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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 4, 1941.
BRITAIN GETS ON TOP IN
Pr
AIR WAR SEAWEED ON
(By R. Maillard Stead).
COMPLETING MORE THAN 150 INTENSE RAIDS ON GERMANY SINCE THE RUSSO-GER- MAN WAR BEGAN, THE R.A.F. IS BUILDING UP WITH EACH BOMB BURST THE FEELING THAT BRITAIN IS RAPIDLY ESTABLISHING AIR AS- CENDANCY OVER THE LUFTWAFFE.
Visiting centres concerned with Britain's inten- sified sky campaign against the Reich, this writer not only heard this opinion expressed, but also that nearly a month of large-scale dawn to dawn raids is a tale of increasing Allied air offensive which must ultimately negative Nazi military might.
THE FIRE BOMB
Tests are about: to be made with seaweed which, it is believed,
·will prove-effectual in extinguishing incen- diary bombs.
It is said that it will sove fire watchers from bomb splashes.
Its one disadvan- tage, however, is that it quickly dries, there- by losing much of its efficiency.
SHE SAW
The opinion was not ventured, with guns to cover attacks from boastfully, It was stated as a mat-rear, front, above and below and ber of inevitable fact by persons in construction it is the nearest in a good position to assess the thing to a block of flats produced rise of Britain's airpower at this in the way of service aircraft. Aft time when the Germans are hav-, is the gunners' department with
firing
side out the drain on theirs weapons ing 11 heavy
"blisters" through deepening committments through transparent on the Russian front.
and downward through a hatch The weight of the blows with which the R.A.F. is hammering the Reich and the occupied coun- tries from the air day and night has become so heavy that writers of one R.A.F. official communique felt justified in using the
to word "invade"
describe the activities of large bomber forces sent out simultaneously on night raids.
forward of that is the radio opera- SUICIDE
THROUGH
SPY HOLE
tor's cabin with more guns fring through the hatch at the top, and thence if you take a walk through the bomb department you come to the pilots cockpit with seuls and controls for two. Above is a hatch
to for the captain of the craft make stellar reckonings and be- low, in the nose of the ship, is a
Looking through a spy- cabin for the navigator and bomb is Dawn to dawn raids on Western aimer where
operated the hole, a nurse at St. Mary's gyroscopically controlled Sperry Hospital, Paddington, saw Bombsight for which great ac- curacy is claimed by marksmen Mrs. Mary Geraldine Moz- who have used it on Nazi ship-
ley, 64, wife of Canon John Kenneth Mozley, of St. Paul's Cathedral, climb What makes the all around per-out of a second-floor ward
Germany notably Germany's in- dustrial Ruhr Valley and shipping centres along the coast-have been followed up by large-scale day- light assaults on Northern ping.
France and the so-called "invasion
ports." The pattern was followed Engines' 'Power Saved
recently when bombers escorted by large numbers of fighter craft
swept across the Channel to bombformance of the machine so ex-
ان
the German-held Channel coast ceptional is the system of super-Window and fall to her following a night
heavy charging worked by the flow of death. raids on the German naval base exhaust gases, thereby using up
The nurse said at the Hummer- in the four at Wilhelmshaven. The fact that none of the power
smith inquest. "I called her name, the R.A.F. continues these night Wright Cyclone 1,200 horsepower but she took no notice, and when and day raids -especially the day- engines.
I got in she was hanging on the indicates light raids-obvieusly
ledge by her hands. I caught that German opposition to them
hold of her left shoulder, but she is at least not strong enough to
let go her hold and fell into the discourage them.
area below."
Raids On Italy Significant
Furthermore,
hour.
has a
range
Buper-
any
Canon Mozley described how his wife had worried after "ä terrible night" in the Cathedral severe raid on crypt during a
London. Suicide while the balance of the her mind was disturbed was verdict.
TERRIER IS BLITZ HERO.
The "Fortress" close on to 2,500 miles at a cruising speed of 220 miles an
special but its chargere give it a valuable capacity for reaching 305 miles . an hour at 25,000 feet.
