SECRETS OF NAZI AIR FORCE
"Britain's Rearming is
Very Modest
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Berlin.
Field-Marshal Goring's newspaper, the National Zeitung, recently quoted an article by an Italian -expert in L'Ala d' Italia in which it declared that Germany's front-line air strength at the time of the Munich conference was 3,000 'planes.
This excluded reserves and convertible private machince.
and sports
"The present building programme," adds the article, "will bring the strength of the air force up to 6,000 first-line machines between 1940 and 1941.
"Britain's progranine for 1040 amounts to only 2,000 'planes.
"Germany has 750 military aero- dromes, compared with Great Bri-, ialn's 200 and France's 250,"
In reprinting these estimates, the National Zeitung approves them na correct.
Major von Wedel, of the War Omce, states in several journals to- day that before marching Into Sudetenland, Germany had many thousands of anti-olreraft guns and machine-guns ready to protect all; parts of the country. Hundreds of anti-aircraft batteries were sent to the Czech frontiers,
"It would barely have been pos
Czech sible," he says, "for Soviet
bombers to have inflicted damage on German soil, and the same applies to possible attacks
other
direction."
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A British United Press message quotes an earlier series of articles in the National Zeitung in which these disclosures are made:
While Germany was still far- bidden an air force by the Treaty of Versailles, she was making military planes in Switzerland.
Fighters were produced in Germany in the guise of sport- ing or record-breaking machines.
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disarmament clauses of Versailles in 1933 the whole organisation of the air force was ready, says the National Zeitung, and in a few weeks the force expanded ten-fold.
While Britain's Air Minister, Sir Kingsley Wood, was declaring recently in a public speech that "one of the "In face of the mobilisation of our greatest benefits which could come to mankind would be air Industry, the present mobilisation the discovery of some means to defeat the bomber," exclu- of the British aircraft Industry ap-
sive details of Germany's trump card for civilian air de- pears very modest,"
Production of aircraft from one fence were being secured. Tactory was begun, it is claimed,
only 10 days after the work of build- Germany has produced the Ing the factory was started. Work perfect defence against air raids on the aircraft production plants-hundreds of transportable
went on for 24 hours a day.
Points from the articles Include:
The first years were spent on building training planes, thus creating a vast reserve of air- craft buliding technique end experience, and of pilots and observers.
Considerable experience was gained by the purchase of for- eign engines.
bomb-proof towers.
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"Ashamed” Imperial Airways
of
SPY TRIAL RIDDLE OF MAJOR
1938.
EMPIRE NEWS
RAND MINE FIRE
Cape Town. After burning for four days the fire in the Rand City Deep mine la now under control. Considerable damage has been caused by the fire, which occurred in No. 2 shati, 2,000ft underground. There are no casual- ties-Reuter.
Blackshirt Disorders-Anti - Nazi demonstrations and activities of South African Fascists-known na "Blackshirts"--have been
causing several lively scenes in Johannesburg and the Reef towns. Tear gas and evil-smelling bombs were thrown among the crowds at an anti-Nazi meeting in front of the City Hall in Johannesburg, which was attended by people sympathetic to Czecho- slovakia. At" a ́ ́Blackshirt rally at Benoni, on the Reef, a fight followed the unfurling of the swastika flag, when number of minoworkers rushed forward and tore down the emblem.---Reuter,
Revival in Buliding Figures pub lished to-day indicate a sharp revival in the Rand building Industry, and are a reliable barometer to trade generally. The value of plans pass- ed in September in Johannesburg rose to £977,228. This total has only been exceeded at the peak of a boom. The building trade improve- ment is accompanied by a revival in the property market values, which are the steadiest for this year. Canada
THANKSGIVING DAY SERVICES
Ottawa.
Special church services were held throughout the Dominion recently, on Canada's annual Thanksgiving Day. Banks and stock exchanges were closed and' almost every other form of business was suspended. In most clties there were no newspapers.
The coming Royal visit, the settle- ment of the European crisis, and the first good crop in Western Canada for seven years gave Canadians special reasons for thanksgiving. India
REVENUE LOSS BY PROHIBITION
Calcutta.
Mr. C. Rajagopalacharl, Prime Minister of Madras. In inaugurating prohibition in two more districts of
Chittorr Madras Cuddapah, and sald the Provincial Government would be losing £00,000 annually in revenue from Cuddapah alone as a result
Cholera Toll-Cholera is taking a severe toll in the Central Provinces. There have been 3,770 deaths during the past fortnight.
Mr. Gandhi and Federation.-- Writing on federation in his weekly In the cast of The Shoemaker's
paper Harijan," Mr. Gandhi de- Holiday" play in rehearsal at the clares that he is at one with Pandit a tiny Nehru that the Congress Party In Playhouse Theatre uppe part, that of a Dutch skipper, to be India will never consent to any form
of played by Major Christopher of federation which is not part
a Draper.
new Constitution framed by Congress through a constituent Assembly.
In the American spy ring trial now in progress in New York, self-con- fessed ex-spy Gustav Rumrich de- clared:
"I was instructed if I was caught to say I was working for England, not to make any reference to Ger- many. I was to say I was working for Major Christopher Draper of London,"
At the invitation of the Press agent of the Playhouse Theatre Major Draper was interviewed when he was rehearsing in the cast there.
PLAYED IN REPERTORY
To be at Le Bourget (Paris), and see the antiquated Imperial! Airways machines coming in makes one ashamed to be an He was seen in the wings 51X- square-jawed, heavily-bullt Englishman," said Mr. Herbert Hey, chairman of the Aviation
He was shown a newspaper report Committee of Bradford Cham- of the spy trial, pointed to Rumrich's ber of Commerce, at an air-evidence. port opening recently.
Behind the 15-foot walls of a secret military research station Int Aldershof, outside Berlin,
thousands of skilled men working on the mass construc- tion of these towers.
They are Herr Hitler's trump card for the protection of the nation's civil population from the air.
his He has shared
secret with Signor Mussolini,
Recently Mussolini's spokesman. Simor Gayda, referred in the Glor nale d'italia to "certain deadly de- fence weapons which have been kept;
FRENCH FIRST SAW THEM "It was a perfect senndal to see
that the the Horatius and other Imperial Air It has been rumoured
ways muchunes coming in and taking towers also liquse an entirely new
probably so long over their journey. anti-aircraft instrument, throwing out a ray, which makes the passage of aircraft impossible over a range of 10 miles.
Hundreds of war-time nirmen were called back as instructors to build up the new force. With- in a few years it would have been too late to do this. Germany's uir time-table was secret." follows:
1933-35: Secret activity in dying groups, first with training 'planes, and then with 'planes fitted with military equipment.
out
1035-30: Production of the first transitional fighting 'planes.
The existence of these towers was 1936-37: First real modern military 'plones in service.
known only to a few defence experts
onwards:
Mass produced until the crials, 1937
its was Then, when tension modern machines in general use.
height, French officers serving in the to Nobody,
Field Marshal from Goring downwards, had been idle in Maginot Line reported the appear-one
ance of scores of
strange,
at
"Imperial Airways machines went practically empty and Air France and British Airways would not take them into their 'pool.'"
A later report staled. Imperial Airways decline officially answer Mr. Hey's criticism, but the staff asks what Mr. Hey cone- could mean by the "Air France and British Airways pool." There is no such thing as a pool,
the years before 1933 (when the shaped towers immediately behind Nazis came into power). They had the German lines. followed with close attention de- After the crisis, the French obser- volopments abroad and had drawn vers reported, the towers disappear- up plans for organisation in Ger- ed overnight.
of weeks. factories In the space were built. In the existing factorles men were brought in and taught the
mary.
new production methods. "CIVILIANS TRAINED"
The Domler works were able to start the production of heavy mill- tary machines right away. Despite the prohibitions of the post-war
One Swisa-bulit bomber evolved into the first two-motor German bomber, and subsequently became a training machine.
Each tower is a self-contained for- Iress of Ove storeys.
It is claimed to be bomb, fire and gas-proof. Six hundred people cun be housed.
They are built in sections. Six eight-wheeled tractors, made speci- ally to carry them, can transport the sections 100 miles in ten hours,
LIGHT STEEL WALLS
over Germany.
Construction crews have trained who can put them together in a few hours.
of
RECORD UNEXCELLED
Horatius is one of the fleet Handley Page 42 machines, four- engined biplanes that storied the now current world practice of large four-engined passenger aircraft.
of
foot. man.
"Are you the man he meant?"
Native State Reforms-Nagod is the first State in Central India to have a Legislature with a substantial elected majority, Constitutional re- forms were announced by the Raja of Nagod State at the Dassera Fes- tival -The new Parishad, or. State People's Assembly, will have the right to discuss finance, including the Budget, as well 09 Constitutional questions.
