17 MAY 1968, page 32

John Bull's Other Army

AFTERTHOUGHT JOHN WELLS The Commonwealth Relations Office is notori- ously stingy in making its confidential docu- ments available to the press. This is a pity, as the texture......

No. 501: Octet

COMPETITION Competitors are invited to compose an eight- line poem or stanza of a poem on any one of the subjects given below, using four of the fol- lowing five pairs of words......

No. 499: The Winners

Trevor Grove reports: Competitors were in- vited to write the opening paragraphs of an article hymning either see-through trousers for men or full plate armour for women in the......

Chess No. 387

PIIILIDOR Black White 8 men 12 men G. Guidelli (3rd Prize, Riv. Scacc. ltaliana, 1918). White to play and mate in two moves; solution next week. Solution to no. 386 (Funk): Kt –......