The crew varies in number be- it is significant 'tween seven and nine and there is that while these intensified raids an elaborate system of telephonic have been going on, the British intercommunication, although the have been sufficiently strong to resise of the engines doesn't forbid new heavy night attacks on such conversation by ordinary means.
Sitting in the piluts, sent this points in Italy as Naples and the island of Steily, as well as Crete writer couldn't help thinking the "fortress" was #1 prodigious and occupied Greece.
to Handle The R.A.F. has seldom been 'amount of aeroplane guilty of exaggeration and when with its wingspan of 103 feet and it says a large force" was over a length of 68 feet, but a pilot flown It suid it was each of five separate German who had
comfortable than "more cilies that can be taken to mean
machine and free that the bomber command is other service
REX, A MONGREL TERRIER,
OF now able to dispatch hundreds from any vice."
AN EAST The "Fortress" has operated at IS THE HERO of 'planes on a elmultaneous at-
British crews, MIDLAND TOWN. tack-even though the period 30,000 feet with
As bombs fell near his home of darkness these summer Her capacity for big performance nights is only about four hours, at high altitude is only one of the Rex awakened from sleep in the For the past fortnight almost "Fortress'" special attributes. It kitchen, leapt upstairs on to a every night raid on Germany has can fly on only two of its motors bed, and placed himself protect- been followed up by large-scale with a full load, can climb with ingly against the body of his lit- the it on three, can maintain height tle master, Johnny, Ave-year-old day walds on Germany and occupied countries along the unloaded on one-which Channel coast. Inevitably the toll that on a bombing trip it could son of Mr. and Mrs. John Kin- motors put out of The house was damaged, but taken of R.A.F. bombers since the have three big offensive began has shown a action, jettison its bombs, and get Johnny and Rex both escaped. decided increase. On July 10, for home by using a crossfeed system surviving engine instance, the British admitted the to supply the loss of 11 'planes in combat. But from the gasoline store routed to the question of replacements is the other three. no longer an embarrassing one for the British and recently I have lined up an American-made strik- ing force that is ready to hit the Germans harder than they have ever been hit before.
means
Important Industry
loch.
THREW RING AWAY —FATAL ATTACK ·
1,
After breaking her engagement Turning American planes over and throwing her engagement to the R.A.F. is becoming an in-ring in the fire, Irene Stacey, 17, in her home in portant British industry, and at wag" attacked the assembly depot, where this Bracebridge Road, Erdington, Bir- Twenty Boeing Bombers writer saw the latest array of mingham. A few hours later, she
Boeings. being? modified for opera- died, These are the 20 Boeing 17C tional purposes, large buildings A man will be charged with the bombers which, have flown across were allotted for use as special murder of the girl. the Atlantic in completion of a maintenance-shops, for. Pratt and cash down order a year and a half Whitney, Allison, and Wright
the Germans came to grips with ago and which are heralds of new jengines. Engines go; in for servic- and improved Boeing machines to ing after 120 hours of flying, and ⠀⠀ - Russia.” come later under the provisions of work on them is done by former One night recently this writer motor garage mechanics who have was in a watchtower at a night the Lease-Lend law.
Fortress One," as the Air volunteered for this woric and fighter station when the Luftwaffe Ministry has renamed the Boeing have been specially trained in a came over, and it was hearten- type (already on hand, is a 'plane three months", course.
ing to appreciate the way the de- of which British pilots speak most Buch is the shape of things to fenders put out and kept on the VIt seems highly.
comesfor Britain-on-the-line-of: trail of their quarry, attack, On the line of defence. only a short while ago that we such an improvement has been just used to take off and hope achlovod Int the, detection of for the best," said one pilot, marauding bombers that night "knowing it would be almost fighter pilots are; confident of sheer chance if we met anything. continuing to
exact a heavy But now ... well, it's very differ- price from raiders, if and when cut, and if the Jerries' are around- Nazi raids are resumed on the they know wo aren't likely to be scale they were launched before far away."
In fact, they describe it as >the best bomber therezia, tak- Wing-together the woight of the missiles it can moarry and tho distance, speed and helght it can carry them. It can carry bombs 2,000 8,000 pounds of miles. The Fortress fairly bristles
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