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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
February 26, 1940. By Walt Disnev
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Allies Know That 65 Per Cent. of Red Planes are Obsolete
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Here Is Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones Himself
He came before the song that has swept the United States and Britain. This Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones, who lives at Mount Clemens, Michigan; is five years old. Now the tune has boosted him into the limelight. "How can he be a dud or a stick-in-the- mud?" Music by courtesy of Messrs. Chappell).
DOG LED WOMAN TO DEAD MASTER
TRAINED PILOTS ARE SCARCE
THE Allied High Commands have received de- tails of the much-vaunted Russian Red Air Force, which show it to be a bigger sham than the Red Army.
For her. 4,000 mile wide con- Command hus 719 and the Eastern tinent Russin has a first-line Command 320. These machines are strength of little more than similar to British Gloster Gladiators, which have long been superseded by 4,466 machines.
newer types.
Compared with the latest products of the chlef Western European Powers 85 per cent of the Red they are good fighters. machines are obsolete. There are cipline, as a result no new-type machines under produc-purges, is low. Every commanding officer of every squadron is watched by a political representative."
tion.
The Russian second-line machine strength is about 2,000 places. Lack of advanced training machines is restricting the output of trained pitots tu 2,000 a year, a useless figure for large scale war in Europe.
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The Russian Air Command divided into two sections, one to the west of Lake Baikal, the other to the east. Lake Baikal is practically in the centre of Russia.
The Western Air Command has a total of 3,240 of the most modern
allotted
It. machines
The Eastern Command, which covers the Mongolian and Manchurian frontier, has 1.225 first-line ma- chines.
of
There are
two types of Russian warplanes which experts say "com- are not unfavourably with the modern medium-type bombers other nations. They are called the EB and T&Kb.20.
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British to a Blenheim and has a maximum speed of about 260 m.p.lt. A Blenheim wi!! do 285 m.p.h.
The Tskb.20 has at maximum speed of 245 m.p.l. and a range of 1,600 miles with 3,300lbs. of bombs.
---High-Morale. The best Russian #ghters are the which the Western (SSF). of
LONDON.-Walking home in the black-out from work accom- panied by his dog. Henry Johnson, nged 56, a woodcutter, of Ropers 1.1 Cotinges, Farningham, near Dartford, was killed by a lorry in London Road, Farningham. The dog ran home. Scratching brought Mrs., Johnson to the door, and the dog led her to the scene of the accident— a quarter of a mile away.
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OBITUARY
Old Portuguese Resident Buried at Happy Valley
The late Miss Sophia Marin Franco, who died at her home, 35 Robinson Road, early on Saturday morning was interred in the Roman Catholic Cernetery, Happy Valley, in the after- noon. The Rev. Fr. G. M. Spada officiated.
Miss Franco was 70 years of age, She was born in Hongkong; and hind resided here all her life. She is sur~
vived by four sisters and a brother,
Chief mourners at the funeral were Mrs. C. Hingston, Mrs. A. Julyan ntul Mrs. F. Julyan, (sisters), and Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Silva,
Others present included Mrs. A. A. The morale of the pilots is high, Elms, Miss M. Julyan, Mr. and Mrs. But dis- A L V. Remedios, Mr. and Mrs. of the 1937-8 Santos, Mrs. Peres, Miss A. Deme, Mr. C. H. V. Remedios, Master K Julyan, Master F. Remedios, Miss. G. Remedios and Miss T. Santos.
Floral tributes from the family and friends were laid on the grave.
Rusin has relied on France and Americn to grant her Hcences to manufacture their latest warplane designs. Those sources of progress are closed to her now,
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