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  2. MILITARY CENTRE OF THAI.

    While French Indo-China sizzles with possibilities for the immediate future, Thailand's military nerve centre at Lopburi, new city of white concrete, assumes a fresh significance in the troubled affairs of the Far Eastern ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 889 words
  3. ST. GILES.

    St. Giles, Cripplegate, can claim the unenviable distinction of being the first church in the City of London to be bombed by a foreign ...

    Article : 954 words
  4. THE WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER.

    "This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands; ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 46 words
  5. LONDON ON THE EVE OF THE BLITZKRIEG.

    Among the odd things some Londoners bragged about in pre-war days was that they never listened to the radio. They went dancing or tennis-playing or "Up West," but the radio.... that was suburban porridge. Now the B.B.C. is wartime London's star feature. Our newspapers weep; they are down from 24 pages to 10. Their job is ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,334 words
  6. HITLER LOOTS THE LOUVRE.

    A report from London states that Hitler has taken to Berlin the Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci's world-famous painting, and the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 407 words
  7. CENTURY OF PROGRESS.

    One hundred years ago to-day a young man was busy sorting out a stock of silk and cotton piece goods, linen wear, and ...

    Article : 867 words
  8. "MERCURIE" HOAX.

    May evening's diversions bear morning's reflections. Had this old Scottish toast been heeded by the originator of the ...

    Article : 551 words
  9. COMMUNION.

    If I keep Sabbath with bird and tree, Shall this be reckoned sin? Who knows to what veiled mystery Another enters in? ...

    Article : 48 words
  10. THE "MERCUTIO" OF CRICKET.

    This afternoon, at Chatswood Oval, C. G. Macartney will play cricket again, and I hope I shall be there to see him. It is fourteen years ago, almost to the exact date, that I last saw Macartney at the wicket, in the closing match of the Australian ...

    Article : 945 words
  11. FEATHERED "SHOWMEN" OF THE INLAND.

    The long red track, winding and dusty as only an inland track can be, crossed the saltbush-mallee plains with unrelenting aridity. Any place less like a bird-land than this anabranch country, west of the Darling, it would be hard to imagine; yet ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 945 words
  12. MILITARY PAGEANT OF EMPIRE.

    The arrival in Sydney of British troops as a guard for German and Italian internees and prisoners of war calls to mind the visit of ...

    Article : 300 words
  13. WILL LUCK HOLD?

    "We may build more splendid habitations, fill our rooms with paintings and sculptures, but we cannot buy with gold the old ...

    Article : 208 words
  14. POET'S EPITAPH.

    My verses may be destined to be damned With praises faint as any ever given; But after every hair's been duly riven, And after every epigram's been aimed, ...

    Article : 68 words
  15. SURFACE VALUE.

    "What interests me in life—and my years have maro[?]ned across the frontier of forty—is the surface of life; life's music and colour, i[?] charm and case, its ...

    Article : 71 words
  16. THE ROOTS OF "HEALTH."

    "It was probably the uncertainty of predicting in ancient times what would happen if the juice or the leaf or the powdered root of some ...

    Article : 161 words
  17. EVENTIDE.

    Stillness and peace... What need is there for fear When evening spreads her dusky veil, Shedding a drowsy calm ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 80 words
  18. "NOAH'S ARK," SYDNEY.

    These stone cottages in Kent Street, sketched by Mr. Albert N. Clarke, were built by Thomas Glover, a stonemason employed by Governor Macquarie. When Kent Street was formed, it cut through Glover's property (originally granted by Macquarie) ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 59 words
  19. BOMBS ON BERLIN.

    Through the dense darkness gleams a glimmering lake, Pointing the way to riders of the sky, Lending unerring guidance of an eye ...

    Article : 104 words
  20. WOMEN IN ARMS.

    "For my part, I should be no more surprised to see a woman with a helmet on her head than to see her with a crown; preside in a council of war as ...

    Article : 120 words
  21. ELOQUENCE.

    "If there is one thing more than another which those who have been in any other profession than the Bar, distrust more than ...

    Article : 79 words
  22. REFRESHMENT.

    At one time it was the practice to lock the jury up without fire, light, food, or drink, until they arrived as a verdict. There is a story of Mr. Justice Maule, ...

    Article : 99 words
  23. ART IN EXILE.

    Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments on ...

    Article : 42 words
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