Our New Army Chief
They call him "Devil Dill"
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HEN Dutch King
When he was commanding the William of Orange British forces in Palestine, the came here to rule a Syrian bandit, Fawal Kawkajji, offered £500 for the capture "of country grown weary the British devil Du dead or of the antics of the last of the
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Now the British Army goes forth to war, to free the Dutch among other captive nations, and the Chief of the Imperial General Staff is Sir John Dill, descendant of that 17th century Orangeman,
What sort of man is this head of Britain's Arst Democratic Army?
He looks younger than the 50 years he attained last Christmas Day.
Stockily built, red-faced, with a heavy moustache, he beiles a stolid appearance with a rapier wit.
During the Great War he was Chief of British Military Intell- gence and selected his staff on a democratie basis from men in all walks of lifo.
Fighter Pilot!
By a Special Correspondent who has just undergone the medical test
AY by day, as they add to their triumphs, the pilots of the RAF. de- monstrate not only their steely heroism, but their amaz- ing fitness.
Britain's tealing time, of which Mr. Winston Churchill spoke a few, months ago when he assumed the Prime Minister's office, has at last arrived. From the tentative, and Presumably explorative raids of the past eight weeks, the Nazi air force has brought into effect its much- vaunted blitzkrieg, and yesterday official reports claimed that no less To find out just what physical re- than 1,000 bombers, apart from sup-quirements the R.A.F. demands of a
porting fighter machines, crossed the British Channel for mass raids on diverse parts of the British Isles,
The starting picture of 1,000.bom- bers blackening the skies is almost beyond the imagination of most of us in Hongkong who have been denied any such experience, and one could forgive and understand .If such a sight strike terror into the hearts of those whose lot is to behold this drama. Terror, as well as destrue- tion, is of course, the aim of those Nazi air hordes; they know they cannot beat our pilots in a battle and so they turn their attention to the task of demoralising the people. Hiller undoubtedly is. staking more on this aim than he is on wrecking Britain's industrial centres.
For none but physically perfect men can stand up to the strain of modern air-Oghting.
The lion-heart in the mouse's body no good up there. You must have heroism plus perfect health. Otherwise-Anishi
ighter pilot-the airman who must stand up to the severest atrain of them All-I have just undergone, by arrange- ̈ment-with-the-Air Ministry, the test-
through which all applicants are put,
I can tell you most of its details. Let us take a look through the buff form which Dr. No. 1 begins to all up as he puts me through the General Medical" at the examining · board's headquarters in London
First, to compile my chart of pre- vious incases ho names a score of complaints, from nightmares to sun- stroke, indigestion to colour blindness. deafness to discomfort on swings, roundabouts and switchbacks.
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DUCATION? Present
Eoccupation? Hobbles?
Alcohol? Health of father, mother, brothers, sisters?
Dozens more questions, many with no apparent bearing on the job of an airman, but indicative to the expert mind of some tendency or defect ihat may merit disqualification.
Height? Bt. 7in. O.E; You must be at least 64 inches and when you alt on the floor with your buttocks presses close to the wall and mensure from the wall to the soles of your feet the dis tance must be at least 30 Inches.
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tall with very long legs, you may also be required to undergo a practical test to ensure that you are not too big for the pilot's cockpit.
Weight? 10st. 10lb. O. Your weight must approximate to the weight Biren for your height. and age ca a standard table which has been com- piled from the records of seven lead, log British insurance companies.
Because of this we can take new heart. If there is one thing Hitler gannol accomplish it is the de-
If you are just below these meature- moralisation of Britain's civilian ments you may be given a practical test
to ensure that you have an unobstruc population. Let him with his air, ted view from a plot's seat and that armadas take innoten! Ilves, maim you are able to manipulate all the and Injure women and children, den, on the other land, you are very stroy homes; this to a limited extent must happen; but if Hitler imagines for one moment that by this dustard ly technique he is any nearer to avoiding ultimate defeat, he has a terribly rude awakening before him. Britons' morale is based not merely on the confidence in their fighting forces, air, sen. and land, but in he sure knowledge that their 'cause is u just and undefeatable one, For Hit ler the weapon is brute force born of treachery and the cowardice of n bully; for the King and his subjects throughout the Empire it is the cool skill and courage of a nation whose walchwords "Right, not Might", and though' e'en Hitler be the cause) of the biggest blood bath in mar. kind's history, his cause is already doomed,
Dreadful, dramtle days lay ahead of the people of Britain, but that they will not only meet them with talm, courage and tenacity, but will finally emerge to destroy once and fan ever, the scourge of litlerin, is the quiet conviction of the peoples of the Mother Tountry na woh as the entire Bekish Empire.
