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LANDING AN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE: The Difficulties Involved in a Great Task

... Landing an Expeditionary Force The Difficulties Involved in a Great Task Described by GENERAL SIR CHARLES HARINGTON, G.C.B., G.B.E., D.S.O., D.C.L. DURING the past weeks I have been somewhat concerned at the rather light-hearted way in which certain articles in the Press have referred to the slowness in landing our Expeditionary Force in Norway. It has worried me as I think that such ...

Published: Saturday 11 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2455 | Page: Page 28, 29 | Tags: Photographs 

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FINLAND'S STAND Loot Captured from the Soviet Forces: How the Finnish Soldiers Keep Fit

... Finland's Standi Loot Captured from the Soviet Forces How the Finnish Soldiers Keep Fit CAPTURED SOVIET TROOPS WEAR A VARIETY OF HEADDRESS During the past three weeks the Finns have made very considerable captures. The latest enemy drafts are ill-clad as compared with the Finns. The prisoners wear a woollen headdress with a little peak, suggestive of a Tamerlane helmet, interspersed with any ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 365 | Page: Page 8, 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

After GREAT ADVENTURES at SEA: H.M. Submarine Sealion Returns to Port

... Afler GREAT ADVENTURES af SEA H.M. Submarine Sealion Returns to Port Commander Ben Bryant, D.S.C., and his Second -in Command, Lieutenant John Bromage, D.S.C., Prepare to Go Ashore with the Other Officers of the Heroic Submarine Sealion already has a record of great heroism her commander and second-in-command both have the D.S.C. for previous exploits. Now she has returned, once again, safe to ...

Published: Saturday 31 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 208 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

TELLING the NEWS to AMERICA by RADIO: How the News Transmissions from Broadcasting House Are Sent Over the Ether

... TELLING the NEWS fo AMERICA by RADIO How the News Transmissions from Broadcasting House Are Sent Over the Ether Described by GORDON BECKLES THIS is Bill Hillman speaking from London. It is fifteen minutes past midnight here, the beginning of the 345th day of the war, which will soon be a year old. It is several centuries old in the changes brought about or threatening to be brought about. We ...

Published: Saturday 31 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2080 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Photographs 

IRON ORE IN W. AUSTRALIA

... Iron ore is found in large quan tities in Australia but, of known deposits scattered over a wide area, only two are easily accessible Iron Knob in South Australia and Yampi Sound in Western Australia (where these pic tures were taken). The limited nature of these deposits has focused attention -on the future development of Yampi Sound, particularly in view of the important part possession of ...

Published: Saturday 31 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 364 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

The THREAT to DUTCH EA ST INDIES: The Possibility of Japan Expanding Her Thrust Into the Area of British ..

... The THREAT lo DUTCH EA ST INDIES The Possibility of Japan Expanding Her Thrust Into the Area of British Influence By STANLEY JACKSON WILL the present European conflict develop into a world war? Recent developments suggest that the question may be answered not in Washington but in Tokyo. Japan's proclamation of a new order in the Pacific; the temporary closing of the Burma Road; the withdrawal ...

HONG KONG, ON THE EVE OF THE STORM: A Scene in the Heart of the Colony, Wellington Street in the Native Quarter

... HONG KONG, ON THE EVE OF THE STORM A Scene in the Heart of the Colony, Wellington Street in the Native Quarter The state of tension in the Far East increased during the past week when the Japanese Navy started blockading the remaining open Chinese ports of Ningpo Fuchow, Santuao and Wenchow, following the intimation to Great Britain that military traffic on the Burma-Yunnan highway should ...

Published: Saturday 20 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 230 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

The END of an ENEMY SUPPLY SHIP: The R.A.F. Destroy A Tanker Off the French Coast

... The END of an ENEMY SUPPLY SHIP The R.A.F. Destroy A Tanker Off the French Coast A s well as protecting these l\ shores from invasion the R.A.F. are carrying the war into enemy territory and enemy wa'er?, maintaining a constant vigil and bombing and destroying without respite. The two official pictures reproduced here have just been released by the Air Ministry. They show the scene at the ...

Published: Saturday 20 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 442 | Page: Page 5, 6 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

AWAY from the FLURRY of WAR: The Rural Life of Britain Goes On Throughout the Countryside

... AWAY from the FLURRY of WAR The Rural Life of Britain Goes On Throughout the Countryside THE BIO ROUND-UP IN THE ENGLISH LAKE DISTRICT: Men at work shearing sheep on a farm in the Swaledale Valley in Westmorland where 10,000 wild mountain sheep have been rounded up at various farms during the past few days. Farmers have been pooling their labourers to assist in the work WOMEN TRAIN TO HELP ...

Published: Saturday 20 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 281 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

EVACUATED to the NEW WORLD

... THE QUEEN'S NIECE AND NEPHEW IN THE UNITED STATES: Seen on their arrival in New York from Montreal where they disembarked after a secret journey across the Atlantic are ten-year-old Davina Bowes-Lyon and her brother Simon, aged eight both are the children of the Queen's brother. With them are their three cousins, Anne, Joanne and Francis Nichols. They are said to be on their way to the ...

Published: Saturday 20 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 174 | Page: Page 30 | Tags: Photographs 

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