public opinion all over, the coun- iry to the need for supporting it. "Air power is in request for so many things--to defend ships at sea, and troops in the field, and workers in the factory; and civi- lians. in the home-that we must
that we shall out-strip the enemy's guard against making or allowing production both of machines and excessive demands which would of air crews."
dissipate in separate channels too large a proportion of its total acti- vity.
After giving the facts and figures about production at home, in America and the Dominions, "The Times" goes on to state:
"We may be sure that the mas- FRIDAY SUP.
"The daily and nightly offer- sives which the R.A.F. conducts that the increase in output of wished. What is wanted is that ports that we are at last begin-
against enemy objectives polut the Great Britain and the United giant feat of
main way towards supremacy in American produc- ning to overtake the threatening States is much more rapid tion, which, in addition to the for- numerical lead Hitler was allow Lery of the air is within our reach, the air and victory in the war. than the German. With these midable output of our own fac- ed to gain,
and the achievement of mastery Already we are exerting direct air things working in our favour, tories and workers, will shatter the
pressure far more effectively than turning- "General Smuls spoke of how in the air will be the
the Germans. When we have mag-. air superiority cannot be far imagined omnipotence of the Nazi British sea and air power, after point. The air offensive against nified our effort as many times as distant." Major Oliver Ste- inuchine and destroy its air-power saving this island, would be turn- territory is proof already of light we can and ought, the war will
Germany and German-occupied wart, Air Correspondent of
"Britain and America together. ed against Hitler's unwieldy land the London "Observer.”
end with Germany's prostration," ing spirit and striking-power. can do it to a certainty. Since they Empire and would bring it down.
"THE main menace to the world
Garvin in the "Observer."
"What free nation
will
pening or is likely to happen pro- mises them that they will not be denied their goal of victory, press- ing on week by week, in the words of their own motto, per ardua ad astra."
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By Sound
should do it, they must do it and Let us remember with pride, and "Nothing that has happened or is German als terrorism and they will. This is the world's clue: with a sustaining hope, that the will happen can deprive the men nothing else," writes Mr. J.L. In that faith during the next five men of the R.A.F. have started of our own Air Force from pass- months, until American reinforce that vigorous offensive already. ing through arduous experiences. the thought of a future dominated scale, this people of ours, through until
can endure ment rises towards the conquering They will continue it unceasingly But everything that is now hap- Detection Of Aeroplane
the great ends of which by the stifling supremacy of that the sternness of sacrifice and the. General Smuts spoke have been fearful influence. Britain and
grimness of suffering,
be achieved.” America, by their combined pro- taunch to the bone. duction of fighting craft, have an
"As a nation and.as an Em- overwhelming power to break and pire we know that the stark choice annihilate that terror. Far and this time is victory or death, and wide they can turn the other edge that there is no middle way." of the air-weapon. Unless they do it, then through long and dark generations to come, mankind will never again draw the happy breath of free and secure civili- sation in either hemisphere.
"It would be dangerously mis- "No declaration of war by the leading to suggest," states the United States is required. No "Yorkshire Post," "that the Nazi sending of American armies as in air force is not a most formidable the former conflict is asked or weapon. We must beware against under-estimating either its strik- ing power or Hitler's will to use that striking power with complete contempt for German as well as British lives..
New York Adventure
The Two Traditions
Air-Marshal Sir Philip Joubert in his broadcast talk said that after twenty-eight years' experi- ence he could not invariably de- cide by sound the type of air- Very Young Airmen
craft-and in particular when the machine happened to be flying "Many of the German airmen
at a great height. The Aeronauti- taken prisoner during the past few
cal Correspondent of the "Scots- days," states "The Times," "seem
man" confirms this when he as- to be very young-far too young "In Germany, where, socially serts:- to be experienced. But it should and politically, the tradition of the
"There are people with close not be assumed for that reason Army dominates," asserts the experience of aeroplanes who can either that the Germans are short "Sunday Times," "the.Air Force distinguish certain types aurally of experienced air crews they has been used and valued above without visual aid. This method may well be using these raids as all for purposes of Army coopera- of identification is not so easy for
the man in the street,
whose a brutal and expensive form of tion. training or that they are using "In Great Britain, which was knowledge may be confined to a any substantial portion of their air the first country to place its Air few types of aircraft. strength.:
Ministry on a separate footing "He may recognise a Spitfire in- from the War Ministry, there has stantly by its healthy roar and been fuller scope for the opposite whine or whistle, although all opinion-viz., that an Air Force, Spitfires do not whistle. He may while indispensable as an adjunct know the hollow rumble of the Lockheed Hudson's to both Army and Navy, is, in Its American main use, an Independent striking Cyclones. He may tell Blenheim their distinctive arm, in which capacity. It is es- Mercurys by sential that it should be allowed growl. Incidentally, in the to develop freely a strategy and war the enemy's Gothas tactics of its own.
known by their sound as 'wong- wongs.'
"But we see heartening signs
"Both the effectives they em- every day that our R.A.F. is cap- ployed and their losses were far able of making the Nazis pay a higher on many days during the (Continued from Page 2) staggering cost for any blow dealt battles in France and Flanders, gunned me down as cheerfully as against this island or its shipping. though it is true that even in those not, but they were good boys to Such episodes as the recent attack days there were a number of mere have on your side, and it was little by thirty German bombers guard- boys among the German prisoners, onough that I gave them for saved by fighter craft upon a convoy "It is, however, permissible to ing my life; but I did not wish to have shown, moreover, that it is note that the results achieved by are immeasurably appear to have a large sum of possible both to ward off these at- these attacks ready money in my immediate tacks with complete success and inferior to those achieved by the - possession. You
never can tell, to inflict serious losses upon the R.A.F. in their raids on Germany; accidents have happened.
enemy at the same time.
These raids have now amounted That concluded my New York "If Hitler's air force gives him to over 1,000 during the past three do with Forbes and his merry men power to do us harm, nothing he months; and neutrals--sometimes at Carmano's, and I sailed for has achieved so far sggests that even the Germans themselves by England, Home and Beauty next he can strike against our stoutly inadvertence-bear testimony to deadlock. We ought baldly to de- day. I heard that, under pres-defended fortress anything ap- the severe damage inflicted.
blow sure from Washington, the New proaching the knock-out York police had scooped up the hinted at in his latest sinister Griffin mob, at whiéli news I peace offer, felt much relieved.
Still, it was good fun while it lasted, and I have no scruples about that spy money. It has been put to very useful purposes since my return.
"The day will come when weight
of numbers, coupled with her al- ready established superiority in
Within Our Reach
men and material, will give Bri- "Far more important, therefore, tain strength to end Hitler's reign than any local victories in large of terror. There are hopeful re- scale skirmishes is the certainty
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as
last were
"To-day, with the British Navy
"When it comes to distinguish- and the German Army each sup- reme in its own sphere, yet nei- ing between the sounds of RIA.F. ther able to penetrate its enemy's motors and enemy engines, the British conception casual auditor may be easily at territory, this may well offer the best way round fault. Indeed, an experienced air-
man, may find it extremely diffi-. velop it.
cult to discern between 'ours' and "Great
have been the 'theirs' when the only clue is triumphs won by the German con- sound.' ception
battlefields of on the
"As has been stressed recently, Europe, there is no case now for it is unwise to jump to the con- subordinating our ideas to theirs. clusion that twin motors heard On the contrary, we should push after dark are those of an enemy ahead, giving the Air Force and machine. We may have
aircraft bombers its High Command more and not twin-engined
autonomy, and éducating and fighters out after nightfall."
less
many