... The American Army's first jet-propelled combat plane, the P8o Shooting Star, is here shown in mass production on the mechanised assembly line at the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation's factory in Burbank, in the Pacific Coast state of California. The single turbo-jet engine is installed in the tail of the plane its armament of six 50-calibre machine-guns is located in the plane's nose, for the ...

... Picture on right belou: THREE MINUTES AFTER THE SECOND ATOMIC BOMB HAD BEEN DROPPED ON NAGASAKI-- The great white cap on top of the dust column 10 miles up in the sky Drawing by Roland Davies Air crews near the city where the bomb dropped said that Nagasaki went up in a roar of smoke and flame which could be seen for 250 miles. A whirling cloud of black smoke rose more than 10 miles in- the ...

... EXPERTO CREDE.-- No revelation of recent days gave me a more profound shock (and perhaps stimulus) than that of the Great Vermeer forgeries. The rights of the story are still to come. If the Press reports (which have received curiously little comment, considering the interest and the problems one would expect such a con fession to raise) are true, it appears that a clever copyist has in the ...

... On August 18, at the mouth of quiet Glenfinnan, in Inverness-shire, the part of the clans in the Rising of '45 was commemorated at the historic Pillar marking the spot where, two centuries ago, Bonnie Prince Charles raised the Standard. Thousands of Scots from all parts were present, and thousands of overseas spectators. The central figures at the gathering were Lochiel, a de scendant of the ...

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... Berlin is at the very centre of the whole German military effort. Through the city a great deal of military traffic is passing to the Oder front, where the Russians are threatening to envelop the German armies defending the capital millions of refugees are streaming in from East Prussia and Brandenburg, while military convoys are passing out towards the east; meeting them head-on. The railways ...

... This view was taken from above the famous Moravian Gate, or Gap, the natural break in the great Carpathian Chain. It was to secure this gap, on the left flank of the mam Russian drive, that the Red Army set about clearing the whole region from Cracow to Breslau. The River Oder rises in the mountains immediately behind the Carpathian Range it flows northwards by way of Ratibor to Breslau and ...

... On January 25 Lord Louis Mount batten sent off telegrams to President Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill stating that The first part of the orders received at Quebec has been carried out: the Ledo route to China is open. When this plan was schemed at Quebec, two years ago, it seemed a wild and impossible dream to make a road from India, through the north of Burma, then held by the Japanese. it ...

... At an R.A.F. airfield in Southern Italy, three officers have built themselves a house. Anticipating a cold winter, they collected stones from bombed buildings, bricks and pieces of wood from rubble piles-- determined not to winter in a tent. To-day they have a stone cottage, cemented with mud, with a tin roof about 20 ft. long by 15 ft. wide and 10 ft high. They call it Casa Grande. There are ...

... BURIED TREASURE.-- R. L. Steven son recently came into the picture again on the fiftieth anniversary of his death, an event I can (alas!) clearly recall. And, remembering R. L. S., readers re membered The Sea Cook and the origins of Treasure Island. As for the schooner controversy, it struck me with surprise that no one who supported this anachronism (or whatever is the appropriate word) ...

... 1 fWiiiilW THE BRITISH HEADQUARTERS-- the Vorontsov Palace at Alupka in the Crimea. This chateau was erected for Prince Vorontsov in 1837 at a cost of three million roubles I A million dollars) from the plans of the English architect, Blore, who adopted a com bination of the Gothic and Moorish styles. In the middle of the southern facade is a large Moorish arch way opposite is a wide flight of ...