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THE WAR IN MALAYA: First Pictures of the Flight from Penang

... FIRST PICTURES OF THE REFUGEES FROM PENANG The scene at Ipoh Station, in Perak, as the British refugees arrived en route to Singapore. Local residents provided the newcomers with refreshments, before them selves being compelled to evacuate their homes before the advancing |apanese AT IPOH STATION A British woman, en route for Singapore, with her baby and all her worldly possessions BRITISH ...

Published: Saturday 07 February 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 369 | Page: Page 8, 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

TWO VITAL LESSONS FROM LIBYA: Infantry for Attacks on Artillery; and Artillery Support for the Tanks

... TWO VITAL LESSONS FROM LIBYA Infantry for Attacks on Artillery; and Artillery Support for the Tanks In discussing some of the lessons of the Libyan campaign, a special correspondent of The Times, writing from Cairo, had many illuminating comments to make. Two of the chief are illustrated by our artist here The first shows the method evolved under active service conditions for attacking guns in ...

Published: Saturday 07 February 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 377 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Photographs 

FROM SINGAPORE and Other War Fronts

... THREE INDOMITABLE INDIAN SOLDIERS IN MALAYA Three Indians, dressed in civilian clothes, have been escorted to the Intelligence officer of a British unit in Malaya (on left). After inter rogation, he discovered that they were Dogras serving in a Punjab regiment. They escaped capture by the Japanese at Alor Star and, after receiving clothes from friendly natives, they went on foot to Penang, ...

Published: Saturday 07 February 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 416 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FROM the FIGHTING FRONT in RUSSIA

... A MINETHROWER CREW OF THE RED ARMY advancing to a new position at the front Russians are at home in the deep snow; the cold affects them far less than it does their enemy A RECONNOITRING PARTY OF RUSSIAN INFANTRY MEN, equipped with skis and rifles, camouflage cloaks, hoods and gloves A GROUP OF DEJECTED PRISONERS ON THE MOSCOW FRONT These German soldiers were taken by Soviet troops in a ...

Published: Saturday 07 February 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 225 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WAIFS & STRAYS SOCIETY

... WAIFS STRAYS SOCIETY WAIFS STRAYS SOCIETY JOEL STREET, PINNER, MIDDLESEX Rnnkprs Rnrrlnvs I tH The WAR and HOMELESS CHILDREN 4 CHILDREN RECEIVED EVERY DAY I ,9 66 TAKEN FROM DANGER AREAS INTO 78 SPECIAL WAR NURSERIES 4,958 CHILDREN RECEIVED SINCE WAR BEGAN 6,255 CHILDREN NOW F\ in our care Where do we go now ...

Published: Saturday 07 February 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 54 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Photographs 

WANTED--A CONTROLLER OF WARTIME CAMOUFLAGE

... WANTED-A CONTROLLER OF WARTIME CAMOUFLAGE What has been Done, and what Still Remains to be Done, in the Art of Concealing Objectives. This is More Necessary Now than in the Last War, Owing to Aerial Reconnaissance By CHARLES GRAVES CAMOUFLAGE is literally as old as the hills. And yet this French word for protective colouring did not become part of the English lan guage until the World War. ...

Published: Saturday 14 February 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1974 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Photographs 

CARING for our PRISONERS OF WAR

... 'Pile Central Agency for Prisoners, of War is only one of the -L many sections of the International Red Cross at Geneva. It was Henri Dunant of that town who founded that organisation after the Battle of Solferino and his efforts were so much appreciated that, in 1864, the Swiss Federal Council (with the support of Napoleon III) called the Conference which adopted the Red Cross emblem in ...

Published: Saturday 14 February 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 400 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE SECOND PHASE OF THE SECOND BATTLE OF LIBYA: The Extraordinary Adventures of General Rommel

... THE SECOND PHASE OF THE SECOND BATTLE OF LIBYA The Extraordinary Adventures of General Rommel THE record of General Rommel's movements since the day on which he determined to flee westwards from Marmarica throughout the whole length of Cyrenaica is so extraordinary that it becomes necessary to examine the adventures of his Forces in detail. By this means only can we gain some clear idea of ...

Published: Saturday 07 February 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1431 | Page: Page 12, 13 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

THE APPROACHES TO AUSTRALIA

... New Guinea, Now Threatened by the Japanese, as a Stepping- Stone to the Australian Continent By ROBERT FINCH THE Equator to-day has more than its ordinary sig nificance in the Western Pacific, for it is the line of division between the island outposts of the British Empire and Japan. North of it lie the Carolines, the Marshalls and the Marianas, which, in total disregard of the C-class ...

WOMEN IN THE AIRCRAFT FACTORIES Producing the New Stirling Bomber

... Many details of the wonderful new Stirling bomber have just been revealed. This is the aircraft, it will be recalled, which has been figuring so largely of late in Air Ministry communiques detailing our raids over Germany and Occupied France. The Stirling, as now being produced, is the heaviest aircraft in service in any part of the world. With its fully-loaded weight of over 30 tons, it can ...

Published: Saturday 07 February 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 411 | Page: Page 26, 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Graphic

... On left H.M.S. Valiant, a battleship of 3S,000 tons, which was following astern of the Barham when the latter was hit. Valiant is seen on the left of Mr. Dawson's drawing above THE SINKING OF THE BARHAM OFF SOLLUM, AS THf fE RESULT OF FOUR TORPEDOES FIRED BY A GERMAN U-BOAT From a painting by MONTAGUE E DAWSON (Based on a description given by Captain C. Morgan of the Valiant The latter ...

The WORK of ALLIED SUBMARINES

... Both the Dutch Navy and the U.S. Navy Have Scored Some Notable Successes by Torpedo against the Japanese Two drawings by Wm. McDowell Very creditable work has already been performed in Japanese home waters by submarines of both the Dutch and American Navies. In attacks against Convoys and against enemy war vessels, a number of successes have been scored, and alarm and despondency must have ...