... SPRING COMES to RUSSIA Special Sphere Drawings and Diagrams For nearly ten months Leningrad has endured a siege, accompanied by almost perpetual fighting. It was on July 16 last year that it was announced that the Germans were advancing: but Leningrad itself was determined to resist to the uttermost. Vast sums had been expended on its defence; the fortifications were 50 miles deep; twenty ...

... THE SAILOR'S WORST ENEMY Fire at Sea on a Modern Warship By M. G. GREYSMITH There 's fire in the cabin, fire down below. Chanty. NEXT to the sea itself, and almost as incalculable a foe, fire still remains the sailor's worst enemy. It is hard to realise that a modern warship, so essentially a thing of steel, can be gutted and sunk in a few hours if fire gets a hold. Yet the landsman need only ...

... The Great Alaskan Highway First Pictures of the New Link from the United States, through Canada, to the Air Bases in Alaska W/e have already published details in The Sphere concerning the great new highway which is, at this moment, in course of construction through the frozen wastes of British Columbia and the Yukon. Here we are enabled to publish a first set of pictures showing the work ...

... STAMP COLLECTIONS AND THE WAR How World Events Have Affected the Great Body of Philatelists the Smuggling into this Country of Rich Collections from Abroad and Some of the New Stamp Issues and Their Present-day Worth Described by CHARLES GRAVES IT was a curious scene. Nineteen men and a woman were sitting round a long green-baize table and bidding pounds and pounds for little bits of paper, It ...

... Chamnion PIuos Chamnion Pluos for easier starting Quick and easy starting demands the hot 'live' Spark you get from Champions. That also is why Champions save your batteries (so hard to replace these days), save much- needed time, save petrol, giving you a H livelier engine and a swifter get-away, even on a car which may have been already long in service. A unique feature of , whicl raises ...

... THE DOGS OF WAR --Mobilised to Play Their Part in the Country's Struggle THE DOGS REGISTER FOR WAR SERVICE Vic puts his name down a call has gone out for more does-- big dogs who can assist in guard duties and message-carrying The Government have asked for the loan of such for the duration of the war and many owners-- harassed by difficulties of getting sufficient feed for their pets, and for ...

... BRITAIN'S AMPHIBIOUS A.-A. MEN-- THE MARITIME REGIMENT The seafaring soldiers are taught how to launch a raft and climb aboard it. The Maritime Regiment, whose members are seasoned campaigners, are helping Britain to win the Battle of the Oceans by knocking the Nazis out of the skies with a formidable array of anti-aircraft weapons. These tough men are manning the guns aboard our merchant ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 143 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. A New Note of Confi dence.-- Usually When changes of opinion alter our view of war, those changes filter into our consciousness from a hundred sources, and very gradually. They are more like links in a chain of circumstantial evidence than a single and damning piece of direct evidence. But not always, the collapse ol f ranee was a single ...

... TRANSITION DAYS IN FRANCE'S EMPIRE Second Largest in the World, the French Colonial Empire is Now Being Thoroughly Shaken Up Owing to the Vichy Policy of Collaboration with the Germans By FERDINAND TUOHY PERHAPS it is as well that not more than two or three millions at most of the 60,000,000 populating the French Colonial Empire, the second largest in the world, are sitting up and taking ...

... CHAMPION SPARKING PLUGS Giving them all a lift is fine, but ever think about that overloaded engine Champion Plugs, with their Sillment Sealing, prevent gas-escape, increase power, give your engine better pull, easier running, smoother acceleration, reduce petrol and oil consumption. With petrol prices on the up-and-up, they're all asking the same thing how to get the utmost from their ration. ...

... An Air Ministry official photograph, taken after the fires had died down, showing the terrific damage wrought by the bombers Lubeck is the great Hanseatic port in the Baltic which lies to the north of Hamburg. On the night of Saturday, March 28, it was heavily attacked by a strong force of R.A.F. bombers. This picture (an official Air Ministry photograph) shows part of the extensive damage ...

... Pictures Taken Before and After the Commando Attack on the Occupied Coast near Boulogne, when a Force Under the Command of Lord Lovat Penetrated the Enemy's Defences over a Frontage of Half a Mile THE LEADER OF THE COMMANDO FORCE, MAJOR LORD LOVAT (on right), gives his orders to the officers before setting out on the raid. During the operations Lord Lovat wore he bonnet of his own Lovat Scouts ...