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"That Hyena"
Some of the frankest and most vigorous things said about the Nazis and the war have been altered by Our soldiers and saller men. Poli- | ticâns are usually restrained by long
minds,
WHEN the war came in 1914 This was perhaps the
most
with parts enabling Geld-pieces to be assembled and in operation within-a few minutes.
This spectacular and aggremiys cm-- ployment of the parachutes, by Saviet Russia, immediately found opt invalta- lors in Italy and Germany, who tried to emulato her in the training and or- ganisation of what is known as "para-
the chute corps with tragical conse dur- quences, os wars these Powers carried
into Albania, Poland, Finnland; Hol- land and Belgium, testify.
IN the twenty years or there. about after the War, we saw no As far as I can remember, the more alarming signs than that so-called "parachute corps" was
At first it was employed in na- sociation with the observation The abuses, without pre- balloon, to insure the escape of cedents, of the parachutes the observer in the basket from together with questions of the burning balloon. the legal status of the para- How often this was resorted to the parachute should serve first used by Italy against poor chutists in this war, make a may be seen from the fact that humanity as a safety device, little Albania, when the latter
during the Argonne offensive until the craze of the Soviet country was Invaded. Then it. recasting or revision of our alone, the American observers maas parachute jumping pro- was the turn of Poland to have customary conceptions of made thirty parachute jumps. jeeted itself before our eyes. a taste of the German "para-. the parachutes and the It was said that during the War
In September.. Those years were consecreted chute corps," parachutists necessary.
1939. 750 British offcers and 800 French to the perfection of the parachute This article is written more
saved themselves from burning to insure the anfety of the crew According to the description of balloons. Tho balloons were then and passengers of the commer- Polish army officer, who was an eye- with a view to opening the dis-
favourite targets for cussion, rather than to express bombs and machine guns.
German elal planes, the cadets or students witness of the German activiiles in ing any final opinion, on such
undergoing a flying course and the air, the German parachutisis were vital topics.
In the last year of the War, the similar peaceful purposes. The dropped behind the Polish lines, where they proceeded to carry out use of parachute was extended to Irvin types of parachute, as it is sabotage, work, destroy communica The time is not yet ripe to the aeroplanes to save the lives to-day, is a comfort (because you tions and signal to their own troops, do so. Here I intended only to of the aviators. Usually when can sit on the "seat-pack") and a usually in the disguise of Polish uni- give a brief survey of the ap- hostile aeroplanes met, one of the beauty, when it is fully opened forms. pearance of the parachute and combatants, or possibly both, in the sky. The most extraordin-
In January, this year, Soviet Russia the role played by the para- came down in flames or with their ary performance exacted from the commenced to use her parachute chutists in the past; the employ. planes disabled so that the occu- parachute at this time was the de- troops in her campaign in Finland. of signing of one approximately one These parachutists, besides performing ment of parachute in the last pants were killed regardless war; and the novel application whether the pilots themselves had hundred feet in diameter to lower a most of the acts done by the Gemana disabled acroplane safely to the in Poland, were, in some casts, quip- of this apparatus in more recent been hit by bullets.
ground.
ped with short wave wireless set for wars which creates new legal problems.
struction on the parachutes: one hour
The parachute was said to have
As far as training was concerned, the purposes of sending back milliary been first adopted by the German the cadets in both the naval and army information. There was no report of nir force. Captain Sarrat, a aviation schools have never been disguising in the Finnish wat as fer- French officer, was the first air. taught abnormal use of the parachute, as Russians were concerned. THE parachute was Invented man of the Allies to use a para- Take the American courses of instruc primarily as a safety device for chute for saving himself from a usually given about four hours in- tlon, for instance. The aludents are air travellers, as such it may be damaged plane in July 1918.
IT is apparent that with regarded as the lifebuoy or life During the War it 38 also in packing, storing and care; one hour these aggressor nations, the belt of the air.
utilized subsidiarily with
the, in methods of wearing, and of leav- "parachute corps" is fast becom aeroplanes in connection with ing plane; two hours in practical pack- ing an established institution.. An Italian scientist, Leonard what was known as the "airplane ing and adjusting of parachutes. habit; fighting men see things as they da Vinci, in credited as the first flare."