Heart and hunge abdomen and nervous system are examined. .Balancing-one of the nervous tosta.
"Stand on one leg with the biler. bent back from the knee, now. eyes shut, keep quila vill for as long as you cat."
(HIG'sounds easy, but try t. I was shaky and off in ten seconda and had to try again.
Balarice test, 2.-"Stand upright. arms straight out in front. paims timbed down. Angers open, keep steady For as long as you can. .
**Ah, ydar hands ora tremblingi” Try that one on yourstif, too. ***,
Pulso test comes next. In quick slab- cession you must step on to a chair, step down, sit down, stand up, step-up again... half a dozen times.
This simple exertion makes your hulse beat faster. If it goes back to normal quickly. your pulse is good; it it doesn't it "an't good,
Enduranco tost. This takes · your
breath away-and very likely your chance of becoming a Aghter pilot!
"Blow up the mercury," says the doctor, smiling slightly, A U-tube stands on the table, connected to a rubber tube through which, after taking several deep breaths and holding the last, you blox the mercury up to the 40 mark and go on blowing to keep it there as long ng possible.
My lungs felt like bursting. Seconds seemed like minutes I could bold
my breath no longer.
Thirty seconds. That's bad," com- ments the doctor. "But you're given three shota Try again."
Forty seconds Fifty seconds. Aloderate Tho_average_13 80 seconde Ninety among men in the RAF seconds is good One hundred and twenty exceptionni.
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"Smoking?. How many cigarettes ctay?" questions the examiner. Forty? Too many. Fifteen is enough Alcohol? A glass of beer at mid-day. an occasional whisky at night. Qulte enough for a prospective Dyer."
Now, move on to Doctor No. 2 Jor eye Pilots, observers and examination. Bunners especially heed good eyesight. I passect tho cys test literally with flying colours. It was a game of colours.
The pages of the Japanese Professor Isnihari's famous book for testing our colour olindiness were furried over quickly each containing a four-inch circle made up of varicoloured spots. with a namber woven into them and changed from page to page.
You misread some of the number. and do not see cibers if you are colour blind
I
IDENTIFIED from six- away red and paccs green lights that defec- tive ocular-muscle balance would have played all sorts of tricks with; looked along a ruler held from the tip of my nose and read small letters that moved up and down muscle the ruler test for eye balance. Fighters and gunners
looking through gun and bomb
sights need it to the nth degree.
Now to the ear, nose and throat examiner, who, standing 20 feet away, begins with the whispering test.
Words that sound almost allke, ordinary words, unusual words, all spoken very softly, each to be re- cognised and repeated. High and low notes, Tests for pitch as well the conver- as loudness, over sational rango from middle to three octaves above it, and then over and below that.
Pilots need an ear for engino defects, wireless telephonists for signals, and gunners for telephonic orders.
"Pinch your nose, blow out your cara don't you hear anything? "} asks Doctor No. 3, and adds, - Yes. that's very important," when i de scribed the sensation of ste passing from the throat through thỏ Ettle tubes that lend to the ear,
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NIGHTER Pilots'above all must have a clear pas Bago there," he explained. "Otherwise when they dive at 300,
400, 600 m.ph. the rapid variation in air pressure on the outside of the ear may easily burst the drum If the pressure is not equalised on the inside by the movement of air to the drum through those little passages."
Easy nose breathing is equally im ¡portant for fighter pilots for a similar)
'reason.
Finally, mysell and my now com pleted but form appear before, the President of the Medica; Board, and 1 shall duly hear his verale.
* Broadly speaking," Saya tile Press- dent, wo disqualify a man for any defect that might be a danger to lie. not only to his own but to the lives of his comrades.
"Frequently 1 give a man a second and a third chance if he has any tem. porary trouble that may disappear by the time he comes before us again We are now accepting Byers up to 20 years of age.
