... 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 ...

... The Ballet Mistre Jnd Her Pupils Young Blood of the Sadli Ws Ballet Company Another season of ballet is in full swin.' 1 including Dante Sonata The Gods Go On Tuesday, May 19th, Robert HelpnwM kovsky, is to be performed for tlie fir*1 Fund. Decor and dresses are bv 1 for the theatre before. Four of the this ballet Cclia Franca as the Queen, as Polonius and David Paltenghi as tf Hamlet, Margot ...

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... A Variety of Uniforms And Some Activities of Their Wearers Lady Irene Haig Lady Irene Haig youngest of Earl Haig*s three sisters is seen wearing the new badge now issued to members of the V.A.D. who have been called up for full- time service in military hospitals Miss Helen Kirkpatrick Two women journalists who lived through the London blitzes have been formally accredited to the U.S. Army. ...

... -/4 By Sabretache Japan's Vulnerability, by a Jap THE following excerpt from an appreciation by Mr. Nakamura, a Japanese writer in 1931, who obviously knew what he was talking about, may be of some interest at the moment:-- It would be within the power of a superior naval opponent to strangle our commerce and cut off our supplies without sending a single ship into the Sea of Japan. Many of our ...

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... 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, reducepetrol 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. ...

... BOUND FOR WAKE ISLAND TO AVENGE ITS CAPTURE BY THE JAPS A U.S. Navy fighter takes off from an aircraft-carrier at dawn, and despite the heavy sea-mists (see also the two large pictures on the right-hand page, taken during this attack) THE NEW STEEL HELMETS OF THE U.S. NAVY AND ARMY A picture taken on what was once the tennis deck of a crack passenger liner. It was one of a great convoy which ...