... 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 ...

... I On left The Catacombs of Paris, which have just been reopened, were formerly subterranean quarries, and they were worked as far back as the Roman period. They extend under a large part of the left bank area of Paris, and so great was the extent of this mining that in 1774 several streets in that area began to show symptoms of sinking. Steps were at once taken by the Government to avert the ...

... T- 'he forthcoming atomic-bomb tests at Bikini Atoll, in mid-Pacific, have been arousing the keenest argument in the American Press, and the Hearst newspapers have been busy rallying anti-vivisectionists to save the rats, goats, and pigs which are to be installed as guinea-pig crews in the doomed fleet. Meanwhile, preparations for the tests pro ceed apace, and on these pages are shown some of ...

... A Dramatist Who Writes on the Problems of To-Day Warren Chetham Strode and His Family at Their London Home Warren Chetham Strode is the author of that successful play The Guinea-Pig the story of a council schoolboy sent as an experiment to a Public School, which is playing at the Criterion Theatre. He is also the author of The Young Mrs. Barrington, which was produced at the Winter Garden some ...

... PICTURES II THE FIRE By Sabretache Just Names WHEN not quite so busy with names like Prince Regent, Kargal, Red Rower, Chaka, Jalgreya, Poor Flame, Kami, and such like, I suggest that the studious might memorise some like Kandahar, Ghuzni, Kabul-- all in a nice little line-- also Kerman, Bandar Abbas, Bushire, Ahwaz, Khushk, Herat, Termez; and there are many more which a good contour map is ...

... 4 Song of Norway the Life and Music of Edvard Grieg A Spectacular Production The Song of Norway which is to be presented by Emile Littler at the Palace Theatre on March 7th, is an operetta based on the life and music of the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg, and is now in the second year of its run on Broadway. Among the colourful scenes is the Festival of St. John on Midsummer's Eve in Bergen ...

... 3rd/0. Daphne Barham, W.R.N. S., 2nd Lt. David Barham, Household Cavalry, Capt. H. A. Barham, Countess Pongracz de Saint Michel Etovar, F/Lt. G. L. Phillips and Mrs. H. A. Barham Mrs. R. C. Rootes and Major D. Evatt Miss Pearl Glessing and Lt. J. H. J. Voorspuy Mr. E. Clifford Smith, Mr. Peter Russell, Capt. Peter Demery, Mrs. Clifford Smith, Mrs. Peter Demery and Miss H. Hilton Simpson Mrs. ...