Warring against the heavens: seeking to scare a comet. The Dalai Lama holding the ashes of his first embodiment. A cricket match: tickling crickets with rats' whiskers to encourage them to fight. The strangest uniforms in one of the strangest of scenes. The five-colours replaces the dragon: New China in London. The cliff-dwellers of North America and their descendants Troglodytes of the twentieth century: a village of cave-dwellers in Cappadocia The motor in the new Chinese army: a review by the viceroy of Kiang-su Motor dust: a plea for road-improvement A nation in arms: a possible model for Great Britain - The Swiss army system in operation The one moment when Germany does not take the army seriously: the burlesque parade of retiring reservists The toll of night manoeuvers: the loss of the torpedo-destroyer "Tiger" and thirty-six lives / The collision between the "Tiger" and the cruiser "Berwick" on …