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77ITH the large scale
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use of parachute troops by the Ger-
-By
Dr. LIN WO-CHIANG
WHEN the war camo in 1914 This Whe perhaps tho
mans in the present war and their recent threat that for every German parachutist EXPERT CRAFTSMEN BUILD shot down ten Allied prison- the life-saving feature of the "deadly of all uses of which LONG LIFE, LOW REPAIR ers of war would be shot, the parachute was developed to the parachute had been gout to, COST, HIGH RESALE VALUE world is facing a new pro- full.
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ing the last war.
At first it was employed in a- sociation with the observation
with parts enabling field-pieces to be assembled and in operation within m fow minutes.
This spectacular and aggressive cim-- ployment of the parachutes by Sovlet Russia immediately found apt immita- - tors in Italy and Germany, who tried to emulate her in the training and or- ganisation of what is known as "para-
mont
the
chute compa" with tragical conse-
dur
quences, as won 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
The abuses, without pre- balloon, to insure the escape of cedents, of the parachutes the observer in the basket from
As far as I can remember, the together with questions of the burning balloon.
more alarming signs than that so-called "parachute corps" was
should the legal status of the para- How often this was resorted to the parachute
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 Argonne offensive until the craze of the Soviet country was invaded. Then it recasting or revision of our during the
alone, the American observara mass parachute jumping pro- was the turn of Poland to have customary conceptions of made thirty parachute jumps. 'jected itself before our eyes, a taste of the German "para- the parachutes and the
chute It was said that during the War
corps," in September, Tho years were consecreted parachutists necessary. 750 British officers and 800 French to the perfection of the parachute 1989.
This article, le written more saved themselves from burning to insure the safety of the grow According_to_the_description of a with a view to opening the dis- balloons. The balloons were then and passengers of the commer- Polish army officer, who was an eye-
favourite cussion, rather than to express bombs and machine guns.
targets for Gorman cial planes, the cadets or students witness of the German activities in undergoing a flying course and the air, the Gaman parachutists were ing any final opinion, on such vital topics.
In the last year of the War, the similar peaceful purposes. The dropped behind the Polish lines,
where they proceeded to carry use of parachute was extended to Irvin lypes of parachute, as it la botage work, destroy. communion- 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 alt on the "seat-pack") and usually in the disguise of Polish unl- (Menica) led at 0.15 am. on give a brief survey of the ap- hostile aeroplanes met, one of the beauty, when it is fully opened forms.--- - May 27, 1940, at 2 Hillwood pearance' of the parachute and combatants, or possibly both, in the sky. The most extraordin-
In January, ils year, Soviet Russia Road, 1st Ficer, Kowloon aged the role played by the para came down in flames or with their ary performance exacted from the commenced to use her parachute 14 years. Funeral will pass chutists in the past; the employ- plancs disabled so that the occu- parachute at this time was the de- troops in her campaign in Finnland, morrow, May 24. (Shanghai, ment of parachute in the last pants were killed regardless of signing of one approximately one These parachutists, besides performing Manila and Macau papers please copy). No flowers by re- war; and the novel application whether the pilota themselves had hundred feet in diameter to lower a most of the acts done by the Germans disabled aeroplane safely to the in Poland, were, in some cases, equip- quest Donations to St. Vincent of this apparatus in more recent been hit by. bullets.
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problems.
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Take the American courses of intruc-
out
IT is apparent that with
The parachute was and to have
As far as training was concerned, the purposes of sending back military, been firat adopted by the German the cadets in both the naval and army information. There was no report of air force. Captain Sarrat, a aviation schools have never been disguising in the Finnish war as far 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 paration, for instance. The students are primarily as a safety device for chute for saving himself from a usually given about four houn in- air travellers, as such it may be damaged plane in July 1918. struction on the parachutes: one hour regarded as the lifebuoy or life During the War it was 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 leay "parachute corps" is fast becom- aeroplanes in connection with ing plone; two hours in practical pack- ing an established institution." An Italian scientist, Leonard what was known as the "airplane ing and adjusting of parachutes.
There has never been anything in this fact. Both Holland
It is no use shutting our eyes to the da Vinci, is credited as the first flore.","
and Belgium inventor of the parachute. His Major E. . Powell, of the training to indicate that hostile use of enme in for their full share of the bit- 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 fore, which
But this state of things cannot last combatant parachutists to perpetrate. - sketchbook, the Codex Atlan- weighs thirty-five pounds, is con-
very long for good or for worse, aviation is progressing by leaps and These service men have, through | ticus__(1940), now preserved in' tained in a cylindrical case
of bound
_the_abuse of the parachute, forfeited the Ambrosian Library at Milan. sheet-iron about four feet long
the rights hitherto enjoyed by nyla- Some of the frankest and most
and five inches in diameter. The Around the year 1935, the world tors. vigorous things sald about the Nazis In making the plans for a fly- faro consists of an illuminating was al first mildly startled on being From now on, they should be men- and the war have been uttered by ing machine and the parachute, charge, capable of giving 82,000 informed of the enthusiasm displayed
by the Russians In rings parachute Honed or treated not simply as "para- our soldiers and sailor men. Foll he declared: "There shall be candle power for approximately jumping as a sport, in which hundreds chutists," but with qualifying words ticians are usually restrained by long wings! If the accomplishment a silk parachute twenty feet in cipated..