There has never been anything in this
It is no use shutting our eyes to the are and are not afraid to speak their inventor of the parachute. His Major E. A. Powell, of the training to indicate that hostile use of came in for their full share of the bit- fact. Both Holland and Belgium Major-General Sir Ernest Swinton design for this is found in his United States Army, tells us what the parachute was ever contemplated, terness and horror it is possible for
this is: "This fare, which But this state of things cannot last combatant parachutists to perpetrate. is one of those plain speakers. He sketchbook, the Coder Atlan- weighs-thirty-five-pounds,-is-con- very long for good or for worst, sad that to those who had been ticus (1940), now preserved in tuined in a cylindrical
aviation is progressing by leaps and These service men have, through of bounds.
the abuse of the parachute, forfeited willing to him in advocacy of an im- the Ambrosian Library at Milan. sheet-iron about four feet long
the rights hitherto enjoyed. by avin mellate peace his
and five inch ca in diameter. The Around the year 1935, the world tors. What With that hyena Her? In-making the plans-for-a-fly-flare-consists of an illuminating was af first mildly startled on being rrican' it. He is a hyena and a hyena ing machine and the parachute, charge, capable of giving 32,000 by the Russians in mass patente tioned or treated not simply as "para- informed of the enthusiasm displayed From now on, they should be men- is very nasty animal."
As to ap he declared: "There shall be ten minutes, which is attached to and thousands of parachutists parti-armed" parachutists, when they are candle power for approximately jumping as a sport, in which hundreds chutists," but with qualifying words proaching the German people, added wings! If the accomplishment a silk parachute twenty feet in cipated.
such 15 "combatant," "fighter," or the General, "It is the whole German be not for me, 'tis for some diameter." The "airplane flare" rate we are up against-man, woman,
in the uniforms of their country; and other. The spirit cannot lic; is used particularly for night- uneasiness, when it was next told that disguise...
The surprise was soon turned into as "spies," when they are found in cal, and dog, and rat, The_Booner
bombing-ralda, the aviators thus- we realise that in a matter like this, and man, who shall know all and being enabled to illuminate the in one of the military manoeuvres of I have no doubt that a more fiting war there are no 'good' Germans the shall have wings, shall indeed be objectives so that they could machine-guns had dropped within a effectives, enabling us to call a spado the Soviet Army, 2,500 men with name will soon be found for those alr as a god."
accurately drop their bombs. given aren, followed by 3,000 more, a spade.
answer
was,
quicker we shall end the war in the
only possible way-an Allied vic- tory,"
As for the military situation as
it
has now developed, Sir Ernest quoted
the incident told of that shrewd old
Boer, Dom Paul Kruger, after the
Jameson Raid.
Little did Vinci imagined 450
caxe
years ago that man, instead of CARTOON
being raised to the eight of a
"god," has descended from the
a Asked why he did air as monstrous spectre,
not act when he knew of what was through abusing the child of his; brewing, he replied, "When you want | inventive brain.
to cut the head off a tortolse you wait till he puts his head out of the shell." Hiller, sald Sir Emost, had been formed by events in Germany to put his head out, and in doing so he had committed a strategical error.
The General used yet another creature of the animal world to ex- press his views. He said that the example of Norway might encourage other small neutrals, who had so far been cowering like rabbits in front of a boa-constrictor. Italian Threats
We hear very little about the parachute until the coming of the balloons towards the end of the 18th century. The first re- corded successful parachute des- cents were made by Lenormand from a towor' in 1783 and by Blanchard from a balloon in 1797.
In the same year another Frenchman, Andre Garniren des- cended near Paris from a height of 11⁄4 mile. In 1802 he re- The change in the tone of the peated the experiment in Eng- Italian Press since the Nazi invasion crowd on the Volunteers' Ground land, entertaining a big London of the Lowlands is rather hard to near Grosvenor Square by drop- understand. The only thing on
which commentators agree in that ping 8,000 feet.
should not be taken at its face value.. Professional entertainers were This assumes that the Duce is no not slow in utilizing the para- more eager than he was some months chute to draw public attention age to abandon the advantages of and enriching themselves by their "non-belligerency." As for the
acrobatic exhibitions, after it had Italien people, their, dread of war been demonstrated beyond doubt leaves no room for doubt.
that it was safe to descend from a parachute;
The lenson of recent naval events, coupled with
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A BRITISH THDRAWAL
Mr. Churchill's re- Considering how rare was alr
minder to all whom It may concern. travel in the last century it was that the Allies are well able to safe-natural that the function of "the guard their position in the Mediter- parachute as a safety device ranan beskles, the North Sea, cannot should have beon usurped by that have been lost on Rome.
of public entertainments.
It is contrary to Italy's Interest, as The "lady parachute jumpors" to that of everyone else, that Hitler wore a popular attraction at the should go, step by step to European county, fairs, Thus It seemed martery. Yet the Nazis' invasions clear that up to the end of last hays been made the occasion for contury the parachute was print instructions to the Fascist Press to cipally used for the purposes of take a stronger, line against the entertainments ..and sports. Throughout this period the par- We are naked to bellove that the character, using "cultural" (not chute had preserved Its "cultural" "non-belligerent" may come off his Kultur" however,) in the broad- U be intended to do in, die zentratuur of tire WORK TOPE Trollfood is tint the change of status have come across practically no would have been accompanied by the cases where it was used in con- uimast secrecy,
nection with war.
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