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IVES FAMOUS PILOT GLIDING LESSONS. A 22 year old girl, Miss Ann Edmunds, is ree of Imperia} Airways most experienced pilots, in gliding. They are Capt. O. P. Jones, Capt. and Capt. H. J. Horsey, each of whom have had more than 15,000 hours flying experience. nds launches each of her pupils solo by towing them with a winch on the ground, but despite ence as pilots, they were not allowed to make a first circuit except by still being attached with o the winch after the take off, Photo shows Capt. O. P. Jones, the famous Imperial Airways ot, in flight in the Surrey Hills.
case a few weeks ago.
to
TREMENDOUS PRESSURE
ermany knows she out-distance our own battleships and watch outside the Mediterranean, England as long as sufficiently heavily armed out using Lisbon (Portugal permitting) my stands in the way. gun our largest cruisers. The only or some French Moroccan port as e Italy to destroy the effective reply to them are our three its base. It would be assisted, of British maritime battle-cruisers, the Repulse, and the course, on the inner side of the thereby bring Eng- two French ships, Strasbourg and Straits by the French squadron act- lees. And she can Dunkirque. The opposing forces ing from Oran, and the new base As has been observed are therefore likely to be much at Mers-el-Kebir, five miles west of of General Franco has more even than appeared to be the it.
for Great Britain, ain, even if the latter
More important, however, than neutral, are formida-
the quantity and quality of ships on Germany. But Franco either side is the question of their tremendous pressure will be brought to speak of, and Mus- respective bases. Here the democra- eatly inferior to the cies have been steadily losing ts of France and Bri- ground sometimes literally, and it hy has therefore de- is a question whether the negotia- orce her partner with tions now proceeding for providing battleships and a num- r craft, As an indi- strategical plans of the ion could not be more
war the High Seas fleet Cuxhaven, served no e at all. They were not uarding the German Baltic, which are best mines and submarines. stake is not to be made time, moreover, there ports in the Mediter- h, except for Turkey
in 1914.
There is no doubt, however, that
in the next few weeks on both those, countries to weaken their adherence of The appointment to. Britain. Herr von Papen as Ambassador to Turkey is a clear warning of that. the British fleet with a stronghold Along with it goes the attempt to in the eastern basin will be con- neutralize Yugoslavia so that Greece cluded in time to make up for losses shall find herself isolated with
hostile Bulgaria between her and in the western.
her allies of the Balkan Entente.
It seems fairly clear that Gibral- tar will not be available as a refitting and refuelling station for our war- ships.
If the Rock itself can be held, its harbour would not be safe to lie in with enemy batteries sur- rounding the Bay of Algeciras and aerodromes a few miles
enemy
away. Stationary battleships are seldom successful against land em- placements, unless the latter are ex- tremely inferior.
TER GESTURE tch of the Deutschland A French attack from Algeria on is something more than Spanish Morocco might provide an calculated to decide_alternative at Melilla or Ceuta, but did the Goeben and the our command of the Straits could is intended, and will go always be disputed as long as the
found facilities on lerable way, to redress enemy ance which is at present Spanish mainland. able to Italy.
t battleships set a pro- navies of the western ey are fast enough to
the
It is possible, therefore, that the function of blockading the western deputed to the entrance would be Atlantic Fleet, which would keep its
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Just as it had to "fix" Spain be- fore challenging the democracies, so the Axis now knows that in face of Britain's new policy it must "work" on the eastern Mediterranean, and particularly the Balkan countries, before it will be safe to risk the final gamble.
In this grim struggle for the open- has so often ing position, which proved decisive, there is no room for Our hesitations or half-measures. own fate and the future of every- thing we value may be settled in the next few weeks in Athens. Angora and Bucharest. We are in the last ditch but if we can hold it we may still not have to fight.
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Further east the situation proves with the French well sup ported and defended at Bizerta. This base is admirably equipped and posi-! tioned both for protecting the Al- giers-Marseilles route (provided the| wasps' nest at Majorca is first scot- ched) and also for harrying the Italian communications with Libya. It would doubtless receive a certain amount of support from any British units which it was considered safe to leave at Malta or which had been transferred to Bizerta.
An Italian attack on Tunisia is not to be feared and in any case could easily be repulsed. The contrary is
a much more practical possibility and it would be badly needed to con- tain a part of the Libyan garrison which would otherwise be launched against 'Egypt.
-Here, I think, one comes to what in a European war might well be the decisive battlefield. If the Italians can take Egypt, they do not necess- arily control the Suez Canal because
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