... At the turn of the year the situation of the Chinese Nationalists began to appear hopeless as the Communist armies, fighting with captured equipment, very much more method and better moral than their opponents, menaced the cities of Nanking and Peiping. The Nanking battles were the fiercest, notably those fought in the region of Pengpu, where the Twelfth Army Group was reported to be 4 4 cut ...

... THE START OF A GREAT ADVENTURE These young Triestines aboard the 27-ft. sailing-vessel Italia are en route to the American Continent in company with another small sailing-vessel, the Trieste. The party is led by Captain Rudolfo de Gasperi (who is seen in the background of this picture), and they are sailing first to the Argentine via Sicily, Gibraltar and Dakar. From the Argentine they will ...

... Drofessor Reuter, chief Burgomaster of Berlin, received a flood of New Year telegrams in this Berlin's time of trial, as Western Berlin faced a cold New Year with lack of fuel and light. There was no lack of determination on the part of her citizens, however, and the Communist attempt to exploit the discomfort of those living in the Western sectors, by painting bright pictures of the warmth ...

... HE 200TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BERLINGSKE TIDENDE, OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN DENMARK Citizens of Copenhagen watching an eighteenth-century mail coach leaving the offices of the paper for the Royal Palace, where a special anniversary edition was presented to King Frederik. Special editions were also distributed to other leaders in Danish national life rHE BUGLER ON A WHITE HORSE PRECEDED THE MAIL COACH ...

... HrBIBmBli MD|B|BHamhm THE S.S. CHITRAL CONTINUES HER INTERRUPTED CAREER The 15,000-ton P. 0. liner has completed her reconversion from a troopship and has now left the Port of London en route to Australia with emigrants. A vast fleet of liners is now engaged in taking emigr ints to Australia. During the pr ...

... I BALMORAL UNDER A MANTLE OF SNOW The castle and grounds of the Royal home on Deeside as they appeared after a recent fall. Rising steeply in the background is the 3,000-ft. Culandoch, backdrop in this romantic and typically Scottish setting. Below The Dee at Cambus O'May, near Ballater, with a heavy covering of ice over the margins of the river. The beautiful woods of pine, larch and birch ...

... The L.C.C. is res ponsible for main taining the statue of Eros, the Greek god of love, under the Shaftesbury bequest, and its representatives were on the spot in quick time after it became known that a man had climbed the statue and was frolick ing at the summit. The man in question. William Painter, of Plumstead, remained on Eros for half-an- hour, shouting and gesticulating the while. ...

... ggg On left From Parliament Square it is impossible to see any of the intense building activity now proceeding at Westminster, as the New Palace Yard facade was left intact in the blitz which destroyed the House of Commons Chamber. The work, however, is going ahead fast, and piled in the courtyards are great blocks of Clipsham stone ready for hand ling by the masons. There does not seem to be ...

... LONGSTREETVILLE SCENE THE FINALE OF THE FIRST ACT OF LONDON'S LATEST AMERICAN MUSICAL COMEDY, HIGH BUTTON SHOES, AT THE LONDON HIPPODROME The setting is New Brunswick in 1913, and it is presented as a New Song and Dandy Show A mong the pantomimes and Christmas plays which opened in the West End just before the holiday was one major musical production the New York success, High Button Shoes. ...

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... The emergence of Israel among the comity of nations has been accepted by America and Russia. Britain has not accorded recognition to the new State. Into the midst of this tense and tangled situation came the shooting down of five British aircraft while engaged in what the Israelis alleged was an armed reconnaissance over Israeli positions within the Negeb, on the Palestine side of the ...

... I HARRY POLLITT IN BULGARIA The leader of the British Communist Party addressing the Fifth Congress of the Bulgarian Communist Party in Sofia. According to Mr. Arthur Deakin, General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, the British Communists have a plan to disrupt British industry, and they are anxious to act in Britain as they did in France last year THIS PICTURE HAS LED TO ...