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Telling The Truth
Messerschmitt
· Me 109
This is the Me 100, a single-engined
it
At his critical moment in the fighter, which has so far borne the world's history is well to remem-brunt of Germany's air battles. ber that, as a nation, we are pledged has a top speed of 354 m.p.l. (com- to take the bad with the good.
Mr. Duft-Cooper has reiteratedpered with the Spitfire's 307 mph), that the public will, at all times, be and like the Me 110 it carries a can- given the truth with one reservation non and multiple machine-guns. Test only that of any information that flights of captured plancs have shown might prove valuable to the enemy. the Me 109 to be less manoeuvrable In fact, the policy of the British
than its British counterparts, and Government in concealing nothing
vibration sets in at high speeds. that might not assist the enemy has prepared the British pubile for
whatever might
Hitler has followin
Dornier Do17
nha
the apposite and extremely dangerous linc. He cannot afford to tell the German people the truth except about his victories. His losses, which we know to have been terrible, he minimises. 1ts persuaded the His propaganda people that the war was necessary, but will they be prepared to stand the cost?
Mr.
Duif-Cooper hinted recently that a a considerable section of the German public feel that the war was perhaps unnecessary ufter all. They may not become vocal while Hitler is able to show a series of successes, but when German mothers begin to receive the news of their slaughtered sons, will the vic- torles be counted as worthwhile?
Hitler has always feared the Altration of the truth. Into Germany This is a medium bomber, equivalent more than anything. Every penalty, to the Bristol Blenheim, carrying a even that of death, has been inflicted crew of four. It is used for long- for stening in on foreign broad- casts, but it is learned in authorita- five quarters that in spite of all Pretties and tents, the habit of
ing in is growing. People, even
in-
distance reconnaissance flights and has been seen several times over our shores. Althigh exact figures are not available, at least half a dozen have already been shot down. There
top speed of 292 m.ph. Owing to its long narrow fuselage it has been nicknamed the "Flying Pencil,".
in Nazi Germany, want the truth are two 1,000 hp, engines, giving a They want it so badly that they are prepared to risk heavy penalties to get it, and Gennan newspapers are even commenting on the extent to which orders are being disregarded in this respect,
The Freiheits-Korrespondenz,. the official organ of the illegal German Social-Democratle Party, recently
The
to
Facts
THESE ARE
GERMANY'S 'PLANES
Heinkel He 111 Junkers Ju 87k Junkers Ju 86k.
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the motor.
With the Do 17 this is, Germany's A single motor dive-bomber, with The Sunkers bombers have not yet A distinctive feature is been seen in the war in the West, but mest frequently-used plane. Most fired wheels. bonblag squadrons are equipped with the radiator, which projects below presumably they were used in the one or other of these typen. The le ill will carry bomb loads of up to 2 tons for short distances, only 1 ton for long-range bombing. Two 1,000 .p. engines gler it top speed of 280 miles per hour.
Henschel Hs 126
A short distanco reconnaissance plan of the type used for photographing, army co-operation, or for the observa tion of artillery fire.
And These Are Ours
On this page ara sot out the rival air forces of Great Bri- tain and Germany. Details of the British planes have previously been published on this page. The sil- hauettes of the German planes will be now to you and will help you to recog- nise them if and when they como over this country.
VICKERS SPITFIRE / HAWKER HURRICANE
GLOSTER GLADIATOR
ARMSTRONG
WHITWORTH WHITLEY
BRISTOL BLENHEIM
VICKERS WELLINGTON
EVERET HANDLEY PAGE HAMPDEN
WESTLAND LYSANDER
FAIREY BATTLE
About the Balloon
all forms of national defence in
Polish canipalgii. They are now on the way to becoming obsolete, and it. in significant that they have not been used on any of the reconnaissance Alghts over Britain and France. The Ju 88 K is a twin-engined medium- bomber, recognisable by its long noaa. with a circular gun position at the tip. It is the only military acroplane with. Diesel engines.
Junkers Ju 89k.
Á four-motor monster, with an easily recognisable triangular shape. It cor ries a heavy load of bombs, but is not fast, 220 m.p.h, being its approximate top speed. It was a familiar sight to the coastal touma of Government Spain during the civil war, but not much has been heard of it since. Be- fore the war a passenger plane of similar design was used on some of Germany's air services. The arma- ment is not up to the standard of Germany's latest bombers.
