... During the past ten days Bombay, Calcutta and Cairo have been the scenes of rioting and bloodshed, and the most serious incidents have occurred in Bombay, where 12,000 ratings of the Royal Indian Navy went on strike to complain against the slowness of demobilisation and other grievances. Admiral Godfrey, the flag Officer Commanding, Royal Indian Navy, at once brought a British cruiser and two ...

... PARIS IN WINTER'S GRIP Snowbound motorists struggling to extricate themselves after the recent big fall of snow in the French capital. It was the heaviest fall Paris has known since 1879, and in some places 16 ins. was recorded. The jeep on the right was able to use its extra power with advantage in helping to extricate the larger car. To add to the city's troubles there has been a big 'flu ...

... One thing that has particularly struck American corre spondents during Mr. Churchill's visit to the United States has been his deep knowledge of American history, and it is quite understandable that he should have expressed such a keen desire to seen Williamsburg, where many of the most important pages in the social and political history of Virginia were written in the days when it was the ...

... Touring the war, as the result of a survey by the U.S. War Pro duction Board, it was considered that there was danger of a serious drain on electricity supply in the Ohio, Mississippi and Great Lakes districts of the United States. It was therefore decided to build a number of floating power plants, which could be towed to places where additional current was urgently required. Four of these ...

... 1 .HiMfrfir.fT- t i, „.r When the American troops entered Tokyo in August of last year, it was found that large parts of the capital had been razed to the ground by fire-bombs, and that other parts had suffered from high-explosives. One wing of the Emperor's Palace was also damaged, and a number of flimsy structures in the grounds of the vast enclosure had disappeared the grounds, however, ...

... P\r. Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, Dictator of Portugal, and known as Portugal's strong man, has been responsible for that country's domestic administration and foreign policy for many years. The son of a Portuguese farmer, he directed the nation's finances in the early stages of the military dictatorship and took over the Premiership in 1933. For several years he also held the portfolios of ...

... mmmm EHSg 81ibhw 8^8 HWT¥TVVV VH' uiyisiin Immense enthusiasm greeted I the British liberation of I Malaya in 1945 but since I then conditions have deteri- I orated largely as a result of I food and transport shortage. In Singapore the Malayan Communist Party has been active, and in a recent affray with the police one man was shot and nineteen injured. I Meanwhile, the British I Government has ...

... On left Spring-cleaning began at Waterloo and Charing Cross underground stations last week, two gangs of fifteen men being employed during the small hours of each morning to clean the paintwork and carry out redistempering. As more labour becomes available, further gangs will start to work, and it is hoped that Trafalgar Square, Oxford Circus, Bond Street, Strand, St. James's Park, and ...

... In Room 41 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, where Londoners, drawn by shrewd publicity and curiosity, recently flocked to gaze in bewilderment on the works of Picasso and Matisse, there is now being held an exhibition infinitely more to the public taste. It is an exhibition of the Museum's rich collection of the works of John Constable, and it constitutes a new tribute to an artist whose ...

... HThe creation of thirty- two new Cardinals at the same time, an event without precedent in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, and one that places the governance of the Church on a much more international basis, was the occasion for scenes of im pressive ceremonial at the Vatican Palace and in St. Peter's. At every opportunity Pope Pius mingled freely among his new Cardinals, and, as one ...

... On left A flying-boat service for the Atlantic route is being widely advocated these days, and special interest attaches to the latest design produced by the firm of Saunders Roe. This machine, which will probably be available for service in 1948, would be able to carry 100 passengers at a cruising speed of 300 m.p.h. on the 3,600-mile non-stop run to New York. Six gas turbines ...

... The use of the former Japan ese destroyer Yoizuki tc send Japanese prisoners of wai and civilian internees back to Formosa and Korea aroused a storm of protest when it became known that the ship sailed from Sydney with 1,200 people on board instead of a normal com plement of 450. The Australian Government referred the case to General MacArthur, who at once gave orders for the women and ...