... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... SWINGING OUT OVER TINY WAKE ISLAND IN THE PACIFIC, one of a squadron of U.S. fighter aircraft, accompanying the bombers, gets a good view of the installations of the Jap occupants before the big raid carried out by the U.S. Navy on February 24 The big raid by the U.S. Navy on Wake Island was carried out on February 24. On March 4 another raid was carried out on Marcus Island. But pictures of ...

... THE WAR BY AIR Special Sphere Drawings SIX OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST BOMBERS-- all in THE SERVICE OF BRITAIN, to help make good the Air Minister's promise to keep up a constant offensive over Germany. These Stirlings have just been serviced and bombed-up, and are ready for the take-off for a raid In recent operations over Germany, Bomber Command have made use of Halifaxes, Manchesters, ...

... SURFACE COAL TO AUGMENT THE COUNTRY'S FUEL SUPPLIES Marking the top of the coal seam in a trial hole A GENERAL VIEW OF A SURFACE COAL SEAM IN WARWICKSHIRE It has been estimated that there is a minimum of 50,000,000 tons of surface coal available for tapping in this country. I his would be an appreciable addition to the country's present supplies, and do much to ease the shortage. There are ...

... THE CHATWOOD TRADITION ACHIEVEMENT IS BUT ANOTHER MILESTONE ALONG THE HIGHWAY OF PROGRESS-- THE END OF THE JOURNEY LIES EVER BEYOND. H j I HIS AND BETTER The old East Anglian saying This and better '11 do this and worse won't expresses in quaint proverbial language the ideal of all who are not eontent with stagnation of purpose. There is, throughout the Chatwood organisa tion, a definite ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 140 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. The Battering Match Again.-- With the resumption by the Nazis of reprisal raids, the whole question of the night bombing of cities comes up again. It is unlikely that this issue of the Newsletter will catch the eye of an historian thirty years hence. But, if it should, it will relieve my conscience (wherever it may then be flitting in ...

... OEVERF damage to the biggest k J assembly shop of the Heinkel aircraft works is revealed by the latest picture taken of Rostock after its four niuhts of sustained attack bv the R.A.F. The Heinkel is the backbone of the Luftwaffe's bombing squadrons. Heinkel bombers carried out many of the attacks on London, and were en gaged in the recent raids on Bath and Norwich and York. They sally far ...

... FIGHTER OFFENSIVE The King pays a Visit to the Men who are Carrying Out the Daylight Sweeps over Northern France jS^ lew days ago the King paid a visit of inspection to R.A.F. stations from which Spitfire squadrons operate for daylight sweeps over France. Sir Sholto Douglas, Fighter Command C.-in-C., accompanied him. At one station the pilots found his Majesty waiting to greet them as they ...