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EMPIRE AIR MAIL DEFENCE
New Facilities. This Year
AN "ALL-UP” SERVICE
AGAINST
NEW NAVY
AIR STATION
AIRCRAFT
AT ALAMEDA
יך
What Germany Is Cost Not To Exceed
Doing
$13,500,000
Delegates to 'the Imperial Con- ference and officials of oversea Government services were enter-
Statements have been made that President Roosevelt recently tained at luncheon by the Govern- cur defence against invading air-signed a bill establishing a nával ment recently at King George V craft is deficient becausé ground air station at Alameda, California, Hall, St. Martin'ş-le-Grand.,
troops, are controlled by the Army | the cost of the station is not to Major Tryon, Postmaster-Gener- and air fighters by the Royal Air | exceed $13,500,000. The Secretary al, presided, and proposed the Force. Further, the guns are ad- of Navy, Mr. Claude Swanson, re- toast of Imperial Communica-ministered by the Royal Artillery, cently declared that the establish- tions."
He said that the Post the searchlights by the Royal En- ment of the Alameda, air base'was Office with a staff of 252,000 was gineers, the Observer Corps la ctví- | necessary for defence of the west continually adopting new mellan. and protective measures const. chanism, but at the end of last against gas and fire, are · looked year, after 10 years' use of labour-after by the Home Omce, writes a saving devices, they were employ- Home correspondent. ing 15,000 more people. Relations, Critics of our methods point to between the Post Office and the the German anti-aircraft defence, public had never been more friend-which is completely in the hands ly than at present. Aviation was of one department, and neglect to making a wonderful contribution to give any credit for the very-com- Imperial communications, and the plete system of correlation which Great Empire Air Mail scheme has been worked out for the de- An appropriation of one million about to be established would be fence of London and other im- dollars is available to start work the happy result of a great Important centres.
without further action "by Con- perial partnership. The principle Whether the defence is in the gress, Navy Committee attaches underlying their policy was that hands of one or two, or even three said. The measure would autho- transmission by air should be re- or four separate services does not rize the construction of all neces- garded not as something excep-matter provided that in action they sary buildings and accessories and tional, but as an ordinary form of are under one command. Unity of bulkheading and dredging which transport.
command is provided for in our is necessary in San Francisco Bay, defence scheme.
They contemplated what they called an all-up" service. The postage on ärst-class mali from the United Kingdom would be lid, per
services
40.000 FEET BANGE
Provision Inserted by the House of Representatives and later ac cepted by the Senate, however, struction until title to certain ! prevent the beginning of con- property adjacent to Bentmen Field, former Army air Geld, is conveyed to the Navy Department,
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German Ideas differ to some ex-tion with our balloon aprons, copy- oz, for letters and Id. for post-tent from our own, but whethering the reticence in this matter of Cards. A start was to be made in these ideas are better than ours other countries, no comparison can about a month with the service to only actual test can determine.be made. South and East Africa. Similar The German military authorities -The Germans are said to have to India and Malaya have allowed something to be some mobile aprons, but thedr would, he hoped, begin at the end known of the defences of Berlin, efficiency is doubted. as of this year and a service to Aus- but little or nothing about their balloon cannot be towed very fast tralia early. In 1938. Air mails protective measures for other parts when it is inflated, and if it is across the Atlantle, which he hoped of Germany. We, with the neces- taken from place to place deflated would result in the near future alty for getting recruits for a volun-the filling of the gas bag will oc- Mul- from the experimental flights to te tary service, have advertised our cupy a considerable time.
tiple tube aning cuts down the made this year, would have to be own methods fairly completely. carried at first on a surcharge
The Germans believe in the use time considerably, but hydrogen basis, owing to considerations of of two different types of gun for tubes are weighty things to cart space, but he hoped that the "all-fighting aircraft from the ground. about. up" lid charge wou one day ex- tend to the West as well as to the
East.
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS In the work of the Postal and the Tele-communications Unions they found the whole world work- ing in a spirit of complete accord. He wished this happy co-operation
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the nations of the world to all their
international relations. It was be yond the power of this country alone to achieve that ideal, but at all events the British Empire could set an example, for the rest of the world could sec 400,000,000 people at peace among themselves.
