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7ITH the great wave of German invasion moving swiftly nearer, everyone ought to understand the chances of enemy uir invasion, and how it will be dealt with,
The Germans have three or four full regiments of para- chutists. The men are carried not in warplanes but in big Junkers transports,
The parachute trooper is a man picked for physical strength, and health, and for high
He courage.
needs courage, for losses, even in peacetime, manœuvres, aver- aged about 20 per cent. per annum. Yet the Germans are brave men-there were never any gaps in recruiting for this branch of service,
Parachute jumping involves considerable danger. Many of the world's most famous para- chutists have been killed--- John Tranum is a famous example.
Getting to earth unloaded after a parachute descent is equal to a leap from a 12-foot wall. Loaded as they are, it might equal a jump from a 17-foot wall.
OTHER risks include delay
in opening the paruchute which means hitting the earth and exploding like a bomb of being dragged. through trees or coming down in water. A well-trained man, however,by-swinging in a certain way as he descends, can direct his descent to some considerable extent to avoid obstacles below.
Before parachutists set out they manovre in country similar to that they mean to attack. They study for many hours perfect models, ac- curately built to scale, of that country, showing woods, towns, villages, rivers and so on. This is exactly what the parachutists see from the air, appearing on about the sume scale.
The paruchate man's task, on landing, is exactly set out for him. Оп
the battlefield para- chutists sometimes risk jump-
FUNNY SIDE UP
ing down to attnek strong enemy posts. The first of the Liege forts to fall was assault- ed in this way. Parachutists drifted down right beneath the walls and lung bombs through the ventilator-shafts and gun-ports, crouching against the outside of the walls, where they were in- mune from the defenders' fire.
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WILAT chances would para- chutists have of operating in Britain? Well-for once, I would not fancy their pro- spects.
It is one thing to make an aerial invasion where you have troops with tanks and lorries thundering towards you to connect up a solid line, and alreraft holding the skies overhead, as happened in Hol- land and Belgium, where the defence air forces were over- whelmed at the start. In Britain the tale is very dif- ferent.
So long as the British Navy exists we hold the Ditch be- tween the Continent and Eng- land, and communications are
any impossible for
nara- chutists or air invaders who land here. Moreover, I do not believe England has a strong German Fifth. Column, on whose help skying-invaders are bound to rely.
But if a landing were made if a few hundred Germans managed to get their feet to English ground what then?
were
This is not the Low Coun- tries, where a few handfuls of obsolete, warplanes smashed down by the Luft- waffe before parachuting operations began. We hold the English skies, and are likely to do so for some time
to 'come.
The Germans are reckless of life other people's and their own. So most probably the time will come when aerial invasion of Britain will be attempted. It will not suc- ceed; and every Boche who floats 'down towards an Eng- lish meadow will be one man more flung away in the bid for. world domination,
By Abner Dean
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Leather covered steel helmet.
Web parachute harness.
Right hand on release grip
of para- Chute.
Gas mask
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Parachute
pack.
Sub calibre
machine
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Iron rations
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Parachute Pharness
All gear is so attached that it cannot whirl loose
during free fall.
ARE YOU SURE?
Answers on this Page.
1. Caporetto, whence the Italians were driven in fight in the battle of 1917, is a
(a) river, (b) town, (c) · amali mountain, (d) province.
Did the Kallans en lose more or fewer guns than the Allies re- cently lest in Belgium?
2. The British Empire occupies nearly,
one-sixteenth, one-eighth,
quarter, one haif
onc
of the land surface of the earth.
Give Bgures.
3. What horse won the Derby Iprt week? What were second and thirdi
4. Is an Eskimo's hair naturally straight or curly?
B. In what mouth of 1588 was
the Spanish Armada scattered?
6. A troglodyta is
10. What is the colour of the wilform worn by the W.V.6.7
17, Ballistics deal with
(a) motion of projectiles, (b) an- cient weights, (c) ballast arrange- -ments in 'ships.
18. Who WAB Mr. Wackford Squcers?
19. A selenorraph is a
weighing (a)
machine. (b) range-finder, (c) sales chart, (d) map of the moon, (e) chart of the oceans.
20. Where is Banana Island, and to whom does it belong?
ANSWERS
1. Town. 2,000 more.
2. Nearly one-quarter. The land surface of the earth is 52,500,000 square miles; that of the Empire is 12,000,000.
3.
Pont 4. Straight,
(a) kind of frog, (b) surveyor'a · Lighthouse 11. instrument. (c) cave-dweller.
7. The biggest industry of the United States in the manufacture of
(a) food, (b). machinery, (c) textiles. (d) radio.
