... The Occupation of Madagascar By British Forces on Thursday, May 7 F)IEGO SUAREZ was defended by some 7,000 troops, according to the Vichy Government and from this same source it was stated tha' twenty-three British ships put into Courier Bay, on the west side of the northern tip of Mada gascar, for the subjuga tion of the naval base These ships were five large vessels, twelve of medium tonnage ...

... THE advance of the Japanese through Central Burma to Mandalay took the form of three main prongs the first up the Irrawaddy valley through Magwe and Yenangyaung the second along the Sittang River and the third through Taunggyi, across the Salween. The last- mentioned was also the means of approach to Lashio at the western end of the famous Burma Road, which can thus no longer function as a ...

... JIM CROWS AFLOAT The Work of the Naval Look-Out Men Described by PERCY STEPHENS THE fact that a ship's company, while at sea, is always said to be on wateh, whether watch on deck or watch below, is no mere empty phrase. It comes from the recognition, bred by long years of experience at sea, that perpetual vigilance is the price of safety. In war, the work of the look-out men is of ...

... What it Has Already Achieved, the Work it is Now Doing, and the Tasks which Lie Ahead. A Complete Review of the Conditions, Methods of Training, and Scope of Duty of Britain's Second Line of Defence Described by CHARLES GRAVES THE Home Guard is two years old this week-end. The last time I wrote about it in THE SPHERE was in the issue of January 3. As you will recall, the House of Commons had ...

... MEMORIES OF FIFTY YEARS- An Experiment in Autobiography-- X By J. G. CANADA.-- On the way over, I quarter-decked before breakfast with Sir Ian Hamilton, who was going out to inspect Imperial forces, and talked well and with animation on every subject under the sun. I woke one morning to find the ship steaming dead slow in a field of mighty icebergs, and I made a friend of my own age. It ...

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... The GREAT NAVAL BATTLE in the CORAL SEA Between the U.S. Navy and a Japanese Fleet Threatening to Invade Australia Special Sphere drawings and diagrams The Battle of the Coral Sea was fought at a point some 150 miles from the Queensland coast, according to reports from Australia. It is considered highly probable that a Jap invasion fleet was on its way to the Commonwealth when it was ...

... A Sober Appraisal of the Present Position of the Axis Junior Partner-- What She has Suffered and What She has Gained in the War So Far, and How She Stands at the Present Moment, Internally and in Relation to Germany and France By FERDINAND TUOHY PROBABLY a number of people are getting a trifle tired of the serial story: Disintegrating Italy, to a further chapter of which we were recently ...

... MALTA George Cross Island of an Heroic People, which has Already Endured Well Over 2.000 Bombing Attacks IT is difficult for us who knew Malta in its light-hearted days to picture it in its new role of a beleaguered fortress, at present the most bombed in the world. Pre-war Malta, for all its consciousness of surrounding unease (in 1933 trenches dug along the front for gas-pipes were ...

... AIR MARSHAL MONSOON-A New Strategist in the Japanese War in the Bay of Bengal THERE are two main sets of monsoons, although the range is diversified by several subsidiary currents. Blowing roughly from May to October in a north-easterly direction are those north of the Equator; blowing approximately from October to March in a south-westerly direction are those south of the Line. How are the ...

... Described and illustrated by Wm. McDowell DEEP diving (so called to distinguish it from diving in aquatic sport) has been attempted for many centuries. Aristotle, in the fourth century B.C., refers to divers, employed in warfare, who used a tube held in the mouth with the upper end supported on a float; he also speaks of an apparatus which is obviously some form of diving-bell. Kylser, a ...

... A Note by Francis McMurtrie WHEN the last war closed, anti-aircraft gunnery was in its infancy, and the heaviest anti-aircraft piece in general use afloat was a 3-in. semi automatic. A 4-in. weapon was being introduced, the first of H.M. ships to carry it being the aircraft-carrier Argus, completed in September 1918. At first she was given only two of these, mounted singly on either side ...