14 SEPTEMBER 1944, Page 4

I am able (as every self-conscious journalist loves to say)

to throw important light on the future of a historic British Posses- sion. It has always been said that when the Gibraltar apes, With which every visitor to the Rock is familiar, and which Borrow among others found so engrossing) cease to mate, tyre British will lore Gibraltar. •In recent years their. dalliance has been markedly tepid, but this year their amatory ardour leaves nothing to be desired. (MY authority is the chef de .cabinet of the Chief Ape—Affenfiihrer-