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Vegetables to Sow Now

... Part II Last week our horticultural correspon dent dealt with the rotation of vegetable crops and gave details of seeds which should be sown in the immediate future, such as broad beans, peas, parsnips, early potatoes, shallots, lettuce and radish. By our Horticultural Correspondent LAST week I gave details of vegetable seed- sowing which should be carried out as early in the season as soil ...

Cambridge Make It a Double

... ON form it seemed that Oxford should win this match and avenge their defeat earlier in the season by 11-9, but calculations were upset by the skill and dash of the Cambridge pack. Oxford played with courage and determination but without any luck, and the Light Blues, playing a better game than any this season, completed the double with a 13-0 win. They had two goals and a try. The Cambridge ...

Cocktails to Port

... C^ccLbuL to Port THE vicar was holding forth at a dinner party: There was a young lady from Bristol, he began. A horrified silence followed. Who, continued the Vicar, used to help to arrange our monthly meetings. I hear that you had an actor evacuee employed on your farm Yes, and he's a fairly good actor, too. I thought he was working the last week he was here.'' Why did you run home last ...

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LIGHT ON INDO-CHINA

... A Tsjote by Hermione Beauclerk THE present focus of interest in the Far East is on French Indo-China, which covers a tract of widely different land, some twenty-nine thousand square miles; enclosed in the huge S of its frontiers live more than 17,000,000 people, ranging from the short, primitive Mois, of doubtful origin, to the tall (for those parts) swarthy Tongkingese. He who has travelled ...

Published: Saturday 15 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 836 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Photographs 

A CHAPTER IN PACIFIC HISTORY

... THE STRANGE STORY OF THE NINE CORAL ISLETS A JAPANESE EXPEDITION SETS OUT TO RECLAIM THE GUANO ISLANDS FROM FRANCE A SMALL JAPANESE BOAT LYING AT ANCHOR OFF SOUTH DANGER ISLAND DURING THE DISPUTE BETWEEN JAPAN AND FRANCE WRECKAGE OF A FORMER JAPANESE OCCUPATION ALL THAT WAS LEFT IN 1933 OF THE OFFICES AND PIER ERECTED BY THE JAPANESE LASA ISLAND PHOSPHATE COMPANY DURING ITS PHOSPHATE-GATHERING ...

Published: Saturday 15 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 303 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WHAT IS MACEDONIA?

... It is a Traditional Cockpit of War Covering Portions of Three Balkan Countries; and its Inhabitants have been Warriors and Conspirators for Scores of years ONCE A MEMBER OF THE DESPERATE COM- MITAJIS To-day this man is an old hermit living near the famous Ri la Monastery, now reported to be German Headquarters in Bujgaria. He was once a famous fighter for freedom, and for years lived a Robin ...

Published: Saturday 15 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 323 | Page: Page 30 | Tags: Graphic  Maps  Photographs 

MACEDONIA and its PEOPLE

... (By J. E. Pryde-Hughes) THE ancient land of Macedonia lies across three more modern countries: Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Greece. Each of these countries claims Macedonia as its own, but neither in speech nor race can anyone maintain the claim, for the land of classic history contains not so much the elements of the days of Alexander, the Celts, Greeks and Romans, as an old Slav base with a ...

Published: Saturday 15 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 955 | Page: Page 30, 31 | Tags: Photographs 

ENO'S

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Published: Wednesday 12 March 1941
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 8 | Page: Page 37 | Tags: Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 12 March 1941
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 1 | Page: Page 38 | Tags: Photographs 

Two Army Leaders

... G.O.C. in C., Southern Command Lt.-Gen. the Hon. H. R. L. G. Alexander, C.B., C.S.I. D.S.O., M.C., was appointed General Officer Commauding-in-Chief Southern Command last December in succession to General Auchinleck, who became Commander-in-Chief in India. General Alexander, an Ulsterman of forty-nine, was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst. He commanded the First Division in France in this war ...

Published: Wednesday 26 March 1941
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 204 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Wedding of the Week: The Marquess of Huntly and the Hon. Pamela Berry

... Wedding of the Week The Marquess of Huntly and the Hon. Pamela Berry The bridegroom's mother, Mrs. Douglas Gordon, and the bride's father, Lord Kemsley, left the church together. Mrs. Gordon's husband, Lieut. -Colonel Gordon, died in 1930. The bride's mother. Lord Kemsley' s first wife, died in 1928. Lord Kemsley is chairman of Allied Neuspapers, and editor-in-chief of the 44 Sunday Times The ...

Published: Wednesday 26 March 1941
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 472 | Page: Page 12, 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs