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The GERMAN THRUST into FRANCE: How the Initial Attack Burst Through the rdennes; THE FIRST THRUST THROUGH ..

... iThe GERMAN THRUST Ito FRANCE How the Initial Attack Burst Through the rdennes THE ARDENNE GATE WHICH WAS LEFT OPEN 'The concentration of such a huge mass of tanks as the Germans A assembled in the forest country or the Belgian Ardennes was a puzzle to military critics. A study of the bird's-eye view, maps and views given here will show the nature of the country. It seems a territory in which ...

Published: Saturday 25 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 786 | Page: Page 26, 27 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations  Maps 

JAPAN TURNS SOUTH

... A Survey of How Far Japan has been Able to Carry out her Ambition of Dominion Over All Asia and of the Factors which have Limited these Efforts to Certain Parts of China and Indo-China By COMMANDER EDGAR P. YOUNG, R.N., Ret. Former'y on the Staff o/ the Commanaei'in-Chief, China Squadron) THE recent conclusion of an alliance between Japan and the Axis Powers, with whom we are at war, though, ...

Published: Saturday 16 November 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1518 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: Maps 

'SANATOGEN'

... SANATOGEN SANATOGEN How to Once, health was a sift of a life uncomplicated by uervous storms and crises. To-day when our nerves are subject to daily attack, we must turn to Science for aid. Read ho w an eight weeks' course of Sanatogen Nerve-Tonic Food restores Nature's balance and renews worn nerves. win 'war The modern doctor makes of nerves' no mystery of medical science. Proud as he is of ...

Published: Wednesday 27 March 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 385 | Page: Page 39 | Tags: Illustrations  Maps 

The Channel Tunnel: A Jules Verne story that came true--all but the last chapter

... The Channel Tunnel >4 Jules Verne story that came true all but the last chapter By Walter Shepherd THE pioneering work on the Channel Tunnel has all been done, and were its fantastic story not true it might well have come from the pen of Jules Verne. The original conception, now almost one hundred and fifty years old, was itself a theme for a scientific romance, and the subsequent planning of ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2750 | Page: Page 18, 70, 72 | Tags: Maps 

The LONG-DISTANCE RAIDS on DANZIG and NAPLES

... The LONG- DISTANCE RAIDS on DANZIG and NAPLES The seizure of the International Zone of Tangier by Spain was a curious comments on the offer which was reported to have been made by Hitler to Spain. Spain was in a strategic position to take Tangier and hns acquired it without reference to offers ly others who do not own it. The U.S. Government and British Government natural y have this new ...

Published: Saturday 30 November 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 441 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations  Maps 

RUMANIA--THEN AND NOW

... RUMANIA THEN AND NOW THE early history of Rumania has much in common with all other countries throughout Eastern Europe. During many centuries Rumania suffered from a long series of invasions or attempted invasions. Originally the country of the Dacians, the hordes of savage tribes, who subsequently peopled the adjacent Balkan areas, were resisted at the banks of the Dniester. The Wallachs ...

Published: Saturday 06 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 220 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Maps 

Graphic

... WILL SWEDEN BE THE NEXT VICTIM HER POSITION HAS NOT BEEN STRENGTHENED BY THE RUSSO-FINNISH PEACE NT ow that hostilities between Finland and Russia have ceased and peace has once more ■LN come to a mutilated Finland, what is the position of Sweden, great stumbling block to the Allied plan to assist sadly-battered Finland. In studying the above map, one must imagine oneself within the Arctic ...

Published: Saturday 23 March 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 212 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Maps 

TO RELIEVE TRONDHEIM

... [he Germans Move Rapidly rhrough and Up Two Big Galleys in a General Struggle for Points of Vantage GERMANY is at last at war with Norway, by official decree, signed by Herr Hitler on April 27, who has been obliged to relinquish the protection offered, through the war-like actions which are taking place according to the wishes of the Norwegian Government. An early termination of the ...

Published: Saturday 04 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1658 | Page: Page 28, 29 | Tags: Maps 

BRITAIN MAINTAINS HER AIR OFFENSIVE OVER GERMANY: The R.A.F. Raids on Berlin and Other Parts of Germany; and on ..

... BRITAIN MAINTAINS HER AIR OFFENSIVE OVER GERMANY The R.A.F. Raids on Berlin and Other Parts of Germany and on Italy and the North Coast of France BERLIN IS A VULNERABLE TARGET Draviine by E. G. Lambert After the bombing of London comes the bombing of Berlin. On August 20, British aircraft were reported over the German capital and heavy A. A. gunfire was heard in the western suburbs; whether ...

Published: Saturday 31 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 903 | Page: Page 8, 9 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations  Maps 

FRANCE'S FAILURE: A Look Back and a Look Forward

... FRANCE'S FAILURE A Look Back and a Look Forward Another year Another deadly blow Another mighty Empire overthrown And we are left or shall be left, alone. The last that dare to struggle with the foe. 'Tis well! from this day forward we shall know That in ourselves our safety must be sought, That by our own right hands it must be wrought; That we must stand unpropped, or be laid low. 0 dastard ...

To Help You Follow the National

... 'PHIS plan of the course will be helpful to those listening in to the broadcast of the Grand National this afternoon. Mr. R. C. Lyle, racing -L correspondent to The Times, will be responsible for the preliminaries, but the race commentaries at 3 o'clock will be by Richard North and Raymond Glendenning. The commentators' boxes are at the Start, the Grand Stand and the Canal Turn. All except ...