... 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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... 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 French Government, ever mindful of the glorious part played by the British and American troops In the liberation of Europe, has presented a strip of territory at Arromanches where the British and American allies may erect fitting memorials to their war dead. In the years to come there is no doubt that this area of the Normandy landings will take on an increasing significance, and this year ...

... Although Goering declared to the world that no British bombers would ever penetrate the defences of the Reich, the German people could have had little faith in his wanton prophecy, for they were at pains to move their treasures from the industrial areas of the Rhineland at a very early stage in the war. Now many of those treasures are housed at Schloss Dyck, a romantic moated castle at ...

... Ballet is enjoying a tremendous boom in London at the present moment and, in addition to the twenty ballets which are being presented at the Cambridge Theatre, the Sadler's Wells Com pany has been delighting audiences at Covent Garden, with Margot Fonteyn at her brilliant best, while at Sadler's Wells itself the New Ballet Company has been in action. On more unorthodox lines is the Negro ...

... Publishers and authors in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were quite evidently not without their wiles, as witness a recent discovery of pirated Shakespeare quartos in a Lincolnshire mansion and the sale in London of a Florentine history which the author, in his day, clearly intended should be accepted as a work by the great Christopher Marlowe. The pirated quartos were brought to ...

... i, New Oxford Street, W.C.j.. Bread Rationing.-- As one who does not need or use the normal man's ration of flour, I can write on this subject without prejudice. Mr. Churchill has described the decision to ration flour as the gravest peace time decision announced in his lifetime. Be that as it mav. it is certainly important, and contentious. In the absence of all figures and facts, the ...

... The destruction of the Allenby Bridge and other wanton acts on the borders of Palestine and Transjordan would seem to have been the signal for nation-wide terrorism by members of the Irgun Zevai Leumi, the Jewish national military organisation, and in succeeding days armed Jews were reported to be active through out the country, the trial of their confreres in Jerusalem doing little to curb ...

... jTor several months past the United States Navy Office of Research and Inventions has been acting in collaboration with the U.S. Armv Ordnance Engineers at the White Sands Proving Grounds, Las Cruces, New Mexico, where they have fired experimentally a number of captured German V 2 rockets. Having perfected the technique of firing these projectiles a techmnue which the Germans never reallv ...