6. Who are the members of the War Cabinet? Give the Christian name of each.
i
9. What is a dan-laying vessel? 10. Ants are divided into three
classes. What are they?
11. Would you use a didie to (a) cut the lawn, (b) wash dishes, (c) scrub floors, (d) clear a
ditch, (e) thatch a roof.
10. Was is the origin and'can-
Ing of the word ailiiral?
13. What-is- Poringal celebrating this year? Who is representing -King George?
14. flow-many
(a) barrels, (h) gallons in a butt ́of ale?"
15. Who originated the Serpen- tine Lido which was opened" ton years ago..lo-day? For whom was ike. Serpentine first laid out? :)
l'Evepue;
Turklian;
Б: July, "Sighted off Plymouth on the 20th. Fighting up the lasted till the 30th," when
Chards fled north from
the
Nieuport,
6. Cave-dweller,
7. Machinery.
8. Winston Churchill, Lord Hall- fax (Edward F. L. Wood), Clement' Attlee, Arthur Greenwood, Neville Chamberlin.
9. Ship that lays buoys.
10. Queens, males, workers. 11, Clear a ditch. It is a sharp triangular spade,
12. From the Arabie word Amiral meaning. Emir (Emperor) of the
sea.
13. 800th anniversary of the foundation of the State. Dulso of Kent.
14. 3 barrels. 108 gallons.
15. George Lansbury, Caroline, wife of George II.
16. Olive green with embroidered badge,
THE MEN BEHIND THE BREN
By F. G. H. SALUSBURY IMAGINE yourself crouch- ing in what, was the par- lour of 1 typically snug French house.
The snout of your Bren gur pokes through the window-or, rather, the gap that was left when a boil wrenched out the frame, Bent 1 crashing backwards in an explosion of glass and shook the whole house to pieces.
You have piled up as much of Madame's furniture as you can And, and backed the lot with the bedding which descended from the floor above. It gives only a false sense of security, but it makes a cosy nest and may stop small splinters.
"Madame's plano has been toppled against one wall, with its back zipped open. A fantastic fate has flung a porcelain ornament from the mantelpisce to the seat of the music stool. There it stands, quiLe unharmed, a group of fat cupids wreathed with pink roses.
And over all this chaos, which is buoyantly surveyed by a large, coloured photograph of monsieur, madame and their five children, there lies a thick grey dust.
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You and your section are infantry. The imelight has not been thrown on you as much as on the Royal Air Force. which is doing such magniü- cent work. Bt your experiences in the past few days have made old soldiers of you.
So you snuggle closer against the stock of your Bren gun, and you gaze with concentration up the village street. You are as tired as Hell-and Hell must be very weary these days
They have put you here and there. advanced and withdrawn you, as the Bap in the region about Arras closed —and opened and closed again-
You have not the remotest idea of what is happening elsewhere, or how ho general battle is going. You only know you would give a year's pay for a night's undisturbed sleep and a good blow-out of steak and chips. and or'ons
Pro old Happy" is no longer with you to grosse about his food. He got his packet near Louvain. A grenade that came lobbing over
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you shift slightly.
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shouldn't wonderl says someone,
looking round from his rifle.
Anyone got any chocolate? "
says someone else.
Oh,
h, yes, sir: certainly, siri" comes a mincing reply from behind madame's pest chair. “And what- sort would you talke-all soft centres? By all means, sir.”
* *
A figure stumbles in through the doorway. It is a young subaltern. your platoon commander.
"Everything all right, sergeant?" he says. 'Bedded down nicely. 1 sec. Good. Well, you'll have to hang on here until you're blown to glory--
"Any issue of wings, sir, when we're angelat" says the section wit
me.
C-ar until you get the signal from Theres a picture I dislike par ticularly in the room where I am. I' chuck it out of the window if you'rg to move. Keep an eye on the window Okay?"
** Yes, sir.”**
"Right you are, then."
COL
As the subaltern departs, a deserted by humanity and now com pletely wild. stalka past the window. Its eyes are blazing. It is pure black.
**Blimay ejaculates the WIL
*That's lucky!'
With his inst word 'there comes n. whine that rises to a bowl and cul
A minates in an appalling crash. mushroom of smoke and bricks flings up from the end of the street
"They're of says the irrepressible wit, and flexs his grimy, cracked lips. "Hand me my binoculars, will you Perkins?"
You sighten your finger on the trigger. At the back of your mind you are wondering just what is the picture which your subaltern dislikes so much Then plece of metal smacks into the room over, your head, and makes. nonsense of monsieur's photographic amilo.
17. Motion of projectiles.
18. The schoolmaster in Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby.” ({" 7:19; Map of the moon. i. 11720, Off-Sierra Leone.::: Britain.
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