... i. New Oxford Street, W.C.i. In Paris.-- In modern politics and diplomacy we have grown used to striking water in barren ground and finding unexpected snags where the going looked easy. So it may be that fruit and harmony will be harvested at the Paris Conference, where one expected at the start nothing but snags and disagreement. (We have been agreeably surprised.) To that Conference came ...

... TlIfTTHU?rTTW7?T Russia, in her search for oil, has been active of recent month both in the Middle East and Hungary, thereby causing a rise u the international temperature and adding to the complication confronting U.N.O. In Persia this quest for oil has been satisfies by the recent agreement between Moscow and Teheran, whereb; Russia will develop the region at the southern end of the Caspian ...

... 1J u ring the Russian occupation of Hungary, the oil-fields, which are very largely American financed, have been operated by the Russians in what is described as a wasteful and destructive fashion, and in the Hun garian-American Oil Com pany's fields it is known that the wells have suffered from a rapid wastage of gas. As a result, General wiinar lvey, united states memDor 01 tne Allied ...

... THE RETURN OF THE STATUES-- last the statues are beginning to come back to London. The pedestals are being shorn of their ugly brick surrounds, and one by one the familiar monuments are appearing in their accustomed places. The equestrian statue of King George III, the work of Matthew Wyatt, once again looks down on Cockspur Street, having returned to London from the wilds of Hertfordshire, ...

... EH ■I shares continued alter baste r, and the market received a further impetus when Sir Ernest Oppen- heimer publicly declared the im portance of the new gold-field in South Africa. It is thought that the mines of the Orange Free State may come in time to rival those of the Witwatersrand, and that a great new city may spring up to the south of Johannesburg. Much depends, of course, on future ...

... AMERICANA News-pictures from the U.S. A K.K.K. REVIVAL IN CALIFORNIA The remains of a fiery cross, symbol of the notorious Ku Klux Klan, which was burnt in the streets of Big Bear, California, as a warning to the intending seller of some property. The symbol was made of pieces of oil-soaked pipe BACK TO DUTY: The Scotland Light- i ship, after being on other duties during j the war, is now in ...

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... The Burden May Be Shifted Entirely To Indian Shoulders. Meanwhile British And Indian Warriors Still Guard The Passes As In The Days Of Desmond, V.C. By Harwood Steele THE North-West Frontier! There is magic-- Indian magic-- in the name. But is it still the Land of High Adventure, of a gallant little Indian and British Army guarding India's teeming millions against certain Powers and ...

... The Bird's Egg Fascinating Aspects Of One Of Nature's Wonders By Frank W. Lane A BIRD'S egg is a remarkable piece of work, and its manufacture inside the body of the hen is a complicated process. When the embryo egg has been formed it passes along a sort of conveyor belt and first one set of glands and then another adds bits to it until it emerges as the egg we know. The first glands cover ...

... Old Tales Re-told Wolf InThe Fold The Story of Father Girard and Mdlle. Cadiere W rittcn and Illustrated by F. Matania, R.I. NO nation can boast of a clean sheet in the matter of persecu tions and cruelties in the name of religion. Patriotic fervour has always conjured up in all of us, irrespective of nationality, an exag gerated vision of a glorious past, in spite of the fact that in this ...

... ^There XI She Blows The Days of the Whalermen of Moby Dick Fame have passed into the Limbo I of Forgotten Times. But the Chase for the Leviathan of the Icy Seas goes on anew By V Warren Armstrong mm OCEAN-GOING tugs nosed her great bulk gently alongside; deck and dock-hands passed the pipelines aboard, and the sea giant greedily took her fill of fuel oil, 21,000 tons of it, largest quantity ...

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