THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 22, 1940.
'PLANES FROM AMERICA
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HOUSE AIDE KAIPING COAL
SUICIDE
AMERICAN-BUILT AEROPLANES are arriving in Britain in ever-increasing numbers, some of them by air. American help is slowly getting into its stride and we are now benefiting by the fulfilment dent Theodore Roosevelt, former-
of French orders, diverted to Britain.
Because of the unsatisfactory state of their aircraft industry the French ordered nearly four times. as: many American ueroplapės as we did before the war.
Those
orders are now bearing fruit.
· Before the war began we had two types of American acroplanes
in service with the R.A.F. They
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were the Lockheed. Hudson gen-New York the village of New A German raider has bombed cral reconnaissance bomber and York the North American Harvard trai-small to be listed in gazeteers.
in Northumberland, ner. Quite recently deliveries of a further five types have begun and bombs on a cow shed,.but the The raider dropped incendiary at least nine other types are on cows emerged unhurt. order.
The general particulars of the new American types which have now arrived in Britain are as fol- Jow:
NEW FARMER M.P;
Colonel John Hudson Poole, wealthy retired Army officer, shot himself to death in his. San Rafael Heights home, Detectives. Harry Thomas and Loyal Clark reported. Colonel Poole, who was a White House military aide under. Presi-
ly was president of Mesaba Min- eral of Minnesota, inherited from his grandmother, Mrs. Marie M. Olsey. He also inherited a large estate. from his first wife, Mrs. Caroline Marie Boeing Poole, who died in January, 1932.
Friends said that he had been depressed, recently because of the international situation,
GIRL'S MURDERER
EXECUTED
Jefferson, who, posing as a Holly- Thomas Cochran, alias Charles wood talent scout, persuaded two Miami girls to go to Palm Beach with him, was executed at Raiford, Florida, for the murder of Ruth Dunn, 17. He tied the girls to Mr. Robert D. Scott. a farmer, trees in the swamp and tortured Caistron, near Rothbury, them, stabbing Dunn to death:
was returned Conservative and SERVICES IN CRYPT Sunday services at St. George's
The BREWSTER-BUFFALO. — of A little mid-wing single-seat | Northumberland, fighter with a barrel-shaped fusel- unopposed as age and a Wright Cyclone radial National M.P. for the Wansbeck motor. It is the first radial-en-Division of Northumberland. The gined fighter to go into service in by-election was caused by the re- Church, Ramsgate, will the R.A.F. since the Gladiator signation of Col. Bernard Crud-underground in the crypt, which
biplane. The top speed is about das. 310 m.p.h., and the deep fuselage provides accommodation for tanks which give longer range than the average fighter.
The CURTISS HAWK 75C. A single-seat fighter which was standard in the French Armee de l'Air, where it did well in service, although it was not up to the 'standard of the Hurricane. The top speed is 313 m.p.h., the arma- inent six, machine-guns.
THE CURTISS HELLDIVER. — An obsolescent two-seat biplane dive-bomber which was superan- nuated out of the U.S. Navy for delivery to Great Britain. Its per- formance is very much. the same as that of the notorious Junkers Ju 87b Stuka of the Luftwaffe.
The DOUGLAS BOSTON high- wing bomber. The first aero- plane with a tricycle undercarri- age to go into service, with the R.A.F. It is fast and manoeuvra- ble, suffers rather from lack of space in the fuselage. The top speed is about 310 m.p.h. The Boston, formerly called the DB-7, is roughly in the same category as our Blenheim, although of more modern design.
The MARTIN 167 mid-wing 'bomber. Another of the French
orders. It is-in-the same category-- as the Boston, except that it has ...an orthodox undercarriage, Like
the Boston, its crew space cramped, but this sacrifice has enabled a high speed of 316 m.p.h. to be reached.
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The NORTHROP 17-A single- metor attack bomber in the gen- cral class, of our Fairey Battle. Like the Helldiver, the Northrop has been superannuated out of the. U.S. Service.
What Is To Come:
The types on order include the Bell Airacobra single-seat fighter (400 m.p.h.) a French contract; the Consolidated B-24 four-motor bomber (300 m.ph.)' another French contract; the Lockheed P-38 two motor single seat figh- ter (400 m.p.h.), the Curtiss P-40 single-seat fighter, the Grumman' G-36 single-seat. fighter for the Fleet Air Arm, and the Consoli-. dated Model 28 long-range, patrol flying-boat.
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Our orders in America include all the essential types of aero- planes needed for offence and de- fence. Thus, even should British production be seriously held up by air attack, we can maintain the strength of the Air Force. In general, the American" types are far less adequately, armed thàn their-British, equivalents, but that is a defect which cap fairly easily be remedied. “
CALVES MAKE FAIR WEATHER :
Robert Diehl, a dairyman, hand- ed out free bottles of milk in Lihighton, Pa. Three of his cows, prize winners at the Lehighton Fair, presented him with calves, The calves; all born on the fair grounds, were named Rain, Driz- zle and Mud in recognition of the week's weather,
SHELTER FOR DOGS
A blast-proof and splinter- proof air-rald' shelter for thirty- six dogs is to be placed in Ken- sington Gardens.
provides shelter for 2,000.
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