... ■KrcpnMfl j Doyal Marines in the cruiser Ajax had a surprise I recently in Haifa Harbour when they were sub- I jected to a fusillade of bully-beef tins (unused) when I attempting to board an immigrant ship and transfer the I Jewish passengers to transports bound for Cyprus. Sub- I sequently a sergeant declared The first ship was I boarded fairly easily, after a struggle, but the second I ...

... i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Thoughts While on Holi day.-- Sometimes I am pricked in conscience. Two or three times a year, as I comment too easily on the news I feel an urge to separate wheat from chaff, truth from hearsay, and see things clearer, striking a juster balance-sheet. Civilisation wears the air of bankruptcy, and many vital features at home seem grim enough. My farmer friends tell ...

... JEWISH GIRLS ARE SENTENCED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT Smiling broadly, they are escorted by two male guards and one female guard after hearing the news of their sentence by a British military court. They were found guilty of participating in a night attack on the Palestine railway workshops at Haifa, but had to be tried in absentia on account of their behaviour in court. When the charges were read ...

... ^f/estem Germany has for generations depended upon river transport, and such vital transport links as the Rhine, the Weser and the Main are even more important to-day now that road and rail communications throughout the country are still in disrupt on. To keep traffic moving on the Rhine, the new bridges which are being constructed by British and American engineers, with the help of German ...

... The 46-ft. Watson-type cabin lifeboat now under con struction in British yards for the National Lifeboat Institution is probably the most seaworthy craft ever devised. It is divided into seven watertight compartments, and is fitted with 142 air cases while the engine-room is itself watertight and each engine is sealed, so that the lifeboat can continue running even when she is flooded ...

... As Pandit Nehru, of the Congress Party, sought to create a Ministry of Hindus and Muslims, and as India stood upon the threshold of self-government, an outbreak of mob violence took place in Calcutta, surpassing in folly all that had gone before in the bitter months of Hindu-Muslim strife. The noting, accompanied by an orgy of looting, murder, arson and irresponsible hooliganism, began on what ...

... SOUTH AFRICANS should pay attention to their 50-to-6o-year cycles. In 1836 there started the Great Trek into the unknown interior by Boer peasants in search of the simple life, and approximately by 1846 they thought they had found it. But in 1886 these farmers, or tneir descendants, discovered tnat tney nad Deen established all along on the richest gold-bearing area in the world, and for the ...

... From the Polish marshes to the Kurile Islands, and from Scandinavia to Trieste and the Dardanelles in fact, upon all the fringes of Russia and Siberia, things are hap pening that are not wholly accountable, but none the less leave the world with a deep sense of hidden danger. The shooting-down of the American planes in Yugo slavia at once caused an inter national stir when it became known that ...

... B J Jir.ll ^BPPB 1 y I I IfJB' HERE COMES THE CONSTITUTION LOCKHEED'S 92-TON TRANSPORT ON THE AIRFIELD AT BURBANK, CALIFORNIA, BEFORE RUNNING ITS FIRST TRIALS PRECEDING DELIVERY TO THE NAVY: The Constitution,' which is the largest aircraft ever built for the United States Navy, has been shrouded in secrecy for three years. It is designed to meet the Navy's need for a large, land-based ...

... VY/hen Germany invaded the Low Countries in the spring of 1940, and when, towards the close of the war, she fled from those same places, she wrought havoc among communications. The Dutch, with characteristic energy and foresight, have now restored nearly all the major bridges that were wrecked, and, this done, the task of national re habilitation can go ahead. The recon struction at Moerdijk, ...

... THE SEASON OF THE HIGHLAND GAMES-- THE OPENING OF THE 65TH STRATHARDLE GATHERING AT DOUNIE HAUGH Major M. G. Nairn, of Pitcarmick, the Chieftain, leading some of the clansmen to the games followed by the celebrated Pitlochry Pipe Band. The standard was borne by the oldest member of the Clan, Mr. John Petrie, of Ballinloan, who is in his 85th year. Throughout August the Highland Games have been ...

... VE7hen the Queen Elizabeth went down the Clyde in May 1940 it was not to the accompaniment of hoot ing tugs and to the usual welcome for a new Atlantic liner, but in the deepest secrecy. Instead of starting her career as a luxurious liner she became a military transport vital in Britain's wartime service. Now, after over five years as a trooper, she starts her originally- intended career, and ...