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KODAK BANTAM SPECIAL £.2.0
Proud leader of the Kodak Bantam line, this unique miniature Kodak is "special" in all respects. Precisely made...
beautifully designed. simple and sure in operation.. Has Eastman's super lens, the Kodak Anastigmat
·EKTAR · F.2.0, with 1/500-second Compur-Rapid shutter. Many advanced "features, including, the ability to take full- color Kodachrome transparencies.
KODAK BANTAM 1.4.5
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An important new addition to the Bantam family. Equipped with Kodak Anastigmat Special F.4.5 lens and 1/200-second shutter. Has button-actuated pop-out" - front
.body shutter release. folding optical eye-level finder. Gives you Kodachrome pictures—in addition to first rate shots on black-and-white film that enlarge beautifully.
KODAK BANTAM f.5.6
Still another new Kodak Bantam. Kodak Anastigmat 1.5.6 lens 1/100-second shutter
Outstanding points are its dependable Eastman
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you to make full-color Kodachrome transparencies, as well as black-and-white negatives that afford fine enlargements.
KODAK BANTAM 1.6.3
Smallest of all Kodaks, the new Kodak Bantam is as easy to carry as a pack of cigarettes or a vanity, Springs open, ready for action, at the touch of a button. Simple to use as a box camera, Its f.6.3 lens is keen, capable--the qualities you expect in an expensive camera. (Also supplied with Doublet lens.) And you needn't watch the numbers on the film when turning. Film stops at the right spot to center each picture perfectly.
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ABSENCE OF RAIDS
WEIGHTY FACTS FOR GOERING
By Major F. A. de V. Robertson LONDON.
One is constantly asked why there has hitherto been no whole-hearted ale action by the bomber forces of Feither side. As regards our own reasons we cannot go beyond what the Prime Minister nic It als brondanst recently. Our bomber free will be used at the proper time that is to say, when it can be used with the greatest effect.
A bamber force is a sort of general reserve and is the most flexible of all mms. When a land battle is a progress is proper function is to attack the back areas of the enemy's army and hamper the moving up of reinforcenient and munitions. It Lean at a moment's notice be switched over to attack factories and indus- trial areas. It can help the fleet, as the R.A.F. did when it raided Wilhelmshaven and badly damaged the Graf Spee, and as the Germans tried to do when they raided the Firth of Forth.
Our own bomber force, already strong, grows stronger every day as the factories turn out more machines and the training schools turn out more crews. When the time comes to use it it will be a very formidable striking force.
The German Air Force As for the Germans' abstention from mu attacks on Britain and France, one can only make conjee- tures. But it is remarkable that, whereas
the
German Navy has abandoned all the rules of civilizedi warfare, the German Air Force has hitherto scrupulously respected them -since the end of the Polish paign,-apart from the dropping ofį mines by parachute. There have. been no attempts to bomb residential areas, and in the raids on convoys the bombs have almost certainly been plined at the naval escort ships quite legitimate targets-and not at the merchantigen.
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IL nay Le that the German nuthorities are fully alive to the vulnerability of their country. The Rahr, for fristance, on which about 80 per cent of German heavy indus- tries ave based, is very vulnerable: and it may be that so far the Ger- mans have shrunk from provoking a great competition in bombing prae- lice.
Inferior Equipment
They may conceivably also be restrained by tactical considerations. There is not the least doubt that in both bombers and fighters the Ger- man Air Force is less well equipped 1 the R.A.F. Taking bombers first. we have, adopted the polley that bombers must be able to defend themselves, and, realising the dif- ficulty of hokiing a machine-gun steady in the rush of air at the pre- sent speeds of aircraft, we have atted our bombers with gun turrets which are operated by the power of the engines, so that the gunner can swing his gun and himself in any direction without exertion.
The German bombers have not at power-operated turreis. They
December 18, 1939.
Somewhere
in France
SECRETS of the transport of the British Expeditionary Force-revealed by Mr. Hore- Belisha, Secretary for War, In the House of Commons.
