... GERMANY MOVES IN THE BALKANS With Rumania Gone, Bulgaria Nearly Gone and Yugoslavia on Her Own, the Situation in the Balkans is Now Serious Under the German Force-Threat KING BORIS OF BULGARIA has had a diffi cult task ever since he ascended the throne, on the abdication of his father. King Ferdinand. His heritage was a country smarting under the loss of territory due to having backed the ...

... OALONIKA the old Thessalonica Leading city k J of Macedonia and the second port of Greece. It is a city of white houses, minarets and towers, enclosed by walls, and built partly up the side of a hill, in the form of an amphitheatre. The Saracens captured it in 904 Venice held it during the Middle Ages, and it passed to the Turks in 1430, remaining in their possession till 1912, when it ...

... A t the outbreak of A serious operations against the Italians in Abyssinia, the Ethiopian natives were badly in need of efficient leader ship. This has now been supplied by a band of British officers, ac quainted with the nature of the country and with jungle methods of war fare. Under the com mand of these deter mined men, the natives have been armed, organ ised and drilled they are now ...

... AFTER MOGADISHU: how the imperial FORCES HAVE BEEN CONVERGING ON THE MOUNTAIN STRONGHOLD OF THE ITALIANS IN ABYSSINIA WITH the capture of Jubaland, the virtual control of Italian Somaliland by the occupation of the chief seaports and the river stations on the Juba, and the rapid advances into Abyssinia, the reconquest of British Somaliland seems only a matter of time. Several lines of approach ...

... Of these preparations none is more striking than the layout of all the newer German aircraft factories and arms works. Perhaps the instance of Oranienburgh, the great factory of the Heinkel concern, near Berlin, is the best of all. Oranienburgh was designed as the model aircraft factory. Completed some four years ago, it was laid out to the plans of Dr. Ernst Todt, who has had much to do with ...

... A SUBSTITUTE FOR AIR BASiS IN IRELAND How Floating Platforms, Claim d to be Unsinkable by the Invent >r, Could Take the Place of Laid Aerodromes off the Irish Coasts IN the issue of THE SPHERE for Feb ruary 22, the idea for bringing into being a safe lane for traffic across the Atlantic was discussed and illustrated. To gain the necessary local superiority in the air, it was proposed that a ...

... BACK FROM THE DEAD THE RESCUE SQUAD, AT THE END OF FIVE HOURS, BRING OUT A MAN WHO HAD BEEN BURIED ALIVE FOR SEVEN DAYS AFTER THE HEAVY RAID ON CLYDESIDE Deneath the debris of a bombed tenement two men lay for seven days before the rescue squads were able to bring them out. One of them, John Cormack, talked to his rescuers while they toiled to reach him, and as he was taken to hospital he ...

... News Pictures from the Home Front GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR ARE STILL PASSING THROUGH LONDON Here is another batch on their way to the internment camp captured during raids on Britain. Some are wounded, some are boisterous, some are glad all are out of the war COLOURS FOR THE FREE FRENCH FORCES IN BRITAIN Frenchwomen kissing the Colours in a West of England town. General Petit (General de ...

... THE NIGHT FIGHTERS OF THE R.A.F. The Men Who Battle by Moonlight The Arrival of the New Liberator from the United States and the Wellington Heavy Bombers in the Middle East NIGHT-FIGHTER PILOTS IN READINESS WEAR DARKENED GOGGLES IN THE REST HUT SO THAT THEIR EYES SHALL BE ADJUSTED TO MIGHT CONDITIONS WHEN THEY GO INTO THE DARKNESS OUTSIDE TO TAKE OFF Y THE LIGHT OF FLARES ON THE AERODROME A ...

... LORD GORT IN THE SOUTHERN COMMAND The Inspector- General of Training recently paid a visit to the Southern Command, where he visited various units. Here he is seen talking to a Scottish soldier during his tour THE KING AND QUEEN VISIT PLYMOUTH This port and town has been severely bombed by the Germans. During their visit their Majesties visited Naval Establishments, toured the Dockyard and the ...

... THE remarkable speed of the attacks in East Africa upon the stranded Italian forces, fighting with out hope of reinforce ment, has impressed all the military critics. There are at least six fronts press ing in upon the garrison of Italian Ethiopia, and during the middle period of the present month it was possible to record steady, and in some cases exceptional, progress. The latest addition ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 79 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i BOGEY! BOGEY!-- I confess that I fully agree with those who declare that, in so far as the present campaign to impress on us the ferocity and imminence of this invasion of Britain tends to exalt the Nazi war leaders into supermen with superhuman powers of destruction--it is a bore and a danger. I believe that the necessity for keeping on the ...