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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 5, 1940
TO-DAY'S PHASE OF
PHASE OF THE WAR
BLOCKADE AND COUNTER-BLOCKADE
Daventry broad-
AT PRESENT, THE WAR seems to be LOW LEVEL chiefly one of blockade and counter-block- ade, said Oliver Stuart in a Daventry broad- cast yesterday. The Germans are chiefly try- ing to blockade us by the use of 'planes and we are blockading them by the use of sea- power.
AND DIVE BOMBING
Low level bombing is a method of attack designed to secure ac-
curacy, whilst minimising the risk. advantage of surprise; and it may sea-ditions unsuited for high level
from anti-aircraft fire. It has the
That, on broad lines, is what is happening at the moment, but that does not mean that a test is going on between air-power and power.
Air-power is a common denominator. It is being used by both sides, and in Mr. Stuart's used personal view it will be air-power
which will even- vigorously by sea and land tually turn the scale in our favour.
For the moment, Germany is aj land-nation with great land and air forces. Britain is a sea-nation, with immense sea-power and a growing air force. Germany is "land and air," Britain "sea and air."
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TYPES OF ATTACK
be employed under weather con- bombing. The fast, medium size bomber of advanced design, which
is not suited for dive bombing is for this work.
the type which can best be used
Dive bombing also aims at at- taining greater
accuracy than bombing from high altitudes and at presenting' a more difficult tar- get to the ground defences. It may be of the
dive 'high' or 'low' variety. In a high dive the bomb will generally be released between 2,000 to 1,500 ft. above the target. A low dive attack may start at about 2,000 ft. and. continue to as low as 200 ft. before the release and pull-out.
It is inevitable that Germany Roughly speaking, modern Dive bombing was largely used should try to cut our routes by air bombing takes one of three forms by the Germans in their initial action from land bases. Fortun-high level or precision bombing: surprise attack on Poland, follow- ately, our air strength is growing low-level bombing; or dive-bonib-ing tactics worked out in their and it is Mr. Stuart's conviction ing. The type of attack depends rehearsal in Spain. Roads, rail- from a study of the bombings of on such things as ground opposi-ways, moving trains, columns of the past few
weeks, that our tion, nature of target, degree of troops, headquarters, aerodromes, 'planes will be able to break
up penetration required, the weather, telephone exchanges, and similar the German attacks.
and the type of bomb used.
nerve centres miles beyond the SHORT-RANGE ATTACKS
fighting area were attacked, re- High level bombing may be These attacks are made at from any height within the "cell-sulting in paralysis of communi-
cations. short-range-It-is-somewhat curi-
ing" of the aircraft. Conceivably ous that they have been short-this may be as much as six miles veloped for dive bombing duty, range stuff for the greater part high, where anti-aircraft guns and strong enough to withstand the The German 'planes do not go in
barrage balloons cease to be a stresses set up in the dive and the for long-range attacks but prefer a bombing attack with a land base menace; but in practice accuracy pull-out. They are usually fitted would demand a lesser height with some form of air brake to near the spot or an attack on con- For the same reason voys between the narrow strip of and level approach is necessary typical German example of the a straight control the speed of the dive. A the Channel at Dover and Calais. Sometimes the bombers can make type is the Ju, 87A;
Special aircraft have been de-
whilst the
The German 'planes then only use of clouds to hide its approach, Blackburn Skua is a first class have 16 to 20 miles to go back but generally a clear run is re- British aircraft specially design- to their base and can have quired to achieve accurate results ed for dive bombing as well as strong fighter escorts.
To allow for its forward travel fighting. The past fortnight has been the bomb is released
some dis ideal for this. Hours of daylight tance from the target. 'Drift', due have been long and the weather to the wind, has also to be allow- clear.
ed for. Although at a consider- The Germans cah spot our con able height the point of release voys from their look-out posts and may be as much as two or three time the attacks as they wish.
MR. SUN FO HERE
ON PRIVATE VISITÄ
Mr. Sun Fo, President of the More favourable conditions can arrives on the
miles from the target, the bomb Legislative Yuan, arrived in Hong ground at about|Kong ""yesterday "afternoon" ~ by hardly be imagined.
the same time as the aircraft plane, from Chungking. But now the days are getting would be directly overhead. It is reported that Mr. Sun's short. There will not be many 'Pattern' bombing, or the aim-visit to Hong Kong is for per- more weeks of good visibility and ing of a number of bombs at vari-sonal affairs. long hours of daylight.
jous points round the centre of the}
One need not be stupidly op-target rather like the bunch of Major J. P. Wilson, of the Royal timistic if one expressed the con- viction that if the German land-pellets fired from a shot gun, is Engineers, had a watch and jew-
a modern development of highjellery, valued at $60, stolen from · base air activity cannot destroy level bombing. In such types as his residence, No. 16, Felix Villas, our convoys now, it never will.
the Vickers Wellington, Handley-yesterday.
COUNTER-CHECK
The Germans are trying to use Page Hampden, and Armstrong
Whitworths Whitley, the Royal fast, powerful aircraft admirably their air bombings to blockade Air Force possesses numbers of suited for precisión bombing.
Britain at sea, but Britain can use them for blockading the Germans on land, and for sealing up any! land leaks in the sea blockade.;
The main routes into Germany from the East are not many.
one
If about half a dozen railways were cut and kept cut and na- vigation of
river made hazardous, the effects of the sea' blockade would be enhanced. Air-power, sea-power and land- power and the first two are working for Britain. British air- power is giving useful aid to the Navy and as its strength increases! it will not only be able to rout the attackers but also to
seal the blockade by closing Germany's land frontiers-Router.
DEATH OF JEWISH SUPPORTER OF THE ALLIES
The death occurred in New York; yesterday of Vladimiri Jabotin- sky, President of the New Zionist Organisation, who has been in the United States in connection with the raising of a Jewish army to fight with the Allies, announces
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