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ALSACE IN THE WAR
By RICHARD CAPELL, "Sunday Times" War Correspondent with the French Army
Between Belfort, the fortress that guards the famous gap be- tween the Vosges and the Jura. and Mulhouse, in Alsace, there are still to be seen relics of the last war-battered pill boxes. and the like.
1870 Belfort gloriously with- the German assault, but to travel over this ground is to realise even more vividly than the maps tell you how uncomfortably close the
frontiers of the peace of 1871 brought
the Germans to this gateway to the interior
of France when in 1014 hul again to be defended. The "Bel- fort Cap" is, geographically speaking. what always was, but, militarily
it speaking, how comfortable is position as established by the peace
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BOMBERS But We Have Super-Fighter
GERMANY has two new-type bombers but their secrets are out already.
Bomber No. 1, a four-engined seaplane cavable of carrying 20 bombs, made its first appearance when the unarmed British and steamer Highwave was bombed machine-gunned on Tuesday, says
Homeside reporter.
ON LEAVE -I'm sorry you haven't slept well, but at least you were not disturbed by guns.
No, but I can't stand the tick-tock of that beastly clock.
(Grlugoire, Paris)
entalling far more mountaineering risks; and
an ordinary number of industrious. Frenchmen a large
excursion less and less attractive as are engaged in rendering any such
each month goes by. Becoming Moro French
Belfort, the much tried and the much besieged, can survey the new war with a lordly sense of security. The bastions of the mountains to
There is in Alsace an interesting and right serve the fortress as they side aspect of the war. It raises the have always done; but the eastern question-will not Alsace in the fu- line of defence is now flung for fer- ture be more French than ever be ward. It is the Rhine, and the Rhine fore? In peacetime one always had to-day is a barrier against the invaa feeling there, of a little country of der such as It has never been from independent character. But to-day a the dawn of the.
broad strip of Alsace along the river has been evacuated. A War of Toil
The inhabitants have taken refuge in the interior of France. The younger people at least must be losing their accent and be coming more "Frenchfled," while the
antras intense number of French troops quartered in the non-evacuated towns and villages of the country must also, as time goes on, make for Franco- Alsation unification,
The
the
An invitation from
Army which guards this front afforded an opportunity of seeing in much detail the fortified lines and of appraising the spirit of the troops. The work stone in the last few months has, to put it in general terms, made as surance doubly and trebly sure. # has been a war not of lighting but of incessant laborious toil.
Nothing more different from 1914 Is vonceivable, and it would falsify the picture not to mention that one has fairly often heard sighs for the opportunity of winning glory and re- nown. It is a dull war; y compari- son the front in Lorraine and in the Northern Vosges indventurous. But this war, which for the rank and file consists so largely of sheer navvying. has revented in the French soldier a prodigious capacity for dogged work. What he has here accomplished in these
uneventful and tedious months amount
roughly to Unis- while a German Invasion of Alsace in Sep- tember would have been hazardous, it would now appear to be hazardous 10 a higher degree of improbability. Nut that the anallest measure of bability is ruled out by the French Command,
pro.
This Was Interestingly demon- strated to the visitor in an excursion to the friendly frontier of Switzer land. Less celebrated than the Bel- fort Gap, there is a secondary gap, near Swiss territory. There were indications in November that tho Germans were not indisposed to con template the venture in the north- west corner of Switzerland. I the charming scenery in this gap had really induced them to pay that pas- toral land a visit they would not have taken the French by surprise.. It would have been an adventure
Ingenohl's
published in Germon, and in such a local newspapers are
town as Colmar one has the feeling of being in Switzerland. But the people have welcomed the troops wholeheartedly; while the Alsatians' contribution to the ranks of the French Army is very appreciable.
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Up to now Germany has used only twin-engined Heinkels and Dorniera to attack British shipping.
The new bomber is believed to be of the HA 140 chuss-a mlitary ver- sion of the four-engined commercial HA 139 'planes built for the Deutsche Luft Hans for trans-ocean fights.
According to Jane's "AN the World's Aircraft," the HA 130s have tour 510 hp. Junkers. heavy oll engines. Their maximum speed is 105.0 m.p.h., cruising speed 101.5 mp.b., and their range is 3,100 miles. The crew of the Dulch motor-ship Rian, who saw the attack on
the Highwave, say that the bomber re- leased its bombs In groups of
Ave, from about 1,000ft,
the
The Rlon was lifted 44. in water by the force of the explosions.
Bomber No. 2 was described in an Air Ministry statement yesterday, and fa a high-speed, twin-engined; Juukers-the JU 88;
It has not been used to any great extent, but the Air Ministry say: "It may be assumed that considerable numbers of the type are likely to form part of any full-scale allack against Britain,"
The main facts about the JU 08 are
(1). Although its maximum speed of about 315 in.p.h. Is high for a of 205 m.p.h, is only 1,300 miles- bomber, its range at a cruising speed less than half that of
the British Wellington.
(2). The JU 88 has three gun posi- tons one in the nose and one above and one below the fuselage-bul It las
no tail gun. After their experience with British fighters and bombers the Nazi ex- of perts may try to find a way out this failing, but the design of the JŪ 00 is against It.
The maximun "ceiling" of the JU 28 is just under 50,000ft, or nearly six miles, but even this is no pro- tection against British fighters, such as the eight-gun, 367 m.p.b. Spitfire.
And the answer: To overcome the limitations of fixed machine-guns, i which prevent broadside" attacks, a new two-seater fighter, the Bouton Paul Denant is being developed for the RA.F.
will
The Dellant an all-metal 'plane, vill have a power-driven gun turret, housing battery of
and guns operated by a trained air-gunner.
Flying alongside a formation of hostile bombers, the Defiant gunner would be able to rake them from nose to inil
The Dellant is a low-wing mon10- plane with single Rolls-Royce Merlin engine of over 1,000 h.p. The wing area is 250 square feet-a Bittle more than that of the Spitfire and Hur- ricane fighters.
HERTZOG FACES BAD DEFEAT
CAPE TOWN, Feb. 22 (Router).— In the South-West Africa elections, the Nationalist Party, which is pra- Hertzog and is supported by Germans in South-West Africa, Is being badly defeated,
So far the United Party has won ten elected seats and the Nationalist Party only one.
There is still one outstanding, re-
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