29 OCTOBER 1948, page 8

Laocoons And Snake

By THE MARQUESS OF READING rill-IERE certainly had been a storm. From eleven o'clock one I night to eight the following morning thunder, lightning, wind, rain and hail had raged......

New Coal From Africa

By J. J. TAWNEY F ORTY years ago a German District Officer picked up a black object in a river bed of southern Tanganyika, not far from Lake Nyasa. The colour came off on his......