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GOERING'S LAST FLING
HAVE
been rending Clostermann's
l'ierre fine book "The Big Show" and I have just
finished the chap- ter
Luft- entitled The waffe's Last Effort, which deseribes the large-scale at- tack carried out at a low altitude on January 1, 1945. by the German fighter force
the Western Front against the British and American airfields in Hol land, Belgium and Northern France.
mans.
man records
been able to examine since V Day.
As a result. I have come to
WERE the RAF caught napping that day when the Germans wrecked nearly 300 Allied aircraft in few minutes ? The question is being asked about A new account of the Luftwaffe's last effort.
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TO-DAY, the wartime chief of Fighter Command (1940-42) makes the first authoritative statement on this attack.
-by-
MARSHAL OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE
Lord Douglas of Kirtleside
10
was
It's time the grocer's son wore pips
CUR
By ROBERT JESSEL
LONDON. except Eton, but it only
Ceta WILLIAM SLIM, into the 18th place in the list, with 27. Chief of the Imperial General Staff, thinks that our young soldiers are the best we ever had in pence- time. He said so in Edin- burgh.
"They respond magnifcently," he added, "to the right leader- ship."
I have been down to the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, where I saw some thing of how that leadership is fostered,
FACT THREE: Barely ONG posiver cadet In Ave
comes DE from schools in that part England north of a line drawn from Bristol to the Wash.
It's free
A PARENT had to pay £100 a term to have his son at Sandhurst before the war, Today the £1,000 training is free.
vole.
to
The change was not made in order to win the public school boys' parents for the Socialist It was part of a scheme attract the grocer's son no Since Sandhurst reopened less than the company direc- four years ago it has welcomed tor's, 2,073 British Regular Artny oflcers in the making-boys of 18 og 19 who stay for an 18 months course before becoming
Let the facts tell how far the Socialists have been able to keep their promise that it would be ability, not the old school
attacks were not being presønd home; in fact, results were so poor that Hiller bath been hinting that the Luftwaffe would do batter in the infantry.
The operation was originally planned to synchronise with Von
Rundstedt's Ardennes Ricor
officers, offensive in December 1944, and this would have obviously been the right timing from the Ger-
of view. AL man polat of
the beginning of this battle, however, the weather was not favourable, which got a young man in. to such
13 fines
FACT ONE: Seventy percent, weather operation, and in the later stages of the of the cadets still come from battle the Luftwaffe
too pubile schools. Irsy
with other tasks of 1 There are, in all, about 200 defensive mature,
public schools in the British There is no evidence that Now Isles. A small clique of them, Year's Day was chosen in the 23 in all, have made a very hope of finding the RAF suffer-nice corner in Sandhurst cadet- ing from a hang-over. The date ships under Mr Strachey's Old was selected because. for
nose. Between them. the Elonian Arst time for weeks, the weather they reared no fewer than 1,154 forecast for the whole area was of the academy's 2,973 pestwar quite favourable, though It is cadets,
15 true that one German com- mander, necording to some of his pilots who were shot down and token prisoner, did hint that the after-effects of New Year's Eve might make things easier for the
.
From Eton
So were the pay increases.. An officer no Jonger needs. private means. A newly gazetted second-leutenant is today paki the equivalent of £381 a year. There are few other walks ct life in which a professional man nged 20 15 treated so hand- somely.
But the plans have failed. Fewer than one in three of to- morrow's cfcera will have come from grammar schools or The equivalent, and it is time that the Army Council put this right.
Waiting
TODAY there are 200 empty places in the R.M.A. I find it hard to believe that there are not five times that number of boys
in grammor schools. available,
the main blame upon has
secondary school head- Northern and Midland schools. masters and carcer masters in
There have been divergent views on the success or other- wise of this massed attack. Clostermann obviously regards Has a big success for the Ger
Other people have re- presented it as something of a failure, and so I
have taken the
In this I am sure he was right, bit of a field day, as they trouble to examine the official accounted for the majority of the As far as possible he tried
TAKE Wellington College, in reculs which have now been man fighters shot down. have not more than one wing of
Berkshire, for example. It compiled by the Air Historical As for personnel; the R.A.. each airteld, but this rule couk
was founded in 1850. The fees Branch of the Air
Ministry, had 46 killed and 145 injured, not be adhered to on the water
are around £250 a year, and it headmasters have made a point But in the South of England which include the actual Ger- including both the pilots and fields of the Low Countries; attackers.
have which we
has a strong Army connection of visiting the R.M.A. and but personnel, ground
anat the where concrete runways Germans lost more than
From the result, however, it has sent 207 cadets to Sand- 200 hardstandings were very scarce.
have been remarkably impress- air-
is evident that the defence was burst far more than all the
cd. hter pilots according to their Consequently our crowded
schools in Lancashire, York- own squadron reports.
fields presented very vulnerable well on is toes.
