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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 10, 1941.
CHANGES IN
WAR OVER AIR WAR BRITAIN
(By Major Oliver Stewart)
THE TEMPORARY cessation of heavy aerial bombing gave time and opportunity for a change in the strategical situation on the home front to be apprehended and for the new duties which will be imposed upon the population of these islands when the fighting flares up again to be defined and under- stood.
In the past passive defence has been imposed In the future active by the strategical conditions. defence will become available. It will be the back- ground for the heavy counter-attacks now in pre- paration,
as in the approach In the past the
off too great a velocity
- to the enemy bombing aircraft was the small incendiary bombs signal for many non-combatant explosive aller and the fuse, there for design to is endless opportunity community members of the take cover, The general atmos- ingenuity. phere in the country was one of that were enduring the blows known to be coming without Alin- ching.
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Heavier Loads
Our
armament
experts have been successful in
But now there is in every obviously field the appropriate counter making a fairly large advance in
of The majority stroke.
the this fleld. The wider consequence air offensive against civil an population are mobilised is that our and trained for
augmented in active defence Germany will be measures, They
fire-wat-three separate direct'ons, by the chers, fire fighters, A.R.P. work- increased load-carrying capacity ers, first-aid squads,
the of the new bombers, such as the
like.
Almost everybody has his Stirling, the Manchester and Hali- specific task.
Bre
and
Fighting Back
at-
fax; by the large bomber force which is now becoming available, and by the increased destructive power of the bombs themselves.
The Stirling can carry a heavy load of bombs. The American Consolidated Liberator is said
In the American papers to carry more than four tons of bombs, and they say that this machine
FRANCE NEEDS CATS
Commenting on an anti-rat campaign which is being waged in France, the Paris correspondent of the Madrid Catholic or- gan Ya points out that in the long run the most efficient and of cheapest enemy the rat is the cat. He added that he had not the "slightest ob- jection to declaring that stewed cat is eaten on a large scale in Paris and neigh- bourhood."
00000
DEAD HERO
HUNTED AS DESERTER'
Months after her A.F.S. has, in addition to this, excellent husband had been buried
weight-lifting power. the high top speed of more miles an hour.
than 330 in a hero's grave, a widow received his calling-up
The bomb load of these machines
varies inversely with the range papers from the Ministry
operating, of Labour.
which they are
So now when a big aerial tack develops the people of our cities no longer take cover, they come out to fight the enemy with the appropriate implements. In- stead of go'ng to ground they
Firemen rise and
shine.
fight airmen. The A.R.P. services save life and property. The rescue and Arst-did squads are active. The repair organisations get to work. Those who organise the housing and feeding of the people whose at homes have been destroyed go because of the fuel requirements. into action. Members of
He had been actually sought the For attacks on places as near as Home Guard stand to.
the enemy's base at Brest the as a deserter.
James Dunkerley Spalding, It is the gradual shifting of bomb load would be much greater the initiative. Unlike the opera- than for attacks on places as far 31, was one of five members of This must be the Oldham A.F.S. killed flight- tions in Libya, the initiative in distant as Berlin.
home the air war at
is not borne in mind when comparing ing fires in the Manchester blitz side suddenly passed from
to enemy raids with our own. s'de.
by We have to grasp it prolonged effort. by increased activity and toughness in defence with mounting counter-attack.
Improving Defences
Our improving defences
not alone the outcome
of
A Comparison /
and was buried with four others
at a public funeral in Oldham on December 28 last.
"I at once gave up my hus-
identification
A study of German bomb loads band's ration and
of Ethel and operational strength appears cards," Mrs. Spalding,
the "Daily in "The Engineer." In it German Street, Oldham, told statements are analysed, and it is Mirror. are concluded that during a period of "Yet on February 19 I receiv- I told days the 140
Intensive raiding ed his calling-up papers.
of
"This week a detective came Into the street saying that he husband was looking for my
Я mistake more active efforts of the civil forty tons of bombs were dropped the authorities that
March per day. It is had been made, but on defence workers. They are also in eight raids
27 the papers came again. the outcome of technical improve- argued that this would mean ments in the Royal
then in use, Air Force with the aircraft
Detective's Errand anti-aircraft and in the
of which were fighter- guns some their and
accessories and bombers an average of forty In some of the equipment, The "other devices", aircraft per raid. are beginning to come into play, concentrated raids 700 tons ot sometimes said to Sir Alan Brooke has warn bombs were ed ua that an invasion at have been taken, and this. would
-- "Neighbours told him of the tempt la likely, and, that: -air- mean "some 500 bombing aircraft.
-Thèse considerations show terrible mistake that had borne troops would play a big part In
how great is the advantage con made and he did not come one, Many of them might, he said,, by landed by ferred upon the Royal Air Force the house.
Bomber Command by the turn- glider.
ing out' in quantity by our fac- tories and by those of the United States of the. new and bigger! 'bombers. By reducing the
For dealing with such pro- babilities it is obvious that the Intensified activities of the civil defence forces are of the utmost value. A nation that goes to ground in heavy raids is clearly air- more easily surprised by borne troops than one which out and about looking for trouble.
The New Bomb
s
as a deserter..
"The
been
to
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calling-up papers
· have given to the chief of the A.F.8., who is taking the mat. ter. up.". Spalding left two children, number of '' zeroplanes needed years and 13 months. for a given weight of attack, they ease the operational and
traffic control problems. Another point also emerges. The hard hitting of our fighters, with their batteries of eight machine- guns, caused the Germans to fit The other side of the picture, their aeroplanes with an increas the mounting: British air offen- ing weight of protective armour.
·sive, is of equal importance. This had the effect of diminish- During the week it has been ing their bomb load.
officially announced that a new
type of bombs has been used by the Royal Air Force on targets
in Germany. It is said to be
far more effective
types.
than earlier
DODGED FIRE
WATCH: FINED Sophocles Zisirus, employed as
PLANE HIT, GOT REVENGE
5
His bomber hit by A.A. fire while on a raid over Occupied Holland, a Bri
Readers will not expect to a walter in the restaurant of tish pilot determined to hear any details of this bomb Stagg and Russell's, Le'cester do as much damage as he in these columns. The most gen- Square. falled to carry out fire- éral comments might prove of prevention duties alloted to him could value to the enemy. No technical and was prosecuted at Bow Street Information about it has been and convicted and fined £5. officially accorded,, and we must
EN CLEARED
be content for the moment, with] WEST END VICAR the vague, and purely figurative remark that its explosive effect is “five times" that of other types.
PC
Both
the machine.
fight
wore dam
Dotermined
the pilot came
[fow and gaye.
chance to wifiro which had hit their
Thoybaw the gun crow The gun was+allanced; *** Then a stick of bombs / was dropped on a line of barges.
The Rev. Ernest Robert d'Arcy
· Bomb design, however, lends Hutton, 31, vicar of the Church scope for a great deal of work, for the Announciation, Bryanston From the extenal shape which Street, W was found not guilty, may be deliberately adjusted to at the Old Balley of committing afford a high, air drag so as to, an improper act with a boy of 1/the direction on England and prevent the bomb from attaining at his Hyde Park Mansions flat reached home.
The pilot turned his plane in