... CAIRO STUDENTS MAKE THEIR PRESENCE FELT Police and armoured cars line a street leading from the University of Fuad Awal to the centre of the city when checking an anti-British demonstration. The demonstrations started on November 18 and continued over a week CAIRO STUDENTS OVERTURN A TRAMCAR A typical incident during the week and more of rioting which was large y concentrated in the area of ...

... The Eton Wall Game, that spirited contest which is only really understood by Etonians past and present, and strikes the layman very much as a muddy braw without apparent purpose, was, as usual, the big event of St. Andrew's Day at Eton and, as so often happens, it ended in no score. there was one thrilling n >ment towards the end c the match, however, wh n the Collegers flung all their weight ...

... innrnvni MlllUyilnHfl H JJrTn^TTa] TsVITTJ 7T ■i*TTT^7^Bn'7TV IfMaiaNiMU 10,500 FEET UP OH THE WETTERHORN This picture, taken by Dr. Kerber of the land rescue-party, shows the transport where it landed in the Bernese Oberland and its passengers were marooned for nearly five days, during three of which their whereabouts were unknown. Members of the rescue-party are surround ing the Dakota, ...

... ■ffi Of recent weeks the guerillas of Northern Greece, possibly gaining assurance from backing north of the border, have been engaged in active operations against the Greek Army, and towards the end of November matters reached a crisis when the Greek garrison was attacked and overwhelmed in the village of Skra. Since then conditions have continued to deteriorate, and relations be tween the ...

... NOW that the nights have drawn in, card-playing once again reaches its annual peak of popu- larity. This winter, however, the long supremacy of contract bridge is being seriously threatened. The newcomer is gin rummy, and every day its adherents are growing in numbers. Normally a new card game is either a round game invented by some manufacturer, or it is a two-handed game like picquet or ...

... l_I ampered by bad weather in the trial matches and the recent Sheffield Shield games, the Australians had diffi culty in picking their men for the first Test, but these twelve, formidable in batting and only partly- tried in bowling, were summoned to Brisbane for the opening trial of strength against the M.C.C. (1) Don Brad- man requires no intro duction, with his ninety- five centuries in ...

... HERBERT TERRY SONS LTD., I Hi luckv..lV6 0ot tHi Ait(|lcpoig0 T TREASURE my Anglepoise because it takes any one of iooi angles at a finger touch, puts the light right 011 the book or object, never sags or droops, and takes up very little room. I save a lot on light bills as I need only a 20 or 40 watt bulb the light being so i nicely concentrated. So you'll understand why Anglepoise orders ...

... ■■■JJJT-- llkB ■SSmi At the end of November the 10,000th aluminium house to come off the production-lines in Britain was handed over to Brighton Corporation. At the moment sixty or seventy aluminium houses are being produced every day, and it is hoped by next autumn to have reached a total of 55,000. Among the biggest producers of aluminium houses are Hawksley's, of Gloucester, who have ...

... No ships are held in greater affection than the Australian grain-racers, and it is good to know that at least a few of them may sail again on the Cape Horn route, though it is probable that their racing days are done. In the following notes Alan Villiers, who won fame by his world voyages in the 44 Joseph Conrad tells the story of the survivors of the once mighty fleet of windjammers and ...

... In the present state of medical knowledge Never has good health of the individual and of the nation been a more vital necessity than at present. Never have doctors been more ready to admit that the medical discoveries of to-morrow may contradict the accepted beliefs of to-day. Yet one health-truth is unassailable to with stand the strain of these harassing days, nerves need adequate supplies ...

... AUSTRALIA-BOUND WITH 500 PASSENGERS-- THE AIRCRAFT-CARRIER VICTORIOUS IS ESCORTED BY A TUG INTO VALETTA HARBOUR, MALTA The Victorious, with her upper hangar converted into a dormitory, and with some cabins fitted out for passengers, is carrying on her passenger list Service personnel a also civilians with priority passages. The accommodation is certainly not that of one of the great Orient ...

... MHHB THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE FIESELER STORCH AS AN ALPINE RESCUE CRAFT-- ONE OF THE TWO SKI-EQUIPPED, SLOW- FLYING PLANES SEEN BEFORE TAKING OFF FROM THE 7,000-FT. LEDGE WHEN RESCUING PASSENGERS FROM THE WRECKED DAKOTA IN THE BERNESE OBERLAND On their remarkable mission, in which they were piloted by two officers of the Swiss Air Force, the machines landed on this narrow ledge and for six hours ...