... I The wettest Septet I ber for nineteen j^ear followed immediate!]! I upon an August of hardly less gloom. the North Country] I Hooding reached ven serious proportions.) I and in the Caldt] Valley towns and vii lages were maroons! I and road and rail I traffic brought to ;J complete standstill I At Bradford a walUl I water swept into tk.3 I main square, whi a Halifax, HuddersfieM and Dewsbury ...

... THIS is a time when new twists are being given with some frequency to the British Occupation of Germany. A definite enough milestone was reached in August, which saw the end of the good old days --spell during which Montgomery's famous army largely dissolved amid the farewell-party spirit-- and marked the entry of a more staid and permanent note, a new and more sober and serious buckling ...

... HOW THE EARTH WOULD APPEAR TO A TRAVELLER ALIGHTING ON THE MOON It would present a surface ten times as large as the moon presents to us, and the earthlight would appear ten times brighter than moonlight. This artist's impression is supposed to be taken from the crater of Copernicus, one of the great natural features of the moon which has been observed constantly by astronomers. French ...

... While the prisoners of Nuremberg awaited the verdict of the court they were permitted to receive their wives and children, and many of the relatives came in haste to the court-house at Nuremberg as soon as they heard the news. Among the first to arrive was Frau Goering, who in the days following the capitulation denounced her husband, but who has since adopted a wise reserve. She has made her ...

... Ousted from their ancestral homes among the palm-trees of Bikini Atoll to make way for Admiral Blandy's atom bomb experiment, the Bikinians had no reason for satisfaction, but the Ameri- i can Navy has sought to put matters right for them hv j building a new and better j village amid the palm-trees I of Rongerik. The building work has been done by th j Naval Construction Bat talions, and, in ...

... To-day in Britain coal is one of our most precious assets and, with coal production falling, every ton saved will play its part during the winter months when industry's needs are greatest. Assisting notably in this saving are the British railways, and their new plan to convert 1,200 heavy-duty railway engines from coal to oil will save roughly 1,440,000 tons of coal a year. 1 he change-over, ...

... THE psychological effect of the Britain Can Make It Exhibi tion at the Victoria and Albert Museum will be fascinating to study as time goes on and more and more people see what they cannot buy. The immediate effect on the citizens is a dumb, glazed look about the eyes. Theirs, indeed, is the Britain Can Take It expression. except ior rue iew cnuaren who see tne toys, and whose desire to ...

... T aurence Olivier has followed nobly the Old Vic's tradition of bringing Shakespeare to London audiences, and he takes his place with John Gielgud and Donald Wolfit in making a great personal success in the West End. His King Lear is, in the words of a current revue, a tour de force, and his performance was epitomised by The Times critic as Unfaltering Unflagging His virile style is at its ...

... 1, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Stalin Says.-- When Stalin dis misses the dangers of a new war and minimises the effects of the atom bomb, millions of Russians (who have felt the breeze as keenly as others) are comforted, relieved and heartened. And so, of course, are millions outside Russia, to whom indeed the wind appeared to set from that quarter. But the relief at Stalin's statement will be ...

... COMMUNISTS AND NATIONALISTS COME TO GRIPS IN THE SHADOW OF THE POTALA A running fight in progress beneath the walls of the old palace in Chengteh, capital of Jehol Province, which was recently the scene of renewed activity in the Chinese civil war. An advancing lorry-borne column of General Chiang Kai-shek's troops has been ambushed by Communist infantrymen Drawing by W. G. Whitaker During the ...

... NAVAL RECRUITS MASTER THE SAILING ART With H.M.S. Nelson towering in the back ground, men of the Training Battleship Squadron at Weymouth receive practice in thi handling of small craft. The Training Battleship Squadron consists of H.M.S. Nelson, wearing the flag of Rear-Admiral H. Hickling, H.M.S. Howe and H.M.S. Anson. The trainees are men who have volunteered for seven years' service ...

... ETollowing out their policy of showing the best in their possession, the authorities of the Vicyjl and Albert Museum have gathered together a remark collection of sculpture which is now open to the pu-, in an upper gallery of the Eastern Block of the Musaj This policy of showing only the best pieces is M controlled by the limited space at the disposal the authorities, owing to the large area ...