... 44 PUSH AND PAUSE ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT Throughout the Present Campaign the German Advance has Followed a Set Programme Three Days of Furious Advance Followed by Ten Days to Re-equip and Remount the Plaited Offensive. Why this Method has been Imposed on the Germans is Described Here in a Series of Special Notes and Diagram Drawings AN analysis of the four and a half months of fighting on the ...

... Are We Using General de Gaulle as much as We Might, Both for the Good of his Country and of Our Own A Suggestion for the Creation of a General Staff to Deal with Mechanisation Alone By FERDINAND TUOHY THIS is a tank war, says Stalin to Lord Beaverbrook. But it 's also an aeroplane war, queries Lord Beaverbrook of Stalin. It will finish by being an aero-tank war, sums up Stalin. With all this ...

... THE COMING OF THE SEA OTTER The Cargo Vessel of Revolutionary Design and Construction for the Battle of the Atlantic THE drawing by Mr. Lambert, reproduced above, has been made from photographic material in THE SPHERE'S possession. It shows an 80-ft. model of the new U.S. Sea Otter class of cargo-ship, con cerning which the well-known American magazine Time has given the following details: ...

... This is One of the Most Urgent of War Tasks at the Present Moment. What can be Done in this Connection, and How the Country can Best be Served, is Here Discussed in Full By CHARLES GRAVES IT may seem a far, almost a far-fetched, cry from Ruff's Guide to the Turf or Ally Sloper's Half Holiday to ack-ack gunfire. Lord Beaverbrook's demand for a minimum of 100,000 tons of waste paper and waste ...

... WAIFS STRAYS WAIFS STRAYS SOCIETY ST. MICHAEL'S, JOEL STREET, PINNER, MIDDLESEX Bankers Barclays Ltd. The WAR and HOMELESS CHILDREN THE SOCIETY CAN 6,121 CHILDREN TO PROVIDE THE ANSWER FEED AND CLOTHE WITH YOUR HELP EVERY DAY 4 CHILDREN RECEIVED EVERY DAY. 1,683 TAKEN FROM DANGER AREAS INTO 60 SPECIAL WAR NURSERIES. ...

... OFF OVER THE CHANNEL FOR ONE OF THEIR FAMOUS FIGHTER SWEEPS A mass formation of Spitfires of the R.A.F. heading out to sea for one of the sweeps which are now being carried out, in> daylight, in almost continuous sequence as part of our Western air offensive against the Germans AN INCIDENT DURING OUR GREAT AIR OFFENSIVE IN THE WEST Immediately one of the fighter aircraft returns, the ground ...

... THE preservation of an army's Communications has, of course, always been a matter of the most vital concern to a military commander. Fortunately for the B.E.F., the expenditure of ammunition had not been heavy in the opening days of the campaign in Flanders-- otherwise the situation when the French 9th Army collapsed would have been hazardous indeed. The above bird's-eye view has been drawn to ...

... W/hen the air-rnid Alert was sounded in London on November 1 (for the first time for many weeks), g.rls W of the A.T.S. went into action. This was the first time that women took their places alongside men to help fight off the enemy raiders. The A.T.S. girls serve ,n the first ant, -aircraft ba tery to fire at the London raiders. The guns were manned and fired by men the fire-control ...

... The Country whose Proximity to Indo-China and Singapore and Thailand Gives Her a Key Position in Far Eastern Strategy THE geographical position of Burma in the Far East brings her into the clanger zone should Japan's far-reaching territorial am bition cause her to risk everything in conflict with Great Britain and the United States. It is at this precise moment, that the Prime Minister of ...

... A PLANE ACTUALLY BEING CATAPULTED FROM THE DECK OF A BATTLESHIP A remarkable picture from the U.S.S. North Carolina Such a picture as that given above is very rare it is only owing to the remarkable speed of the modern camera that it was secured by the American photographer. It shows the launching of a Naval aircraft by catapult from the deck of the United States battle ship North Carolina, ...

... CHOCOLATES this Christmas CHOCOLATE IS SCARCE BUT 'S MAKE THE BEST OF IT! To obtain widest distribution Fortune Chocolates are now only packed in small sizes Skate vow/ ...

... AUSTRALIAN TROOPS, JUST ARRIVED IN MALAYA, cleaning up after their sea voyage in their canvas camp in the jungle Thousands of Australian soldiers have recently arrived in Singapore to reinforce the strong forces already there. All arms of the Services are represented, including infantry, artillery, engineers and A.S.C. The convoy which carried the troops was the largest to reach Malaya since ...