... CITIZENS OF EDINBURGH THRONG ROUND HOLYROODHOUSE A view of the great crowd which gathered in the forecourt outside the Palace to greet the Royal Family at the start of their week's stay in the Scottish capital. The crowd called repeatedly for the King and Queen, who came to the windows and bowed their acknowledgments. Later there was community singing and an entertainment including pipe music ...

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... DRAMA AT THE WICKET T. P. B. Smith, of Essex, edges one in to the slips and it is well fielded by A. V. Bedser, of Surrey, who appealed for a catch. This picture was taken during the recent game between an England XI and the Rest and it illustrates very clearly the way in which the telephoto lens records in admirable detail what occurs on the pitch although due allowance must be made at the ...

... THE KING ENTERTAINS HIS NORFOLK TENANTRY-- THE VICTORY GARDEN PARTY IN THE GROUNDS OF SANDRING- HAM His Majesty, accompanied by the Queen and one of his oldest tenants, walking across the lawns together with the Princesses. Two thousand five hundred tenants and Sandringham estate employees attended the party and tea was taken in a large marquee set up for the occasion. While in Norfolk the ...

... TELEVISION is unquestionably the new entertainment. It gives one the same thrills as that of the original talkie-- The Singing Fool, in which Al Jolson starred. I say this with assurance because my own 1939 H.M.V. model tele vision set, which originally cost 45 guineas, has now been renovated after six years of disuse, and I am already becoming an addict of viewing. The exciting part of ...

... No measure introduced since the close of the war has caused more misgiving than that of bread rationing, and last week the public uneasiness with regard to the whole question reached its climax when the 1,500 delegates of the National Association of Master Bakers met in London and rejected the scheme by a unanimous vote, afterwards sending six delegates to Mr. Strachey, the Food Minister, to ...

... YOUNG evangelist Michael Foot's leading of an offensive against monopolistic tendencies in the Press appeared to me to be on the impolitic side from the Labour standpoint. Why give ground for the suspicion that there exist Labour leaders who are not averse to ordaining more of a Yes-Press-- British version, of course, yet still in the descent from the Reichskanzellerei and the Kremlin-- when ...

... THE ROYAL VISIT TO SCOTLAND-- THE KING CONFERS A KNIGHTHOOD ON THE LORD PROVOST OF EDINBURGH Sir John Falconer receiving the accolade on the steps of the Royal Scottish Academy after he had handed to the King the keys of the city. On the left is Sir John's daughter Last week the King and Queen, accompanied by Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, left London for Edinburgh, where they took ...

... THE MENACE OF THE ILLEGAL ARMIES-- MEMBERS OF THE IRGUN ZEVAI LEUMI, THE JEWISH MILITARY ORGANISATION, OPERATING IN THE PALESTINE HILL- COUNTRY This armed band, carrying grenades and ammunition, is typical of many which have been abroad in the Holy Land of recent weeks, carrying out acts of terrorism at many points. On June 26, after three days' trial, thirty-one members of the Irgun Zevai ...

... AN INTERESTING ARRIVAL AT THE SURREY DOCKS The Sestroretsk, the first Soviet passenger ship to make the Leningrad to London trip since the war, seen during unloading operations at her berth in London. The Sestroretsk, which has five women members in her crew in addition to the stewardesses, has brought to England a cargo including £3,000,000 in gold, two cases of platinum, mined in the Ural ...

... THE PROGRESS OF SALVAGE WORK IN THE THAMES ESTUARY A diagrammatic drawing showing various phases of the work which sti I continues at the mouth of the river in order to free completely the Port of London for peacetime traffic. Between the Essex and Kentish shores there are numerous wrecks remaining to be dealt with, most of them ships sunk by mines laid in the estuary by German planes. In the ...

... AFTER SIXTY-FOUR YEARS IN BRITISH OCCUPATION--THE CELEBRATED CITADEL AT CAIRO WHICH WAS OFFICIALLY HANDED OVER TO THE EGYPTIAN ARMY AT THE BEGINNING OF JULY An artist's impression of the imposing Kremlin of the Nile, a town within a town, containing several mosques, a palace (used as officers' auartersT. a hospital, a prison, a barracks and an arsenal. Its ceremonial evacuation by British ...