... RENOVATING THE I HOUSE OF LORDS The Progress of the Work on the Peers' Chamber After Its Use by the Commons T ast October, when the Members of the House of Commons returned to their newly-restored Chamber, it was decided that before the Peers again took up residence in their own Chamber, the House of Lords should be cleaned and reno vated. So, for the past few months a small army of craftsmen, ...

... FIRING A SALUTE OVER THE GRAVES OF THREE VICTIMS OF H.M.S. TRUCULENT: This was the scene in the naval section of Gillingham Cemetery when Petty Officer Myatt, Ldg.-Sig. Robert Johnson and Steward John George Child were laid to rest with full naval honours. A long file of officers and men of the submarine service followed the three flag-draped coffins to the cemetery, and surviving members of ...

... ]\Jot since 1934, when ten thugs earning machine-guns robbed an armoured car of 427,000 dollars in front of the Brooklyn plant of the Rubel Ice Corporation has there been a hold-up in the United States comparable with the recent raid on Brinks Incorporated, the armoured-car trans port firm which has lost 1 ,000,000 dollars. The Boston job was indeed one of America's biggest cash robberies of ...

... IF January be any criterion, then the year 1950 should add a variegated chapter to the record of little boats against the ocean. It has been a spas modically developing story with new turns and twists since about 1947. A Conrad, a Loti, a Jack London, a Farrère, a Stevenson, a Melville, a Kipling, a Mase field, would have liked some of the adventurous voyages to build upon. Anyone keeping a ...

... BLOWING UP THEIR OWN QUARTERS! ONE OF THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS FOR U.S. SERVICEMEN: On left A compact package being drawn by two soldiers later becomes, on right, their temporary home while on operations, particularly in Arctic areas. The hut can be inflated by hand-pump in three minutes. It has walls of cotton coated with rubber-like Neoprene and when inflated for occupation stands 4 ft. high. ...

... A LONDON I NEWSLETTER i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Raid or Encirclement?-- In the late war, the need for some thing more than secrecy concerning projected attacks was realised and per fected. The enemy must not have the slightest inkling of where an attack might fall. Obviously. But he must also have good reason to suppose that it is likely to fall elsewhere or is not even contemplated; and ...

... I HaULM 1 1 1 1 1 p. 1 1 n 4 i 1 1 r h i Th\ Middlesex Regiment and the Argyll and Sutherland High landers very quickly acclimatised them selves to the Korean battle area, and after being switched from a comparatively quiet sector of the front, they crossed the Naktong and began pushing hard against the retreating Communists. The British had already had some casualties, and then came the ...

... Britain's considerable dependence upon America for petrol and other products of crude oil, of which the motoring public was painfully aware during the long period of rationing, is at last being eased as refining capacity in this country is steadily raised. There are a host of new projects and plant- enlargement plans now in operation in this country. In some cases E.C.A. funds are making it ...

... T^esc are days of speedy reconstruction in Germany, and across the length and breadth of the land communications are being restored. All Frankfurt's five bridges were destroyed during the course of the war, and the last of them, the former William Bridge, now renamed the Peace Bridge, will be com pleted by the spring of next year. The section seen being swung into position in the picture on ...

... i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Survey and Budget. I write before the Chancellor's secrets are out --short of leakage. But the Govern ment's Survey (which was perhaps written before the surprising and welcome bad shots of last year's Budget were known) was designed to make our flesh creep and to give us a sense of relief, or even bathos, when we come to be told the worst; and my guess is that our ...

... THE KING AND QUEEN IN WARWICKSHIRE Roval Visits to Coventry Cathedral and Warwick Castle THF KING AND OUEEN WITH THE MAYOR OF COVENTRY AND DR. GORTON, THE BISHOP OF COVENTRY, WALK WITHIN THE HE SHELL OF^ T^ CATHEDRAL BUILDING WHERE IN NOVEMBER 1940 THE KING STOOD WHILE _ THE FIRES ST ILL MRNB n nun tl. u: n.,DDD c, half.an.hnnr amid the ruins, and also saw the plans for the cathedrals and the ...

... In many ways the telephoto lens has 1 formed the game of cricket, for it has captured the fleeting moments of the struggle as it is seen in midfield by the players themselves. Sometimes there is an element of distortion, as witness some of these pictures taken during the First Test between England and the West Indies at Old Trafford, but even the distorted picture has its lessons to teach, and ...