20 JANUARY 1979, page 8

Cambodia's Artful Dodger

Murray Sayle Tokyo He looked as if he had just spent the weekend in the South of France, rather than three and a half years under stringent palace arrest in his deserted and......

A Hundred Years Ago

Mr. E.J. Lowe, the astronomer, in a letter to Tuesday's Times, mentions a curious instance of the value of small birds in agriculture:'Thirty-five years ago, a countryman left......