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THE UNITY OF STRATEGY OF THE ALLIES Recent Important Movements of British and Serbian Troops

... . THE SERBIAN ARMY IN SALONIKA Detachment of the Reconstituted Army Marching to their Consulate Where a short time ago were fields of fresh green corn, just sprouting, around Salonika, there is to-day almost a small town of huts, sheds, and houses where the Serbian troops are now quarterei General Sarrall visited their camp recently, and especially inspected the bath-houses through which all ...

Published: Saturday 20 May 1916
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 465 | Page: Page 4, 5 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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The FLEET in ACTION, MAY 31: Sir John Jellicoe and his Admirals

... ^m\m\\s\m\s\m\\^ The FLEET in ACTION, MAY 31. I I Sir John Jellicoe and his Admirals I W\mmm\mmmmm\m\mmmvm^ \V^N\^\\^W^ 5i fl 5 Rear-Admiral Osmond de B. Hi Brock, C.B. Leading a Battle-cruiser Squadron 111 Rear-Admiral Sir Robert Arbuthnot, Bart., M.V.O. Died in action Commanding a Cruiser Squadron Rear-Admiral Hon. H. L. A. Hood, C.B., M.V.O. D.S.O. Died in action Commanding 3rd Battle ...

THE GREAT EUROPEAN WAR: WEEK by WEEK: THE TRAGIC END OF THE GERMAN

... THE GREAT EUROPEAN WAR k* THE TRAGIC END OF THE GERMAN AIRSHIP-- September 2-3, 1916 The first German airship has been brought down on English soil. That is the interesting fact of the past week end. We have had ocular demonstration of the fact before a cloud of witnesses, and the tragic nature of the airship's end has added to the dramatic character of the event. All eye witnesses feel an ...

The LAST of the GERMAN NIGHT RAIDER

... . An eye-witness thus de scribes in The Morn ing Post the scene in the early hours of Sunday morning, September 3: There was very little wind, only sufficient, in deed, to cause the patches of mist, with occasional but not very large clouds, to drift slowly overhead, leaving the sky clear at intervals and the stars shining brilliantly. Above the clouds an enemy could easily have lurked. ...

Published: Saturday 09 September 1916
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 750 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Photographs 

A LITERARY LETTER: Mr. George Moore's Romance of Syria

... t A LITERARY LETTER Mr. George Moore's Romance of Syria. London, September 4, 1916. I confess to having a great kindness for Mr. George Moore. He is rather an Ishmaelite, but then I have a weakness for Ishmaelites. He stands quite apart from his brother novelists to-day. He has written a variety of excellent books. I like his ideas about art, which have found expression in more than one volume ...

Published: Saturday 09 September 1916
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2349 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: Photographs 

IN THE PETROL WORLD

... B^ M.o Po Meafinio MOTOR=TRAFFIC RECONSTRUCTION Amongst the innumerable committees at work preparing for the war after the war, or lecturing us how to capture German trade, I can find no trace of a practical organisation to build up our road traffic. Yet unless we have a good transport system in operation we shall most certainly be unfit to beat the United States and Germany in cheap traffic ...

Published: Saturday 09 September 1916
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 623 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Photographs 

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... volume LXVI., No. WAR NUMBER ONE HUNDRED AND FOUR. lMS lM^M^CT-- JULY 29,1916. 1 LTCT^.T.rJ.T.TJ>T.TJ>T.T.^^] A Hospital Steam., L.WMW^ ...

Published: Saturday 29 July 1916
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 19 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Covers  Photographs 

SIR WILLIAM'S APOLOGUE

... By E. V. Lucas. ()ne of the most famous London characters at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries was a City alderman, knight, and M.P. named Sir William Curtis, who kept the wits busy-- and among them particularly Dr. John Wolcot, who called himself Peter Pindar and spared no one-- by providing so ample a target for their shafts. He had all the best qualities ...

Published: Saturday 29 July 1916
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 975 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Photographs 

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Published: Saturday 29 July 1916
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 124 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Photographs 

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