... MR. GANDHI HAS INTERVIEWS WITH THE GOVERNOR OF BENGAL, MR. R. G. CASEY. On the last of the three days, Mr. Gandhi maintained his Day of Silence, and the conversations had to be conducted in writing These meetings are the prelude to a meeting between Gandhi and the Viceroy On left It is learnt that Mahatma Gar did not break his Day of Silen at the meeting he had with Governor of Bengal, Mr. ...

... The luture of actors and actresses who have served in the Forces was discussed at a recent meeting of demobilised players at the Criterion Theatre. The meeting was convened by the Reunion Theatre Association, an organisation of ex-Service actors and actresses formed by an actor, Major William Fox, while on active service in Baghdad. Since British Actors Equity established its head quarters in ...

... i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Year's End.-- This is the last Newsletter of 1945. The next will be a first instalment of a new year; nineteen-forty-five has been a fateful year indeed. It might snatch the laurels from 1745, and be known henceforth in history as the forty-five, tout court. During 1945 we touched the heights and slumped to the depths again. We won the greatest of all wars and ...

... In Rumania, conditions are anything but tranquil, as hostility between the sup porters of young King Michael and the Communists rises. Recently, a culmina ting point was reached on November 8, the twenty- fourth birthday of the King. The Prime Minister, Petra Groza, had issued an order banning public demonstrations nevertheless, the Royalists assembled in force outside the Royal Palace in ...

... NOW that the Moscow Dynamo team has not only returned to Russia, but has aired its views and experiences on the radio and in the Russian Press, it is safe to say that the visit was a great success. At first the Russian players were very reticent, but after a time their natural reserve broke down and it soon became apparent that they all had a sense of humour and enjoyed positively boyish ...

... hree British warsl Casar, Cavalier Carron, destroyers o Sixth Flotilla-- have operating off the Ja ...

... It was decided, at the recent conference at Singapore that full military force should be employed to an end to the revolt in Java. This was fully agreed by the Dutch authorities, as the conditions were serious to continue, the Indonesian extremists accepting no orders from their own Provisional Government Large British reinforcements are to give General Christison all the necessary power he ...

... The elections in Albania were carried out on a plan which ha s ecome increasingly common in certain parts of Europe jf late. There was but one list of candidates that proposed by the Government so that any opposition was of little practical use. The Government candidates were all returned, and this bvas generally described as an outstanding victory for the Nati ...

... During the war the Royal effigies, and other specially valuable sculptured figures from Abbey, were removed for safety special hiding-places. They have all been carefully cleaned and are now to be seen at the doria and Albert Museum, some of them the first time. Owing to their position the Abbey, either too high on the walls obscured by the grilles of the tombs. they could not ...

... The flags of Britain, the United States, China, France and the Netherlands were hoisted on the top of the Cathay building in Singapore on November 27. The Cathay Singapore's only skyscraper is the new Headquarters of Lord Louis Mount- batten, Supreme Allied Commander. This is the third site over which the five Allied flags have flown. The first was at New Delhi, in the critical days when the ...

... ■■Jan At the prison of Chiboa, the Japs interned a number of French civilians and soldiers during the war. Many of them were subjected to the harshest treatment by their gaolers. In order to punish the guilty, the ex-internees were sent back to Chiboa, to identify those who had been guilty of such practices. On specially-erected benches in the gaol, the Japs were presented one by one by ...

... THE year 1945 will be associated with the world's most alarming physical experience since The Flood; and yet, if Noah was undoubtedly the most outstanding figure of his year, though he had naught to do with causes, we are unable to single out any one person in connection with the Atom bomb which was caused by human agency. A dead man, Rutherford, is most mentioned by the manufacturing ...