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The Fens Are Britain's Granaries: Only Bold and Full-Scale Planning Will; Save a Lasting Disaster

... The Fens Are Britain's Granaries Only Bold and Full-Scale Planning Will Save a Lasting Disaster By a Sport and Country Special Correspondent FROM true dawn to phoney midnight you can hear at long last the hum of the tractors drawing cultivators and drills across so me of the flooded Fenlands, and most of the clay lands of East Anglia and the lower Midlands. But it would be ridiculous to ...

FINLAND TO-DAY: Will She Quit the War--or Go Under Fighting?

... Jt is now generally known throughout Finland that, whether or no Germany wins the war against Russia, the Finns have quite definitely lost it. Yet the country is still in a very stubborn mood, despite M. Paasikivi's recent negotiations with the Soviet and this stubbornness arises mainly from territorial considerations. Finland is greater than most people in this country realise it is 700 miles ...

Published: Saturday 04 March 1944
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 252 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Graphic  Maps 

The GERMAN THRUST into FRANCE: How the Initial Attack Burst Through the rdennes; THE FIRST THRUST THROUGH ..

... iThe GERMAN THRUST Ito FRANCE How the Initial Attack Burst Through the rdennes THE ARDENNE GATE WHICH WAS LEFT OPEN 'The concentration of such a huge mass of tanks as the Germans A assembled in the forest country or the Belgian Ardennes was a puzzle to military critics. A study of the bird's-eye view, maps and views given here will show the nature of the country. It seems a territory in which ...

Published: Saturday 25 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 786 | Page: Page 26, 27 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations  Maps 

The TRANS-CANADA and ALASKAN HIGHWAYS: The Construction of which are Strategic Achievements of the First Importance

... The Trans-Canada and Alaskan Highways The Construction of which are Strategic Achievements of the First Importance. Described by EWING GRIFFITHS EARLY in December the 1,600-mile Alaskan High way, now known as the Alcan Highway, will open for traffic. Its northern terminal, Fairbanks, is within easy flying distance of Russian territory, across the other side of the Bering Straits (which are ...

Published: Saturday 14 November 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1159 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: Illustrations  Maps 

The BATTLE for EGYPT: The Huge New Areas which Confronted Rommel in his Advance Towards the Nile Basin

... The BATTLE for EGYPT The Huge New Areas which Confronted Rommel in his Advance Towards the Nile Basin A special Sphere Section, with diagrams and drawings of the new Battle Zones FOLLOWING on the fall of Tobruk on Sunday, June 21, Marshal Rommel's forces at once began their advance towards Mersa Matruh (which was abandoned by the 8th Army) and farther east. The Battle for Egypt had begun! But, ...

Published: Saturday 11 July 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1503 | Page: Page 15, 16, 17 | Tags: Illustrations  Maps 

THE NEW SECRET WEAPON OF THE GERMANS: The Wireless-Controlled Projectile Which was First Described by the Prime ..

... The New Secret Weapon of the Germans The Wireless-Controlled Projectile Which was First Described by the Prime Minister Last Month A Drawing by Roland Davies of the Rocket- Assisted Glider Which Releases Its Bombs from a Height and Directs Them to Its Target T n last speech to the House of Commons September 21, the Prime Minister ga, tails of still another German secret v.v jn. He said ...

Published: Saturday 16 October 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 581 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Maps 

TWO COUNTRIES WHERE RUSSIAN INTERESTS ARE INVOLVED: KOREA and PERSIA

... Both the Communists and the Chinese Government have been greatly impressed by President Truman's statement of American policy in China, his desire to see peace and order established there, and the Government broadened to include representative parties. China wishes to be regarded as a Great Power and to take her place among the Big Five dealing with the vital matters now facing those who have ...

Published: Saturday 19 January 1946
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 759 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Illustrations  Maps 

The OFFENSIVE ACROSS the SANGRO RIVER

... The OFFENSIVE ACROSS the SANjGRO RIVER How the Bridgeheads on the North Bank were Established and the Mountain Country which Now Flanks the Eighth Army's Left Wing Special Sphere Drawings The easternmost section of the Eighth Army (operating with its extreme right flank touching the Adriatic coast) is flanked on its landward side by a huge and impenetrable mountain mass known as the Majello. ...

Published: Saturday 18 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 713 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Illustrations  Maps 

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... ■■Fffijol- y --:vr- VHFRF I HE EIGHTH ARMY OFFENSIVE WAS LAUNCHED FROM THE SANGRO BRIDGEHEADS Thp Ca^nli-Orcnona-^an Vim arps nvprrnn hv Rritish frnnn? in thp first days of the attack and partially regained by the Germans later. The attack started from the river level and climbed to 1,000 ft.- -Drawing by E. G. Lambert ollowing General Montgomery s announcement that the Germans were to ...

Published: Saturday 18 December 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 498 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations  Maps 

THE GERMAN THREAT TO THE RUSSIAN SOVIETS

... HOW THE GERMAN DIVISIONS LINED UP ALONG THE BORDERS OF RUSSIA FROM THE BLACK SEA TO THE LATVIAN FRONTIER I I 1 kJi 1 J I P J L L.An.k, (.Am Waffarn The one big question which had been occupying the mind of European statesmen during the past weeks is now answered, and the reason why Germany had built up such strong forces within striking distance of the whole of Russia's western frontier is now ...

Published: Saturday 28 June 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 186 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Maps 

THE SECRET PROVINCE OF KAZAKSTAN BEYOND THE URALS: THE SOVIET REPUBLIC OF KAZAKSTAN

... THE SECRET PROVINCE OF KAZAKSTAN BEYOND THE URALS THE SOVIET REPUBJJC OF KAZAKSTAN East of the Caspian Sea, between that region and the Chinese borders, lies the Soviet Republic of Kazakstan. It is an area of nearly 3,000,000 square miles, or 14 per cent, of the entire territory of the Soviet Union. Before the Russian Revolution this region of dense forest and wide steppe was a land of grain ...

Published: Saturday 18 October 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 425 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Graphic  Maps 

Is the Gulf Stream Shifting?

... Is theSuif Stre Shifting TTZ7Y-\^ Wtfma M uckLeij J I The best known, the best defined and the most remarkable of all the ocean currents, and which indirectly modifies the climate of Western Europe THE weather in this country has always been a portentous subject for conversation and conjecture, for obvious reasons. It has also provided an easy get-out for the con versationally paralysed. Now ...

Published: Wednesday 01 October 1947
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 741 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: Maps