... A Family in Bedfordshire Lord and Lady Luke and Their Children The home of Lord and Lady Luke is attractive Odell Manor, Bedfordshire, for Lord Luke's place, Odell Castle, was unfortu- nately partly destroyed by fire several years ago. Lord Luke, who is the second Baron, and succeeded his father in 1943, is in the Bedfordshire and Herts Regiment. Lady Luke was formerly Miss Barbara Anstruther ...

... PICTURES IN THE FIRE By Sabretache Ret ie Hooper WE on this paper never knew him as any thing else, and, therefore, to say that his sudden death is a very personal sorrow to all of us is no mere empty phrase of words We, who have worked with him, have lost something much more than a first-class strol a to the boat-- a friend. Reggie Hooper was incapable of an unworthy action. Requiescat! Hip ...

... WITH SILENT FRIENDS By Elizabeth Bowen Family Chronicle ANNA BUCHAN, who has given us Unforgettable, Unforgotten (Hodder and Stoughton ; 1 2s. 6 d.), is already known to a loving circle of readers under her novelist's pen-name-- O. Douglas. Her position as a novelist is, probably, unique: she is one of the few who are on the side of the angels, who can render life in terms of the courage it ...

... Cow Gate. Now I'm steering the right course. Officers and ratings of the Cow Gate Fleet splice the main brace. FULL STEAM AHEAD ON COW GATE 1111 lljlll By Appointment Biscuit Vita-Weat Crispbread Manufacturers MR. PEEK: 'When zoning goes our plans extend I U Jf U MR- FREAN 'From John o' Groats down to Land's End.' Vila-Wot etcou PEEK FREAN'S CRISPBREAD Made by Peek Frean Co. Ltd., makers of ...

... IN MANILA the meeting in the city hall between general macarthur's officers and the Japanese surrender delegation, to discuss THE TERMS AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE FORMAL SURRENDER The Emperor of Japan s personal representative, with a party of fifteen other Japanese officers and officials, arrived in Manila on August 19. Only six of them were admitted to the preliminary talks these are seen in ...

... NOW that Lend-Lease has come to such a dramatic conclusion and this country will be compelled more than ever to cut down her imports, and there fore rely more and more on home-grown foodstuffs, the numbers and employment of enemy prisoners of war is of the first importance. To-dav there are 207,000 German prisoners of yar and 153,000 Italian prisoners of war in Great Britain. Of these, 50,000 ...

... THE St. Lcgcr, last of the season's classic races, attracted a huge crowd, variously estimated from 200,000 to 250,000, to the famous Knavesmire at York. The race was won by Squadron-Leader Stanhope Joel's colt, Chamossaire (next the rails), from His Majesty's Rising Light (left) and Stirling Castle (centre). Black Peter (with star) was fourth. The lower picture, in which Lord Astor's High ...

... BRISK business and high prices were the keynotes of the Essex Pig Society's Autumn Show and Sale held as usual in the Cattle Market, Chelmsford, early this month. With such excellent stock on show, the officials may have experienced some difficulty in placing them, but the Sale afterwards tended to reaffirm their judgment, as the champion boar a magnificent specimen from Mr. A. J. Bird's herd ...

... Town and Country Meet Citizens of Newcastle See How We Produce Our Food NEWCASTLE'S Town Moor for seven days provided all the exhibits its name suggested liaison between town and country. On the opening day nearly 14,000 people had been admitted before the official open ing. The Lord Mayor and the Duchess of Northumberland formally declared the exhibition open, expressing a desire for ploughs ...

... HERE are the pictures of the first public demonstration of a new tractor The Atom Mark V ready to go intc mass production very shortly. Prime mover in Mechanical Horticultural Implements, Ltd., is Mr. G. H. F. Knight, whose idea it has been to produce a small tractor or power-unit, that would enable the ex-Serviceman (even if suffering from a major disability) to take up smallholding with a ...

... Part Farmer Part Fisherman Life in the Shetland Islands THE climate is dour. That favourite English remark, Last year we had our summer on a Tuesday, really does apply. Perpetual north-east gales unseat cyclists and bring pedestrians to a standstill; rowing boats have been blown across to Norway. Trees cannot survive except in dwarfed and stunted form. It is not surprising, therefore, that ...

... TWO famous clubs the Band of Brothers and the West Kent Cricket Club met at Chislehurst for the first time since the outbreak of war. The Band of Brothers a by-word to all cricketers has Mr. Stanley Cristopherson, President of the M.C.C., as its chief, while the West Kent' is one of the oldest clubs in the country. On this occasion the B.B. declared at 179 for 9, West Kent replying with 176 ...