They have a very quick-firing Citites who compare the air de- weapon of about 1 in bore for fences of one country with those tackling low-flying aircraft, and an of another usually fall to take into efficient high-altitude weapon of consideration ..the fact that approximately 34 in. bore, which is arrangements which are quite said to be capable of driving a shell for one type of terrain might be to a height of 40,000 ft. They have quite unsuitable for another. The also been experimenting with a British defence scheme has been rocket type of projectile, but of this worked out for our own country. very little is known.
Our, military authorities are satis- fed that it will be emèlent when we have the men and the material to make it complete.
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The present British gun has only an altitude range of about 18,000 ft. but the new guns will have a range of at least 30,000 ft.
There is also in preparation" a rapid-are gun firing a shell of about 2 lbs., but no official in- formation is available as to whe-
THE SEARCHLIGHTS
ther it is to be used in the organis- governed by their own parliaments, Living under one Crown. When ed defence of London and other they considered the condition of cities. It will certainly be used in other countries under various forms the field against low-flying aircraft. of dictatorship, whether of the Right or of the Left, they found that the dictatorship countries always been good, and there is. The German searchlights have were not making as good a recovery little to choose between theirs and as the British Empire was achieving ours. They are believed to be ex- under the parliamentary system perimenting with an extremely and having retained its liberty.
Senator Clarkson, Minister of
efficient type of mercury arc, but
lamps, for British, as well as Ameri- they have no monopoly of these
ready producing them, at any rate: ean and Dutch, companies are al- in the laboratory. The advantage
be
Posts and Telegraphs of the Union of South Africa, responding to the toast, said that paradoxical as it might seem the more independent the various units of the Common of this type of lamp is that it re- wealth had become the greater quires no carbons and no adjust- had become the necessity for close ment of the light. Once the light and rapid communication between is switched on it remains constant them. The people of the British and does not flutter. Commonwealth of Nations were
In theory the German predictor growing to know and understand a better Instrument than ours. one another better, but much more The predictor is a complicated Empire news should be made avail-
calculating instrument, ' which able to all the Dominions. How solves the problem of the direction mary people in Edgland knew that
in which the gun is... to South Africa was Great Britain's pointed and the height at which best customer, followed closely by the shell is to be burst. It allows India and Australia? In Bouth for the speed of the aircraft, the Africa they were well supplied with direction of its travel, whether st British news, but they were poorly is climbing or descending, and the informed on matters affecting the amount of its drift. other Dominions. They must be-
'The name predictor come educated to understand the that its work is so to aim the gun problems with which other parts that the bursting shell and the air- of the Empire had to deal and thus craft will meet on their respective to realize how dependent they all courses. It is, in fact, an electrical were for their individual safety and mechanical means of doing and prosperity on the security and what the game shot does instinc prosperity of the Empire as atively when he swings on to, and whole. He hoped that the B.B.C. would give them a little more Em-Iontof
in front of a flying bird.
pire news is
levision program
indicates
SCENAS PREDICTOR
A television programme was The British predictor is worked afterwards shown and the guests by six men. The German Instru then divided into groups and were ment, which also allows for swoop shown over the international tele-ing or curved fight, requires ten phone exchange, the central tele-men to work 1. It is also a
con- graph office, the oversea mails desiderably bigger piece of apparatus." partment, and the Post Office un-British authority is of opinion that derground railway, i
the additional complications neces- sary to allow for curved fight are: not worth while, in that every man added to the predictor, crew mul- tiplies the chances of mistakes.
B.B.C OFFICIAL'S
EMPIRE TOUR
A good deal bas been heard late- Mr. J. B. Clark, Director of the ly of the balloon apron, or "bar- BBC. Empire service, left England rage," for anti-aircraft defence. recently for an Empire tour, from We have been told that both the which he will (not return until German and French balloon aprons early December. He will investigate | Kre set much higher in the air problems that mutually affect the than ours Since our defence BB.C. and other broadcasting ser- spokesmen have wisely declined to vices in the Empire.
give any actual figures in connec-
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