... IN the next few days the coal industry will have been under nationalisation for three years; for it was on January 1, 1947, that the blue flag of the National Coal Board was first flown proudly at the masthead of every pit in the country with the excep tion of the 400 or 500 one-horse collieries which the Government did not think worth while commandeering. What is the record ot the National ...

... A NEW THEATRE FOR THE R.A.D.A. Sir Kenneth Barnes, Principal of the Royal Academy of Dramatic I Art, discusses the model of the new stage with R.A.D.A. instructors Wilfrid Walter, Mary Phillips and Nell Carter. The new theatre, which will cost approximately £ ...

... BUSHMEN OF the barotse An Expedition to the Primitive Bow and Arrow Men Between the Zambesi and Mashi Rivers The Bushmen, the most primitive aboriginal race South Africa, were once the sole human inhabit^ of the southern part of the continent. Their southw j path has been traced along the eastern tablelands f the continent, and they appear to have brought ft,. North Africa, or even from Europe ...

... a 2 iii--,Tg; 7^5r-- THE OLD IMPLACABLE MOVES SLOWLY TO HER DOOM The famous training vessel, which fought in the combined French and Spanish Fleets at Trafalgar, seen as she was towed from Portsmouth Harbour en route to the point off the Isle of Wight where she was ceremonially scuttled. When this picture was taken the Implacable was passing the aircraft-carrier H.M.S. Vengeance vsBV ...

... I BliUM iiiiiaa HThe 29th Infantry Brigade Group, consisting of 2,916 men, of whom 918 are National Service men, have just finished the biggest combined manoeuvres of all arms held in Britain since the war. Pre-war, this three-day battle round Stan ford, in Norfolk, would have been an inconspicuous exercise. Now, when our home Army is in Ger- many, and the Regulars in this country are busy ...

... Fhe St. Andrew's Day Enthronement of the new Bishop of Guildford took place in the Church of the Holy Trinity, which is serving as a pro-Cathedral for the Diocese while the cathedral on Stag Hill is being built. The building of the new Cathedral is now going ahead so far as building licences permit after the delay during the last war. The Archdeacon of Canterbury, the Ven. A. Sargent, ...

... ^^nly Etonians and Old Etonians understand the Wall Game, but reliable information from the playing fields of Eton is to the effect that the Collegers in their 109th St. Andrew's Day match with the Oppidans kicked the ball into Good Calx and, in the subsequent siege, scored no fewer than eight shies. This was a handsome margin, but apparently it was a ding-dong struggle. One shy was very ...

... THE ORPHANS OF THE GINZA Young Victims of the War Who Roam the Streets of Tokyo Four years after the surrender, Tokyo's streets are lighted and gay again, full of well-dressed people; the shops, which once had very little to sell, are overflowing with merchandise of all kinds, while the areas destroyed by fires from air-raids are reconstructed with cheap but new buildings. Despite this, there ...

... Sp* UH|. jV S-^lf X&aHl Wfc* WsS^S. /s^- iflBHII ^WMW? *iWii ii MIM^M MR. LOUIS JOHNSON ADDRESSES THE DEFENCE MINISTERS AND CHIEFS OF STAFF OF THE TWELVE ATLANTIC PACT COUNTRIES The North Atlantic Defence Committee sat for over five hours at the Navy Ministry in Paris under the chairmanship of the United States Secretary for Defence. 1 he Defence Committee considered matters brought before it ...

... LASTri,X0YAGE 0F THE 0LD IMPLACABLE-- ONE OF THE TWO OLDEST WARSHIPS AFLOAT IN BRITISH WATERS AND A VETERAN OF TRAFALGAR IS TOWED OUT OF PORTSMOUTH HARBOUR ON HER WAY TO BE SCUTTLED OFF THE OWERS LIGHT, ISLE OF WIGHT From her stern flew the White Ensign and the French ricolour, and these went down with the ship at her ceremonial sinking. The Implacable was IS2 years old, and her timbers ...

... lil:UJJilklUIWJU Rl /AT E RS OF THE TIBER The river lapping round the Isola Tiberina as, swollen by the recent rains, it passes ugh the heart of Rome. In ancient times Tiber Island was sacred to Aesculapius. It was surrounded by a bulwark ravertine, which gave it the appearance of a ship. Nowadays it houses the Hospital of St. John of God BOAT AVE BEEN OUT IN THE STREETS OF FUSIGNANO Left ...

... WHY is it that the British Intelligence Service exercises such a spell over foreign policiers, crime reporters, ideological analysts and feuilleton writers? Lately it has gone further: cold war bureau crats and racketeers coming clean are likewise fascinated. Why, when admitting his part in a counterfeiting plot, did not Hector Renard speak as follows at Charleroi I was on a mission for ...