"Our O.K. means that physically a man is it to fly anywhere in the world. in any climate, under any conditions. at any height"
I take off my hat to Britain's fistest young men, the Aghter pilots and other flyers, who are good enough to stand up to all that
ABYSSINIA FIGHTS ON
DAS Abeba Arrugal 18 Comman-l When the Emperor tett the country! der-in-Chief of the Ethiopian bodyguard to carry on the struggle for Abeba Arragai vansited with a trunty, forces of national Uleration..
national independence. He won When Italy began her invasion way to recognition among the varied of Abyssinia he was Colonel and forces at natiphal resistance in the Chief of the Police in Addis Ababa federated Empire, and was elected by has 00- done much to trata a his fellow-warriors. Ras (Marshal) and and had
Commander-in-Chief. He ordinated 'the diverse forces of the disciplined modern force:
kystem new country. His intelligence The office was no aineenre: WASE were replacing old, pollowmen on first rate. point duty now directed 1rafie, modern
dalky garbage Tv-day his soldiers are in good heart. surface drainage and collection had been introituded. A The whole of the North West, with tho special polles service was told off to exception of four or five towns,
rale. Ofcers and wanderlag dogs which under Abyssinian
uniform remove the Corinerly Infested the streeľk
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was General omcer Sir John
Aldershot Commanding-in-Chief, Command, when war broke out.
He was appointed to command the 1st Army Corps of the British Expeditionary Force. but month WZL3 brought back to England to be Vice-Chief of the Imperial General Staff.
last.
To sum up, this Ulsterman is re- garded as the outstanding soldter thrown up by the British Army, since the last war.
Els father was a Belfast bank manager, and his grandfather a Presbyterian Minister at Curn- money, Northern Ireland.
For several generations the Dill family has played a prominent part in the affairs of the province
The records show that their association with Ulater began in
the 18th century, when John DIII., an ancestor of the present general, and his
his brother Marcus settled:
on 'n large farm in County Donegal
Some years ago, the Rev. James' R. Dill, of Dromore County, Tyrone. published a little book called "Tho Dil Worthles," in which the history of the family in Ulster was traced.
It gives a pleture of devil-may- care youths growing Into sober, notable citizens.
Such is the background of the "best general since Marlborough," as he has been called. He and Mariborough's descendant at No. 10 Winston Churchill should
make a formidable miiltory com- bination.
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General Sir William Ironside- moves on to a job that has sud- denly become one of vast poten- tiniftles-the defence of Britain- from Invasion.
Ironside once said, "The British genius in warfare is for improvisa- tion." It is above all that type of renkus that he is now called on to genius show.
What are Ironside's qualifica-- tlons for this key position?
Adaptability is certainly one. A keen interest in the study of morale i
another.
In his new post he will have con- trol of the new Home Defence Force volunteers,, and will be able to utilise them'in co-operation. with the Regular soldiers.
Here are a few glimpses of the career of this warrior-linguist- nuthor..
He
He has a passion for languages: that
has stood him in good stead.
speaks seven Jejunges fluently and has a working know- ledge of about half a dozen others. Each morning while he is in the process of acquiring a new lan- guage he fils a postcard with words and phrases. By the end. of the day he has mastered them. all. Such a method means a big vocabulary before six months are over.
During a German campaign in Bouth-West Africa in 1913 he used his very competent Dutch to good effect.
Disguised as a Boer he joined. the German fortès and was actu- ally put in charge of the native convoys.
His full notes on German milf- tary
tactics in the campaign formed a useful dossier when the storm: broke over the world a year later. He
was a captain when he crossed to France in August, 1014. In November, 1918, he had risen to the command of the Allied Army, in North Russia.
During the Intervening years he had commanded the Canadians of the 99th Brigade and made them. one of the most-feared units on
Western Front, the
Turkey, Persia, the staff collego at Camberley, Aldershot, India, the Tower of London, Gibraltar, and Eastern Command, all saw the him in the years that intervened between the two great wars,
Now he takes up a job that has been a sinecure since 1056. It is. 50 no longer.
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In the trugle days of Aprit and May,
Tangible evidence that the country 1956, the Emperor's Northern Army reflred on the capital, and the menace fs, unconquered, and that the war can of the Italian advent hung in the air laser, fa provided by leaflets, printed Rinting broke out among the least ree on one side in Ambarle and on the pensible: elementa of the desperato other in Italian, which are showered soldiery and people, Abels Atragal from Halian aeroplanes. These leallets did. All a resolute dish could to main appeal to the chiefs and people *B. F tain the order and dignity of the olty | submit..
·In-no-far me be falled, he falled nobly."
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