Monkeys for Research.-Owing to restrictions on the export of monkeys from India for research work, Ameri- can medical nuthorities have decided to found a monkey colony on a smali island off Puerto Rico. A cargo of 500 Ithesus monkeys has left Cal- culta for New York nucleus of the colony. The United States Import 20,000 monkeys yearly for medical research and rejuvena- tion.
to form
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SUGAR STRIKERS
He then explained that he was the Major Draper who won renown | Jamaica in 1931 by Qying a 'plano under the Tower and Westminster Bridges confirming his war-time nickname of "The Mad Major." Miss Nancy Price, producer and star, said:
"There is no mystery about #t from my point of view," she said. "Major Draper is a member of my with t east, and was rehearsing till 1 am, to-day.' "He has previously played in re- pertory.
"I had heard nothing of all this un- til somebody showed me a newspaper to-day in which the apy trial was re- ported."
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the
Kingston.
The strike of 1,500 labourers ot Tate and Lyle's sugar properties at Clarendon was called off récently by
the Bustainente,
Labour leader, after a conference with Mr. Kieffer, general adviser to the company, who promised to make investigation into the dismissals of two employces of the company.
The strike has lasted 12 days, and al- has been orderly throughout, though police have been on the scene to check any disorder.
JOURNEY'S END
its activities Into They are seven years old, admit-medical field is Britain's Government- tedly obsolete and slow, but their subsidised Imperial Airways, with a by any other new system of disinsecticising air- record is unexcelled" type of passenger neroplane. The planes in flight, to prevent carriage of H.P. 42 have flown millions of miles
contagious diseases, such as lover,
Home in England for the first time have carried thousands and
for more than 50 years, 81-year-old from one country to The trucks are fitted with jacks passengers without injury to one.
Mrs. Elizabeth Büller has made a Obtaining mosquitoes at 2s. 6d. per period they had built a whole series for the easy erection of each storey.
sea trip of thousands of miles to carry of machines, especially in their fac- Conerele emplacements, which form-Paris service in competition with Tropical Hygiene and Medicine, ex-out the last wish of her dying hus-
They are still aying on the London lead from the London School of was the base, have been put down all the cast Arnerican and French aero-perts Colonel F. P. Mackie and it. S. bard. tory in Switzerland.
In 1881 Elizabeth Leach left her planes of British Airways and Air Crabtree set about perfecting been France because Imperial Airways are method similar to that being used parents' home in Stratford St. Mary, near Ipswich, to seek her fortune in still waiting for Armstrong Whil- by many London hospitals for dla-
London. Thern she mat and married worth to deliver the fast Ensign Infecting their wards.
Mr. Frederick Butler after a whirl- monoplanes ordered two years ago,
Insecticide distilled from wind courtship. pyrethrum, a small wild flower
whit A few weeks after the wedding grows only in the South of England the couple landed in Melbourne Picnic Areas Popular and in Kenya, is lasued from almost penniless. They soon had
vaporizer in kuch fine form that the Springfield, Ill. Illinois 02 roadside plenic areas, with an
mist which is harm- situated along state highways, are ful only to insect life. attracting large numbers of motor- Previous
of disseminating Ists, according to F. Lynden Smith, It Into the atmosphere were regarded
"Friends told me I was too old to state director of public works and as clumsy and ineffectual. Imperial buildings. Smith, after receivt of a Airways modification of the Phan make the sea trip, but I was deter- number of commendatory letters, tommyst equipment, however, is quoted mined to honour Frederick's dying said he believed "they have proven by medical and other experts who wish," she said da she sat in her themselves a real help in selling have witnessed it as being "100 per brother's coltage at Stratford St.
cent, effective."
Mary.
In 1933 groups of young men were
Walls are made of light steel. formed and lived in makeshift bar-
Dynamos for lighting and ventilation racks, with old barns for hangars.
New planes were given them, and are installed and are driven by heavy Anally
mally they were able to organise oil engines. themselves as bomber, fighter, and squadrons which reconnaissance
formed the foundation of the later, Oil Well Goes Froakish
conscripted air force.
Willows, Cal, There were only three motors of
Willard No. 1 oll well we had proved performance, For milltary machines, the B.M.W. VI. in-line en-vanced as probably the only all well alne was chosen, and every effort in the world that ever produced was concentrated in producing this refined oll. A barrel of oil which one model
had been sucked down into the crater Nothing is said in the articles when the well blew in last January,
was disgorged intact. about the latest German ''planes,
· Tilinots,"
entite inviere is literally soaked
their own farm,
Last April Mr. Butler died.
"Go back to England when I am dead, Elizabeth, and take me with! you so that we shall always be to- rether" was his last wish,
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