THE WEEKLY NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23504, 15 November 1939, Page 8

THE WEEKLY NEWS

EXHIBITION OPENED ARTICLES -AND PICTURES MANY WARTIME TOPICS With Beven pages of pictures in addition to illustrated articles the current issue of The Weekly News, which is on sale to-day, makes a splendid souvenir of the opening of the Centennial Kxliibition by His Excellency &e Governor General, Lord Galway. As befitted th o major event on the Dominion's center nial programme, tho ceremony Wa 'g both colourful and spectacular and tho scenes reproduced provide a graphio record of a great gala day in New Zealand's history.-

Informative articles on war topics are again included. Mr. L. K. Hunro writes on the " German Idea of a Jusfc Peace," with particular reference to Nazi revilings against xne terms of tho 1918 peace. German impositions on tho Soviet at Brest-Litovsk, he says, mado tho Treaty of Versailles look,like a gesture of goodwill. Mr. Trevor Ross diplomatic correspondent in London' discusses German radio propaganda, in which they follow " sledge-hammer methods of brutal over-statement and jarring insult." In addition to the exhibition pictures there are wartime scent* from England, Scotland, France and Germany. A poignant story of havoc and desolation is told in three uncensorcd photographs from Poland. Golf championship play at Miramar and racing and trotting at Christchurch are among the local topics covered. Social and fashion pages, with sporting, magazine and farm sections, maintain the usual wide range of interest. Notes on contract bridge, by Mr. C. L< Eastgate are recommenced.