... Tun ADUV AT UJ KA II ln ^amP and on ,he Move The Nava| I |i lZ Fa Iv 1^1 I /A I I 1 I^M t Militiamen at the R.N. Barracks, Devonport TESTING THE ARMY'S MOBILITY: Last week-end on the road between Brentwood and Colchester there stretched long convoys of army lorries heading for Warley Barracks, near Brentwood, carrying out a big organised military move.' Some of the troops taking part are seen ...

... MOUNTED MUSICAL CHAIRS: One of the many exciting events at the gymkhana organised by A Section of the Transjordan Frontier Force which is stationed at Zerka under the com mand of Colonel Chrystall, C.B.E. The scramble for the last chair is always a hectic moment TUG -OF -WAR ON hORSEBACK Another big moment at the gymkhana of the Transjordan Frontier Force at Zerka. The force polices the ...

... i MUSEOLOGY SWEDEN'S NEWEST MUSEUM: This modern building, with its spacious windows and severe simplicity, has been designed by M. Ragnar Ostberg, the famous architect of Stockholm Town Hall, to house some of the major works of Anders Zorn (1860-1920), the noted Swedish painter and etcher, in his home town of Mora A CORNER OF ANDERS ZORN'S STOCKHOLM STUDIO as it has been reproduced in the new ...

... The Ship That Launched Herself How the Formidable Took the Water BEFORE THE MISHAP This was the scene on the slipway at Messrs. Harland and Wolffs Belfast yard as the new aircraft carrier Formidable was about to be launched by Lady Kingsley Wood, wife of the Secretary of State for Air. Before the official ceremony had begun, however. it was suddenly noted that the great vessel was starting ...

... For the Welfare of the People WHERE TIME GLIDES SWIFTLY: Miss M. RofTey, who has been engaged by the Chislehurst-Sidcup Council, Kent, to teach children games and pastimes during the long, summer holidays, when the youngsters do not always know how to occupy themselves, pictured with her class at Marlborough Park, Sidcup. The scheme is known as Play Leadership, and parents are already ...

... The Manning of Britain's Reserve Fleet Two of the 12,000 Men who Joined Up Last Monday for a Two Months' Spell of Duty at Sea On Monday last the British Navy accomplished one of those sparkling feats of which it has so often shown itself capable, when 12,000 Naval Reservists, most of whom have been recalled from good shore jobs and comfortable homes, were summoned to Portsmouth, Chatham, and ...

... Mars Looms Close to the Earth A PLANET SWIMS INTO THE WORLD'S KEN: This diagram has been specially made for The Sphere and shows how the surface of Mars appears to the astronomer looking through a 28-in. refractor tele scope of the type installed at Greenwich. On the evening of July 27 Mars was nearer to the earth than it has been since 1924, and it will not again be so close until 1956. The ...

... Land, Sea, and Air Activities boss Motor torpedo boats are being perfected by every major power and this example, which was demonstrated on Southampton Water last week to representatives of the Admiralty, has shown that she can travel at 45i knots when carrying 2 tons above the normal load. She has two torpedoes, several guns and six depth charges, and is manned by a crew of six. There are two ...

... F L I G H T MASS OVER BELFAST: These Avro-Anson reconnaissance aircraft of No. 269 Squadron flew from Scotland last week and roared in formation above Ulster's capital YOU CAN TELL THEM BY THEIR CAPES: The short capes with the flying emblems proclaim that these nurses are attached to the R.A.F. They are standing beneath the flag outside Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Hospital at Halton ...

... &n* A A Firsf-Hand Ob- Germany's Expanded Army^vEt HITLER'S triumphs have so far been bloodless ones. But the changes he has wrought in the map of Europe have not been exactly the product of agreements freely entered into by the various countries concerned. The German army and the threat of force are the tools that Hitler has used to build up the Third Reich. Nor, to do him justice, would he ...

... The Wanderings 0/ A MINOAN SWORD A GEM OF THE SWORDSMITH'S ART: This gold hilt of a Minoan sword was found last year in a tomb on Scopelos Island and was presented to the Archaeological Museum of Athens, where it has been the object of much admiring atten tion. Now it has come into the news again as a result of the discovery, by another expedition but in the same excavations, of a gold object ...

... Fire Down Below WITH A FLAME CUTTER THAT BURNS UNDER WATER: A diver equipped to descend in order to work on a wreck. Formerly he had to operate with a hack saw a long and laborious job-- but thanks to this remarkable invention he can carve through a ship's plates in a few minutes DEEP DOWN BELOW THE SURFACE the diver works with his flame-cutter. The reason the water does not put out the flame ...