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THE GREAT RETREAT TO THE ADRIATIC HILLS

... . This picture was taken by Lady Muriel Herbert while engaged on relief work in connection with Lady Wimborne' s hospital unit, which was established for the greater part of last year at Uskub. This view shows better than any descriptions which have yet reached us the nature of the roads through the gorges of southern Serbia and Albania. This is, of course, a made road, having been cut out of ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1916
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 115 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

CHRISTMAS AMID SNOW and THAW on the EASTERN FRONT with MR. SCOTLAND LIDDELL: The Sphere's Special Correspondent ..

... CHRISTMAS AMID SNOW and THAW on the EASTERN FRONT with MR. SCOTLAND LIDDELL spondent on the Eastern Front. THE GHOSTS OF THE CHRISTMAS FIRE By Scotland Liddell Russia, 1915. The country behind the battle line was as a Christmas card. The plains were white, and at the back were snow-capped hills and firs whose branches sagged beneath their load. The little groups of grey-clad men who trudged ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1916
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1748 | Page: Page 24, 25 | Tags: Photographs 

IN THE PETROL WORLD

... . By R. P. Hearne. The year 1915 has been the most extraordinary period ever lived through by the British motor industry. After vainly begging for war work in the early months of the war our factories have been set going at full speed on munition production. With the help of these factories Britain is beating Germany in war material; and we can feel gratified that our motor factories far excel ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1916
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 595 | Page: Page 38 | Tags: Photographs 

A Theatre for Armament Employés and Other Notes of the Week.: The New Dining-room at Euston Station

... A Theatre for Armament Employes and Other Notes of the Week. The New Dining-room at Eusion Station The new dining-room at Euston Station has two entrances, one from the Great Hall and one from Platform No. 9. The room is decorated in the Renaissance manner the walls being oak-panelled to a height of 10 ft., with pictures illu strating early scenes in the history of the railway inserted in the ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1916
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 571 | Page: Page 40 | Tags: Photographs 

CIRCULAR NOTES

... . NOTES BY RAPIER. SOMEONE asked me the other day what was the most exciting race I had ever seen. This involved a consider able retrospect, because as I showed some time ago, I must have looked on at considerably more than 50,000 races, and there have naturally been a good many citing ones among them. The question is further com plicated because there are two different sorts of races which ...

Graphic

... r 'gggBWtJBT -g gggSBfog MrV aggafc. japan's boy scouts. Jnpnn has tnken up the Boy Scout movement with enthusiasm, and our picture shows the warriors of the future being put through their little paces. i? i-- THE PORT OF VARNA IN THE BLACK SEA. All last week rumours were persistent as to the bombardment by Russian warships of this important Bulgarian seaport. Irasniafc,.-- ergj-- A B-- OF ...

THE SUSSEX COUNTY COURSING MEETING AT LITTLEHAMPTON

... Tilt; SUSSEX COUNTY COURSING .MEETING AT LITTLE HAMPTON. 1. W. SMITH, THE SLIPPER, DONS OILSKIN'S FOR HIS WORK. 2. SHELTERING UNDER A HAYSTACK FROM RAIN AND WIND. 3. INCHBOXN'Y AND CAPTAIN CRACK IN THE SLIPS FOR THE AMUNGROTTRVF f'TTP FT V A f 4. mr. g. w. Morrison's munition, by adversary FORTUNATE FAME. A DIVIDER IN THE COURT STAKES. 5. MR. A. E. BURNS' DORRIDGE BLIZZARD, BY HALF NELSON ...

THE PANTOMIME SEASON IN TOWN AND COUNTRY

... 1. CINDERELLA, AT THE PALLADIUM. MISS DAISY BURRELL AS CINDERELLA AND MR. HARRY WELDON AS BUTTONS. 2. MISS CLARA IJECK, WHO IS THE PRINCIPAL BOY AT THE THEATRE ROYAL. BELFAST. 3 and 4. THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT, AT THE THEATRE ROYAL, BIRMINGHAM. No. 3. MISS CLARICE MAYNE AS JACK. No. 4, MISS WINIFRED DELEVANTI AS THE PRINCIPAL GIRL, ...

THE MELBOURNE CUP, 1915

... The fifty-fifth Melbourne Cup, which was run last November, was for the first time in the history of the valuable race won by a horse owned by a lady. Mrs. E. A. Widdis is the wife of a Gippsland grazier, and her Patrobas, who had previously won the Derby, beat the outsider, Westcourt, by a short head, Patrobas starting at 8 to 1 against, and carrying 7st. 61b. Three horses fell during the ...

HERBERT VOLLMER

... THIS eighteen-year-old member of the New York Athletic Club on December 4th covered 100 yards in 54 4-5 sec. in the 75 ft. pool of his own club, this being the fastest time ever made on that course. While the perform ance is not a world's record, because Duke Kahanamoku, of Honolulu, has done the distance in 54 3-5 sec. in a 75-yard bath, and in 53 1-5 sec. over a straightaway course, American ...