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Rapier on Racing: The Romance of Sister Clara

... The Romance of Sister Clara THE extremely modest scale on which breeding and racing are carried on in this country was emphasised by the con trast between the attitudes of those actually engaged in the business of buying and selling at Newmarket, and that of the general public. Bloodstock breeders, after four years of anxiety and loss, now moved about in a sort of dream. Could it really be ...

AYRSHIRES for MILK

... LokSidmuflH MILK TARGET 1,000,000 GALLONS PER DAY Average Yield for AYRSHIRES in 1943-44, as per ENGLISH MILK MARKETING BOARD REPORT, 7,031 lbs. If all the Dairy Cows in England were AYRSHIRES the TARGET would be reached without increasing the Dairy Cow Population. THEREFORE BUY AYRSHIRES! The greater the number of AYRSHIRES the nearer the TARGET. Information from HUGH BONE, Secretary, ...

MEN OF MARK OF THE YEAR 1944: A Survey of the Outstanding Personalities of the Past Twelve Months

... THE War marches on and so do its outstanding personalities-- a good many of them off the stage with each passing year, for newcomers to take their places, the while a small number of human fixtures draw upon themselves the spotlight through out. Who now thinks of Laval, Petain, Badoglio, Mussolini, Koht, Quisling, Papagos, Reynaud, Deat, Abetz, Cavallero, Antonescu or Baudouin Yet such were ...

Published: Saturday 23 December 1944
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1734 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: Photographs 

WEDGES into GERMANY: Through the Siegfried Line to the industries of the Nazis

... A very considerable number of war maps have pur ported to show the position of the Siegfried Line this has been rendered literally as a line, with little variation in form. In actual reality, however, the Siegfried Line is not so simple. The fortifications, pill-boxes and mortar batteries are not arranged in a narrow strip such as some maps would seem to suggest. The Siegfried Line is a long ...

Published: Saturday 23 December 1944
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 585 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Maps  Photographs 

ENGINEERING and MECHANICAL FEATS: To Aid in the English and American War Efforts

... The replica of the Japanese battle ship shown on the right has been erected on a desert in the western United States it is used by American air crews to improve their gunnery marksmanship and attain a high degree of precision in bombing. Their skill and patient rehearsal are paying rich dividends in the Pacific, where at least 366 major enemy warships have been definitely sunk since the start ...

Published: Saturday 23 December 1944
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 425 | Page: Page 24 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

The RETURN of the HIGHLAND DIVISION

... THREE HUNDRED WOMEN POLITICAL PRISONERS ARE LIBERATED after the capture of the last Alsatian town on the German border Hagenau was captured by the Seventh Army. The German forces there were in such a hurry to get out that they forgot the 300 Frenchwomen whom they had imprisoned in the gaol. Some of them had been in Hagenau Prison for over two years they had come from towns all over France, ...

Published: Saturday 30 December 1944
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 487 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE COMING of the NEW RHINELAND STATES

... THE practice may be deplored of publicly dis cussing the major effects upon Germany of unconditional surrender, as calculated to give Goebbels heavy ammunition, though it is worth noting that our expert propagandists think the error would be in leaving treatment undefined. This might pass for irresolution. Whatever you think, the matter has been taken out of our hands by Mr. Churchill's ...

Published: Saturday 30 December 1944
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1736 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Photographs 

NEW PICTURES of the BLOCKBUSTER MOSQUITO: Now Bombing Berlin and German Industrial Targets

... Since its first appearance with the R.A.F., the Mosquito has undergone many modifications in a variety of roles fighter, night-fighter, intruder, bomber, photographic reconnaissance, etc. The new pictures by Mr. Charles E. Brown given here show the XVI version, the high-altitude blockbuster bomber. This is the type mostly used for the consistent night bombing of Berlin arid German industrial ...

Published: Saturday 30 December 1944
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 280 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE to BUDAPEST: And the Approach to Lake Balaton

... After a period of comparative quiet, after the Russians had made their first approach to the Hungarian capital, the Red Army succeeded in crossing the Danube and then striking west and north-west One thrust was directed towards the south-west corner of Lake Balaton, and soon the whole of its eastern side had been cleared but the major pressure then developed in a northerly direction the ...

Published: Saturday 30 December 1944
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 322 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Graphic  Maps  Photographs 

Farmers Without Land

... By a Dutch Correspondent WHEN the Allies advanced into Holland on September 18 and held the only main road from the Belgian frontier to Valkenswaard, I met a group of Dutchmen from the province of Zeeland, who had been evacuated from their homes, situated in an area which the Germans had suddenly proclaimed out of bounds to the Dutch. They were ail farmers most of them owning an hereditary ...