... TRANSHIPMENT AT HAIFA A British officer, with his megaphone, directs operations as some of the 1,200 illegal immigrants from the hulk, The Four Freedoms, are transferred to the Empire Heywood for transportation to Cyprus. The Four Freedoms, falling to pieces with age, was quite unseaworthy SHE CARRIED 1,200 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS: The Four Freedoms alongside the Empire Heywood at Haifa as the ...

... No sooner had the Duke of Norfolk and his associates proclaimed their plan to restore Fountains Abbey for use as a monastery than praise and criticism poured in from every quarter, Roman Catholics, Protestants, architects and professional writers to the Press joining in what has quickly become a first-class con troversy over one of the major antiquities of the country. The Duke of Norfolk, in ...

... f)n September 8, 1 ,000 of London's houseless walked into the Duchess of Bedford Mansions, a block of luxury flats in Kensington, and in a matter of minutes they had taken over the building. So began a new and disturbing phase in London's squatting movement, and the Cabinet, which had looked on with fair equanimity at the invasion of military camps, was forced to take notice of this more ...

... iT* i i7^4Mb* Xhe proposal to raise by 10 ft. the level of Enner dale throws into relief the controversy between those who would preserve the rural amenities of the Lake District and those who would develop the West Cumberland area, which is so sadly in need of new industries. Many people who live in the area hold that employment and social benefit should be paramount, and that Whitehaven's ...

... IT is uncanny to realise that-- Hitler permitting-- one could have flown to Switzerland in 2¼ hours at any moment during the war. To people, like myself, who have visited the U.S. since VJ Day, the incredible difference between the English and Swiss mode of life is not quite so breath-taking as it would otherwise have been. And yet it makes one gasp to leave Croydon at luncheon time and arrive ...

... Just as the searchers were beginning to lose hope, and as they were still further increasing their efforts, the news came last Saturday morning that the wrecked United States Dakota had been located in the Alps and that supplies had been dropped to the marooned passengers, among whom were Brigadier-General Haynes and his wife, Colonel William McMahon and his wife and daughter, and Mrs. Tate, ...

... 'phe V 2 rocket, the weapon that Hitler reserved for London in the closing stages of the war, is now the subject of intensive research at the United States Army Proving Grounds at White Sands, New Mexico. These ex- German rockets, and also improved patterns made in America, are being fired regularly with a view to compiling military and also scien tific data, and in the latest experiment, the ...

... A merican aircraft have been active in the Alps during the past ten days following the loss of the Dakota which crashed at 8,000 ft. in the region of the Franco- Italian border. The survivors of that disaster were sought out by planes ready equipped to supply them from the air. and the pictures on this page show a similar operation in progress, though on this occasion of a routine nature. A C ...

... WHETHER Mr. Churchill or (as Moscow avers) Goebbels invented the term iron curtain, the former popularised it throughout the world, and one can well understand why its currency heightens the anger of those to whom it is applied against the British warmonger-in-chief. The mere notion that it is forbidden to peep has focused a hard glare on everything and anything Soviet, whereas the ...

... GREECE INDICTS GERMAN GENERALS T^he question of the mining of the Corfu Channel and of the disaster to the destroyers Volage and Saumarez has been in the forefront of the news for five weeks, and during that time Albania has protested to the United Nations against Britain's aggressive behaviour in Albanian territorial waters and Britain has replied with a firm note to Albania, emphasising the ...

... J^efore the rain descended and washed out play, as It has done in several recent matches in Victoria and New South Wales, the match between the M.C.C. and an Australian XI at Melbourne provided some first-class cricket and one first-class surprise in the person of young McCool. McCool proved himself at times almost unplayable against the M.C.C., and finally, despite being knocked off his ...

... ■qesbhsbb f ■HBEBIBBlia THE VISION OF PETERLOO Guy Verncy and Anna Blackman in Fame is the Spur, romantic picture which is being made at the Denham Studios. Guy Verney plays the part of Homer Radshaw's grandfather who, seeing the body of his sweetheart mown down In the massacre of St. Peter's Field, Manchester, in 1819, Is transformed (in the grandson's imagination) into a knight in shining ...