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  2. RUSSIANS HAVE A PASSION FOR CHESS

    Soviet Russia has become a nation of chess players. For a Russian not to know how to play chess is equivalent to not being able to read. A Soviet child learns his chess moves at the kindergarten or at school, and the game is regarded as a valuable adjunct to the routine of military training. After all, is it not a kind ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,364 words
  3. MANSIONS OF MALAY

    Fishermen on the Strait of Johore, in Malaya, live in reed houses of their own design and construction. These inflammable huts are tinder for incendiary bombs. This picture was taken on the outskirts of Johore Bharu, the capital of the State. (See accompanying article.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 48 words
  4. HOUSE IN JOHORE

    Mersing is a very small but, at the moment, a very important place in the State of Johore, on the east coast of Malaya. It is about 60 miles by road from Kluang, where the aerodrome has been repeatedly ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,005 words
  5. TEN WITH A BIG THIRST

    The dictionary drearily announces that "to drink" means "to swallow liquid for quenching thirst"; but ten minutes in a milk bar is more enlightening than ten hours in a dictionary, and proves that "drinking" is an art in which ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,021 words
  6. ANNIVERSARY DAY

    We are embattled now. The fated years Have brought us to this Day. this ordained hour. ...

    Article : 147 words
  7. WILD LIFE ON STAMPS

    The unimaginative issue of Commonwealth stamps featuring the emu and blue wren is a continuation of the Postal ...

    Article : 252 words
  8. PLASTICS COME INTO USE

    Because of the shortage of matches in Britain, millions of people there will soon be lighting their cigarettes and pipes ...

    Article : 184 words
  9. Our Australia

    Tramping through the "Sunset" country of the Murray one day, I overtook a man leading a horse with same dog-traps dangling from the saddle, and enquired my way of him. He gave me many and minute directions, after which we got talking, and he invited me to his ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 803 words
  10. SCREEN OF SAMPANS

    Japan had been "Incidenting" in China for more than a year when on the bridge of an Australian ship bound for ...

    Article : 480 words
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  12. Smiling Through

    I met a friend the other night who appeared to be headed for the city. "Whither away?" asked I. "To do a bit of spotting," he replied. "Not fire spotting?" "Yes, fire spotting. Any objection?" ...

    Article : 621 words
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