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Country Gymkhana in South Africa

... Country Gymkhana in South Africa SPORTING activities are being continued in South Africa despite the war. There were nearly 200 entries for the Country Gymkhana held last month in the mountains at Franschhoek, forty miles from Cape Town, in the centre ...

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... with the Spanish forces in Cuba whilst still in the British Army (4th Hussars), the Maiakhand, Tirah, the Nile, South Africa, the Great War followed-- a long tale of villainous saltpetre, and one which unquestionably has shaped his character and fitted him ...

Published: Wednesday 19 April 1939
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 188 | Page: 19 | Tags: Photographs 

Athletics Still a Most Popular Sport at the Universities: Oxford

... term, and Fenner's track and pits have been occupied most afternoons. The President, E. Hudson Bennett, who was in South Africa when war broke out, hurried home by air, but unfortunately was kept from 1 active sport by a broken collar bone. As there will ...

PETROL VAPOUR: British or Foreign?

... in an hotel. Mr. Mardon is a son of Mr. Ernest Mardon, a director of the Imperial Tobacco Co., and served in East Africa during the war Pateraon Petrol Vapour continued from p. 564 that I was wrong. The numerous photographs sent me were incon clusive ...

Published: Wednesday 16 June 1937
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1389 | Page: 80 | Tags: Photographs 

SKYWARD IN SOUTH AFRICA: Men who have helped the progress of commercial, military, and club flying in the Union

... reason yet South Africa's active interest in flying began in that year. In fact, Kimmerling was flying a Voisin biplane in South Africa as long ago as 1910, the year the Union was constituted. The Aeronautical Society of South Africa was formed two years ...

Published: Saturday 14 November 1931
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1543 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

The Passing Hour: Comments and Asides

... there are still a few people in Europe who can remember what the Germans did to the Herreros in German South-West Africa before the war. Mr. A. A. Milne (whose play, Sarah Simple, by the way, has just reached its two-hundredth performance with ever-increasing ...

Published: Wednesday 27 October 1937
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1828 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

SKYWARD IN SOUTH AFRICA: Men who have helped the progress of commercial, military, and club flying in the Union

... reason yet South Africa's active interest in flying began in that year. In fact, Kimmerling was flying a Voisin biplane in South Africa as long ago as 1910, the year the Union was constituted. The Aeronautical Society of South Africa was formed two years ...

Published: Saturday 14 November 1931
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1543 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

WORLD AFFAIRS: An Intimate Causerie on Matters of International Import

... one will deliver a war-like ulti matum because Ger many and Austria have taken a practical step towards improving their own economic conditions by means of levelling tariff walls. They may even have imitators. FRANCE IN NORTH AFRICA.-- France's twenty-year-old ...

Published: Saturday 11 April 1931
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1755 | Page: 24 | Tags: Photographs 

THE LEAGUE'S CHANGED OBJECTIVE

... organism for the prevention the suppres sion of war Yet was not the League also conceived with a view to putting something in the place of war? In the years following the Armistice, indubitably the prevention of war was of much greater importance than the redressal ...

Published: Saturday 14 September 1935
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2553 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

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... Moroccan campaign Italy's descent upon North Africa the Greco-Turkish war, with Paget and Prater battling for The Sphere perennial altercations between China and Japan till we come to the great war, when the old style war correspondent vanished. At least he passed ...

Published: Saturday 20 November 1937
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2318 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WAR AGAINST NAZI GERMANY: A RETROSPECT OF THE OUTSTANDING EVENTS FROM THE OUTBREAK OF THE STRUGGLE.: GERMAN ..

... was at war with Germanv. A state of war existed between France and Germany from 5 p.m. on the same day; on which Australia and New Zealand also declared war. Australia decided to call up the whole of her militia, numbering 78,000 men in batches of 10 ...

Published: Wednesday 01 November 1939
Newspaper: Illustrated War News
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3185 | Page: 42 | Tags: Photographs