... And the Advance on Diredawa, in Abyssinia Further pictures on pages 20-21) HOW KEREN WAS CAPTURED ON MARCH 27 THE ALMOST IMPREGNABLE KEY POSITION IN ERITREA: Right in the heart of Italy's colony of Eritrea, and astride the railway from the port of Massawa to Agordat and beyond, Keren was garrisoned by some 40,000 men. The drawing above shows how the defences were penetrated. The British ...

... AN ANALYSIS of the ROUNDABOUT SHOWN on the LEFT and BELOW- The running fight and the roundabout are the two forms of air combat which have most commonly been registered in photography. These two pictures show the same battle. The probable height of this was 25,000 ft., and the narrow ellipse shows it to have taken place several miles away-- probably over the south-eastern suburbs during an ...

... The PADDLER and the RAIDER The Success of the One-Time Pleasure Steamer Lorna Doone IN happier days the Lorna Doone was a pleasure steamer which used to ply between Southampton and the Isle of Wight it has carried thousands of holiday- makers on that short trip. This year she celebrates her fiftieth birthday, having been built in 1891. To-day the 410-tons paddle- boat is known as H,M. Paddle ...

... FROM THE ENEMY'S CAMP And from Continental Countries Under His Domination THE PUPPET PRESIDENT SALUTES HIS CONQUERORS Father Josef Tiszo, the Quisling of Slovakia (on right), during the second anniversary of Slovak independence. On his right is Professor Tukka, the Slovak Premier. It was largely owing to Father Tiszo that the country of Czechoslovakia was invaded and taken over by the Germans ...

... The NAVAL VICTORY off CAPE MATAPAN on MARCH 28 A Soecial Sphere Section A Complete Record of the Battle with the Italian Fleet An Engagement Unique in Naval History. Despite the Over whelming Losses Inflicted on the Enemy not a Single Enemy Shell Struck Home I The whole story summarised Illustrated by diagrams, and by drawings by The Sphere artists Montague Dawson, L. Ashwell Wood and Wm. ...

... The Rock-Perched Monasteries of the Mediterranean Picturesque Spots Around Which the Tide of War is Now Flowing How the Rock-Perched Monasteries Came to be Established IT seemed for a time after the last war that order, peace and stability had at long last come to the monasteries of Macedonia and the Levant. But now in Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, even in Syria, the robot arms of total war reach ...

... GENERAL DILL WITH CAPTAIN MARGESSON AT 10, DOWNING STREET During the Easter week-end it was announced that both Mr. Eden, Foreign Secretary, and General Sir John Dill, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, had returned safely to London after a stay in the Middle East extending over a number of weeks. Here the General is seen with his Chief outside No. 10, Downing Street after the Cabinet ...

... After Having Taken Refuge in a Neutral Harbour, there are Certain Essential Things a Merchantman May and May Not Do in Wartime Described by FRANK C. BOWEN THE action of the United States authorities in putting sixty-nine Italian, German and Danish ships, amounting to nearly 300,000 tons gross, under protective guard within a few hours, has caused great indignation in the Axis, but there is ...

... MRS. CHURCHILL WEARS HER INSPIRATION SCARF: When she presented a mobile Club (the gift of the Y.W.C.A.) to girls who work with anti aircraft units, Mrs. Churchill wore a scarf bearing printed mottoes and inspiring sentences many of them spoken by her husband, the Prime Minister. Amongst them is the most famous of all Never before in the whole field of human conflict has so much been owed ...

... TheCOMING of SPRING The Bird Visitors Arrive, and the Sleepers Awake By B. MELVILLE NICHOLAS APRIL is the month when migrant birds come hurrying home. Every day brings fresh arrivals, and although the early swallow and the first cuckoo are heralded with many notices, the great rush of bird traffic will reach these shores during the next week or two, unnoticed. House-martins, sand-martins, ...

... WHAT IS THE POSITION OF SPAIN TO-DAY? GENERAL FRANCO, THE DICTATOR OF SPAIN, WITH ADMIRAL DARLAN OF FRANCE. The attitude of Spain is, at the present moment, giving rise to much speculation *jhis picture was taken during the visit of the Spanish Dictator to Montpellier, in France, some little time ago, when he met both Marshal Petain and Admiral Darlan. At the moment, all sorts of conjectures ...

... THE TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF A NAZI CONVOY, ESCORTED BY ITALIAN WAR VESSELS An impression of the action-- on the left, the Italian destroyer Luca Tarigo, 1,628 tons, is sinking; immediately to the right of her, in the background, is the British destroyer Mohawk (which later was sunk); on the right of the drawing the German ammunition ship of 4,000 tons is exploding before going to the bottom-- ...