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By Ernie
December 20, 1939.
Bushmiller
Dear President Roosevelt,
How about moving Christmas ahead.
like
Thanksgiving?
you did with
ZANE BUSHMALAKINE
yours truly,
Nancy
800-A-Minute Deadly Hail of The Bren Gun
By IAN MACKAY
BRENTOWN.
Nov-17
I DESCRIBED. recently how British and Dominion journalists watched a great 14-inch iron-lunged monster hurling a ton of steel at a sandbank 300yds, away.
To-day we saw a murderous little spitfire which a boy could sling over his shoulder peppering a target with third-of-an-inch-long bullets at the rate of 700 or 800 a
minhte.
This was the famous Bren gun, which the Czechs invented to save their freedom but were never allowed to use.
It is an incredibly simple thing to watch in action, but, in reality, a more complicated mechanism never emerged from the mind of man. It consists of.
172, parts which require 3,174 here, not in the workshops, but in separate operations to create the drawing offices.
and 4,987 different gauges to Everywhere went to-day I came perfect.
across bottles of milk on benches, even in the smithy. I asked the Factory Superintendent about it, and he said they sell about 4,000 bottles
a day to the workers,
One result has been a surprising
Perhaps the most remarkable fen ture of this wonderful weapon is that the first bullet to leave the muzzle fires all the rest. The reduction in the number of cases of produced by the first explosion sets all the others going.
Non-Stop Hail
in£uenza.
The condition of the men is very good, although same are showing signs of strain, particularly since the Every gun has a space barrel black-out which, I was told, has a which can in one movement be sub-bnd psychological effect,
stituted for the first when it gets hot, One last picture of this great thus ensurim: a continuous hail of small-arms workers. A river runs bullets.
through it, and during their rest
As I stood in the proof butts, my period the workers, umuse themselves cars stopped with cotton wool, and by feeding the swans at the foot of watched the vicious thing spraying a waterfall.
up fountains In the sand, I wondered how it could be possible for even the most fearless of men to stand up against it far more than a second or two.
But even more remarkable than) its performance is the magic of its making. Among the instruments used to produce it are micrometers which measure parts to one-millionth of ani inch. In case this figure is meaning- less to you, it may help you to grasp it when I say that by comparison human hair. (1/2,500 of an inch). would look like a telegraph-pole.
The need for such Cossamer
R.A.F.
Want Cheap
English Beer
By RONALD WALKER
MEN of the R.A.F., battling accuracy will be understood when I with rain, mud and cold, have say thai in testing the Bren barrel aa great grievance. They have Baw of 1/10,000 of an inch makes been badly let down on the all the difference whether the bullet Home Front. leaves the gun or joms the whole works.
Smithy Sensations
Just how serious the position is I discovered when I went into D N.A.A.F.I. canteen to-day and found that the only English beer oblainable Then there are great air hammers costs six franes, approximately 8d. to pounding the white-hot steel into od. a bottle, hakling just over half a shape. And there are dreadful red pint.
caverns and incandescent furnaces) Weeks ago, back in London, I read where the ingots are cooked and the brave news that some 4,000,000 roasted by "devils" in dungarees who bottles of beer had been shipped out stand all day
in the glare of the to the troops in France. That op- ovens prodding away with long-pears to be quite true, as English pronged forks.
bottled beer is now on sale at 30 In the smithy I had an cerle feel-N.A.A.F.I. cunteens. ing that every time an oven door
opened Virgil and Dante would step More Than Champagno
to ask why poor mankind was
But beer at this price is too expen-
still engaged on its endless but deter-sive for the men. English beer is a
out
mined
task, of wiping.itself out.
luxury here, costing much more than Important though it is, the Bren champagne.
gun is not the only product of this Because this is a land of plenty, it place. Vickers machine-guns-still all the more irritating to the troops
the standard machine-gun of the to And that the beer in their own British Army and Lewis guns are canteens is so dear, and that they also being turned out in large quan- cannot afford to buy it. tilles, including special types for the French beer, to which the men Navy, anti-aircraft and for tanks.
have not yet become accustomed, Then there is the new, 38 Enfield costs 3d. a glass. They drink the pistol, much lighter than the old 455 French product, and eye the British used in the last war, but equally bottles behind the counter, sadly. deadly.
One reason for the high cost of our own beer is the bottle. The con- sumer has to pay for the bottle, One of the most interesting fea-which is not sent back. This was tures of Bren production is that the explained to me by an officer in springs of the gun are made by boys, charge of beer supplies, but he folled as it was found that their nimble to explain why beer should not be Angers were best adapted to the sent out in barrels or metal con- work.
tainers to quench British thirsts at Girls are also doing splendid work the right price.
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