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AERODROME BOMBED
FUEL DUMP
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BOUNDARY MARKERS LILLUMINATED AT NIGHT)
REPA SHEDS
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These are the vital targets
our British airmen go for
LANDING FIELD
SMOKE WIND. INDICATOR
SWIVELLING LANDING
CONCRETE RUNWAYS
"MACHINE GUNS
CON ALL ROOFS:
CONTROL TOWER. CIVES BEARINGS TO AIRCRAFT AND PERMISSION TO TAKE OFF OR LÄND
UNDERGROUND
AA GUNS ALL FUEL TA ROUND FIELD
FUMBER one objective of
NBritish bombers in Sean-
dinavia are the aerodromes notably at Stavanger, Nor- way, and Aalborg, Denmark -which have been taken over by the Nazis.
How big is an aerodrome? What are the vital points a raiding bomb- ing squadron must aim for to put the aerodrome out of action? Why is it necessary to make repeated raids?
The whole air field may cover several square mlica of ground. Sinvanger is particularly large. bence the need for repeated ralds to, cause sufficient damage to pre- vent aeroplanes from using one section of the held.
Icast
In bombing an aerodrome, how- over there are several key-points which, if once hit by bombs, render the whole field useless, Glance now at Haworth's sketch, showing the typical layout of a big nero- drome; notice those concrete run- ways; once they're pitted with bomb craters it takes days to re-
In
the interval it is pair them. unlikely that any aircraft would be able to takeoff..............
What other key-points are there? Hangars full of valuable bombers and fighters; the radio contral towers-nerve centre of the whole aerodrome--which guide 'plones
back to the base; the main build-
NAVAL
THE
FORMERL TERMINAL
BUILDINGS
SNOW.
COMMAND HEADQUARTERS
MAIN, BEACON ¡FOR APPROACH "E LANDING IN.
·PAD WEATHERS.
"AEROPLAND"
HANGARS.
TEMPORARY ENGINE RA REPAIR SHEC
POWER
May 6, 1940.
So
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Isn't Goebbels
Smart With His Propaganda
POR years the Germans F
have proclaimed the ex- cellence of their propaganda technique. But now it seems that they are not as smart as they thought they were.
You would have thought, for instance, that they would have preferred to gloss over the loss of the Graf Spee, and allow the world to forget how their "Invincible" pocket bat- tleship ("strong enough to destroy smaller ships, and fast enough to run away from bigger ones" was defeated by smaller and lightly armed British cruisers.
Yet they have made the amazing blunder of trying to focuss public attention on it again.
In propaganda sheets now being circulated in the Far East they at- tempt to refute the recent dis-
sure of the crew's refusal to put lo sea and face British guns again. They quote a statement made by Captain Kay of the Grof Spee:
We, oflcers and men of the 'Admiral Graf Spee', nail down the fact that the chief of the British navy does not shrink from fighting with lies soldiers of.
AND
MEDITERRANEAN
The homille attitude of the Italian Press to the Alilca gives point to a comparison of the combined British and French and the combined Italian and German strength in capital ships. The illustrations below of ships hullt exclude the tonnage officially reported to have been sunk. But the German ships, Scharnhorst and Von Scheer, which were officially reported to have been seriously damaged, are included in the Italian-German sirength, Fourteen of the Allied ships (shown in black) have 15in. and five have 13in, guns. Four of the Italian and German ships have 12n, and three have 11in, guns.
In the comparison of ships nearing completion the Italians and Germans, having started building ear- ller, are given the advantage, but it is doubtful whether they should have it, since the Allies are able to bulld faster.
more
overwhelming. Ilitler's The Allies' superiority in categories other than capital ships is stul strength was vitally weakened in the actions off Norway, and the British Fleet could release bigger forden for the Mediterranean than would have been possible a fortnight uro.
CAPITAL SHIPS BUILT
BRITAIN and FRANCE·
5 BATTLE CRUISERS 159,000 Tons
16 BATTLESHIPS: 488,645 Tons
ings housing the headquarters staff ITALY and GERMANY
and precious maps and plans.
The fuel storage lanas, of course, are an obvious target, but these are usually hidden below ground. Domb and ammunition stores are protected by the latest arts of camouflage.
Spotting the Rank
CAPTAIN
This rank is regarded as the highest of a junior officer. A Captain acts as a Troop Commander in the cavalry and a Company Commander in the Infantry. In the Royal Artillery ho
gonorally second in com- mand of a bat- tery..
His duties in tha prosent-day Army, however, ara almost an-
·tirely adminis- trativo, though in the absence of his Company Commander ho assumos com- mand of his unit,
Ha is respon sible for such matters as the issue of cloth- ing and pay.
AC-
and keeping company counts and for recreation and sport.
The word Captain comes from the Latin" "Caput"— head.
Pay: £540 a year after 8 -years' torvica; £586 after 11
years, and years.
£668 after 14
1 BATTLE CRUISER 26000 Tons 6BATTLESHIPS
114 000 Tons
CAPITAL SHIPS BUILDING
EXPECTED IN SERVICE SHORTLY
3 BATTLESHIPS
105,000 Tons
4 BATTLESHIPS 140,000 Tons
10 BATTLESHUPS
UNDER CONSTRUCTION 370,000 Tons
4 BATTLESHIPS
UNDER CONSTRUCTION 140,000 Tons
the German navy which he could not defeat in open battle. We have nothing but most profound for these
fighting disgust methods of the British Navy."
A pretty, cool speech from a man whose chip is lying on the mud of. the River Plate estuary, utterly destroyed!
