... The Welsh mining village of Mountain Ash a depressed area before the war and a black spot of unemployment now sprang back into life a few days ago when it became the centre for the Welsh National Eisteddfod. During the week's ceremonies Princess Elizabeth was invested as a Bard and initiated into the mystic Gorsedd on a mountain side above the village. It will be remembered that the King and ...

... II iHHIWSW i'!rfISllrJfCWBIi': r- THE HELICOPTER 101 NS THE U.S. NAVY PILOTS OF THE FIRST HELICOPTER SQUADRON PRACTISE TAKING OFF AND LANDING ON A ROLLING FLIGHT-DECK ON LAND The wooden platform rocks to an angle of 15 degs. to simulate conditions which will be encountered when the Squadron takes to the sea For nearly a year past it has been recognised that the helicopter, with its powers of ...

... Last week Mr. Churchill went to Dover to be formally installed as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, an office he has held since September 1941 and one which he told his audience hghtheartedly had never conflicted with his other tasks as Minister of Defence and Prime Minister. It was an occasion of brilliant pageantry, with Mr. Chur chill, resplendent in a uniform of scarlet and gold, as the ...

... hhhhhbhhhhhh On right- In the years immediately preceding the First World War, Germany was making vast strides in her shipbuilding industry, and in 1914 the celebrated Hamburg firm of Blohm and Voss, later to pioneer in the field of aircraft construction, launched the 56,000-ton liner Bismarck the greatest vessel ever produced in a German yard During hostilities the work of fit ting out the ...

... Dunkirk, port of many memories, where Germany was thwarted of the full fruits of victory in the West, is to-day a working port again, and although it will be years before the scars of war are removed, ships are already loading and unloading at her quaysides. At Zeebrugge, too, a hardly less-celebrated port in the annals of modem war, recon struction is also progressing THE PORT OF DUNKIRK AS ...

... 1 : Koad and rail trarhc between the Rhineland and the west has been hopelessly disorganised since the close of hostilities, and working with all speed, our British and American engineers have been restoring the vital links. The latest bridge to come into operation is the North Railway Bridge between Dussel- dorf and Neuss, which was reopened recently by Mr. J. B. Hynd. With this bridge in ...

... ENJOYING ONE OF LONDON'S LONGEST RUNS Norman Ginsbury, whose play The First Gentleman is now in its second year at the Savoy Theatre. In addition to his historical plays, which have had such a success in London, his adaptation of Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, A Doll's House, and Peer Gynt have revealed Mr. Ginsbury as a brilliant interpreter of Ibsen. A Doll's House, it will be ...

... i/ (Spun by Briggs a! Beek Mills Clayton, Yorks.) TRIM JUMPER COAT This attractive diamond pattern Jumper Coat is even more attrac tive by reason of the low coupon rate of only one coupon per 4 ozs. for the delightful W.B. Sonata Crepe from which it is made. Specially designed by Penelope, full instructions are given in Leaflet No. 1268, price 4d. from your wool or needle-work shop If any ...

... THF AMERICAN FARMER ARRIVES AT FALMOUTH: THE SHIP WHICH HAS PROVIDED THE GREATEST SEA SENSATION OF RECENT YEARS. Here she is seen in tow and rounding the point into the harbour. The wedge-shaped hole in her bows, caused as a result of the colhs.on with another American vessel, the William J. Riddle, is clearly seen in this picture The American Farmer was abandoned in the Atlantic after ...

... A LONDON N EWSLETTER i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Bank Holiday.-- Thirty-two years ago, and just such a lovely August Bank Holiday week-end. Every detail of that distant week-end visit to a pleasant house in Hertfordshire thirty- two years ago came vividly back to me, recalled by the date, by the weather and by the presence in my house of the daughter of my then hostess. Half of that large ...

... Above THE EXTRAORDINARY MUSHROOM- SHAPED CLOUD FORMATION A MOMENT AFTER THE EXPLOSION Note the gap in the right side of the cone of water just above the sea-level. This hole, shaped like a cave at the base of a cliff, was at about the position of the guinea- pig battleship Arkansas, sunk by the blast. Observers aboard the Press ship Appalachian at Bikini interpreted the rift in the column as ...

... MR. MALCOLM MACDONALD, GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF MALAYA, GIVES A GARDEN PARTY AT THE RESIDENCY DURING HIS VISIT TO NORTH BORNEO Greeting an aged Dayak chief who had thirty Jap heads to his credit He was one of the chieftains whose tribe gave so much trouble to the enemy during their occupation. Visiting Borneo for the second time in a fortnight, the Governor- General of Malaya, the Rt. Hon. Mr. ...