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... WOMEN IN WARTIME Relaxation off duty means darts to many people, but, for a change, there is an ingenious variation of the game called Snukadarts. You play it on the same principle as snooker, aiming at the detach able coloured discs in that order., Lilly- whites, Piccadilly Cir cus and Knightsbridge, have it from 2 is. Anew coat makes the first sunshine seem brighter than ever. Military ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 193 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MOTOR DICTA

... . By H. E. SYMONS. WHEN the Great War of 1914-1918 broke out, the British motor industry flung all its energies into the task of bringing the conflict to a successful conclusion. It concentrated on manufac turing shells, aero-engines, armaments and aeroplanes, ceased all research work of a purely automobile nature and virtually abandoned motor-car production for the duration. America grasped ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1130 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Photographs 

CANADA SENDS A THIRD CONTINGENT TO THE HOME COUNTRY: Some of the Troops Lining Up on the Quayside on Arrival

... CANADA SENDS A THIRD CONTINGENT TO THE HOME COUNTRY Some of the Troops Lining Up on the Quayside on Arrival The men of the third Canadian contingent who landed at a west country port last week were full of praise for the manner in which the British Navy had brought them over without a single casualty, and, said one of them, 'we want the Canadian Pe°Pf, to ^now Among the men was a Scot who ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 260 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE COMFORTING SIDE OF THE WEEK'S WAR NEWS: The Attitude of the Neutrals, Our Complete Understanding with ..

... THE COMFORTING SIDE OF THE WEEK'S WAR NEWS T he Attitude of the Neutrals, Our Complete Understanding with France, The Finnish Resistance, All Give Us Confidence (The Strategy of the War XXI.) By GENERAL SIR CHARLES HARINGTON, G.C.B., G.B.E., D.S.O., D.C.L. I FEEL that all of us who try to write something about the war will have been comforted by the Prime Minister's statement to the House last ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1814 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Photographs 

WITH THE B.E.F. IN FRANCE IN ALL ... ATHERS IN FAIR, ... IN SNOW FOUL, AND AND FROST

... WITH THE B.E.F. IN FRANCE IN ALL WE ATHERS I IN FAIR, IN IN SNOW FOUL, AND and FROST By CAPTAIN DONALt ANDERSON DIG FOR VICTORY! is one of the things we are urged to do at home. Digging in preparation for victory is also one of the most important present occupations of the British Expeditionary Force in France. Trenches and anti-tank traps are being dug, and roads are being made serviceable ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1149 | Page: Page 16, 17 | Tags: Photographs 

BRITISH FILM WORLD ALIVE AGAIN: Scenes in Busy Studio

... BRITISH FILM WORLD ALIVE AGAIN: GESTAPO IS UNDER This story of a rich Czechoslovak's PDnniinmN AT THF daughter is being filmed at Shep- vlVTwr- herd's Bush. Here Anna and her father LIME GROVE STUDIOS are seen about to land in England THE GERMAN FUHRER The part of Herr Hitler is tciic taken by Billy Russell, and TELLS BOM ASCII Bomasch by James Harcourt. WHAT HE WANTS The setting is ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 227 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

TYRES, FROM GIANTS DOW NWARDS, FOR GUNS, PLANES AND ARMY LORRIES: The Ministry of Supply is Probably the ..

... TYRES, FROM GIANTS DOW NWARDS, FOR GUNS, PLANES AND ARMY LORRIES The Ministry of Supply is Probably the Biggest Single Buyer of Pneumatic Tyres in the World THE ARMY NOW USES TYRES This is a special type of FULLY AS TALL AS A MAN oYSe BemshVrny THERE ARE SMALLER TYRES This tyre is fitted to a smaller field rjc a CPFriAi riir fc-jd £un which can be man-hauled. Below is an anti-aircraft gun car- ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 319 | Page: Page 24, 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE PERSONAL SIDE

... FROM LONDON'S HOTEL WORLD, For the first time in the history of the Savoy Hotel a n gi^l is being trained in the Savoy kitchens. M. Francois Where the First Girl Chef is Being Latry, the famous MaTtre Chef d'Cuisine at the Savoy Trained for the Savoy Staff Hotel, carried out the old custom of personally making pan cakes and feeding them to the youngest kitchen employee FROM ST. GEORGE'S, ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 162 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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Published: Saturday 17 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 519 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

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