ten minutes, which is attached to and thousands of parachutists parti- such as "combatant," "ghter," or "armed" parachutists, when they are habli; fighting-men see-things-as-they-
The airplane faro"
in the uniforms of their country; and are and are not afraid to speak their be not for me, 'tis for some diameter."
The surprise was soon turned into as "spics," when they are found in is used particularly for night- other. The spirit cannot lie; bombing raids, the aviators thus unenalness, when it was next told that disguise. Major-General Sir Ernest Swinton and man, who shall know all and being enabled to illuminate the the Soviet Army dropped within a effectives, enabling us to call a spode in one of the military manoeuvres of. I have no doubt that a more fitting men with name will soon be found for these air 2,500 so that they could machine-guns had
drop their bombs. given area, followed by 3,000 more, a spade.
"That Hyena"
minds.
is one of those plain speakers. He shall have wings, shall indeed be objectives said that to those who had been writing to him in advocacy of an im-
as a god."
mediate peace his answer was. Little did Vinci imagined 450 "Whall With that hyena Hitler? i
accurately
mean it. He is a hyena and a hyens years ago that man, instead of CARTOON
is a very nasty animal." As to ap-being raised to the height of a proaching the German people, added
the General, "It is the whole German "god," has descended from the
race we are up againstman, woman, air 36 a monstrous spectre,
cat, and dog, and rat. The sooner through abusing the child of his
we realise that in a matter, like this
war there are no 'good' Germans the inventive brain. quicker we shall end the war in the only possible wayan Allied vic-
10:
has
quoted
We hear very little about the parachute until the coming of
As for the military situation as it the balloons towards the end of
now developed, Sir Ernest the incident told of that shrewd old the 18th century. The first re- Boer, Oom Paul Kruger, after the corded successful parachute des- Jameson Raid. Asked why he did cents were made by Lenormand not act when he knew of what was from a tower in 1783 and by brewing, he replied, When you want
tortoise you wait Blanchard from a balloon in till he puts his head out of the shell." 1797. Hitler, fald Sir Ernest, had been
to cut the head off
forced by events in Germany, to put In the same year another his head out, and in doing so he had | Frenchman, Andre Garniren des- committed a strateglent error. cended near Paris from a height
The General used yet another of 1/4 mile. In 1802 he re- creature of the animal world to ex- press ble views. He said that the peated the experiment in Eng- Example of Norway might encourage land, entertaining a big London other mall neutrals, who had so for crowd on the Volunteers' Ground boon cowering like rabbits in front near Grosvenor Square by drop- of a bea-constrictor.
ping 8,000 feet.
Italian Threats
Professional entertainers were The change in the tone of the Italian Press since the Nazl invasion not slow in utilizing the para- of the Lowlands is rather hard to chuto to draw public attention understand. The only thing on and enriching themselves by their which commentators agree is that acrobatic exhibitions, after it had should not be taken at Its face value boen demonstrated boyond doubt This assures that the Duce is no that it was safe to descond from more eager than he was come months a parachute. ago to abandon the advantages of
"non-belligerency.” As for
the Considering how rare was air
Italian people, their dread of war travel in the last century it was
leaves no room for doubt.
natural that the function of tha
The lesson of recent naval events, parachute nan safety devico coupled with. Mr. Churchill's
row
minder to all whom it may concern,
should have been usurped by that
that the Allies are well able to safe of public entertainmente... guard their position in the Mediter Thelady parachute jumpora" ranean booldes the North Sea, cannot have been lost on Rome.
were a popular attraction at the
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BRITISH THDRAWAL
It is contrary to Italy's interest, as county faire. Thus it seemed to that of everyone else, that Hiller clear that up to the end of last should go step by step to European contury the parachute was prin- mastory. Yet the Nazis Invasions cipally used for the purposes of have been made the occasion for entertainments and sporta. instructions to the Faschit Press to Throughout this period the para-
stronger line-against-the-chuta had preserved its "eultural!lav
character, using "cultura)” (not} to bellove
the "non-belligerent may come off his "Kultur, however,), in the broad- perch, 12 he intended to do the test sanso, of the word. For I likelihood is that the change of status have come across practically no would have been accompanied by the canon, where it was used in còd” utmost vocracy,
nection with war.
wo are
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KEEPING HIS BALANCE
By Strube
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DAY-
YESTERDAY!