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I saw the Germans coming as in- vaders into the Norwegian capital of | Oslo. I saw something of their war tactics, and I heard a whole lot more from Norwegiane inadquately armed, who had tried to stem parachute troops or hald vital points with rifle and bayonet. "When we saw the
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my guns, we felt like men armed with bows and arrows," said a Nor- wegian to me.
I understood exactly what he mennt, for I had seen the Nazi troops marching in column of three.
First come two ranks with their Stubbs Road, rifles lung carelessly anywhere. Their main weapon was the Tommy gun held ready for instant use at the hip. You do not need to sight it or load it after every five rounds. You let go with a spray of bulleis when you sight danger at 50 or 60 yardı, It is their "close quarters weapon," like the bayonet is still ours.
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VESSOONA: At Kobe, at 7 n.m. on August 22, 1940, N. J. Vessoona. (Shanghai papers please copy).
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Propaganda's Poison
I
WILL. emphasise this an- other way. In Narvik, the Germani were terrified of open movements on hillaldes or exposed
positions-no matter how far they
were from their enemlet the
were Norwe- knew those enemics glans.
The reason, he explained, was that every Norwegian appeared to be a crack shot, and many a German strolling, as he thought, weil oul of range was afterwards found with a bullet clean through his forehead be tween the eyes.
That sort of ponderale, rlile-yanga fighting gave the Germans in Nar- vik the Bitters. They avoided it at all, costs. Once they could break cover at 60 yards firing hundreds of bullets to the enemy's dotens, they were happy.
It is a point worth remembering, it you hear of parachute troops any- where in your neighbourhood. Heroles of long-distance marksmun- ship or close-quarters Aghting will not kill them.
They will creep up
on you, or walt for you to come into range, it they can. If neither is possible they will run.
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Bomber Support
August 23, 1940.
The Ventriloquist and His Dolls
U.S. PLANES
ROM the day Hitler's robot armies swept across Flan- ders and awakened the United States to the reali- sation that the war is now on their doorstep, the most fantastic stories, speeches and promises about America's air capacity have been flooding into this country.
President Roosevelt announced a scheme for building 50,000 war planes a year.
Firma like the Olen, L. Marun Company issue a statement that they have completed a specification for a new bomber far more effec- tive than anything nying now, and that the Allies are taking delivery of every one of these aircraft, which can be turned out during the next eighteen months.
Come to Realities
Every one of these statements merely raises, a sad emile among people connected with the aircraft industry here.
All of them have the stamp of dream projects bearing.no relation
to hard facts.
-here are
the facts
lo build 80,000 machines a year from scratch, it has only to be remem bered that Germany, after some Years of preparation and with the whole of its industry geared to air craft production, has never got past 18,000 aeroplanes a year.
In the light of that fact, Henry Ford's promise can be set down. na just another bright piece of over- optimism.
Bo can the Martin Company's an- nouncement, for if the Allies get one of these new bombers, still on the drawing board, within the next 18 months, it will be a miracle of production speed.
cided to standardise on two main types in this new order.
One is a new Douzias two-motor attack-bomber (of which 1,500 have been ordered), and a new Drewater fighter mounting shell · and machine-guns.
According to John IL Jouett, President of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce, America has 45 aeroplane plants, of which 23 are working on military orders.
It is commun knowledge that this little country of curs has not less than that number of plants, which have been in full production over a long period.
If the United States is going to turn out 50,000 warplanes a year from that number of plants, most of them just starting, what must our factories be doing? Sixty thousand? Seventy thousand? Wo with they
Last March, the United States As sistant Becretary for War told the country that output in the present year would be 17,000 air-frames. But a little over a month later, Major General Arnold, Chief of the Army were! the
Air Corps, testified before a Congress Committee that only about 8,000 planes would be produced by the year ending June 30, 1941.
But since there is a danger of ET us come back to
raising too many false hopes among column
into marching Oslo. Behind them were a couple the general public about the extent of Alca-still with their rifles and of American air aid. It may be just personal kit but also carrying the
as well to examine the true position various parts of two light machine- of the American aircraft industry. guns. Behind them
come round- The statements quoted above can shouldered youths carrying the mo- be dismissed very simply. ximum possible
way o! With regard to Roosevelt's scheme
Twenty
in the
Propaganda is one of the deadliest weapons of warfare, as it Is one of the oldest. Because it has been used to an unprecedented extent in this war there may be a tendency to re- gard it as a novel method of over- coming a foe. This war may indeed be the first in which the use of pro-machine-gun ammunition. paganda has had such momentous results; but that is attributable to the greater facilities which exist to-day for the dissemination of propaganda. The loud speaker which can blare out its specious arguments, to the foe's saldiers where lines of battle are facing each other at close quar- ters, the seroplane which can scatter leaflets from a great height for the edification of the foe's civilian popu- FUNNY SIDE UP
lation, and above all the richly subsidised propaganda departiment which can pour convincing sophis tries into cunningly chosen channels, are but the ultra-modern adjuncis which permit the application of new technique to an old art.
