... The M.C.C.'s 1946-47 cricket tour of Australia is over. It has been a hectic and prolonged affair for the players, but there is no doubt that Hammond and his men have created much goodwill. In batting, no new reputations have been made on the M.C.C. side, and some old ones have been lost. Hutton and Compton, how ever, have held their place. Among the Australians Bradman was again pre-eminent ...

... THE MARCH OF EDUCATION-- STUDENTS READING FROM A MAGNIFIED MICRO-FILM WHEN STUDYING SCIENTIFIC SUBJECTS IN A SPECIALLY-ADAPTED READING-ROOM In a speech in Parliament shortly before her death, Miss Ellen Wilkinson referred to the appalling destruction of every kind of educational and scientific apparatus as a result of the war. We are looking to see to what extent we can use the great ...

... Many British collieries are hopelessly out of date, mechanical coal-cutters, where they exist, haulage systems and ventilation methods being quite inadequate for present needs. Those pits which have been able to introduce man-riding have found the system most effective, the men being able to reach the working face at a speed of 15 m.p.h. and in perfect safety. Not all pits are suited at the ...

... PRINCESS ELIZABETH ATTENDS THE TROOPING 0I: THE COLOUR HER ROYAL HIGHNESS, IN A MILITARISED RIDING HABIT AND SEATED SIDE-SADDLE, LEAV I N G BUCK I NGHAMPA LACE FOR THE HORSE GUARDS PARADE The Princess, who rode with the King and the Duke of Gloucester, ,s Honorary Colonel of the Grenadier Guards. In her cap she wore the insignia of the Regiment rrom the day when the Pope blessed the Standard ...

... MR. JINNAH WITH HIS SISTER, FATIMA, LEAVES THE IMPERIAL HOTEL, NEW DELHI, SURROUNDED BY A STRONG POLICE GUARD On arrival he had been greeted with the words Long Live the Emperor of Pakistan. The All-India Muslim League Council accepted the British Government's proce dural plan as a basis for compromise by a vote of 300 to 10. There were disorderly scenes, however, when members of a militant ...

... Throughout 1944 and the first months of 1945, as American might brought increasing weight against Germany, the Fortress Squadrons were a familiar sight, particularly over the East Anglian countryside, where many of the larger American airfields were situated. Last week many of the men who flew those Forts over Germany were back again, this time with their Super-Fortresses, the monster ...

... Although at times on the verge of defeat, England in the end survived gloriously in the first Test Match against the South Africans at Trent Bridge, for after replying with a dismal 208 to the South Africans' mammoth total of 533, Washbrook, Edrich, Compton, Yardley and Evans, not to mention tail-ender Martin, combined together to produce a second innings total of 551. It was really Compton's ...

... T ed by Brigadier J. H. N. Poett, who commanded the 5th Parachute Brigade on D-Dav. a party of pilgrims visited the Normandy battlefields on the third anniversary of the operation and received a wonderful reception from the local inhabitants. Many wives and parents, who had previously received from French people photographs showing their men's graves planted and decked with flowers, were ...

... VY^ith the Bankside con troversy still smoulder ing, the whole question of the much-neglected South Bank of the Thames becomes topical. bir ratnek Abercrombie s County ot London rlan of 1943 laid the foundation for a Youth Centre, a swimming- pool and public gardens. More recently, plans have been made for the building of new Government offices on the bomb- damaged sites between the County ...

... Ijiyuiw JUMBO EARNS HIS KEEP At holiday-time Dixie and Perry, the two I elephants, are kept hard at it providing rides for the children. At Whitsun I Whipsnade was particularly popular, drawing nearly 25,000 visitors THE OSTRICH DELIGHTS IN WHIPSNADFS WIDE OPEN SPACES Browsing amid the broad expanse of Spicer's Field, he enjoys a freedom which no other zoo in Britain can offer ALWAYS A BIG ...

... TH' SOUTH FRONT OF THE MANOR-HOUSE It is the home of Mrs. Anthony Gielson, who ordered its restoration, together with the seventeenth-century hamlet. To-day the village, with electricity, running water and main drainage, is a model of its kind THE CENTRE OF COMMUNITY LIFE AT CORNWELL On the left is the children's playground, in the centre is the bow-windowed village shop, and on the right can ...

... THE remarkable drop in available woman-power during the next five years, as officially estimated last week by the Ministry of Labour, is of great concern to all industry and, in par ticular, to the Lancashire cotton industry, where the bulk of the labour is female. The cotton industry is already short, officially, of 120,000 workers just at the moment when it could be taking full advantage of ...