... A London Newsletter 32-34 St. Bride Street, E.C.4 Wednesday, August 30, 1939. THE ALTERNATIVES.-- it is possible that before these lines are printed, we shall be at war with Germany. It is probable that before the next issue is due to appear, European war on a large scale will have broken out, and .if it be so, those of us who come out at the other end of the tunnel of horror must expect to ...

... 5 TRYING OUT Ihe I EVACUATION SCHEME for J LONDON'S CHILDREN THE main note, of course, children in all the excite- ment of an outing one or two here and there a bit pensive. Parents and guardians grave, alert, deter mined, resigned; superintendent and staff playing up to the general spree. Clockwork method, and action brisk without hurry, showing grasp on a long thought- out organisation; the ...

... Amsterdam, August 27, 1939. THE Dutch have no intention of being caught napping. In 1914 their mobilisation orders were out twenty-four hours before those of Germany and France; and again, to-day, an aggressor against Holland will find 400,000 sturdy Dutch soldiers there to meet him. Complete mobilisation orders have now been issued. The railway stations and trains are full of soldiers making ...

... I WITH THE ARMY In Training and on Manoeuvres 1 Men of a battalion of the Royal Artillery have a meal beside one of the guns, and by all outward sign, good digestion waits on appetite Left The H.A.C. in training for air defence two directors of large commercial firms man a height-finder Right While a battalion of the Hampshire Regiment practises camouflaging a wireless operator reports to ...

... PARIS CARRIES ON Dl. IRING A CRISIS WEEK New Pictures From the French Capif il Specially Taken For The Sphere MONTMAR1RE TO BE Madame C accompanied by her husband and sister-in-law, arrive at I indpd cuArtpn I iriHT^ cabaret Le Caveau Caucasien, which is kept by White Russians. Below is Jean Duranton, the greengrocer, one of the characters of Montmartre, who sets out his fruit and ...

... THE LONDON CLUB How long? An Ex cursion into Clubland's Secretarial Offices Reveals Many Secrets Hidden Behind Stately Doors YET again I read of a great London social club appealing for new members and support in order to keep going. In pre-war days that would have been so undignified as to be an impossibility. The members would have been horrified at the bare mention of such publicity, and ...

... ART of fhe WEEK There is a certain excitement and romance about Egypt that attracts the majority of us even in normal times, and Mrs. Winifred Brunton, who herself lives in Cairo, has succeeded in re-incarnating at least some of this elusive glamour of the past in her colourful miniatures and water- colour paintings of Egypt and Egyptians. Mrs. Winifred Brunton, who has been a member of the ...

... IN THE Swedish girls admiring the colourful windows WEST END 'n Oxford Street, where the shops prove irresistible to feminine visitors of all nations On right The imperturbable guardsman is the object of unconcealed admiration on the part of these Swiss visitors to the capital. Foreign visitors were in great evidence j all through the fine days of I August before the' crisis On lejt A happy ...

... ARE the suits that will he worn this autumn very different from those that we have had? They certainly are. They are more dignified, more important, and there is about them no suggestion of the schoolgirl influence that has swayed everything this summer. They are suits that can be worn by women of all ages, and they are going to look best on women with hips. That's the sort of turncoat Fashion ...

... Removing Canterbury's Priceless Glass Scenes in fhe Corona, or Becket's Crown, of the Great Kentish Cathedral CIRCLES OF GLOWING COLOUR were being detached from the east windows last Monday when The Sphere's special photographer visited the great cathedral THE SCENE ABOVE THE HISTORIC ENTHRONEMENT CHAIR In the chapel of Becket's Crown stands the historic enthronement chair dating from the ...

... THE EVER LASTING CHARM OF INDIA THE travel interest of India is inexhaustible and the magnitude of the subject is apt to crush out any consideration of an important complement --the journey to India. Air has its champions both in times of peace and of crisis-- the stages are easy, rapid and comfortable. There are several gates into India Karachi, Madras, Calcutta, or through Ceylon. In any ...

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