... Safety Record Did you know that every journey made by a French locomotive is exactly recorded every yard of it on the Flaman apparatus carried in the cab? As the train runs, a mechanical pen draws a chart of its speed and punctuality. So precise is this record that when a signal ahead is at danger, the Flaman records the fact auto matically as it passes the preceding or distant signal. The ...

... THE GREAT L.C.C. CONTROVERSY_THE FIRST MEETING OF THE GOVERNMENT OF LONDON AFTER THE ELECTIONS IN WHICH CONSERVATIVES (WITH 64 MEMBERS) DEAD-HEATED WITH LABOUR AT THE POLLS Presiding is Mr. J. W. Bowen, the Labour nominee for the decisive office, who, after being defeated in Wandsworth Central, was brought in as chairman. The Socialists are seated on the left of the Chamber and the ...

... EASTERTIDE BROUGHT THE CLIMBERS OUT ON LAKELAND HEIGHTS Arthur Black, a Manchester bank clerk, climbing a rocky pinnacle on Windgather Rocks, near Macclesfield, Cheshire, an area very popular with week-end climbers. The North Country abounds in experienced climbers, such as Arthur Black, but at holiday-time a number of tyros try their luck among the mountains, and more often than not the call ...

... *P o-day there are just under 1 ,000,000 Arab refugees within the borders of Palestine, and 26,000 of them are in pitiful plight at the Jericho Refugee Camp, described as a Near Eastern Belsen. The pictures on this page relate to the Arabs of Faluja, who, following the Rhodes Armistice, have elected to live in the Arab-held part of Palestine. The pictures show the transfer from Faluja to ...

... THE REDECORATION OF YORK HOUSE, ST. JAMES'S PALACE, HOME OF THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER Scaffolding has gone up and the house is now having its first exterior coat of paint for over ten years, and rooms which were occupied by a caretaker while the Duke was Governor- General of Australia, are to be redecorated. St. James's Palace came into Royal possession in 1532, when Henry Ytlt ...

... A udley End, a relic of the days when domestic building was on a scale of vast magnificence, is to-day but a fragment of the great house built in the seventeenth century and covering almost five acres. It is a truly remarkable fragment, however, and when the news became known last summer that Audley End had passed into the hands of the nation for preservation as an ancient monument, it was ...

... 'T'he Avro 694 Lincoln is virtually a scaled-up version of the Lancaster. In fact, the Lincoln I and II were known originally as the Lancaster IV and V. Now, as a development of the Lincoln, the standard post-war heavy bomber of the R.A.F., comes the Avro 6% Shackleton which closelv resembles the Lincoln II Those with an eye to aircraft identification will be the first to observe, however, ...

... m i TI ffi i icTfwfi WORK BEGINS ON THE REBUILDING OF HISTORIC GRAY'S INN The Hall, built about 1555 to 1560, was badly bombed during the war, and the building gutted. The foundations of the Hall and the seventeenth-century Chapel had to be examined and strengthened before the work of restoration could begin. Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors was produced at Gray's Inn Hall in 1594. The gardens ...

... NEXT week the holiday camping season will be in full swing, though at least one, at Clacton, was open at Easter. I was down there myself acting as Quiz Master and was thus able to study this modern phenomenon at close range. Holiday camps, the proprietors of which are now beginning to call them holiday villages, are self- contained settlements in which the guests' needs are supplied for an all ...

... TROLLOPE'S FIRST NOVEL.-- I am not sure that Anthony Trollope's first novel does not demand closer examina tion and more meticulous study than all the rest of the half-hundred which resulted from his industry. For if it had succeeded as many critics may well consider it should have succeeded it might have directed Trol- lope's future course as a novelist into a different channel and possibly ...

... 'T'he Portland Vase, dating from the third century A.D., was brought from Italy by Sir William Hamilton in 1770. It was acquired by the Portland family in 1786, and in 1810 they deposited it in the British Museum, where thirty-five years later it was shattered by a madman. Patiently built up again by a Mr. Doubleday, its original restoration was considered a masterpiece of its kind. Now it has ...

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