☆
THE Germans scuttled their ship because they knew that certain defeat awaited her, at the hands of the navy which (according to Captain Kay) could not defeat her In open battle.
Or are we expected to belleve that the Germans chose to break off the battle in order to have the interesting experience of scuttling their own ship?
in
Really, Dr. Goebbels, this is not
your best veln. The same interesting document quotes other claims, that the Graf Spee did not run away (but ap- parently only because the "attack- Ing vessels had for higher speed" an odd admission), and that she "suffered no essential damage to hull, armament, or machinery, but one lucky shot rendered her fro control tower Inoperative".
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ALL right, let us concede that she did run away.
Let us just confine ourselves to pointing out that she was hounded into a neutral port hs a bullock might be hounded into a shed by a couple of dogs-though the bul- lock could kill them both i
only
it had the courage to turn and fight.
The "lucky" shot excuse is a pretty lamme story: there must be Bomething for wrong with German warships if they can be put out of action by a single six-inch shell -"lucky" or otherwise-which did no "essential damage"!
No. Goebbels, you'd better lay
off the Graf Spee episode: it really dil you no good at all, twist it as you will,
INANITY' FARE
Poor
Grace Moore Singing "Ave Maria " As a carcer.
Unsolved Mysteries of the Sea
MANY fine ships have al-
ready been lost in the cight months of Nazi piracy, Many others will be lost be fore the piracy ends.
Some are lost without trace, to become another raystery of the sca.
The sea has many such mys- teries. Take the story of the Flying Dutchman.
She was captained by a blas- pheming Dutchman, Vanderdecken. In the teeth of a head wind, "strong enough to blow the horns off n bull, his ship was battling round the Cape of Good Hope.
His crew in panic begged him to turn about. He swore at them and went on drinking,
Then a vision appeared and, cursing the captain for a stubborn fool, condemned him for ever to Ball the scas, unable to rest, unable to land, a phantom sent to haunt the waves, to torment and mislead succeeding generations of mariners.
THERE was the queer case of the Dutch emigrant.ship Palatine which sailed for Philadelphia in 1732. She was beaten by goles off her true course. Discipline aboard collapsed. The crew held the emi- their grants to ransom, stole savings and made off in the boats. The passengers, dying of disease and hunger, drifted helpless on to the bench of Block Island. The sur- vivors were rescued, all except one woman who had gone mad and re-. fused, to leave.
By Paul Reilly
The ship was set on fire, and the man cargo. A fine, seaworthy Palatine, blazing from end to end, drifted out to sea, with the screams of the maniac sounding above the roar of the flames.
And now, on the anniversary of the wreck, they say that a light like that of a blazing ship appears to the north of Block Island, and no one along the coast doubts that it is the Palatine Light,
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MORE recent and more dramatic owing to the size of the boat was the fate of the 10,000-ton twin- screw Blue Anchor liner Waratah.
With a crew of 120 and 92 pas- sengers she put out for Capetown from Durban on July 20, 1909. At six o'clock in the morning she was sighted by the Clan Macintyre, a smaller and slower vessel bound for East London. The two ships exchanged greetings and compared weather
Waratah reports. The passed on and in a few hours was hull down en, the horizon. She was never seen or heard of again,
The Clan Macintyre reported heavy seas later in the day, and on the next day It blew a hurricane, but no distress signals were re- ceived and no wreckage found.
No evidence was given at the court of inquiry that gave any light on the fate of the ship and its hu-
modern linet had been swallowed up in a night without warning and without the usual pathetic relies left floating on the surface to mark the grave of a lust ship.
Two years later a sca-worn life- buoy,
battered and barnacle- covered, was washed up on a New Zealand shore seven thousand miles away. Beneath 'the barnacles the letters "WARAT"could just be deciphered. And that closed the story of a disaster that shocked the world as few have done in the his- tory of ships.
NONE of us can have yet quite forgotten tho tragic story of the training-ship Kobenhavn, the last - und finest of the five-masted bar-
Ques.
reas the
with wireless she could only com- munlente with the world through other ships. Still there was hope. Her last voyage had taken as long. But time pussed, her reinsurance quotation rose to 00 guineas per cent. and steamers set of their courses to search. The British ship Halesius, calling at the loneliest Island in the world, Tristan da Cunha, In the Southern Atlantic, was the first to report news of a sailing vessel that answered the right description.
The islanders had seen a ship one January morning, Sho pass had five masts and a white band stern. They painted round her watched her drift off shore for three hours. They saw no and move on bourd. Only a jib was set. A current caught the vessel and she turned off into the mist and war not seen again. No wreckage was washed up and no further reports of the Kobenhavn were received. The fine barque with its youthful crow became an- other tragle, unexplained loss.
of
On December 14, 1920, the Ko- Only seven skeletons, discovered beside the remains of a lifeboat benhavn hova anild from Buenos
half-burled ·
desolate the Ayres for Melbourne with a com-
among plement of sixty, including forty- sanddunes of a West African coast. five young Danish cadets. Her seemed to provide a clue to the
riddic. Plecos the southern
blue tattered course lay across
through the wildest
cloth clinging to the bones showed oceans, to
sailors,
that the men had been sailors. through
From the shape of their skulls they "Rooring Forties" where the giant
were Nordic. But it was only a rollers sweep round the Cape and
guess. No one could ever know through seas mado dangerous by
whether these seven had indeed icefloes from the Antarctic.
survived the wreck of the Koben- havn. The son had given up ita dead but still kept its secret.
known
For 120 days no word had been heard from her. Though equipped
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