16 FEBRUARY 1940, page 15

Strange Guests

Bird tables (which even official economists bid us to furnish as in peace-time) have attracted guests of a new sort. In the suburbs of one village-town in Hertfordshire a hare,......

Country Life

A Finnish Bird-lover If examples were needed of the affectionate interest in birds prevailing in the modern world, here is one that deserves record. In the chain of bird......

Peacocks In Ice—

In the strange rain of ice that was the climax of the long frost the strangest effect that has come my way is told me by a dweller in Surrey : "My four peacocks were encased in......

— And A Rook

Close to my own house at the same date a rook was observed perching for an inordinate stretch on a high tree. Finally the bird was shot, but remained in the same posture. It was......

Mistaken Crops

Everyone is telling us what to grow in the garden for in- creasing the national food supply, and this urgency is good ; but there are some things better omitted. One of them—at......

Right Behind The Gestapo

By HANS HOHKUM [An extract from the sensational book published this—or next—week by the Phony Press] I GOT my position in the first instance through denounc:- 1 ing my parents.......