20 JUNE 1952, page 7

The Following Announcement Was Recently Accepted By The...

of The Times for insertion in the " Deaths ' column: " Holmes. On June 9th, 1952, finally and peacefully, at his home in Sussex, Sherlock, brother of Mycroft." The advertising......

Two Years Ago, While Briefly Deputising For Janus, I Mado

some mention in these notes of a young tawny owl to whom I was acting in loco parentis. This likeable bird, which as soon as it could fly spent its days in the woods, used to......

Three Wars

T HE three wars which provide the only close contact between Communism and the West in the Far East seem . . momentarily (except for those who are actually engaged in them) to......

The R.a.f. Has A Tie Of Its Own, And So

I think do the Navy and the R.N.V.R. It was therefore perhaps illogical of me to feel a slight qualm of misgiving on hearing a rumour that Mr. Sidney Rogerson, the new Director......

A Spectator's Notebook A Slightly Ironical Sequel To The...

Conference is developing. The British delegation con- cluded (though that is perhaps hardly the right word) a barter agreement with the Chinese People's Republic for the......

The Manchester Guardian And Its Special Correspondent Mr....

deserve the greatest' credit for the series of illustratecLarticles which are republished this week in a pamphlet called The Traffic in Irish Horses. They give an objective but......

The, Other Night The Wife Of A Neighbour Of Mine

and another girl were sitting talking after dinner in the other girl's cottage when they noticed that the chimney was on fire; they, could see flames through a hole in a beam......