... JAPS FROM CHINA ARE REPATRIATED TO NIPPON If you think the trains in England are crowded these days, take a look at the crowding in the small Japanese merchant ship Meiyu Maru as it sailed from Shanghai with the first batch of Japanese repatriates from Hongkew. Some 2,300 were put aboard the little vessel, none looking happy, although all were homeward bound to Nippon. In all, some 300,000 ...

... The condition of affairs in Persian Azerbaijan caused increasing anxiety to the Teheran Government as the year drew to a close. The new insurgent regime set up in Tabriz acted with increasing independence of the Persian Government. Various armed forces spread out to neighbouring towns and cities and either cowed or attacked local garrisons. Government officials have been boycotted or driven ...

... THE BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY IN MOSCOW FOR THE THREE-POWER CONFERENCE MR. ERNEST BEVIN WORKING IN THE BRITISH EMBASSY on the Agreement with the United States and the Soviet. Behind the Foreign Secretary is a full-length portrait of King George V After Mr. Bevin arrived by air, he drove to the British Embassy in Moscow, where he resided throughout the whole of his stay in the Russian capital. ...

... i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Prospects for 1946.-- The New Year has opened with brighter prospects than seemed probable earlier in December 1945. The Moscow Conference made distinct progress, apparently in a cordial atmosphere of true repentance for a very false start. If this cordiality is not watered down by intransigent utterances in the free Press of Russia, we may hope for a ...

... The Ark was built by Taj-ud-Din All Shah it was originally both mosque and citadel, of which only the walled gateway shown on the right now remains. From the top of the citadel, 100 ft. high, Tabriz appears as a humming honey comb of yellowish-grey roofs cut off from one another by high mud walls a maze of narrow, crooked lanes. The older parts of the city include the remains of the once ...

... THE GRAMOPHONE COMPANY LIMITED \J/ f: V;-. BY APPOINTMENT SUPPLIERS OF GRAMOFHONES; RECORDS AND RADIO APPARATUS TO HIS MAJESTY THE KING 66 IIIS MASTER'S VOICE IfiAIIIO 1KECEIVEKS Early this year His Master's Voice will be in a position to satisfy some part of the public demand for their new Radio Receivers. NEW O.H.V. AUSTIN 16 h.p. Saloon I he new Austin Sixteen takes the road, with roomy ...

... MR. ERNEST BEVIN AT WORK WITH SIR ARCHIBALD CLARK KERR IN THE BRITISH EMBASSY. He went by air from London to Berlin, and arrived in the Russian capital on December 15 THE BRITISH PERMANENT UNDER-SECRETARY, SIR ALEXANDER CADOGAN, at work in the Embassy in Moscow. He was one of the chief members of the Delegation accompanying Mr. Ernest Bevin A SCENE DURING THE CONFERENCE OF FOREIGN MINISTERS IN ...

... Recently at a Press conference in Batavia, the Dutch Red Cross made an urgent appeal for the evacuation of all Dutch women and children from Java, on the grounds that it was no longer safe for them to stay owing to the few soldiers there to guard them, they would risk being killed by the Indonesian extremists. It was also stated that these Dutch internees were no longer in a fit state to put ...

... TV/hen the Japanese landed at Batavia and other Javanese ports after their first naval suc cesses, they proceeded to round up the entire Dutch and European population on the island. Dutch officials left their offices, bankers, merchants and professional men left their occupations, and proceeded under guard to groups of internment camps where they remained during the period of Japan's ...

... THE LONGEST BRIDGE IN EUROPE IS OPENED AT NANTES The bridge is tested with two locomotives weighing 250 tons. The Pont de la Vendee crosses the two arms of the River Loire on the route from Nantes to Bordeaux. It is the longest bridge in Europe, being 700 yards in length. It has now been rebuilt and is again open to traffic. The work was begun on April 15 last, just before the end of the war ...

... The first Dreadnought, a new and exceptionally powerful type of battleship, was laid down in December 1905. It introduced an entirely new era into battleship design which was soon copied by all the navies of the world. Materials for her construction having been collected for months beforehand, the Dreadnought was completed in October 1906-- a speed of building which was astounding. The ...

... THREE RECENT SPORTING PICTURES WITH the prospect of the world's biggest boom in sport ahead of us, Wembley Stadium has marked the occasion by drawing public attention to its twenty years as a sports arena. This is particularly interesting to me as, in my capacity as cub reporter on the Daily Express, I was one of the fifty or sixty people who were present when the Duke of York cut the first ...