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... Ashley Courtenay Tours the South-West of England Some Personal Recommendations Regarding Where to Go and Where to Stay When Travelling Through the West Country The lour outlined embraces a selection of hotels visited by me during 1951. It does not claim to give a complete picture of the touristic possibilities of the West Country. SO you are contemplating a motoring tour of the West Country? ...
... Middle East War Theatres Impressions of Suez, the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip The war in the Middle East brought again into prominence names hallowed in scripture or renowned from antiquity. The southern part of the Sinai Peninsula, in which the prophet Moses received the Tables of the Law on the Mount, was spared any serious fighting. It is rough and hilly country in which troops would ...
... Canal Blocks Plans of Egyptian Obstructions from Port Said to Suez In Port Said the positions of the twenty wrecks sunk by the Egyptians have now been fully plotted. For the most part they are in three groups and work has gone ahead to deal with some of them so that tank-landing ships can pass into the harbour. The Allies hold about twenty-three miles of the Canal below Port Said, as far as El ...
... INTELLIGENCE, BIGGEST BATTLE LOSER Faulty Assessments and Their Historic Consequences By FERDINAND TUOHY YOU may liken Intelligence to a pyramid, said the Staff colonel-instructor. Each stone, or fragment of information or deduction, leading upward to the topmost stone-- what you think the other fellow has in mind, or plans to do. The worst is to lay the top stone first and thread down ...
... A Dream Becomes Reality After Fifty-nine Years of Controversy the Seaway was Built IN 1535 the first vessel from overseas sailed up the St. Lawrence River. Captained by Jacques Cartier and commissioned by Francis I of France, the ship was halted by the Lachine Rapids, 1,000 miles from the Atlantic. It was not until April of this year that average-sized, sea-going ships were able to sail any ...
... SOUTH RFRICHU HIHIUHUS SOUTH HFHICHH HIHUJHUS W/M/^ S LONDON -SOUTH AFRICA- AUSTRALIA f BY DC-7B AIRCRAFT 8 Via East or West Coast to For details consult your Travel Johannesburg and then on to Agent, B.O.A.C. or South Perth for very little more than African Airways, South Africa direct fare. First and tourist House, Trafalgar Square, class on all services. London W.C.2. Telephone: y WHItehall ...
... A BITTER northerly wind was blowing snowflakes untidily against the window at breakfast-time on the morning of our appointment with the Romney Marsh Hounds. Although we had heard that it took very adverse conditions indeed to frighten this very sporting hunt into can celling its fixtures, we were relieved to be at Northiam, with the snow a nearly-forgotten powdering on the lanes' edges, to see ...
... mm DE LUXE CHALETS COSTABRAVA SANTA CRISTINADEARO 93 Kms. from the French frontier GERONA SPAIN A haven of peace in the midst of woodlands. At 3 kms. from Playa de Aro, the most cosmopolitan beach of the Costa Brava. An extensive system of carefully maintained high ways and streets. GERONA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT at only 30 kms. Only a few minutes from S'AGARO, SAN FELIU DE GUIXOLS AND PALAMOS. ...
... Choosing a Milking Parlour With Time Studies as a Guide THE question was what sort of parlour should be provided for a herd of 30, rising to 40, Guernseys, where the milk ing routine could be managed by one man, with no outside help, in one-and-a-half hours or less. The choice lay first between tandem and abreast types of parlour; and in deciding, Mr. K. J. Chetwynd, Work Study Officer at ...
... THE HAMPSHIRE AVON, on tvhich Salisbury stands offers perhaps the best coarse-fishing water in England. Perch roach chuby dace and pike all grow to a large size especially in the lower reaches. Many big fish chub in particular have come from% the reach near Christchurch. A few salmon are to be had below Fordingbridge. Quite large trout can be taken by spinning in the summer months and there ...
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... Designer! by Vivien Ingham 3$ ftls. of 36 in. cotton tmil n couple of TO make up the tunic and shorts we chose a sprightly Loofah cotton by Marchington because of its firm texture. The colours are blue, yellow and black on a white ground (price approx. 8s. 3d. per yd.), but any gay combination will do. The prodigious fullness of the tunic means that it will fit anybody except perhaps the fat ...