Sandhurst is transformed. It Durbam put targets
to the low-flying German THE VERDICT
now as much a university fighters.
as a military college, with 70 Elon What was the idea behind
this O
College, second
civilian dons teaching academic cradle of tomorrow's extravagan! expenditure of pilots sum up, one can say that and aircraft by the Germans while moderately successful from a year) has produced 104 post-rated
this spectacular operation, field-marshals. Eton (fees £308 subjects as well as a staff. of cfficers, Visitors have It was due originally the German point of view, had war cadets. Next come Hailey- anothery and the
noted the
of complete lack with dissatisfaction
little or no effect on the course
remarkably the Luftwaffe.
bury and Winchester, with 60- high morale of the students. Cons American about November 1, 1944,
of the war, owing to the vast cdd aplece, then Sherborne, called a meeting of his air com- production in
and British aircraft Marlborough, and Cheltenham, he is talking about. The Army Sir William Slim knows what January manders in Berlin. The
1946, man cracked the whip with some damaged alreraft to be quickly great which enabled destroyed and vigour; his Luftwaffe had no: teen pulling its weight; the seale replaced. of effort was not big enough and
the broad conclusion that the outcome of the battle Was draw.
THE LOSSES
LOSTERMANN Is right in 300
CLOSTERMANN
of
The loss of this number aircraft was, of course, a severe blow to the R.AF. and American
Air Force, but the losses. were made good within a week.
TOO COSTLY Allied aircraft had been put cut
THE German pilot losses were of action." The actual figures THE
however, a more severe blow were 107 British and American
140 to the hard-pressed Luftwaffe aircraft destroyed and damaged to a greater or lesser The operation, in fact, proved to degree; but Clostermann under- & loo costly to repeal, as the rales the casualties suffered on
on Luftwaffe simply could not at this time to lose so the German skle. Clostermann afford
pilots again. pats the Cerman carualties as many,
including 36 enemy fighters shot down by experienced formation
leaders. British and American fighters, After this operation no moze with 57 more shot down by than desultory air attacks west
of the Rhine were made. Allied A.A. guns, a total of 93.
It-has-been-asked-why--the RAF fighters were so crowded and why a up on their airfields, greater degree of dispersion. not enforced
Marshal
Air
MYDS
Coningham.
gham, however, considered
The German records, however, 193 German aircraft say that were destroyed, including 165 missing, and that 18 in addition were damaged. Of this total
that it was necessary to take this about 90 were shot down by the risk in order to provide the Allied Bghters, and about 100 by maximum support to the Allled Allied A.A. The Allied A.A. armies in their advance from gunners, it will be seen, had a nirdelds close to the front line.
JOBS FOR ALL
THE WOMEN
fo
(World
Reserved
Copyright London Express Service.)
Take
shire, and gether. leading
more than 50 each.
10-
Is
of Today's All Right, And it FACT TWO: The leading will be better still when mora grammer school in the Sandhurst grocer's sons enter it the Sand- stakes Portsmouth is big- hurst way. ger than any of these
(London Expricax Service) ·
WAS HITLER S
SECRET SERVICE
CHIEF A
schools
CANARIS
BRITISH AGENT?
WE
-NTIL now practically conce activity. Hence Conaris's slovakia, I will make an end of because it was thought too in-
nothing hus
been organisation was known as the this regime." The proof? An credible to be true, known about Admiral Abwehr or Security. Service. open pledge from Britain, to
assist Czechoslovakia In the E owe Canaris one other Wilhelm Canaris, apart from For some years at least event of wur,
debt according to Mr the fact that he ran the Canaris worked loyally in sup-
Colvin, When the war was German Secret Service from received the nickname of Kicker bringing back, it is said, was a
port of the Hitler regime. He All the emissary succeeded in beginning to turn against him, 1935 until 1944, when he or "peeper," on account of his warning letter from Mr Chur Hitler ordered his Secret Ser-
vice chief to arrange perished with the other Insatiable curiosity. "I tell them chill, who was not then a mem
of Mr. Churchill. assasination once said, "and what they can if this issue were overthrow Hitler pass on to others." plot to
forced by this order, although his agents Hitler war would come BoGuer which miscarried in July of
or later, NEW YORK. "You'd think Howard would
The first signs of disillusion the get tired of making those fims the latter year.
apparently camo in 1938 with With this we are, told that the "purge" boul flying."
of General Von Canaris did what he could and
From R. M. MacCOLL
the
leading conspirators in the what they want to know," he ber of the Government, that Canaris deliberately disregarded
Now there is published a book which suggests that, not only did Canaris work closely with the conspirators throughout much of this period but that he also con-
by MONTGOMERY HYDE, MP
Until this point Canaris had That Admiral Canaris was believed that
the German
are believed to have had several opportunities of carrying out.
Finally we are Informed that his Service warned us of the V-weapons and so gave us an Opportunity of reducing their destructive effect.
