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A WAR NEWSLETTER--No. 200

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 200 r, New Oxford Street, W.C.i Hitler?-- If the Führer does not soon make another brief appearance on the stage, all the crop of rumours about his continued existence and /or mental state will spring up again, like the weeds in our gardens. For, indeed, the mystery surrounding him grows deeper and more stimulating. One has no need to be a C.I.D. man or an Intelligence ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2152 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Photographs 

The Capture of PANTELLARIA and LAMPEDUSA, Stepping-Stones to Italy

... Official Pictures Taken Before and After the British Landings Pantellaria surrendered to the Allied forces bombarding the island from the air and si on June 1 1 the fall of Lampedusa came shortly afterwards. On these pages, and d pages 14-19 of this issue, we publish the first official pictures to reach England of tli scenes immediately preceding and following these events. By the capture of ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 681 | Page: Page 6, 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE IMPROVED DEFENCE OF ALLIED CONVOYS: And the Employment of Hospital Ships under Wartime Conditions

... THE IMPROVED DEFENCE OF ALLIED CONVOYS And the Employment of Hospital Ships under Wartime Conditions Recent Admiralty communiques in connection with the Battle of the Atlantic have made mention of H.M.S. Biter. This ship is one of the Royal Navy's new weapons in the fight against the U-boat-- an escort aircraft-carrier. Many of them are being built or converted out of fast merchant ships and ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1124 | Page: Page 12, 13 | Tags: Photographs 

The CAPTURE of the ISLANDS: A Description of the Underground Hangers at the Aerodrome, and of the Big Caves in ..

... PANTELLARIA fell as the result of the heaviest air bombardment yet ex perienced in any theatre of war. The principal targets were the harbour of Pantellaria itself, the adjacent dock, the flanking forts and aerodrome. The last named was separated only by a short distance from the other objectives, which all lay close together. None of them were large the harbour is small and can only ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1238 | Page: Page 16, 17 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

FURTHER PICTURES from ATTU ISLAND

... n our issue of June 19, we published a number of pictures showing how the capture of V Attu Island in the Aleutians was effected by U.S. forces landed there on May 1 1 J'e are now enabled to publish a further three pictures which have just been received Washington. In the capture of Attu both the Amchitka-based aircraft and Bie U.S. Navy co-operated. And now that America possesses Adak Island ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 435 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE ROYAL MARINES MAKE A LANDING: In Preparation for the Coming Assault on Hitler's Europe

... The Royal Marines Make a Landing In Preparation for the Coming Assault on Hitler's Europe J he pictures reproduced on this page were taken recently at a Training Establishment for non commissioned officers of the Royal Marines in Southern England, to show part of the varied activities of this famous corps of Britain's sea soldiers. Formed in 1664 and trained for service ashore or afloat. ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 352 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SOLLIGNUM

... THE RISKS THEY RUN This is a message of grateful acknow ledgement to the Royal Navy, the Merchant Navy, and all those who go down to the sea in ships, for the risks they run in bringing their precious cargoes to these shores. Once here it is our bounden duty to see that they are not wasted. Amongst the thousands of tons of goods daily pouring into the country, Timber has its rightful place. ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 164 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Photographs 

Farm Sunday

... j I St. Albans Here in the Market Square hundreds of Land Girls, members of Young Farmers' Clubs, Farmers and their wives and school children gathered for a great open-air service to mark . Guildford here was celebrated by a parade of all who work on the land, with their s' ftheir wfSBon3 and their horses and farm stock. On a little dais decorated by sheaves of corn the Mayor of Guildford ...

A Hospital Feeds Itself

... THE City General Hospital in Leiceste has to cater daily for patients, nurses maids, housemen and cleaners a total t: 800 persons. Nevertheless, with the excep tion of meat, it is fed entirely from produo grown on eighty acres of its grounds. Sis gardeners and two land-girls (who only joinei the hospital staff three months ago) an responsible for this achievement. Stric accounts are kept by ...

Mechanised Intercrop Work

... By J. C. Litterick, F.I.M.T. COMPLETE mechanisation of intercrop cultivation--row crop work, as it is called--has proved one of the hardest problems agricultural engineering has had to solve. But the problems are solved and enormous progress in this practical branch of agricultural science has taken place during the past few years. A rowcrop demonstration, attended by hundreds of expert ...

Rapier on Racing

... J^ahtPyZ- O'PV THE Stewards have issued an extension to the existing Fixture List, which will carry us as far as August 14. The full list, that is to say, the fixtures for the remaining half of the season, was not decided on when The Racing Calendar of July 1 went to press. We have been extremely fortunate so far and, if we are so lucky as to secure a fixed date for the St. Leger and the ...