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WARTIME SCENES from Many Different Quarters of the Globe

... A SCENE IN BRUSSELS The British Army, on leave in the Belgian capital, decide to see a football match. These British soldiers got 48 hours' leave. They dashed to Brussels and decided to go to a football match. But here they encountered an unexpected difficulty there is a shortage of transport in- the capital of Belgium, and the trams were packed like tins of sardines, with a hanging annexe for ...

Published: Saturday 14 April 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1197 | Page: Page 26, 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PICTURES from BURMA: After the Capture of the Bitterly-defended City of Mandatay

... It was announced on April 4 from Burma that, following a landing made at Letpan, patrols of Lieut. -General Sir Philip Christi- son's 15th Indian Corps had entered Jaunggup. This picture was taken when the Combined Chiefs of Staff visited the scene. On the bridge of the motor launch are on left, Air Commodore the Earl of Bandon, commanding an R.A.F. group on the Arakan front in centre, Lieut. ...

Published: Saturday 21 April 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 424 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SOME of the NASTY TRICKS of the HUNS: What the Allied Armies are Discovering at First Hand of the Psychology of ..

... THE PERSECUTION OF SUBJECT PEOPLES THE BRANDING OF JEWISH SLAVE-WORKERS IN A FORCED-LABOUR CAMP. These girls were Jewish slave workers forced into a Labour Camp at Kaunitz, in Germany they have now been liberated by the U.S. Ninth Army. The women were impressed into a German munition factory, after having been deported from Italy, France, Holland, Belgium, Poland, Czechoslovakia, etc. Each has ...

Published: Saturday 21 April 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1081 | Page: Page 12, 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

The KRUPPS WORKS at ESSEN

... From 1942 Krupps began to feel the effects of the night bombing by the R.A.F. in 1943, and then in 1944, it also began to suffer severely from combined night and day bombing by American and British aircraft. By the end of 1944, only 30 per cent, of its previous output was possible with priority being given to tank tracks. Pro duction still further declined in 1945 until March 11, when one ...

Published: Saturday 21 April 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 144 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

NEW LAMPS and OLD

... THE NAPOLEONIC PARALLEL.-- I have been reading Mr. Bryant's in teresting published volumes of his historic trilogy on the Napoleonic Wars and the industrial revolution in England. The parallels between the aggressions and menace of the tyrant Napoleon and the tyrant Hitler are many and obvious, and it may be that an indiscriminate student of history might make too much of them. For it is ...

Published: Saturday 21 April 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2074 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Photographs 

ROYAL VISIT, WEDDING, SPORT AND S.E.A.C. INSPECTION

... . LADY LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN (right), Superintendent-in-Chief of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, has been touring in South-East Asia. Here she is under the wing of an R.A.F. aircraft on a forward airstrip in Central Burma, with GROUP CAPT. D. 0. FINLAY, D.F.C., A.F.C., and her personal assistant, MISS NANCY LEES. Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander, S.E.A.C., was awarded the K ...

Published: Wednesday 18 April 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 230 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - SHIRLEY TEMPLE, for being at sixteen years old a famous film star who has made masses of money, and has just, become engaged. SHIRLEY has her own ideas about the fitness of a dress-to-go-dancing for the ''teens. It must be full in the skirt and youthful. She wont wear darkf slinky plamaur pawns her choice runs often to net. This white party frock is fashioned of three layers of white net ...

Published: Wednesday 18 April 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 487 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PARIS BABY DOLLS WILL TELL THE WORLD WHAT TO WEAR: MINIATURE MANNEQUINS FOR A GREAT BIG FASHION PUSH!

... OARIS is determined to remain the fountain-head of Fashion, A and though British women can't go there to spend their precious coupons, nor can Americans cross the Atlantic unless they are in uniform or on war-work, they can all get put wise to the right silhouette and line according to the famous French houses, for a show of 170 models has been organised by the leading couturieres, and after ...

Published: Wednesday 18 April 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 240 | Page: Page 20, 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Gordon's Stands Supreme

... Gordon's Standi Supteme Gordon's Standi Supteme By Appointment to H.M. King George VI. TANQUERAY GORDON CO., LTD. Maximum Prices per bottle 25/3 Half bottle 13/3. Great Britain and Northern Ireland only. ...

Published: Wednesday 18 April 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 31 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Photographs 

DRAWSTRING TIE-BELTS

... Right Another version of the drawstring i9 the sausage tie-belt. The coat is three-quarter length and made of very fine herringbone tweed with the softness of cashmere. Stripe and plain materials are cunningly- contrived in dress and coat. Sleeves tur n back to give cuff effect on three-quarter sleeve can equally well be worn wrist-length. Nearly all good stores stock Rima mod els. r# New ...

Published: Wednesday 18 April 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 111 | Page: Page 26 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

AIR JOURNEY'S END--THE VICEROY'S GRANDSON IN ENGLAND

... AIR JOURNEY'S END-- THE VICEROY'S GRANDSON IN ENGLAND. A The HON. MRS. HUMPHRYS, eldest daughter of the Viceroy of India, and her baby son, FRANCIS WAVELL JAMES HUMPHRYS, flew to England from India with the Viceregal party. Field-Marshal Lord Wavell has come over for personal consultations in London, accompanied by Lady Wavell, Sir Evan Jenkins, his private secretary, and Rao Bahadur U. P. ...

Published: Wednesday 04 April 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 109 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MR. CHURCHILL'S WATCH ON THE RHINE!

... During his tour of Rhine battle areas the PRIME MINISTER travelled in an armoured car, and went through territory which, thirty-six hours before, had been in enemy hands. He wore the uniform of u colonel of the Royal Sussex Regiment. An historic snapshot! Mr. Churchill is stepping on to the east bank of the Rhine. He crossed the river in a landing craft with Field -Marshal Sir Bernard ...

Published: Wednesday 04 April 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 320 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs