. it was opened by Mr. Duncan Sandys. Prominent among the exhibits are a complete Hying-bomb, which was recovered almost intact, ...

... The area stretching south-east from Nijmegen to Venlo, in Holland (where the Allies advanced towards Venraij), is very difficult country for the attackers, consisting as it does largely of marsh and woodland. The move ments against the Germans were carried out mainly at night to make such operations possible, use was made of the searchlights to create artificial moonlight by projecting the ...

... Commission of the Vatican City State, officiated at the ceremony of the Transition, which was held at the tomb of St. Francis. In the after noon, oil for the votive lamp of St. Francis (which is kept burning in the Basilica) was brought to Assisi from the Roman Campagna and offered by the Mayor of Salerno, Avellino and Benevento in the name of all the Italian provinces the oil was carried in a ...

... j There is no doubt, that the German has, like all military men faced with defeat in our time, suddenly acquired a concrete complex. But there is, equally, no doubt that no matter how massive are the concrete and metal obstructions placed on or dug into a road or field or wood they can be quickly blasted aside by high-explosives. A man with a Bazooka has been known to destroy at one shot a ...