THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 8, 1940.
FASTEST FIGHTING 'PLANE
THE WORLD'S MOST HEAVILY ARMED, FASTEST AND MOST VERSATILE TWO. SEATER FIGHTING 'PLANS IS BEING PRODUCED IN CONSI- DERABLE NUMBERS AT THE REPUBLIC. AVIATION COR- "PORATION'S FACTORY IN FARMINGDALE, N:Y., ACCORD- ING TO STATEMENTS BY OFFICIALS.
The plane is the "Guardsman" dive-bomber, capable of releasing, 1,350 pounds of high-explosive bombs simultaneously while hurt-" ling earthward at speeds exceeding 370 miles an hour.
This bomb load includes one projectile weighing 750 pounds and six 100-pound wing bombs. The giant fuselage bomb is cradled in a special displacing mechanism, developed by Republic, permitting release of the bomb with accuracy in an almost vertical dive.
The "Guardsman" is likewise armed with two 30-calibre fuse- lage guns, synchronised to fire through the propellor, and a flex- ble 30-calibre gun mounted in the rear cockpit.
This latter weapon is rotata- ble and can be fired in all direc. tions, forward, rearward, to either side and above or below the 'plane.
With bombs removed, the "Guardsman" becomes an effective pursuit-interceptor to attack up- posing bombers or other aircraft. It is powered by a Pratt and Whitney Twin Row Wasp Engine.
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WHAT OF HITLER'S
FIFTH COLUMN
IN BRITAIN?
"WHAT OF HITLER'S Fifth Column in Great Britain? Short of the supreme test, it is impossible to say for sure. What is evident is that during the appeasement period the Germans spun a web of friendship for Nazi Germany among the more gul- lible or more dissatisfied members of the ruling class, (write Mowrer and Donovan. American journalists, m a review of the situation).
"It is obviously a triumph, in a country so proud as Britain, to have created so weak a satellite party as the British Union of Fascists. Organisations like the Link, the Anglo-German Fellowship and the Christian Fellowship duped any number of high- placed Englishmen.
"British visitors to
| never lacked congenial guides.
"Female members of British "Nevertheless, many foreigners society were induced to look kind- | believe that if the worst should Fred
ly upon Hitler's aims by the flat-happen and the invasion of Bri- leading
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a handsome tain should occur, some positive young German aristocrat.
and hitherto unrevealed fruits of "Too Many Husbands," com.
Hitler's propaganda would appear ing to the Hong Kong screen
Germany in the shape of a not entfely in- next week.
significant British Fifth Column, which, like the French, would find numerous reasons why Britain should rather come to terms with Htler than continue single-land- Fed a desperate struggle, the out- come of which. is bound to con- tain some social change.
NAZI LEADERS GANGSTERS
While Mr. Duff-Cooper, was de- nouncing Hitler in an English broadcast, more bitter denouncia- tion was being poured over the ether from Canada.
The speaker was Mr. Fred T. Birchall, Chief European Corres pondent of the "New York Times" irom 1934 to 1939.
Addressing himself to Hitler His sneaks and spies everywhere tell him what people are saying about him" - Mr. Birchall said the reply of "our plain people" to the Fuehrer's peace offer was "the challenge and the defiance of des cent people everywhere."-
Assassin And Liar Recalling the promise of Aus- trian independence given to. Dr. Schuschnigg, he went on, "We can't make peace with you and won't try because you're an assas sin bs well as a liar. Do you re- member Dollfuss?" he asked.
"We cannot accept peace with you, because you are a gangster and the men under you are also gangstera."
He wondered whether Goering had looted the Legion of Honour from Versailles.
"One hears hints of persistent 'pro-Germanism' in London City circles.
The Munich Medicine
"But it must be stated em- phatically that the vast majority "Whether such a Fifth Column of British, unlike the French, un-could, as in France, come to sup- derwent a radical change of heart reme
another power is quite after it became apparent that Hit-story." ler had duped Chamberlain at Munich, although there are still try to bribe appeasers ready to the Nazis to be good with the Hudson-Wohlthat plan-for econo- „mic concessions to Germany.
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"Moreover, with British patriotism at the white heat of to-day, under the threat of im?' minent Invasion, the fate of the .confessed. Fifth Columnists in Britain would be short:and: uns enviable,:
"This tima the British police: prepared for the war. At the opening of hostilit'es they gaoled some 400 of the best German agents: Later raids tended to show that the backbone of the organi sation was broken then. Involun- tary confinement of over 1,000 Bri- tishers, mostly followers of Mosicy further cleared the air,
If Invasion Comes -
"All in all; the foreigners in Then, there was Goebbels, poi-Britain have the impression, that sonous as u scorpion and looking several branches of the very com- like it', the "saturnine Himmler, petent British police ure masters who invents tortures under which of the situation and that the Bri- men pray for death", the "roartish soul was never really tainted ing drunkard, Ley."
by Nazi propaganda. Everyong
Dr. Funck "who juggles econo- listens to Lord. Haw-How, but his mics he doesn't understand," and, words arouse more laughter thun finally, Hess, "your ventriloquist belief. dummy, who says for you" "the things you dare not say yourself. “Gangsters to a mun, all of them, and the bond between them is loot.
"A nation that facos, mortal daril with a grim foke Woll, Britain has reached the final," edema sound;
Even Wealey Ruggles, the director, ceema to ue ̈puzzled at the problem of one -wife (Joan Arthur) and her two legitimate husbands (Fred MacMurray and Melvyn Dóù-~ glao)! The answer to the question" "Whose la Bha??? will be given when Colum-.. bla's film "Too Many Hus- banda" ie, shown «noxt:/wpek; on the local acroon..