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SINGAPORE and MALAYA CAN PUT UP A GOOD SHOW

... ilNGAPORE and MALAYA CAN PUT UP A GOOD SHOW LAST February Singapore and Malaya were promised an unceasing flow of men and munitions sufficient to ace the whole territory in a position to resist any possible gression from Japan, who had recently joined the ripartite Pact and had announced her own far-reaching hemes for overlordship in the East. The promise of the nperia Government has been ...

Published: Saturday 05 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 658 | Page: Page 28, 29 | Tags: Maps  Photographs 

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... BRITAIN'S GREATEST NEED AT THE MOMENT IS TANKS THESE ARE NOW BEING PRODUCED BY THE HUNDRED IN OUR OWN FACTORIES, AS THE ABOVE HEARTENING PICTURE OF WALTZING MATILDAS SHOWS The recent debate in the House of Commons on problems of Supply has drawn public attention once again to the realities of the present situation. Successive campaigns have each pointed out the need for Tanks, and still more ...

Published: Saturday 19 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 195 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

The FIRST PICTURES from RUSSIA: As Usual, These Come from the Enemy: They Have Reached Britain by Way of New York

... The FIRST PICTURES from RUSSIA As Usual, These Come from the Enemy They Have Reached Britain by Way of New York A NONCHALANT RIBBENTROP ANNOUNCES THE INVASION OF RUSSIA Germany's Foreign Minister is here seen reading the Note of the Reich to the Soviet Union in the Council Hall of the Foreign Ministry in Berlin. The speech was broadcast to the whole world. Seated from left to right are Foreign ...

Published: Saturday 12 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 394 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE MOST DECISIVE FACTOR IN MODERN WARFARE--THE TANK

... The Most Decisive Factor in Modern Warfare- THE TANK Fully Described and Illustrated IN the important phase now developing in the Russian theatre of war it is clear that the tank is destined to play an increasingly important part in deciding the issue. It is by no means certain that the Nazis are going to have matters all their own way, since they are opposed for the first time on any front by ...

Published: Saturday 12 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2205 | Page: Page 11, 12 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

LENINGRAD: HOME OF THE RUSSIAN NAVY

... LENINGRAD HOME OF THE RUSSIAN NAVH By F. BOWEN EVER since the end of the last war Leningrad has been the real heart of the Russian Navy. It was founded by a stroke of the pen by Peter the Great in 1703 on a desolate marshland, which he had captured from the Swedes. The island of Kotlin, on which Kronstadt is situated, divides the two main entrance channels and protects them against attack by ...

Published: Saturday 12 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 942 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Maps  Photographs 

THE RUSSIAN NAVY'S SMALL CRAFT

... A Note by FRANK C. BOWEN ALTHOUGH the Russian Navy possesses a certain number of cruisers and three ancient battleships, and has long projected some of the biggest battleships afloat, its main strength is in its small craft, destroyers and submarines. The Russian Navy's policy has always favoured small craft. In the 'eighties they built up one of the biggest fleets of small torpedo-boats in ...

Published: Saturday 12 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1032 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Photographs 

TWO LAST-MINUTE TASKS FOR BRITAIN

... I An Immediate Series of Attacks on Goring' s Installations Along the Invasion Coast (2) The Establishment of an Organisation to Fight Confusion if, and when, an Invasion Should Come By FERDINAND TUOHY THE very calmness recently in the West has no doubt caused the spurt in that particular form of wartime prodding referred to in some circles as The Daily Nag. The slightness of bombing and of ...

Published: Saturday 12 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2082 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Photographs 

WOMEN IN UNIFORM: Types of Englishwomen who have Volunteered for Wartime Service in the Uniformed Branches

... WOMEN IN UNIFORM Types of Englishwomen who have Volunteered for Wartime Service in the Uniformed Branches DESPATCH-RIDERS OF THE MECHANISED TRANSPORT CORPS In addition to ambulance driving, telephone operating and other duties, the women of the M.T.C. now have their own despatch-riders. These girls will be used to keep communications open during air raids and at other times when telephones are ...

Published: Saturday 12 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 270 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

TANKS IN THE MAKING

... I W^omen are now being employed in growing numbers in tank factories: at one Jorth c: England factory working for the Ministry of Supply there are 400 women worker- They are given one month's training at a technical school before starting in the fact ry; anJ this is the reason, it is claimed, for the low accident rate '5 per cent., as agaii t 16 to 18 per cent, amongst the boys and 8 per cent, ...

Published: Saturday 19 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 367 | Page: Page 8, 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

The DEFENCE of the PANAMA CANAL: An American Writer Describes How the United States Is Now Guarding This Vital ..

... The DEFENCE of the PANAMA CANAL An American Writer Describes How the United States Is Now Guarding This Vital Zone Against All Possible Attack from the Sea or from the South American Mainland THE Panama Canal is a gleaming target, a prominent Government official told me recently; and we must do everything in our power to defend it. This is not easy, because, if a squadron of hostile planes ...

Published: Saturday 19 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1103 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Maps  Photographs 

R.A.F. OFFENSIVE BY DAY AND BY NIGHT

... Our Growing Strength in Both Fighter and Bomber Aircraft Has Now Made Possible a Twenty-four-hour Programme The Daylight Sweeps and Night-Bombing Raids Over France and Germany Are Here Pictured by Sphere Artists mm w i --i I I WB iMiimiiwfc! NIGHT AND DAY AND THE TWO AREAS WHICH ARE INVOLVED IN THE TWENTY-FOUR-HOUR OFFENSIVE BY THE R.A.F.-- Daylight sweeps over Northern France ana sum ...

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