... BRITISH INSULATED CABLES IID BRITISH INSULATED CABLES IID CABLEMAKERS AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS PRESCOT LANCS Telephone No. PRESCOT 6571 B.I. CABLES IN NEWTON HOUSE, NAIRN NEWTON HOUSE, part of which is 200 years old, is a well-known place of interest. In the electrical wiring, which has been carried out under the instruction of J. V. Wilson, Esq., 65 Wimpole Street, London, W.I, by Andrew ...

... How the Graf Spee' Fight Went On as the Sun Sank in the West THE PURSUIT OF THE GRAF SPEE AS SHE PASSED SOUTHWARDS NEAR THE PUNTA DEL ESTE Diagrammatic drawing by Frank Wootton The third phase found the three cruisers following the Graf Spee, and with great daring closing the range at times to a mile as they steamed southwards and approached the Punta del Este, the headland at the mouth of ...

... THE OBSERVER CORPS who lislen-in day and night for possible enemy aircraft invaders -SPECIAL ANTI-AIRCRAFT DEFENCE SECTION RY DAY By day the devoted members of the Observer Corps keep ceaseless watch 1 1 upon the skies, no matter what the weather conditions may be. Above on right a spotter is scanning the heavens through a special glass, while in front of him is a teller, with 'phone ...

... TTT --THE HEIGHT-FINDER and PREDICTOR XX A Which Tell the Gunners the Range of the Oncoming Craft WHEN the average man or woman reads in a newspaper that an enemy aircraft has been brought down by A. A. fire, the impression given is that something has happened tantamount to the bringing down of a high pheasant by a skilled and practised sportsman. Yet how different is the real circumstance! It ...

... THE OBSERVER CORPS The First Eyes of the A. A. Ground Defence System Which Culminates in the Bursiing Shell Upon the Air Target Described by NOEL THOMPSON ONE vital section of our aerial defences has received very little public attention. So little, in fact, that while I am an omnivorous reader of the daily and weekly papers, I can call to mind only about half a dozen mentions of their work. ...

... POLAND STILL LIVES ON .|HHI Angers, lis New Capital on the Maine River in France By HARRY J. GREENWALL WHEN the German and Austro-Hungarian Empires fell into ruins, and the Poles began to carve out an empire for themselves, I was an on looker at the commencement of the foundation of the new Poland which, four months ago, fell in its turn. When during the World War No. 1 little Serbia was wiped ...

... THE GREYHOUNDS t°Hfe MODERN ARMY I How the Bren-gun Carriers Have Become the Cavalry of To-day THE artillery of 1939 has found its running shoes at last. Modern field guns, of all calibres save the largest, are almost as mobile as modern motor cars, thanks to the develop ment of outsize pneumatic tyres and of ball bearings, as well as of caterpillar tracks and haulage tractors. Light guns are ...

... PHILIP PAGE ON THE THEATRE Keeping Politics Out of Entertainments Lady Precious Stream at the Kingsway IT would, perhaps, have been pleasant in these days to be able to cherish Christmas pantomime as something in which war and international politics are not permitted to put in their unwelcome and (to my mind) unfunny appearance. But, of course, a vast number of Christmas pantomimes will have ...

... be no permanent peace. And when there is peace, goodwill may slowly follow, perhaps, when the achievements of science in our day are once more diverted to sane and decent purposes for the benefit and not for the destruction and seduction of nations. We have a measure of peace in our hearts because we are at work on a job that needs doing and a greater than normal measure of goodwill towards ...

... How We Stand in this First War-time Christmas A Review of Britain's Strategical Position by Land and Sea The Strategy of the War XIII J By GENERAL SIR CHARLES HARINGTON, G.C.B., G.B.E., D.S.O., D.C.L LAST week I put forward much food for thought. I tried to visualise the present situation and the future. Nothing has happened during the past week to alter the situation. We have apparently taken ...

... IV-- The A.A. Guns Fire as the Predictor Gives the Range --SPECIAL ANTI-AIRCRAFT DEFENCE SECTION A PRELIMINARY WARNING IS RECEIVED AT AN A.A. GUN POSITION Suspected enemy aircraft have been heard approaching from the east. The warning has been passed to this post, as to many others. The men assemble at the double to take up their proper positions A DAYLIGHT RAIDER IS MET WITH A BURST OF ANTI ...

... AT GIBRALTAR: The Famous Rock Towers o ver a Convoy as it Leaves for British Ports A LONG-DISTANCE BRITISH CON VOY, WITH DESTROYER SCREEN, SETS OUT FROM THE STRAITS Drawn for The SPHERE by Montague Dawson It is usual to connect the activities of British convoys with home waters. The', is, of course, a great amount of activity within that region, hut the work f the convoy organisers and ...