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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 14, 1941..
CHINA MAIL
WINDSOR HOUSE
THE AMAZING TALE OF RUDOLF HESS
comes
The sensational deser- tion of Rudolf Hess, No. 3 in the Nazi hierarchy, first in succession to the Fuehrerdom after the gargantuan Goering. as 50 breath- taking a surprise as to
leave nothing but complete bewilderment as to its underlying sign- ficance. The German version of this remarkable event can be taken for what it is worth. Truthful Joe, with his customary tireless efficiency, reached the ether quickest and sought to explain the Japse with the admission that, "sad to relate." a well-trained Nazi chief- tain, long hardened in the school of villainy and chicane, had proved the victim of mental disorders and hallucinations, and had soared into the skies intending suicide.
If Herr Hess, at any time in the tortures of making his decision, was contemplating suicide, he was curiously careful to take a parachute with him, and sufficiently compos mentis to use it at the appropriate moment.
Moreover, the German fairy-tale factory, while
RATISCHE
STANKEN!
STANKEN
I HESS VON GIANTISCHE
THE BREAK
Torpedo Pilots Of The Navy
Come aboard H.M.S. Somewhere
making much of the note in Britain, a school shore station. he left behind him to
The young man we are watch- aged somewhere between
justify accusationsing,
against the mental ighteen and twenty-four, already
has airman's wings.
He has 418 a pilot before he
joined the School.
five intensive stages.
First
----
By
John Cashel
He perfects that split-second
stability of Rudolf Hess, ¦ qualified wisely omitted to provide
eliminating tests. He begins exer- quotations from the fare-
Here, he graduates as a special-cises that are the last stage to the well document. True, it ist torpedo pilot and he does it in
real thing, tiring actual torpedoes may not have been polite
with duminy heads at more and about Hitler. It is not dif-
Having Blown various training aircraft he now flies the more difficult targets, stationary ficult to conceive for that iype he will use in actual torpedo and moving. matter, that an honest operations, probably a Fairey Al-|
perhaps 01
Fairey 21 and bitter indictment of swordash. These are the torpedo "touch" when, at the bottom of his the Nazi terror in Europe, bombers generally used by the
dive the man matters more than a gloomy prediction of the Fleet Air Arm.
towards catastrophe which Hitler is leading carrying a dummy torpedo slug through the net. Germany, would be in- in a steel cradle beneath
classified stantly
by Hess's astounded ex-col-
bacore
ma-
his Second Master of chine, he does formation flying
the He gets fuselage of his aircraft. thoroughly used to the "feel" of that up-to-a-ton extra load.
leagues as clear evidence Third- He learns team tactics
of mental aberration. attack from all angles and by That to free peoples, out-many methods. He smiles surdon ically when he sometimes reads side
Nazi that an enemy ship zig-zagged to the grip of mumbo-jumbo, it could be evade attack."
the first interpreted as sign of sanity would cer- tainly never them.
occur
Four
Used to the "feel" of his dummy, he practices Aring at a target. He experiences for to the first time the alarming sensa
tion as his aircraft leaps anything from ten to forty feet upwards the moment it loses its load.
the machine.
No inefficient
Well, only the Fleet Air Arm knows the explanation. There are torpedoes and torpedoes.
Sometime, during the five stages! al the Torpedo School, the trainee! has tried landing on boards that|| represent the deck of an aircraft- carrier. He practises on one set! placed on the runway to repre- sent the "round-down" of a car- where he should touch down on rier, on another denoting the spot!
the deck.
Final Touches At Sea
Now, his fifth stage over, hef leaves the School behind him, und goes aboard an aircraft-carrier for real deck-landing practice. There he becomes a fully-made torpedo pilot, ready for appointment to at aspirant passes operational squadron.
some-
He was born as an airman many months before and has gone Torpedoes cost money,
through all the stages that are thing like £3,000 each. The F.A.A. necessary
for every Fleet Air cannot afford an avoidable miss Arm pilot, before he arrived at costing, perhaps, half as much as the Torpedo School. a 'plane, nor the loss of a chance
that has meant so much planning. lives a naval life, preparatory to
his
Aboard land ship HM.S.~. hej
He future ut sea.
"comes Torpedo-firing is an art as aboard" every time he enters the much as 疑 science. Torpedo station, and "goes ashore" when-| "sights" those of a bomber
are not as definite
as ever he steps out of it. or gunner.
Accuracy depends enormously on His room is a "cabin" His mess superb man-skill, backed by cool the "wardroom." He talks in terms and unsurpassed courage in the of port and starboard, of knots face of armed opposition.
instead of miles. He hears
the Quartermaster pipe the daily rou- No torpedo pilot can find his tine over a broadcasting system
sight and easy range of every in a ship.
It is an interesting fact in itself, also, that the im- mediate instinct of a Nazi ton at the split-second when, after weapon in the enemy's anti-air-
a breath-taking dive, maybe from craft armoury. wrenching himself free
10,000 feet, his aircraft is on an
· from claustrophobic con- even keel before it climbs steeply
stream finement, seeking clean out of the hellish
imaginary enemy fire.
He has pressed the release but-mark without being within close of loud-speakers much like that
air instead of the dark
He is piped up in the morning with "Heave, ho! Heave, ho! Lash Before the split-second, his brain up and stow!" (Though there are of works at lightning speed. The no hammocks to stow away.) He precise height at which he must hears "Stand Easy!" for the ten- pull out of his dizzy dive, the minutes mid-morning and mid-
cavern of Hitlerian philo- the first who have survived the and
Five -Now our pilot is one of speed of 1 moving target afternoon breaks, and "Out
sophy in action, should be
to make for Britain. Ap-
parently even in a Ger- thought, man mind, impregnated through.
still gleamed
its probable course of Pipest" for duties to be resumed, evasion, the setting of his torpedo "Hands to, Dinner!" for the mid- for speed and running depth are day meal.. Bash through his brain. but a few of the calculations that
Time is too short for "nerves."
"It's just like shooting at - running rubbit you donne dead at 15. but ahead."
by close contact for What lies behind the years with the most male- dramatic flight, remains "Really," a pilot told me, volent mentality
in to be disclosed. But it is Europe, the vision of Bri- crystal clear, without that tain as a safe refuge, as information, that "there the bastion of liberty, the is something rotten in the home of freedom of state of Denmark.”
And those baffling and confus- ing heights from which, we are told, torpedocs are released? Some say 16 feet, Some 150. Some 500.
He calls the cookhouse the gul ley, and lives in a hut named after an admiral. Sallor, as well as air- man is the torpedo-pilot.
Graduating in perhaps the most
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