... i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. The Sun Has Set.-- For the first time for 2,000 years Japan is occupied by her victorious enemies and under foreign control in every depart ment of her national life. The date of this historic and unique event was September 2, 1945s. The rising sun has been a long time rising. Now it is set. How long Hirohito and his war lords perhaps are whispering among them ...

... IN the commotion about Lend-Lease and the spot lighting of General MacArthur in Tokyo, some thing else concerning the United States has been allowed to slip by almost unnoticed. I refer to American preparations to leave Germany and Austria. This is a matter of such implications as to warrant its being thoroughly examined at the London Conference of Foreign Ministers. General Eisenhower's ...

... On right The native horsemen of Mongolia figured unexpectedly for the Japanese in the fighting in Northern Manchuria. They evidently assisted in the breaking of the Japanese lines of communication and. the consequent rapid disintegration of the Kwantung Army. These horsemen were part of the cavalry of the Mongolian People's Republic Army. They crossed the im passable Gobi Desert in an 800 ...

... PREPARING THE HALL IN NUREMBERG, WHERE THE GERMAN WAR CRIMINALS WILL BE PLACED ON TRIAL The famous old city of Nuremberg, so long known as one of the centres of Nazidom and the scene of many spectacular Rallies of the Nazi Party, has been selected as the place where Goering and Company are to be put on trial shortly. The Court-house is now being prepared for this purpose, with the prisoners ...

... Efforts are being made to save the historic thatched house in Camberwell Grove, in South- East London, which is in danger of falling to pieces following damage by high-explosive and incendiary bombs during the blitz. One of London's most picturesque old houses, the Thatched House was built about 200 years ago. It is the last of a type which London merchants used as a country retreat. Local ...

... MIGHTY BATTLESHIPS HEAD FOR JAPAN AND FOR TOKYO BAY Two powerful warships of Admiral Halsey's Third Fleet the Iowa (on left) and Missouri steaming within 100 ft. of each other while transferring personnel in Japanese waters, preparatory to the naval occupation of Tokyo Bay. The Navy state that this is the first-known instance of personnel being transferred between battleships while under way. ...

... When the Japanese surrender delegation arrived at Minga- ladon airfield near Rangoon, their plane was two hours late. From it stepped General Numata, Chief of Staff Rear- Admiral Chudo, and Lieut. -Colonel Tomura. They had come from Saigon in a Topsy transport (an exact copy of a Dakota), painted white as ordered by the Allied com mander. After landing, the delegates were marched to a tent, ...

... IT used to surprise people that the United States so persistently snubbed and cold-shouldered General de Gaulle (in some measure causing Britain to do likewise). Was it not clear as the day that this Conservative soldier of great prestige was the in strument chosen by fortune to withstand those very things that American power least wished to see in France-- radical social change, revolution, ...

... 'T ucked away in a corner of the vast grounds ot Horton Emergency Hospital in Surrey, not far from Epsom Racecourse, is a block of low-lying buildings which have attained peculiar significance during the war years. It is a research department, the Combined Operations Room in the world-wide battle against malaria, the disease transmitted by the anopheline mosquito. In charge of this up-to-date ...

... JQetails of the new British fighter, Tempest II, have just been released. It is a great improvement on the Hawker Tempest, which came off the secret list last year and proved to be even faster than the Spitfire. Designed by Hawker Aircraft, Ltd., the new plane is a low-wing, single-engmed single seater, with a single fin and rudder. It is powered by a Bristol Centaurus V engine of more than 2 ...

... British scientists have found a way of in creasing the natural surface tension of water, making it technically possible to build a mid-Atlantic aerodrome or a floating cross- Channel bridge. One practical result of the discovery is the production of man-made islands which can be built to any shape or length required, and which can be easily dismantled, transported and reassembled. Another, ...

... ONE YEAR LATER-- the nijmegen paratroops return to the old BATTLEFIELD TO CELEBRATE THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY A general view, showing General W. Gavin, Commanding General of the 82nd Airborne Division, laying a wreath in the cemetery. In the background, the white crosses mark the graves of those who died THE LONG TREK HOME TO RUSSIA-- a scene in a Berlin street Liberated Russians, with their ...