... GERMANY MISSING POLISH-JEWS TURN UP IN BERLIN'S AMERICAN ZONE after disappearing from the Russian Zone, following the threat to send them to the Russian camp at Prenzlau. The Americans immediately arranged for their billeting A HAVEN FOR WANDERERS Polish Jews being registered and issued with food, billeting and blanket cards, on arrival in the American Zone of Berlin. On pages 1 14-15 of this ...

... RISEN ON THE SCENE OF A GREAT CONFLICT This group of new classroom buildings has been erected at University City, on the outskirts of Madrid, to take the place of those destroyed during the Civil War, when the University area was in the front line for over a year UNIVERSITY CITY COMES BACK TO LIFE The battle-scarred Agricultural College (on left) is now undergoing repairs, while the Faculty of ...

... AS soon as a modern world war stops, Man proceeds to run over his weapons, discarding some and entering up others, novelties, in his armoury, which has the parallel effect of altering the constitution of the armed forces. In 1919 the great newcomers were the aeroplane and the tank, and these in due course combined to produce the revolutionary blitz warfare that had been foreseen. Now, in 1946, ...

... i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Ministerial Inquisition.-- The present Government has been long enough in office for each chief Minister, whether in or outside the Cabinet, to have furnished proofs of his ability. Everyone has had his own particular day in Parliament-- some have figured in the House as principals on many occasions. There has been plenty of time to test the merits of each ...

... ANOTHER TRANSPORT COMMAND DISASTER The wreckage of the Royal Canadian Air Force Dakota after it had crashed at Chelsham, near Caterham, Surrey, with the loss of nine lives. In the foreground is the smashed tail unit, and the greater part of the fuselage lies in the distance. The plane, which was bringing Army and R.A.F. personnel home from Germany, crashed into the side of an 800 ft. ridge, ...

... WHAT MAY HAPPEN IN THE PACIFIC ON MAY I, WHEN AMERICA STAGES THE ATOM BOMB TESTS :A diagrammatic impression of the scene as an atom bomb explodes above the surface of the water and in the midst of the shipping arrayed by the American Navy Department for its vital experiments, the outcome of which wil' doubtless determine the future of capital ships. As the detonation takes place it is expectea ...

... pearl Harbour, the scene of the devastating Japanese attack in December 1941, when America's Pacific might was crippled at one blow by the Japanese carrier-based onslaught, is to-day better equipped by far than at the time of the disaster, and remains, as ever, the focal point of American naval activity in the Pacific. Such was the rate of naval construction in the fifty months between July ...

... FRANCE HONOURS BRITISH SERVICE CHIEFS Field-Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, General Alphonse Juin, Admiral of the Fleet Lord Cunningham, M. Rene Massigli (French Ambassador in London), Marshal of the Royal Air Force Lord Portal and Marshal or the Koyal Air rorce bir Arthur Tedder at the ceremony in London at which General Juin, Chief of Staff of the French Committee of National Defence, conferred ...

... No sooner had the sub-committee of U.N.O., which had been touring the eastern seaboard in search of a permanent site, decided upon the New York-Connecticut tract than a flood of protests was at once forthcoming, largely from the wealthy estate owners living in this exclusive residential area. They gathered in a body at Greenwich High School and, with local tradesmen to back them up, they let ...

... With a million people on strike, the industrial position in the United States was the subject of world concern last week, and although the telephone workers eventu ally went back pending further negotiations, the meat, electrical and motor industries continued to be vitally affected. Fears of a meat famine following the nation wide strike of 300,000 packers, led to a run on butchers' shops, ...

... THE ITALIAN BLACK MARKET IN ACTION Half-a-mile out in Naples Bay the illicit traders bring their boats alongside the Liberty ship James H. Kimball. The black marketeers find it highly profitable to waylay incoming vessels, and by means of a bucket and rope money and goods are exchanged between ship and rowing-boat. Cigarettes bought from crew or passengers at 50s. the carton will fetch as ...

... This has been a wild winter on the high seas, and from both the North and South Atlantic Oceans have come strange tales of gales and tempests of shattering force. One of the latest victims is the Portu guese schooner Cidade do Porto, which during December was bound from Lourenco Marques, Portuguese East Africa, with I 5,500 tons of coal for Lobito Bay, I Angola, the journey taking her through ...