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Barrage
A balloon barrage compels chemy machine will escape fouling one of the besieged and the provinces by
foreign his country the balloon barrage raiders to my at um altitude at which the hundreds of steel cables are in- means of balloons. These carried
to
credit
our
the
them.
may
be finitesimal.
afterwards
wero- Since
published some pures of trials for the offence of listening-in. In one day alone, twenty-eight people were
for listening in tried for broadcasts in Hamburg.
pigeons, which majority of sentences
guns anti-aircraft were has received most pubilelty, for the from three to nine months imprison- very good reason that it is so obvious. operated with maximum efficiency What is the maximum altitude to liberated to bring back news. ment, though several people were Yet some people have only
also prevents which these captive sentinels can then balloons have played an in sentenced to two years in prison. In
vaguest idea of its function because against
our enemy pilots swooping down to with rise? Their "ceiling" is a military creasingly important part in wor Berlin eighty-two trials were held rumour continues
in close range of vital objectives to secret, but it is many thousands of Psychological Effect with "floating elephants" during the curly days in April,
powers
carry out precision bombing and feet higher than the altitude at which The same newspaper gave some they do not possess.
machine-gunning.
they normally font, interesting facts about the method
One rumour still current is that
Miles of aluminium-treated Egyp- In cloudy weather balloons are adopted by those anxious to listen,
the fabric of the balloons is strongly magnetised to attract enemy air- tian cotton have been used in making kept either in the clouds or just be against airship raids on Italian ports. craft and send them crashing to the our burrage balloons Electrically low them. Their appearance above in London, captive balloons raised.. ground. Another is that the steel driven sewing-machines assure rapid cloud strain would inform enemy large "aprons" of steel wires to
the balloons production. This work is carried out raiders. they cable which anchora
not only by women but also by mem- objective. when aloft is electrifled.
Both these rumours are as false bers of the balloon barrage squa- Keeping Tally as the one which claims that a cur-
Every member of a ground crew tain of steel wires hangs down from each balloon. Thost
in, which is usually done by groups
of people who later distribute the news in factories, enfes, and homes. The paper also pointed out that a new kind of business has sprung up. consisting of selling foreign news to people who do not want to take the risk of listening-in themselves, but are nevertheless no eager to know the British radio news that they are willing to pay for it. The Inns- brucker Nachrichten of May 14 re- poris a sentence of five years' hard labour on an Austrian girl of twenty- one for listening to foreign broad- casts and passing on what she had beard.
This state of affairs is a junt com- mentary on German life to-day. though German forces have Even temporarily smashed their Way through to Paris and beyond, Ger- mans at home must wonder whether this conquest is worth the cost. They have been led to bellove their victory is great and are even now waiting for the moment when all is over bar the shouting, but inevitably they will learn by devious menus the diro result of their "victorien", and then what will be their reaction?
"wires"
ta
our stationary sky defence is the stcel
drons.
were over
П
In the Great War the Italiun Pros- sone kite balloon supported nets.
vital height of 10,000 feet. On the West- ern Front and elsewhere captive bal- loons were used by belligerents for observation purposes. To-day the speed and armament of modern air- At any moment of the day and soft render captive balloons unsuit--
What must be the psychologlení.
on.
are has undergone a course of training night precise details as to the number ropes which the ground crew seize in immotting, lashing, and splicing of balloons "in action," the heights able for observation. to assist them in mooring their bal- Skill in tying reets, making bends, at which they are guarding towns
and throwing hitchen is essential and cities, and whether any of them effect of our balloon barrago, on. loon after it 1s hauled down
arc where captive balloons con- have been brought down for over potential Nazi raiders who are aware that it constitutes an almost invisible earth.
haul are available nt headquarters. The balloon itself, though an in- cerned.
of ground personnel, enemy, with the power to strike will. Disposition dlepensable factor in the barrage, A Ring of Steel
supplies of hydrogen available, trans devastating results should an attempt. plays a passive role. The ating in
Some people may belleve that sites port of balloons and equipment to be made to penetrato it?
Some of us may remember how
raiders con- the morale of German cable. Drawn taut by the lift of the for our barrage balloons are chosen fresh sites are among the other hun- balloon, it is capable of cutting more or lesa haphazardly. They are dred and one details which through the fabric of an acroplane not. Each site is plotted scienti- stantly require careful administration London suffered during the last war. which happens to foul it as easily fically, so that when a completo bar- by thisso whose business it in to keep when our air defences were compara barrier of steel cable protects not rage is "up" it is almost impossible our balloon barrage working with tively weak. To-day, an immense os a knife can cut through butler.
for an enemy pilot to penetrate the 100 per cent. emelency.
anti-aircraft Our allies, the French, were prob- only London and other provincial. Holders Handicap
ring of steel. To frustrate In a city protected by balloon tempt by enemy agents to learn the ably the first to recognise the value cites and towns; our barrage entirely Immung from air "jay-out of a barrage the siles are of balloons for war purposes, a defences are immensurably stronger, special study being given to the sub- our fighter squadrons are incompar attack? One would like to be able constantly re-arranged.
enemy pilot feet during the French revolutionary able.
Surely the inference is obviousli to say "yea," but experts say "no." If at any time an What then, we may ask, in the real should attempt to fly through our wars. During the siege of Paris function of steel cables?
balloon barrage the chances that his communication was affected between
any
nt-
Raymond Jamta