... Those Silesians who fled to Czecho slovakia ahead of the advancing Russians during the last days of the war are now being returned to their homes behind the Russian lines, after realising that the German propaganda concerning Russian terrorism was not true. Americans have been instructed to conduct them to the Russian Military Zone, where Red Army men will take over and see them resettled in ...

... NOT one of the hundred and more journalists who crowded into the Salon de l'Horloge at the Quai d'Orsay seventeen years ago to the week had the remotest inkling of the first use to which would be put the international instrument whose signing was the cause of their presence. There was scepticism about the Kellogg Pact's capacity to stop war. It even mounted to ridicule in mv hearing. ...

... aaai pxpenments in handling the Okinawans, which should be useful practice for what will have to be done when we get into Japan, are now being carried out by the American Military Administration, according to a despatch from Mr. Gordon Walker on Okinawa Island. There is a distinct difference between the two civilian populations. Okinawans are not, by and large, as advanced culturally as ...

... SUBMARINES ARE SERVICED AND SUPPLIED AT SEA BY SPECIAL SUBMARINE TENDERS These three American vessels have returned from a war patrol to an Advance Base in the Pacific they have here come alongside a tender for supplies and emergency repairs. The tenders are part of the U.S. Service Force a fleet made up of auxiliaries of every type which service, maintain, repair and supply the combatant ...

... THE TRIAL OF THE TRAITOR, VIDKUN QUISLING, IN OSLO A scene in the courtroom at the opening of the trial. Quisling is seated in the dock on his left is his defence counsel an armed guard is seated behind. Abraham Vidkun Quisling, the man who gave his name to collaborators and traitors all over the world, is on trial In the specially-prepared auditorium of the old Masonic Temple at Oslo. He is ...

... THE MAN WHO HOPES TO BECOME KING OF SPAIN The Spanish Pretender, )uan de Bourbon, with his wife and their four children, at his home in Switzerland, where he is forced to live in exile until he receives the call to return DON JUAN WITH HIS WIFE, THE PRINCESS MARIA MERCEDES Juan de Bourbon is the younger son of Alfonso XIII with the elimination of his elder brothers, he is now the Pretender to ...

... Pouring the war, Malvern College became a Government Estab lishment known as T.R.E., or Telecommunication Research Estab lishment. The greatest body of physicists ever assembled together in this country over 2,400 of them there overcame one major strate gical problem after another the U-boat war, defence against aerial attack, and accurate bombing methods. The keynote of the research was, of ...

... THE JAP SURRENDER PLANE REACHES THE ISLAND OF IE SHIMA A guard of M.P.s flank the landing field as the delegates fly in to the tiny island on the first stage of their journey to Manila .5* THE WHITE PLANE MARKED WITH GREEN CROSSES is here seen after it had touched down on le Shima The Jap delegates were then transferred to an American transport plane THE JAP DELEGATION ARRIVES IN MANILA Filing ...

... J This is one of the secret air bases ol the Far Eastern war from which the veil of secrecy has at length been lifted, wrote Mr. Edmund Townshend in a recent dispatch from the island to the Daily Telegraph. Here, for the last four years, relays of Robinson Crusoes of the R.A.F. have been living in six- month spells the idyllic life of the beach comber, far from civilisation. Diego Garcia, the ...

... HOW BREAKS IN PLUTO ARE DISCOVERED FROM THE AIR. BY THE USE OF DYES Fluorescein is pumped in with the oil and, should the pipeline under the ocean become fractured, it shows where the break has occurred by colouring the water so that it can readily be spotted by reconnaissance aircraft-- Drawing by E. G. Lambert The way in which accidental breaks in the pipelines of Pluto were pin-pointed by ...

... BLACK WHITE SCOTCH WHISKY 66 An evening nip A nip of Black ...

... i. New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Saving Face and Wasting Time.-- If I were an Australian statesman, I should temper my relief at Japan's defeat with anxiety for the not far distant future. The next weeks may put a different complexion on the face of things. Just now Japan looks like a by-no-means extinct volcano. Hirohito may be still the Son of Heaven, still the one institution which all Japanese ...