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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 5, 1939
Cheers, Scores Cook
Britain's Biggest Army Zone Made Invisible From The Air
R.A.F. Fails To Identify Aldershot At 3,000 Ft.
Britain's biggest and most vital military zone can be made completely invisible to enemy aircraft by night.
That conclusion may be fairly drawn from the extensive "black-out" and defence exercise carried out between midnight and three o'clock in the morning over the Aldershot Command and sur- rounding districts.
DUCE HAS EYE
TROUBLE
Mussolini is suffering from ser- ious eye trouble-believed to be cataract and is a patient of the famous Swiss Professor Vogt, who treated Mr. de Valera.
The Duce went to Zurich by special 'plane and returned affer treatment. He had invited the professor to go to see him at Mi- lan, but the professor would not leave Switzerland.
TWO DECREES
It was the most important and certainly the AGAINST SAME most effective of the many "black-outs" over Eng- HUSBAND
land during recent months.
In the Divorce Court before Mr. Justice Hodson, Mrs. Margaret Han- Military observers expressed nah Newland, living at Church-road, themselves well satisfied. The suc-Barnes, was granted her second de- cess of the "black-out" for Read-
A huge area, including Odiham | observed throughout the military and Farnborough R.A.F. Stations, and R.A.F. centres. Aldershot, Camberley, Sandhurst, Bordon and Blackdown Camps, Reading, Guildford, Woking, Alton, Windsor, Maidenhead, Bracknell and Ascot, was involved.
Thousands of troops and A.R.P. volunteers carried out ground exercises under war conditions.
So effective was the “black-out" that R.A.F. pilots flying from -Odiham, who are thoroughly fami- liar with the countryside, were un- able to distinguish one town from another.
Within the Aldershot Command, lighting was under military orders, effectiveness and the consequent of the darkness was hardly sur- prising.
CIVILIANS CO-OPERATE
But the real feature of the test
ing is extremely important, since it cree nisi against Mr. Albert New-
MAGINOT LINE STILL FULLY MANNED
With the completion of the con- struction of all temporary trenches, gun emplacements and anti-aircraft gun positions consolidating the Maginot Line, the. French Govern- ment has ordered a slight relaxa- tion of the mobilisation orders, permitting leave and allowing cer- tain categories of married reser- vists to be sent home.
These married men have spent several months with the colours, and they will be replaced, wherever necessary, by unmarried men. This will not mean any weakening of the defences of the Maginot Line, since no troops actually manning frontier forts will leave.
There have been a lot of com-
ing held in service for months, with the result that their wives and families were hard pressed to live on the meagre allowances.
Married men who have been mobilised from the farms and fac- tories will be the first to be releasTM ed.
is generally known that this town land, whom she re-married 1935 af-plaints that married men were be- would be an important civil centre ter having divorced him in 1983. in war-time.
Mrs. Newland's case was that soon A thick river mist which des- after the second marriage her hus- cended on parts of the area ham-band's attitude towards her changed,
Windsor and in October, 1985, she left him. pered the exercises at
She now alleged that he committed and Maidenhead, but everything was carried through according to adultery last year at Ham,
Kingston, Surrey. plan.
WE DON'T SUIT MR. KENNEDY!
LONDON, MAY 23..
near
YOU KNOW ALL THAT STUFF ABOUT ENGLISHMEN'S was the enthusiastic co-operation CLOTHES BEING THE ENVY OF THE WORLD? of thousands of householders, shopkeepers and motorists, who concealed or dimmed their lights
to such an extent as to baffle ex- perienced airmen.
For the first time the railway systems co-operated with the local
authorities, proving that even on a bright moonlight morning such communications can be effectively concealed from the air.
Both the Great Western and Southern Railways reduced light- ing at stations to the minimum. On the Great Western trains travelled with blinds drawn, and hoods were fitted over the cabins of locomotives to conceal the glare of the furnace. Signal lights were kept going, but these could not be seen from the air.
OBSERVERS SATISFJED
Flying at the height of 3,000ft. above the area involved, recogni- tion of targets, let alone calculated bombing, was impossible. Alder- shot, Guildford, Farnham and Farnborough were blurred into obscurity.
Isolated lights from farmhouses and single cottages, and the occa- sional undimmed headlamps of a motorist in a hurry gave nothing away. Traffic lights were operat- ed through slits, invisible from the air, street lights were extinguish- ed, and war-time conditions were
•
Well, it doesn't go over with United States Ambassador Joe
Kennedy.
"I have
a feeling," he said in London yesterday, "that American men would like some of these fine English socks if they could get some that didn't come up to their
knees.
"They could also use some shirts if they did not come down to the same place, not to mention trousers which have the waistline where God made it on a man and not in the general vicinity of the should- er blades."
"Just a pleasant exaggeration."
"There are plenty of English socks that do not come up to knees, but merely reach the calf,” he said.
"I do not know of any shirt that
comes down to the knees, and I was not even aware that English shirts are made longer than Amer- ican.
"The...point about trousers is that, where braces are
worn,
as in England, it is an advantage to have them cut a little higher at the back than in front.
It is understood, however, that there will be no actual reduction in the number of specialists serv- Nearly ing with the colours. 1,000,000 reservists will remain in the lines.
REORGANISATION OF THE SPANISH ARMY
Burgos, To-day.
Reorganization of the Spanish decree Army is provided for in a which will be published shortly in the official gazette.
Spain will be divided into eight corps areas, each under a general.
The army group in each area will be composed of three divisions.
A special army, group will be formed in Morocco and the Balearic and Canary Islands will each receive two divisions each.
Army groups which took part in
"The American does not, as a The editor of "Tailor and Cut-rule, wear braces and has for a ter," to whom I showed Mr. Ken-long period had his trousers cut the war will be given names recall-
battles. nedy's remarks, said, with a smile: short at the back."
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