More credible than there assertions are the details of
his
IN America. It is
women who rule the roost, but I had not realised MRS BERTHA TIMM, mayor just how far they have ex- of Plataview, Minnesota, and a mother of five, has resigned. lended their beachhead in She said she would not stand the that sacrosanct realm of the language employed by the men American male-Business. councillors. "I did not know
• Lutest. figures show that such words existed," she com- veyed details of important Fritsch. This Incident oc by September 14, 1938 General Canoris's Implication in the 17,300,000 women are holding plained.
military dévelopments to curred shortly after the spec- von Witzleben commander of conspiracy which cost him his down Jobs (that's not counting
GLASS-DOMED, or the girls
"pent Britain. The author, Mr tecular treason trials in Russia, the Berlin area, General Halder life. These are based on Ger- down on the farm house." irains are a big success. Jan
"I too." sald Hitler in discus- and others had their plans man sources which appear re- either); by far the largest
Colvin, who The Union Paelic gives them
spent sing Stalin's action at the time, ready to arrest Hiller on his table. number of any recorded peace the
from Berchtesgaden. credit for D 40
several years in Germany would not recoil from des- return percent lime wat
offlcers if they Then came the news of Cham- Early in 1044 Canaris Was as a newspaper correspon- troying 10,000 There are two main reasons lump in business.
Hitler had called dent. claims that Hitler's opposed themselves to my will berlain's first Blight to Germany dismissed. for the rush. First, there are COMEDIAN FRED ALLEN.
What is that in a nation of and the consequent surrender for a report on the situation on more Jobs going. Second, who has never liked TV, says chief of intelligence played eighty million?
Russian 1 do not want at Munich and the collapse of the
Front which married women want to work that up in Doston a Dobermann the dual role of German men of intelligence. I want men the plot.
Canaris had provided with his because of the high cost of Pinscher bit his six-year-old patriot and British agent. of brutality."
usual accuracy. "Are you try-, living
muster while the lad was tele-
THEREAFTER Canaris is sup- ing to tell me that I am going Rather
more than half the viewing. This, thinks Allen,
posed to have worked eun to lose the war?" shouted Hit- women at work are married. was the logical thing to do. The
an efficient intelligence chief General Staff was a force which ningly and courageously against er overturning a table and
the Admiral by And the slogan is "Let 'em all dog couldn't turn off the set, so come." As the head of one big it did the next best thing.
"Mein Fuehrer," replied and served his country well could outride a period of Nazi the Nazis, Here are some ex- Chicago employment agency
revolution. Now it is alleged amples of his handiwork, puts it "IT she walks and BILL has been introduced there seems little reason to that he began to have doubts quoted by Mr Colvin which I Canaris. "I have said nothing breaths, I can place her." Into the Florida State Parlia- doubt. That he also became and to work for, Hitler's down- must say I find hard to believe. about losing the war. I have tried to explain the military THE MOST tipily named judge ment to ban the use of the implicated with the anti- fall.
Canaris informed AE of situation on the Russian Front." in America-Learned Hand-is phrase
Tom" and Nazi generals seems beyond AT. first he hoped that this Hitler's retiring from the United States make it "Peeping Joe" instead dispute, in the light of his A might be achieved by way of Luftwaffe on London the mo- THE story of Admiral Canaris,
Mr Chamberlain made his Appeals
The bill's sponsor: Tom John-
presented, eventual fate.
a crushing failuro in Nazi dip ment But, although he lo`70, die son.
lomacy which would utterly broadcast declaration of war, atrange one. How much
Hitler was pere quently
foot and how much greatest living American jurist"
Action is FILM ACTRESS Joanne
But that Canurls, an ex-naval discredit the regimo. According officer imbued with atl the to Mr Colvin, Camaris did his costly gesture which would be that the man may have been a not to make this possibly not easy to determine. I agree casional work in the Federal courts to get her former hus-
German service traditions of best to inform the British
Gov-
of no District Court.
band to give her 33,020 dollars the old school, should have de ernment of Germany's military
military importance at launch German patriot, but, that stage. Hand
Canaria was unable however indirectly his merciless with which, she claims, ought to be liberately betrayed his country wealneas during the period of lawyers who appeared in court going her way.
is a thesis which I find difficult the Czech crisis in the summer change of plon-hence that air Allied cause in the ebrence of
to get
news through of the of action may have assisted the without further of 1938, urging Chamberlain to accept
I remain raid warning which London re- definite proof, Haymes, Who's he married to evidence than Mr. Colvin, has call Hitler's blum.
ceived shortly after 11 o'clock convinced that he was a Bri now? Nora Eddington.
adduced.
To an emissary of the dis on the morning of September fish agent as well.. Still any- Who is 'her formar husband?
thing is possible in the dark The Versailles Treaty had, contented German generals who 3, 1939. Flynn. Who's 'Errol restricted
and tangled world of " decrot Germany's armed went on a secret visit to Eng to. now? Patrice forces to counter-espionage, as land at this time, Canaris is Similarly Canaris tried to Intelligence, and this fantastic w their only legitimate Intell reported to have said. "If you inform us of the date of the tale, may just conceivably be
bring me from London positive Invalon of Norway, a warning true, fan proof that the British will make which the Norwegian Legration and m
invado · Czocho, in Berlin- omitted to paša - on
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