... Only in the pages of Somerset Maugham, who has made the East Indies so peculiarly his province, would one expect to find a fictional counterpart of the true story of the Treasure of Nakamura, and Maugham, at least, would have given his tale that characteristic, subtly bril liant twist to elevate it from the sordid plane. The story of the Treasure of Nakamura began in the days of the Japanese ...

... BY the time this appears in print, one of the most important and least-publicised conferences ever held in London will have come to an end. Apart from the very brief reference in the King's Speech when Parliament reopened, nothing has been said or printed about the preparatory committee of the International Conference of Trade and Employment, which has been sitting daily at Church House, ...

... AS THE SMOKE MUSHROOMED SKYWARDS The last views after the ill-fated V 2 was guided to destruction in the New Mexican Desert The V 2 rocket, which the German artillery never reallj learnt to master, although firing it with a degree of precision against London, is now the subject of intensive research b> the United States Army. At the U.S. Army Proving Grounds at White Sands, New Mexico, these ...

... fiiitn THE U.S. ARMY JEEP GOES UNDERWATER-- ALMOST ENTIRELY SUBMERGED, THE WATERPROOFED CAR CAN FORD STREAMS, BREATHING THROUGH THE EXTENSIONS OF THE INTAKE AND EXHAUST MANIFOLDS The idea is not by any means new, as any British artilleryman will readily testify, and its supreme importance was realised in the closing stages of the war. Deep-water fording kits are now to be standard equipment in ...

... TAILORED COSTUMES j (To order) i Suits that are equally correct ^5 for town or country in a wide variety of Glen-Checks and Glen Urquharts. Suits of this type made exclusively by Burberrys remain undated indefinitely an immense advan- 5£ tage in these coupon days. 2j! Burberrys suits have such style and character perfectly tailored and endowed with distinction that they are always attractive ...

... 91 J* v ;v' :r\v> ^gojmjg ft BY APPOINTMENT Gin Distillers to H.M. King George VI ft DISTILLERIES LIMITED I il Vftrj 1^1 VnA/ BZtfllTML'JMB P*'f iWTfttuTWM i THE ONLY GIN THAT HOLDS THE BLUE SEAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE ...

... Tn 1394 King Richard II ordered oak for the original hammer-beam roof of Westminster Hall from the Courthope Estate in Sussex, and now, after a lapse of five-and-a-half centuries, timber from that very same estate is again beme employed. It has been selected by the Ministry of Works for repairing the roof, which was so badly damaged in the blitz. A copy of the fourteenth- century contract ...

... >1 I- ETrom the K.L.M. Dakota which crashed in the woods at Shere, near Guild ford, members of the rescue party extracted a crateful of china of which not one piece was broken. The pilot was less fortunate, sustaining a broken collarbone and con cussion, but it was due to his skilful handling of the machine that the fifteen pas sengers and the crew of five escaped serious injury. When the ...

... ON THE CREST OF RICHMOND HILL: An impression by J. S. Sanderson-Wells from the Surrey section of Recording Britain, the first of four volumes issued by the Pilgrim Trust in association with the Oxford University Press. The house belongs to the early years of the nineteenth century, a time, says Arnold Palmer, who contributes the commentary, when almost any architect could still be trusted ...

... Dritain's export trade and Britain's housing programme, the one no less a priority than the other, are both being aided by County Durham's celebrated Springwell Quarry, which produces freestone for a host of purposes. Some of it is cut into window-sills and shaped into plain build- ing-stone, but much of the output is put to more technical uses, including the making of circular pulping-stones ...

... Issued by In the islands of the Outer Hebrides nature and craftsmanship combine to produce the inimitable Harris Tweed. You will know the product of the Hebridean crofters when you see the Trade Mark on the cloth or the label on the garment. ...

... Lit/ lit on the invisible eneni// Have you ever seen a strong shaft of sunlight strike across a room, and reveal countless millions of dancing dust particles sometimes 300,000 of them in every cubic foot of air? And yet even under these conditions you do not see the particles which do the most damage particles as small as one micron one hundredth the diameter of a human hair Remember this ...