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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 

A WAR NEWSLETTER--No. 80

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 80 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i Lofoten Islands. --Drake and Hawkins might have drafted that joint report on the success of the cutting-out expedition to the Lofoten Islands, and Froude alone could have done it complete justice as a narrative. The affair comes straight out of the pages of English Seamen of the XVIth Century. The men who did the business so perfectly, so ...

Published: Saturday 15 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2077 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Photographs 

NIGHT RAIDING and AERODROME SITTING--

... NIGHT RAIDING and AERODROME SITTING- AIR COMMENTARY by C. G. GREY (Founder of The Aeroplane) NIGHT RAIDERS AGAIN.--Naturally, as we come nearer to the threatened Blitz-- no matter who blitzes first--people are becoming more and more interested in the night-raider (defeat thereof) problem. Interesting light on the subject comes even from the Directorate of Public Relations at the Air ...

Published: Saturday 15 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3552 | Page: Page 26, 27 | Tags: Photographs 

Graphic

... HOW THE CAPTIVES FROM THE LOFOTEN ISLANDS WERE BROUGHT OFF: German Merchant Seamen, Air Staff and Norwegian Quislings Blindfolded and Following their Leader being Transferred for the Journey to Britain pouring the raid on the Lofoten Islands, off Norway, on March 4, not the least considerable of the spoils captured by the Royal Navy was the mixed bag of enemy seamen and soldiers and ...

Published: Saturday 15 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 235 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

The RAID on the LOFOTENS: A Series of Official Pictures, Actually Taken During the Operations, which Shows How ..

... The RAID on the LOFOTENS A Series of Official Pictures, Actually Taken During the Operations, which Shows How the British Raiders Successfully Carried Out their Work of Destruction and Secured their German (and Norwegian) Prisoners THE SCENE AT STAMSUND AFTER THE FIRING OF THE OIL PLANTS The pictures on these pages are all from official photographs taken actually during the progress of the ...

Published: Saturday 15 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 405 | Page: Page 8, 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE CHANGING SITUATION in FRENCH NORTH AFRICA: What a Study of the Little-known Franco-German Armistice Terms ..

... THE CHANGING SITUATION in FRENCH NORTH AFRICA What a Study of the Little-known Franco-German Armistice Terms Reveals; and the Steps Taken Recently by the Germans to Strengthen Their Hold on France's Most Important Possession in North Africa Described by FERDINAND TUOHY WHEN the Nazis are in full blast in one part of the Mediterranean there is no harm in looking at another extremity of that sea ...

Published: Saturday 15 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1913 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Photographs 

THE U.S. NAVY IN THE PACIFIC: A Brief Review of Its Strength and of Its Ocean Bases

... THE U.S. NAVY IN THE PACIFIC A Brief Review of Its Strength and of Its Ocean Bases ALTHOUGH the American taxpayer has cheerfully faced the colossal cost of building a two-ocean navy which is to be divided in equal strength between the Atlantic arid the Pacific, the ships will take a con siderable time to build, and in the meantime practically the whole strength of the American Fleet is ...

A Note on AMERICAN NAVAL DESIGN

... THE United States Navy is very much in the limelight at the moment, and it is interest ing to note some of the peculiarities of their design, for, like the British, their warships are entirely distinctive. For years American battleships were recognis able all over the world by their tapered cage masts, which were irreverently known as the waste-paper baskets. The Americans built up their ...

Published: Saturday 15 March 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 795 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Photographs