158,000 TROOPS
25,000 VEHICLES
including tanka, some weighing fifteen tons or
mare,
BREN GUNS-
Fifty for each battalion.
Somewhere
?
in
50,000 VOLUNTEERS
have been taken into the Army since the beginning of the war.
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20,000 A.T.S.
already enlisted, more to be recruited.
First Man To Fight In Air
Mexican Battle Recalled
decided that bombers must rely on NORFOLK, (UP).
"spred~and~~evasion, and -they-have-
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Capt.
been proved wrong. They cannot Patrick N. L. Bellinger, com- bent off our fighters, while our manding officer of the U.S. bombers have frequently driven off Naval air station here, piloted German fighters and have some- the first airplane struck by bul-
limes shot them down.
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In fighters also we have a clear lets in combat. advantage. Our eight-gun fighters While flying at a low altitude over have been a great success, greater
Vera Cruz during the Mexican trouble Packed in double- even thon we had hoped. The Gerin 1914, Bellinger's Curtiss pusher covered tins to man fighters have only four guns. seaplane was hit by bullets fired by keep the tobacco Moreover, since the French cap-ground troops.
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Curtiss and tlie Morane proved their he dropped was a cake of saap. Bel-C. INGENOHL'SCIGAR STORES “LA PERLA DEL ORIENTE” superiority to the Messerschmitt, and linger became angry when ground
we know that the Hurricane is better troops fired at his ship and he threw than either of the French fighters. at them the first thing he could lay All theso
these considerations may well his hands on-a cake of soap. glee pause to Field Marshal Goering.
Of course designers are busy on The incident involving his plane both sides. We must expect better when he first was shot at is men- German types to appear, but tlosed in a recently published book, we shall also have better types to "Navy Men," by James Connolly, an meet them. Finally, there is a dif-old shipmate of Bellinger." ference In the men. There is con- scription for the Gernian Air Force: but none for the R.A.F.
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It was not until Bellinger had tanded that he realised what u close call he had. Examination of the ship revealed three holes, bored by bul- lets in the fuselage of the plane.
The purpose of Bellinger's hops over Mexico were for observation.
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Flying a plane in those days was tough job. The old scaplano he flew had a top speed of about 60 Its celling wha A recommendation that the tradelles an hour
about 1,000 feet. union boyent! against German and Italian goods be reaffirmed is made Fighting back was almost out of in the annual report of the American the question. Keeping the plone in Federation of Labour, issued to-day. the air required all the pilot's time.
Many descendants of the old pusher "We protest," it says, "against the persecution of minorities in the totall-type seaplane now are under Bellin- tarian nations. We protest against er's command. But these craft, with their incredible speed, remarkable racial persecution and the develop- ment of racial hate. We plead for manoeuvrability and bristling guns. the substitution of freedom, de- bear little resemblance to their an- mocracy and tolerance among all the cestors.
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"We favour our nation offering our CHRISTMAS CAROLS mediation services for pence," # siates, "and we hope that the war- ring countries may be prevailed upon to accept them."
The auditorium of Hop Yat Church was filed to its capacity on Saturday
of
It is emphasised that the report evening when the joint choirs
Christ Church's Mandarin Service was drafted before Germany's "peace and Hop Yat Church presented a offensive" opened, and the Federa- choral concert. The programme was tion is therefore in no way support-
ing Hitler's attempt to bring about
the end of hostilities.
NEW YEAR FIREWORKS Merrymakers greeting the New Year will not be humpered by, rea trictions on, the use of fireworks na permission has been given for fre works to be discharged from 11.43 p.m. on December 31 to: 12.15 h.mon January 1.
in two parts, the first comprising
selections from "The Creation," by Haydn, and the second, a variety of Christinas carols.
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The recital will be repeated on December 20 at St. Androw's Church. I
· UNIVERSITY · CONCERT The Hongkong University will hold fts, annual Christmas Carol Concert in the Great Hall of the University at 9 p.m. next Sunday, December 24,
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