The savage warrior who painted a hideously, ferce expression on his face in bygone ages was employing one of the subtlest kinds of psycho- logical propaganda, although neither of these polysyllable "words to de- scribe his tactics had then been in- vented. The idea in, his primitive though cunning brain was to scare all the fight out of his enemy; but it was propaganda, and crudely effectual propaganda, ell the same. Put into modern English, the idea he Wished
to convey was, *You can see what a fearsome fellow, I am, and how utterly hopeless is your chance of successfully fighting against me. Better give up the unequal struggle without further resistance, lest worst befall you." Propaganda. of this kind, in various forms, has persisted through the ages.
History will record it as one of the most amazing features of the Second World War that Germany, was able lo overrun practically half Europe, by sheer bluff for that is what it amounts to. Austria fell bloodlessly,
by the ar conquered not
the engines of war legend of Cer- itz. Czechoslovakia,
but
a
many's Dansig way Denmark Norway, Holland and Belgium aut muccumbed to the carefully dimused "propaganda" that Germany's will, was as inexorable as fate and her army as irresistible,pag
WE PASMuch the same
Last January, he said, the Presi- dent called for an immediate mini- mum increase of 3,000 warplanes: Not one of these machines has yet been delivered to the Army,
Last week, prominent speakers in
aeroplanes could have they were, bombers would have been America were clamouring for every carried all the men I saw occupying on the way to machine-gun and available aeroplane and pilot to be Oslo on the first day, Suppose they blast out their possible attackers, sent at once to the Allies. That had been parachuted. Within half and other machines would have been shows a spirit for which we are an hour-if they had been esta-parachuling supplies of all sorts to grateful bllahed on some lonely moor of them.
Welsh valley-the High Command W. F. Hartin
would have known exactly where
PRESCRIPTIONS
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under
this pre
Shadow Factories
Of course, the United States will make additions to its existing fac-
Roosevelt has ordered the tories. setting up of 30 shadow factories, financed by the Government, to build thirty aeroplanes each per month,
as to
The Government has done an- other good thing in acquiring all motor patents from constructors and leasing them out to factories so to speed up production and to re- But United States air chiefs, testi- duce the number of types. fying before the same. Congress There 15 a typical American Committee, said that of the total of "bigger and
better"
grandeur 2.700 warplanes in the United States about their air expansion schemes. army, only 52-all bombers were. But they all take time.
By Abner Dean not obsolete."
NOVER DEAN
doctors, Mrs. Plooper
in pig-Latin!"
"
Good, but not enough
America has turned out some good
stuff which we have been glad to buy.
The Curtis 75P, for instance. though not as good as our Hurri- canes and Spitares, has done great work for the French Air Force en the Western Front
Already the more sober-minded production experts are talking about 1942 before "effective de-
liveries begin to dow out from the
expanded industry.
will be over.
By that time, we hope, the war
There is another point. It has been stated in America that in the new orders given by the Allies (for such aircraft as the Douglas bom- her and the Brewster fighter, for instance), the price of their release to us is that all expense in the Lockheed · Hudson, as
development and design of these bomber, has been a machines is to be added on to their purpose great help to our ·Coastal Command.
cost to us.
The
general
of
A
But the trouble is that not enough them have been delivered. In fact, nothing like the amount
ordered and promised.
On May 17, the Allied Purchasing
Don't Rely on USA.
This money is to be spent on new
Commission announced that up to designs for the United States Air
that date 4.000 aircraft of all types had been ordered from the United
| States al'a cost of £102,000,000,- A lot of these orders were placed early
| last year—but where are they?
Since January 1 this year, Britain has received only about £2,000,000 worth of scroplanes;
Force. Thus we will pay for America's new air armada.
The moral in all this is clear. We must not rely too much on vast air. aid from America.
We must not because of optimis- tic, though well-meant, promises re.... lax for one moment our drive to.... France, needing aircraft more attain air superiority with our own than we do, has done rather better. resources.
It has received«£8,000,000 worth.
Note the Total
We can do it easily with Canada "and the home factories, now that
the muddles, the waste and the al-- most criminal lethargy of the past. year are cleared up and resolved..
For
rall
a poor showing against that original from Uncle Bama, we shall say an
But the total of £10,000,000 makes And Wractical help we can get::
€162,000,000
We have just ordered another earnest, "thank you "--but it is on £150,000,000 worth. 22.
(ourselves that we must rely for the Probably it is because of delivery planes that must sweep. Goering's. experiences with the previous Air Force from the skies, orders that the authoritiei" here have, as has been announced, de-
CARL OLSSON