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A WAR NEWSLETTER--No. 279

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 279 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Hitler Still God of Gods? --Hitler as a type of Christ is Goebbels' latest blasphemy. In a recent weekly wail, Goebbels wrote: Hitler has made it his goal to redeem his own people and reshape our conti nent. If only the world knew how much his love extends beyond his own people towards the universe, they would forswear their false God and ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2116 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Photographs 

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... A STREET SCENE IN ATHENS DURING THE FIGHTING A civilian in the street is caught between two fires during a sweep against the E.L.A.S. positions. He was so paralysed with fright that a Greek policeman had to emerge from cover to pull him to safety THE DISCOVERY OF DYNAMITE IN AN ATHENS SEWER. About 15 cwt. of expiosive was found in a sewer running in front of the Hotel Grande Bretagne, the ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 374 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ALLIED SUPPLIES Flow into the RESTORED PORT of LE HAVRE

... 'The transatlantic port of Le Havre, at the mouth of the Seine River on the northern coast of France, where the Germans completely destroyed all port facilities, and the great inland port of Rouen on the Seine, also blasted by the enemy, are now restored to a point where more tonnage is being handled than before the war. This has been accomplished by weeks of un relenting work by Allied port ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 504 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WINTER SCENES among the FLOODS of HOLLAND: Where British Troops are Holding the Line Amidst Flooded Rivers and ..

... THE RIVER MAAS IN FLOOD NEAR MAESEYK Owing to the incessant rainfalls during the last week in November, the river rose over its banks. British troops, in consequence, had to work up to their knees in water. This picture was taken as a party of Royal Engineers made their way with difficulty to their dinner along a road marked by a line of stakes Below FIVE THOUSAND DUTCH PEOPLE ARE RESCUED FROM ...

BRITISH and INDIANS in ACTION in BURMA

... MEN OF THE BRITISH THIRTY-SIXTH DIVISION, HEADED BY A PIPER OF THE ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS, marching down the single-track railway towards the capture of Pinwe. This picture was taken on St. Andrew's Day a great day with the Scots i iirrnwii it r 1 i n fwa i PRESSING ON TO PINWE Men of the Royal Scots Fusiliers moving up through the jungle just before the occupation of the village. Fighting ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 372 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HIGHLAND QUEEN

... Highland Queen Jamau^ QUEENS bu jarnaui QUEEN ELIZABETH By ZUCCHERO (Hatfield House Collection) GRAND LIQUEUR SCOTCH WHISKY by cJlilacmrnaJ^^ From her canvas she looks down with that regal dignity and serenity which only an outstanding reign could have imparted. In Grand Liqueur (Queen of Scots Whiskies) you will find something of that same regal assurance, for behind it there is a con ...

BASTOGNE: An Epic Stand of Eight Days by the American Army

... When the great German break-through into Belgium took place, the Americans in Bastogne, on the south side of the salient, were cut off. Lying on the flank of the advancing Germans the possession of this town was of the utmost importance but although called upon by the enemy to surrender and in danger of annihilation, the garrison held out, and for eight days they resisted the heaviest of ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 323 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

The STREET FIGHTING in ATHENS: New Pictures of the British Troops and Greek Police in Action Against the E.L.A.S

... A PICTURE TAKEN IN THE GREEK CAPITAL ON DECEMBER 16, when a company of British paratroops, supported by two Sherman tanks, patrolled the streets from strong-points and searched buildings where E.L.A.S. partisans were thought to be in hiding. With them went Greek policemen (on right). Here soldiers and police are seen moving up warily and under constant sniping into turipionou street, tneir ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 210 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

An EPIC of the MERCHANT SERVICE: And a Desperate Battle by Tugs in an Atlantic Gale

... The Ferncastle was a Norwegian tanker. On June 1 1, 1943, she leftJEsperance Bay, in South Australia, bound for the Persian Gulf by way of the Indian Ocean she was in ballast and alone. On June 17, towards evening, when some 1,000 miles west of Australia and 2,600 miles from Madagascar, she was hit by two torpedoes from a Japanese motor torpedo-boat. Shortly after an enemy auxiliary cruiser ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 993 | Page: Page 12, 13 | Tags: Photographs 

PICTURES from MANY QUARTERS: Showing War Activities in All Parts of the Globe

... mtHBSBKm IN SPAIN-- THE MOST FANTASTIC WEDDING OF THE WAR. The scene in front of the High Altar in Seville Cathedral during the marriage of Prince Pedro of Orleans-Braganza (grandson of the first Emperor of Brazil) and Princess Esperanza de Bourbon-Orleans. From left to right are the Infante Don Carlos (the bride's father) the bridegroom the bride and the Countess Dobrezensky (the ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 871 | Page: Page 22, 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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Published: Saturday 06 January 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 300 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

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... THE BRITISH ARMY VERSUS THE E.L.A.S. IN ATHENS: a DISTANT VIEW OF MOUNT LYCABETTOS, WHICH IS NOW IN BRITISH HANDS; in the foreground a soldier scans the rooftops for hostile snipers in the city streets below Mr. Winston Churchill and Mr. Anthony Eden have been to Athens and returned to London the Archbishop Damaskinos has been appointed Regent in place of King George of the Hellenes and yet ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 222 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs