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A WAR NEWSLETTER--No. 191

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 191 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. The Guessing Game in Europe.-- Where will the Allies strike next? It is the current guessing game. We are all at it, except a very few Allied leaders who, perhaps, know the answers. But while the Allied peoples merely speculate, the leaders and peoples of the Axis lands must not only speculate, but act and move. And clearly it is causing a ...

Published: Saturday 01 May 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1857 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Maps 

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... BARONS COURT g? BUT EMBRACES THE BEST QUALITIES IN PETROL YOU CAN BE SURE OF ...

Published: Saturday 16 May 1936
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 18 | Page: Page 38 | Tags: Illustrations  Maps 

The ADVANCES into ABYSSINIA-- and the CAPTURE of HARAR

... FROM THE SUDAN ATTACKING THE GONDAR- -Drawing by W. Bryce Hamilton It is not so long ago thar fierce fighting was taking place around Gallabat, on the Abys- sinian-Sudan borders. This was at the time when Graziani was advancing upon Egypt and the Italian forces in Abyssinia were pushing outwards in all directions into Kenya, the Sudan, British Somaliland, and elsewhere. All that is now changed ...

THE CAPE PENINSULA: A Mighty Panorama Pictured from the Skies

... THE CAPE PENINSULA A Mighty Panorama Pictured from the Skies This unusually fine picture of Cape Town, Table Moun tain, and, indeed, the whole Cape Peninsula from Green Point to the Cape of Good Hope, was taken from an aeroplane flying at a height of 15,000 ft. and shows the whole coast-line with map-like clarity as it has seldom, if ever, before been seen in a single panoramic view. The ...

Published: Saturday 30 July 1938
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 143 | Page: Page 18 | Tags: Graphic  Maps 

THE ITALIAN VICTORY AT GORIZIA: How Our ALLIES Carried the ISONZO Positions on August 6-9: THE EFFECT OF THE ..

... THE ITALIAN VICTORY AT GORIZIA How Our ALLIES Carried the ISONZO Positions on August 6-9. THE EFFECT OF THE GORIZIA VICTORY Owing to the quick entry of the Italians into Cormons at the start of hostilities the Austrians at once lost much of the value of their Cormons- Gorizia railway across the Isonzo. Cormons then became a busy Italian railhead for the reception of their wounded. Through this ...

Published: Saturday 19 August 1916
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 892 | Page: Page 6, 7 | Tags: Maps 

The VICTORY that FAILED: The Tragedy of the First Battle of Gaza--The Victory that Failed to Come Off, and One ..

... The VICTORY that lBy ILiet!atL(Gjini2:)8il Sa5 Qipg i.C.E„s K.C.S.1U i.SoO. {Commander-in-Chief in Mesopotamia, 1 9 19-20 Quartermaster-General in India, 1920 24) There must he many men who served at Gaza in March 1917, who, even to-day wonder how it was that the First Battle was so dramatically changed from victory into defeat. General MacMunn joint author of the official volume dealing with ...

Published: Saturday 10 March 1928
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1872 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: Maps 

MORE BATTLE TACTICS IN THE AIR: How the German Luftwaffe Try To Penetrate the British Defences at Hell's Corner

... MORE BATTLE TACTICS IN THE AIR How the German Luftwaffe Try To Penetrate the British Defences at Hell's Corner A picture reproduced from the American magazine Life Hell's Corner is the name given by American correspondents to the South- East section of England around Dover, where most of the enemy's air attacks begin. This diagram, taken from the American magazine Life, shows how the ...

Published: Saturday 26 October 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 675 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Illustrations  Maps 

AMBUSHED WITH AN ITALIAN COLUMN: A Correspondent who was Himself Under Fire Recounts in Detail the Attack on ..

... AMBUSHED WITH AN ITALIAN COLUMN A Correspondent who was Himsell Under Fire Recounts in Detail the Attack on General Mariotti's Flanking Force in Ende Gorge during the Recent Ethiopian Campaign IN the extracts given in last week's issue from Marshal de Bono's book on the Italo-Abyssinian campaign, brief reference was made to General Mariotti's column. General Mariotti was, in fact, the central ...

Published: Saturday 01 May 1937
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 894 | Page: Page 46 | Tags: Illustrations  Maps 

THE WING: IN FAIRNESS TO AMERICA

... yf he J WING IN FAIRNESS TO AMERICA. By C* G. GREY, Editor of The Aeroplane IN common justice to our gallant American Allies, somebody ought to talk gently but firmly to the newspaper-paragraphers of the world at large about the yarns which are circulated concerning what the United States Air Service is going to do in the next six weeks, or the next six months, or whatever the period may be ...

Published: Wednesday 13 November 1918
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 915 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Illustrations  Maps 

TRANSATLANTIQUE Ltd

... SMk. tUs: Hv The Magic of Islam. KNCRTH -AFRICAN 1 SfMOTORafi TOURS 1 i Verdure and blossom Peak and ifff. I chasm Mosque and minaret ffaff Ghostly ruins and teeming bazaars jgjfc Golden sands and glittering seguias yHjiS princely palaces and mud cities Va|v- Sunset and the Muezzin. A magnificent tour in the land of the stork, the scarlet ibis and the golden date the land of blood red dawn, ...

Published: Saturday 02 February 1929
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 179 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Illustrations  Maps 

BUT SHELL LLASTS LLONGEST

... YOU CAN BE SURE OF SHELL LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLL-LLANTYSIUOGOGOGOCH ...

Published: Saturday 25 July 1936
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 15 | Page: Page 36 | Tags: Illustrations  Maps 

THE STRUGGLE FOR OIL: The Tens Situation Around the Danube and the Black Sea

... THE STRUGGLE FOR OIL: The Tens* Situation Around the Danube and the Black Sea The Eyes of War Sfrategists have been Turned Towards the Inland Sea Bordered by Turkey, the Balkans, and Southern Russia One important link in the chain by which it is desperately hoped to obtain Russian oil is the mighty Danube. When the spring comes, the river may be free of any physical bars to traffic, but at the ...

Published: Saturday 02 March 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 833 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Illustrations  Maps