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AIR experts closely watching the Russian-Finnish war in the air believe that the Soviet Air Force will be obsolete in two years unless they can buy new machines from other countries.
Russia's best bombers are being outmatched by the new machines that are arriving in Finland; her pilots are being out-manoeuvred, and-as far as is known-Russia has no new designs to throw into the fight.
Here are Home facts and pointers about the air war in Finland which I have gathered from expert observers:
(1) On the outbreak of the war Russia had between 4,000 and 5,000 machines, Additional aircraft wilch Fin- she had was mostly obsolete. land had about 60 fighters, but new supplies have since arrived, and one of the most effective has been the old British Bulldog.
Before the war the Finns operated about seven lypes of first-line air- craft, but, with the new types arriv- ing. their air force will be trebled or quadrupled.
(2) Russia has lost about 240 machines since war broke out, 50 of them brought down by anti-aircraft fire. The Finns have lost 15.
(3) The capacity of the Soviet bireraft industry is the largest in the world. But its output is not in keeping with Its capacity. It lost many of its best technicians in the 1937 purge: new designers and technicians of all kinds are hadly needed.
It can produce about 5,000 marlines a year, and about 15,000 acroplane engines. But output is not nearly so great as it should be. Russia has always hard to rely, on foreign designs for new aircraft. Since 1937 she has attempted to produce her own types but the effort has failed.
Pilots Badly Trained
(4) The Russian Air Force are under the operational command of the Army. They have not been trained to employ strategic bombard- ment, which makes it unlikely that they will achieve much success from long-range bambing. The parachute troop dropping campaign has failed. Troops were killed by rifle fire os they came down.
(5) Russian attacks recently have been carried out with much more success both on military and strategi- cal objectives. Many of their pilots are not very well trained, but the Finns have spoken highly of in- dividual exploits by Russian pilots,
The Finnish fighters have stood up to the test excellently. In the early days of the war some pilots went up on three or four flights a day,
One of the drawbacks of the Rus- sian technique is the dual-order system under which the Air Force operates. Orders have to be given by the commanding officer and the Political Commissar.
Footnote-Experts believe that, with the new supplies that are going to Finland, the Fions can hold the Russian Air Force in cheek.
Winged Aircraft's
Safe Return
Here is a story, told for the first time, of a British aircraft's struggle home after an ulr battle over the North Sen recently. Early in hie engagement this aircraft was holed by cannon shell in the starboard wing. Despite this, I continued on its course, keeping in formation.
On the return fight, within a few miles of England, further trouble developed, owing to a bullet in the engine. The pilot struggled to keep up flying speed. As he made the coast he was losing height rapidly, but he sighted an aerodrome and made a akiful landing.
Madame Chiang Kai-shek, wife of China's generalis- simo, saluted by war or- phans at Chungking, as she visited them and distributed sweets and nuts.
HIS
HE WARNED
GUARDS, THEN SAID GOOD-BYE
AN anxious mother sat in her home at Chelten- ham waiting for news of her airman son, whose ex-. ploit in escaping from neutral Internment was one of the most thrilling episodes of the war.
Away
turned
The airman is twenty-one- [ year-old Richard Frewen Mar- Suddenly Marlin stopped, tim, who was held by the to the encort, stood to attention, and Luxemburg authorities when his sad politely in the Luxemburg dialect, which he Was learning: plane came down on the wrong "Good" evening, and thank you." side of the border.
Parcels of clothing sent by his mother enabled him to make his
escape,
Until he got this clothing he could not go out into the streets of Lu- xemburg, since it is against the law to wear the uniform of a belligerent in a neutral country.
Then Martin withdreiv his parole, which W23, of COUFSC, equivalent to warning his Luxem- burg "hosts" that he meant to escape,
After that he
was accompanied everywhere by an escort...
Thien, In an instaut he scaled the wall and sild down the steep rock in the darkness.
French gendarmes told the Sun- day Express Luxemburg_correspon- dent that he crossed into France near Evrange.
are
German radio allegations that Martin broke his parole scorned by the Luxemburg people, who tell every one (including their German neighbours) that as he had given fair warning he was not bound by the parole.
Canada's Air Town Is Two Miles Long
Martin was educated at Chelton- Trenton, Ontario, has an "oir
ham College and trained for the town" práctically complete In itself
R.A.F. at Cranwell, where he won to house officers und
men of the
the Groves Cup for superb flying. · Royal Canadian Air Force.
The buildings, in the white stucco
A Sunday Express correspondent which is being mude standard for
An escort was with him one night was told at the Martins' home military bulidings
Canada, after dinner, when he
had been thal Mrs. Martin had not yet stretch for two miles along the shores given permission to take a strolt on had any official news of her son's of the Bay of Quinte, a deep inlet the ramparts of the fortress of St. escape, nor had she heard from To Lake Ontario.
Esprit, where he was imprisoned.
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