... THE HEAD OF THE CONTROL COMMISSION ATTENDS A CONFERENCE IN THE SCHONBRUNN PALACE IN VIENNA The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Mr. Hynd, is also the Minister of State responsible for the Control Commissions for Austria and Germany. He recently attended a conference at the Schon- brunn Palace, Vienna, at which Lieut. -General McCreery, his staff, and high officials of the Allied Com ...

... a merican opinion is very A perturbed over the con dition of affairs in China. The National (Chungking) Govern ment has received a great amount of aid from America, in addition to the help given by Great Britain. The President is, naturally desirous, as are the other Allies, to see China rapidly resume her orderly life and to take her place once more as the busy trading nation she once was. ...

... THE announcement has just been made by the U.S. authorities in occupation of Japan that all Government-inspired efforts to spread a belief in the Emperor's divinity are to cease in Japan. The islands forming the Japanese homeland are covered with Shinto shrines of varying types. A great number of them are formed as archways, across which is suspended a sacred rope. Some of these stand in ...

... THE CARDINAL-ELECT CELEBRATES CHRISTMAS VESPERS IN WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL Dr. Bernard Griffin, Archbishop of Westminster, has been created a Cardinal, at the age of forty-six. Son of a Birmingham carpenter, he has the reputation of having one of the keenest brains in the British hierarchy. He will go to Rome to receive the Red Hat from the Pope on February 18. This picture of him was taken on ...

... rHE EAST SIDE OF THE HISTORIC WAKEFIELD TOWER This thirteenth- century building was severely damaged by blast from a flying bomb in June 1944. In this tower Henry VI was re puted to have been murdered in the year 1478. The Crown jewels were exhibited here from 1856 up to 1939. The Tower dates from the reign of William Rufus VIEW FROM THE ;BEAUCHAMP TOWER, showing Elizabeth's Walk, where the ...

... Cog peril at sea has at last j been overcome. Just before Christmas, the Atlan tic Coast, a small merchant- I man, docked at Liverpool after a trip from the Thames which demonstrated how effectively wartime devices can be applied to the needs of peacetime. Mr. Lewis Hawes, a representative of the Daily Dispatch, wrote a graphic account of the new scientific miracle. In a box no bigger than an ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...