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... ON this and following pages are pictures of the three all-red breeds of British cattle notable for their hardiness in cold districts and their ability to stand up to sub-tropical conditions. The Lincolnshire Red Shorthorn cattle shown here are all of a uniform deep cherry-red, and they are distinguished from the modern Coates Herd Book Shorthorns by a greater length of frame and their ...

... bmi^ j n i w,i j. any of the secrets of the Luftwaffe have been revealed to the Allies since the German capitulation. One of them has been the jet-propelled Me 262, which made its appearance over the Euro pean battlefields last year during the break-through attempt by the Nazis in the early part of the present year, numbers of them were encountered by our pilots. But it made its appearance too ...

... Much of the mystery surrounding the King of the Belgians has been dispersed by his liberation by the Americans at Strobl, near Salzburg. He was married to Miss Leila Baels, a commoner who later became the Princess de Rethy, in 1941, after his arrest by the Germans. (His first wife. Queen Astrid, was killed in a car smash in 1935.) The King has now announced that, owing to ill health, he cannot ...

... The four-engined Shetland flying-boat is the largest British aircraft that has yet flown. It is powered by four Bristol Centaurus engines, has a fully-loaded weight of 130,000 lb., a wing-span of 130 ft. and an overall length of 110 ft. Designed and constructed by Short Bros., with the collaboration of Saunders Roe, this mighty 58-ton aircraft has a maximum speed of 267 m.p.h. Cruising at ...

... THE ACTUAL CAPTURE OF YONTAN AIRFIELD, ON OKINAWA ISLAND, on the opening day of the assault in the Ryukyus in this aerial view American tanks can be seen sweeping across the field, whilst American gunners are already manning the captured anti-aircraft installa tions. From a military point of view, the Yontan airfield was one of the salient objectives in the Ryukyus it is only a mile from the ...

... ^verywhere i n Germany extra ordinary scenes have I been witnessed on the roads since the entry of the Allied armies. The volume of civilian I traffic has varied from a few peasants seated I on their piled-up goods to long columns of men and women liber ated from slave occupations and seek ing their homes in distant countries. Uur soldiers have been guiding these people in the general I ...

... RANCE'S YOUNGEST GENERAL IS AN ACE RUGBY PLAYER He is General Jacques Chaban-Delmas, formerly in the French Underground Service, and just over thirty. During the rising in Paris, it was he who received the surrender of the beaten Germans. In the Rugby match against the R.A.F. in Paris in November last, he scored the only points for France THE NEW CHANCELLOR OF AUSTRIA-- Dr. Karl Renner He is ...

... ALL OVER bar the shouting? Well, not quite perhaps, but near enough the end for those not going East to begin planning their own private operations again. Interviewed yesterday, Lieutenant Depthcharge, R.N.V.R., informed us that his post-war plans were entirely subject to the whims of a young party named Polly. She's getting shockingly fat, as I told her on my last leave, he said, but a few ...

... Star Stakes Anne Crawford A Gainsborough Entry A comparative newcomer to films, Anne Crawford is already well on her way to stardom. She made her debut in 1942, and a year later her performance opposite Eric Portman in Millions Like Us brought her a long-term contract with Gajnsborough Pictures. Next week Anne Crawford will be seen at the Gaumont, Haymarket, in her latest picture They Were ...

... ft £MTRAMC£i Ingenue lead in a box office hit Nine shows a week plus a rehearsal or cwo plus many a Sunday given gratefully to troop shows miles out of Town. No wonder 'on stage' and 'off' she appreciates her Vani-Tred Shoes and their exclusive hidden feature which distributes the body weight evenly over the whole tread area of the foot, giving her walk serene assurance her entrances and exits ...

... War in the Desert The Adventures of an Eighth Army Patrol On the Road to Tripoli See; t 44 Had this girl fair hair and very blue eyes Palmer You knew her too Wa ...