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New Zealand Outplayed by Rosslyn Park: Thirty Points to Three Victory

... New Zealand Outplayed by Rosslyn Park Thirty Points to Three Victory ON E of the best Rugby matches seen in London last season was that between Rosslyn Park and a New Zealand Army XV. at the Old Deer Park. On that occasion the New 'Zealanders, after a mag nificent second-half rally, were beaten by 22 to 20. This season, Rosslyn Park have extended their link with New Zealand, whose High ...

Bravo, les Belges! Goed Gedaan, Nederland!

... Bravo, les Beiges Goed Gedaan, Nederland THE first international hockey match since the war Belgian Army v. Dutch Army-- was played on Saturday, November 22, on the Imber Court ground, Thames Ditton, lent for the occasion by the Metropolitan Police Athletic Association, and ended in a draw, one eoal each. Before the match the teams were presented to General Daufresne de la Chevallerie, General ...

A WAR NEWSLETTER--No. 119

... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 119 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Halloo-ing in Libya.-- If Heaven had elected that men should be born dumb, humanity would have gained on the swings of silence more than it lost on the roundabouts of ideas. If men were born dumb, there would be no total wars, fewer private quarrels and a vast increase in dignity and peace in human life. But life would be duller on Olympus. ...

Published: Saturday 13 December 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2121 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Photographs 

THE OPENING OF THE OFFENSIVE IN LIBYA: First Pictures from the Desert Battlefield Showing the Opening Stages of ..

... the opening of the OFFENSIVE IN LIBYA first Pictures from the Desert Battlefield Showing the Opening Stages of the Campaign and the Weather which Accompanied It When the moment came to open the offensive in Libya, quite suddenly the weather took a hand. For two days heavy rains fell, mainly in the coastal strip to the north camps, tank traps and ditches, and whole areas of the desert were ...

Published: Saturday 13 December 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 640 | Page: Page 7, 8, 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

A DECLINE in PANZERS?: How German Tank Losses in Russia and Elsewhere May Affect the Course of the War

... A DECLINE in PANZERS? How German Tank Losses in Russia and Elsewhere May Affect the Course of the War THE most important military news for some time was sent from Moscow the other day, when it was stated that sixteen out of nineteen German Panzer divisions fighting in Russia had suffered appreciable casualties, nine of them experiencing considerable losses in men and materials. Taken in ...

Published: Saturday 13 December 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 947 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Photographs 

THE LAST MOMENTS OF THE ARK ROYAL: Further Official Pictures

... THE LAST MOMENTS OF THE ARK ROYAL: Further Official Pictures HEELING OVER TO STARBOARD AFTER THE TORPEDOING A picture taken by a Catalina aircraft whilst a destroyer was proceeding alongside to take off survivors ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNNERS GO OVER THE SIDE by a rope attached to a gun sponson. There was a destroyer waiting to rescue the men at the other end A NUMBER OF AIRCRAFT WERE LINED UP ON THE ...

Published: Saturday 13 December 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 350 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE SUBMARINE OF TO-DAY: The Slim Lines of the New U.S. Types Compared With Those of the More Bulbous British ..

... The Submarine of To-day The Slim Lines of the New U.S. Types Compared With Those of the More Bulbous British Vessels On left This submarine was one of two British underwater craft, details of whose performance in icy Arctic waters have just been published. Trident, under the command of Commander G. M. Sladen, D.S.C., sank three enemy ships, left four others so badly damaged that they probably ...

Published: Saturday 13 December 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 965 | Page: Page 26, 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Graphic

... HOW THE GERMANS WAGE WAR IN THE ATLANTIC: a remarkable picture taken after the deliberate sinking of a British rescue-ship A British rescue-ship was recently proceeding to port A across the Atlantic with her sick-bays crowded with injured survivors from merchant vesseb which had been sunk by U-boats whilst in convoy. Quite deliberately, the ship was attacked by Nazi aircraft, set on fire and ...

Published: Saturday 13 December 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 210 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WAR in the PACIFIC: Japan Declares War on the United States and Britain and Attacks at Pearl Harbour, Manila, ..

... WAR in the PACIFIC Japan Declares War on the United States and Britain and Attacks at Pearl Harbour, Manila, Singapore and Other Points Special Sphere Drawings and Diagrams (See also page 328) Whilst the President was still discussing in Washington the possibilities of peace with the Japanese Am bassador and with Mr. Kurusu, Imperial Headquarters in Tokyo announced on Sunday last that Japan ...

Published: Saturday 13 December 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 657 | Page: Page 5, 6 | Tags: Graphic  Maps  Photographs 

THE CAMPAIGN IN RUSSIA

... The Campaign in Russia On left Out of the confused welter of conflicting reports, it is now possible to envisage the Battle for Moscow and how the two armies stood at the end of last week. There had been reports that the Germans were within 25 miles of the Russian capital one report even went so far as to say 19 miles The map published on the left represents the true state of affairs as it was ...

Published: Saturday 13 December 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1501 | Page: Page 11, 12, 13 | Tags: Maps  Photographs 

NEWS ITEMS FROM MANY QUARTERS

... SAVED BY A U-BOAT, according to a Berlin statement These R.A.F. men were picked up recently in the Atlantic by a German U-boat, according to an enemy report. They are here seen leaving a canal lock-house, after interrogation, for a prison camp in Germany THE FOHRER ADDRESSES OLD FIGHTERS The German cap- tion to this picture runs as follows Arriving unexpectedly in Munich on the evening ...

Published: Saturday 13 December 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 377 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE WAR AGAINST THE MERCHANT NAVY AND FISHING FLEET

... The War Against the Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleet For fifteen hours an officer and an Able Seaman clung perched astride the stempiece of a tanker which had been blown in two, reeling and swaying 100 ft. above the gale-lashed Atlantic. The tanker had died hard. Three torpedoes had sadly battered her till she was doubled up, but still she held together a triumph of the shipbuilders' art. It ...

Published: Saturday 13 December 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 919 | Page: Page 24, 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs