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LISTENERS who propose spending all, or even part, of their holiday this year camping, will find some valuable advice in this talk by Mrs. Dawson Scott , founder of the P.E.N. Club and authoress of many novels. Mrs. Dawson Scott invariably spends a part of each summer camping in Cornwall (a county that has been the scene of some of her best novels, including They Green Stones'), and will have some very practical hints to give.on this cheap and excellent way of spending a summer holiday.

' China Today-
Mr. S. Sze : The Effects of Transport and Communications '
THE transition, within a single generation, from sedan chair to aeroplane is not the least of the startling effects of the general ' opening up ' of China. The influence, for instance, of wireless, motor roads, and railways upon the character of communication and intercourse can only be appreciated by one who has actually watched the process from within the country itself. This change, in turn. has, of course, affected the political situation incalculably. China has seen the end of isolation. And what that may yet mean to the world, who can say ?

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