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The SAVAGERY at COVENTRY: German Methods of Warfare Brought to a British Town

... The SAVAGERY at COVENTRY German Methods of Warfare Brought to a British Town VV7e have all heard of how German dive-bombers wiped out the town of Guernica in Spain and deliberately wrecked the cities of Warsaw and Rotterdam, killing right and left and wreaking such havoc as to make civilisation gasp. The same methods have now been used against Britain. During the night of Thursday, November 14 ...

Published: Saturday 23 November 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 259 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PREPARING for ACTION in the WESTERN DESERT

... ST! MS OF NEWCOMERS TO EGYPT ARE ARRIVING-- E A DETACHMENT OF NEWLY-ARRIVED TROOPS ARE SEEN LEAVING THEIR 1P FOR A ROUTE MARCH: If the Italians should attempt an attack on pt and there is no apparent indication that they intend to do so, what Greece and Taranto and the British Navy and R.A.F. to attend to they will find that country well prepared for them. British forces have been reaching the ...

Published: Saturday 23 November 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 249 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

TWO STRATEGIC ISLANDS: Which are Keys to the Sea Situation Off the Grecian Shores

... TWO STRATEGIC ISLANDS Which are Keys to the Sea Situation Off the Grecian Shores THE TOWN OF CORFU, CAPITAL OF THE HISTORIC ISLAND, held by Britain during the first half of the nineteenth century, and handed over to Greece when she gained her freedom. The city was much improved during the British protectorate and still bears many signs of the activities of Lord Guilford and others. The Ionian ...

DON'T LET US TELL the ENEMY!

... DON'T LET US TELL fhe ENEMY! AIR COMMENTARY BY CHARLES G. GREY (Founder of The Aeroplane) Either by Advertisement or Post Office Guide And What Is Going to Happen to Those Bases in Eire And What Are to Be the Reprisals for the Bombing of London ONE would imagine, if one were not accustomed to the strange ways of officialdom, that the function of a Public Relations Department was to relate to ...

Published: Saturday 23 November 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3250 | Page: Page 22, 23 | Tags: Photographs 

W.A.A.F.: Women's Auxiliary Air Force

... W.A.A.F. Women's Auxiliary Air Force The duties of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force are numerous, for as well as the usual canteen and secre tarial duties allot ted to women in all the Services, there are various jobs attached to the Air Force itself. The servicing of the bal loon barrage gives endless work, there are all the necessary rpnnirt; tn hf rurrifH out with the greatest possible speed ...

Published: Saturday 23 November 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 139 | Page: Page 24 | Tags: Photographs 

W.R.N.S.: Women's Royal Naval Service

... W.R.N.S. Women's Royal Naval Service Members of the Women's Royal Naval Ser vice are concerned entirely with shore establishments. The majority of them must be familiar with wire less telegraphy and be expert secre tarial assistants.' Numbers of W.R.N.s are en gaged in relieving staff at the Port of. London Authority and deal entirely with stores. Others work at tracing and map plotting, and ...

Published: Saturday 23 November 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 103 | Page: Page 24 | Tags: Photographs 

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... THE KING IN TUNIS MEETS PAULINE BERTOLI, A YOUNG GIRL GUIDE WHO HAS BEEN AWARDED THE FRENCH CROIX DE GUERRE for hiding thirty Allied escaping prisoners jf war whilst the Germans were still in occupation of the city A mongst the many visits paid by the King during his North African and Mediterranean tour was one to the city of Tunis. As he drove in, the citizens had lined the streets to greet ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 221 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

1,500 ACRES OF DEVASTATION

... Dusseldorf after the Terrific Raid by the R.A.F. on June II A Panoramic Impression Built-up from Reconnaissance Photographs Imagine an area stretching from Blackfriars in the east to Chelsea in the west, from Hyde Park on the north to the Houses of Parliament on the south: that is the area covered in the above panoramic view of the city of Dusseldorf, where more than 1,000 acres are now known ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1441 | Page: Page 8, 9 | Tags: Photographs 

The NAVY'S PART in the GREAT ASSAULT

... The long series of naval and air operations designed to exhaust the garrison of Pantellaria began with the establishment of a motor-torpedo-boat patrol off the island on the night of May 11-12. Nightly patrols of destroyers and motor craft were thereafter maintained-- arduous work for the personnel of the smaller craft. On May 13 the first bombardment of the island was carried out by the ...

WHERE WILL THE NEXT BLOW FALL?: Germany's Anxiety Over the Middle East and the Attitude of Turkey

... WHERE WILL THE NEXT BLOW FALL! Germany's Anxiety Over the Middle East and the Attitude of Turkey On June 15 the frontier between Syria and Turkey was closed, by order of the Middle East Command. Germany appeared apprehensive of this incident, wondering what it might portend. Ever since the Adana Conference last rebruary, when Mr. Churchill met the Turkish President, General Ismet Inonu, and ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 690 | Page: Page 24 | Tags: Maps  Photographs 

A Page of Pictures FROM ITALY

... Where the Fear of Invasion Grows Daily ONE OF THE MANY INDIGNITIES WHICH THE ITALIANS HAVE TO SUFFER. A German Military Commission inspects Italy's defences The supervision of their country by German officers however much it may be welcomed by Mussolini and his Fascist colleagues is greatly resented by the populace throughout the length of Italy. Many people have not hesitated to give ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 540 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

AWAY FROM THESE WARS. . . .: Memories and Thoughts of the Years Between

... AWAY FROM THESE WARS Memories and Thoughts of the Years Between --A Fortnightly Causerie By J. G. THE Aftermath of Strachey.-- It would be presumptuous of me to add anything to Max Beerbohm's Rede lecture on the writings of Lytton Strachey-- the considered opinions, born after due time, of one of our first literary critics and masters of prose style. Anything I might say would be in the nature ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1511 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Photographs