... THE INSTALLATION AND ENTHRONEMENT OF THE BISHOP OF LINCOLN THE SCENE IN THE FAMOUS ANGEL CHOIR OF THE CATHEDRAL AS THE RT. REV. LESLIE OWEN WAS MADE NINETY-THIRD BISHOP OF THE DIOCESE The new Bishop is seen in the centre of the picture on the right, and below the altar steps are massed the clergy of the diocese. The new Bishop was conducted to the episcopal throne by the Archdeacon of ...

... HHI BBI Battle of Britain Sunday fell this year on the actual anniversary of that September 15 on which the fighter pilots of the R.A.F. took their greatest toll of the Luftwaffe, and In cathedrals, churches and chapels throughout the country thanksgiving services were held to mark the occasion. At Biggin Hill, the station from which so many pilots went out to meet the German Air Force, there ...

... The second anniversary of the Battle of Arnhemr that never- to-be-forgotten attempt to turn the German flank by the men j of the 1st Airborne Division, was celebrated last week by the people of Holland and by the pilgrims who went out to Amhem from England. Two services took place in the cemetery of Oosterbeek, where there are 1,400 graves of British soldiers from the many different units of ...

... When Lord Wavell, who may be India s last Viceroy, received at Viceregal Lodge, Delhi, Pandit Jaharwal Nehru and the members of his Interim Government, a major revolution in the political development of India was brought about, for the country passed for the first time into the hands of a wholly Indian Ministry. This was the climax to the policy fore shadowed in the early years of this century ...

... BECAUSE the Russians have suggested that, after all, Geneva is the best place for the United Nations, is no reason why this second and wiser choice should not be made. One quite understands Messrs. Byrnes and Bevin saying, We 're tired of being pushed about by these Russians. Must we follow each of their fresh fancies It was they who placed U.N.O. in America, and there it shall stay There is ...

... Any time in the last fifty years, men tion of a space ship would have been coupled inevitably with the name of Jules Verne; but slowly and surely we are emerging from the realm of fiction, and a craft that can fly to and from the moon is no longer outside the realm of practical possibility. The picture on the right shows a Scotsman s conception ot a space ship now being shown in the 44 Designs ...

... Throughout the summer and early autumn the European Squadron of the United States Fleet has been extremely active In European waters, cruising from Gibraltar to the Bosphorus and back again, and calling at many ports en route. The Squadron has lately been joined by the new American aircraft-carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt, and after putting in at Lisbon, where General Carmona. President of the ...

... ■a The Nile flood is an annual event comparable in regularity with the monsoon, but of recent weeks the floods have reached such proportions that a state of emergency has had to be declared in the Sudan and defence works hurriedly built on the Egyptian stretch of the river. Early in September so much water was flowing down the Blue and White Niles that j at their confluence at Khar toum the ...

... MORE DISCOVERIES IN ROMAN CANTERBURY Watched by interested bystanders, excavators work on the blitzed site near the Cathedral, where they have brought to light relics of the Roman occupation. The finds include the floor of a bath-house, part of a tessellated pavement, and fragments of medieval crockery. This picture shows how the Cathedral stands on the very edge of the extensive blitzed ...

... The potentialities of the Highlands as a cheap source of power for the industrial Lowlands have long been recognised, and in the years immediately before the war active development was taking place in the Grampians. At the moment work is progressing on the plan to direct the waters of the River Tummel, in Perthshire, and its most interesting feature is the construction of a 1i-mile-long tunnel ...

... HAMPSHIRE'S FLOODED FARMLANDS--A SCENE NEAR ALTON TYPICAL OF HARVEST-TIME CONDITIONS IN MANY PARTS OF ENGLAND The crops have suffered severely in the late summer storms, and prayers have been asked in the churches to save what remains Following the wettest and coolest August since 1941 and the dullest for twenty-four years, September opened with thunderstorms and rain in nearly all parts of ...

... A s Pandit Nehru and his interim Government took office in Delhi, serious com munal riots, following closely upon those in Calcutta, broke out in the Muslim quarter of Bombay. Throughout the city a state of emergency was de clared, but before the curfew was imposed many dead and injured were left in the streets as parties of Muslims and Hindus clashed. The rioting quickly spread from district ...