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BRITISH This Fighter Can Hit The
600 STILL IN
PARIS
GIVEN CASH BY U.S. EMBASSY
LISBON.
WHEN the first south ex- press with direct connection with Paris for over a month was coming into Lisbon's Rossio Station I did not think it worth while to go and meet it. There won't be any one getting out of France anyway, I thought
Still I went, and who should I see clambering out of a first- elnas car but my old friend Walter Kerr, who was turned out of Paris because the New York Herald-Tribune is not liked by the Germans.
Of came four en Ave others. Sum Pierre, American ambulance worker, who is going back to the States to tell of the Ane work Anne Morgan, J. P's sister, has done and is doing with her relief unit In Paris, and Katherine Garre8, Boriely girl who is with the same unit, "nd
Thomas Leutenant McBride, who went to France to organise the second Lafayette esquadrille (air force volunteers), and Donald Q. Coster, of the American Field Service, who for
two weeks WIS Brussels.
prisoner In
So I am full of Parin
gossip. Believe it or not, there are 600 British civilians in F'nris, and Walter says it's a great sight to proudly wear
them----some their ribbons of the last war-sit- ting in front of the cafes discuss- ing the war freely, Indifferent to the German soldiers who are stroll- ing here and there. The British elected une Colonel Shaw as their spokesman ta speak
their to consul-general. Seventy-Five Francs
A Wock
Although the Americans didn't stress it, I gather that the Ameri can Embassy in Paris is doing » really great job of work for the British. They
giving those who haven't "funds—it 1 akmost impossible to get any money out of the banks-seventy-dva troncs a week.
Arc
The Stars und Stripes floats over the British Embassy in the Faubourg St. Honore and likewise over the Duke of Windsor's home in the Boulevard Suchet, before which gendarmes lounge,
But I don't think they clean all those brasses on the door.
One non-combatant Briton got arrested and placed in a concentra- tion camp at Alencon.
Our non-combatant made such a fuss and insisted so hard that he was an American that at last the Germans threw him out of the camp.
There is one bright spot in the lives of the prisoners et this and at other camps. That is when a car drives, up with one of what Sam Pierce calls "Anne Morgan's bellcats, those, American society girls who have done a humanitarian work. They, bring toothbrushes, food dainties, needles, "thread and things which mean so to prisoners. They are much greatly hampered because they cannot get the food in...
UmAgain quoting Sam, gushing in all over France to-day are neat,
AN
WHILE IN
BRUSSELS
Americun traveller who arrived at Lisbon (rom Brus- sels muld the city was much more normal than Paris. The King is living in the royal palace, where he is reported rating an German prisvier
The Germans are putting across what the traveller described as *the hottest propaganda work ever" in Brussels. The German troops are ultrapolite. They give people In up their meals Lo ok trams, keep in the background us much as possible, and the soldiers concentrate especially on winning uver the middle and lower-class people, saying the Nazis are fight-
Newspaper Ing capitalist abuses are a single
and heavily censored.
sheet
Belgian opinion is considerably divided on whether they should have surrendered, but the traveller thinks that on the whole the King La fairly popular. and especially since the French armistice, which Is looked un as a justification of the Belgian move.
German soldiers are busy buying luxuries for their home folks. They get ten Belginn troncs to a STILTK.
Factories are mostly still idle, and the Germans have announced severe measures unless the workers are soon back at their jobs.
There is electric light and gas in Brussels, but, the telephone ser- vice is suspended.
The
all hia messages detained. present technique of the Parta to have their correspondents is stuff sent by plane to Berlin and cabled to America from there. They told him the New York Herald-Tribune was
well nol looked upon and that he could not work there and that he must leave the country,
On his way downstairs Walter looked in at the old Dally Express offee thinking of the old days.
lic found p German fraulein busy typing, people rushing in and out. There is a newspaper edited there now called the West Front, an organ for German
troops in France.
All They Want Is A Good Moa! What are the people of Paris thinking about, I asked all the arrivals. All said more or less the same thing-thinking how to get enough to eat. Walter said the food was excellent at the Lancaster Hotel, though the pheasant was out of cold storage. The explanation; German staff officers live there.
Sam and the others lived at the Hotel Bristol in the Faubourg St. Honore, over which floats the great Stars and Stripes, and you have to show your American passport to the gendarmo at the door in order to get in, for it is reserved entirely for Americans.
If you have money you can enti well at Prunier's or Maxim's, al though the latter place is now, the favourlle resort of German officers.
The average, Parisian occasion- ally gets cold storage veal, but usually not much besides bread, beans, macaroni. There is food in briskly efficient German doctors Walter reported, as do other cor the countryside, but no transport. and white-clad nurses of the Ger-
on a bicycle. Toán, Focil, nhi, service bringing, supplies, of medicine and food.. for children. This is of great pro- paganda
And-sull quoting value Sam-propaganda value in help- ing the French would be of tremendous value to a democratic nation like the United States, t Waller found his memages were not, roing. He went to the Paris Solr Uffices, which are now the censorship beadquarters, and found
speaking, the people are relying on a British victory, but they know so little of what is going on that they are bewildered. The German propaganda is terrific, and so they say in Paris-L B.B.C.. might explain the Brillsh point of view vis-a-vis France in a rather more conciliatory fashion and in a more reasoning tone. This would help greatly.
FOR
OR almost a year the names of two British fighters have been on the lips of everyone Hurricanes and
Spitfires the powerful single-
scaters which have each eight fixed machine-guns.
Now there is a third name often in the news-the Boul- ton and Paul Defiant.
It has four great points.
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☆
A The power-operated gun
turret. The gunner sita behind the pilot, and controls four speeded-up machine- Ku .
B
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The three-bladed, vari- Its able pitch propeller. blades are set to a "fine" pitch for a rapid take-off, rather like a sports car rushing up- hill on low gear. At height, the pitch is coarser, giving higher speed without "thrash- ing" the engine.
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C The pilot is seated, so that he can see almost straight down in front of the wing.
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D Split flaps are opened
when the pilot wishes to land. These alter the camber of the wing and permit re- latively slow landing.
AS in the single-seater figh- ters, the pilot has heavy bat- teries of machine guns (or perhaps something heavier?)
Enemy Coming And Going
which he aims by pointing the whole aeroplane at a tar- get.
Then, as he flashes past. the gunner in His cosy turret He need not gets busy.
about the terrible wind pressure in "killer" diven at more than 400 miles an hour.
worry
Even if he is firing abso- lutely sideways, the mechan- ism takes the strain, and he fires with fine precision.
Nor need he worry if the pilot swerves, making him awing the chattering guns right across his tall. The guns are checked till the line of sight passes the rudder.
Many squadrons are equip ped with Defiants.
You
how A may ask machine can give such per- formance when it carries weightier arms than Hurr!-
canes.
One reason is that the Rolls-Royce engine gives out hundreds more horse power than did the Rolls in our standard fighters a year ago.
The Defiant' is an all metal machine, chiefly made of light, tough alloys. It has stressed skla wings,
This means that the wing covering is part of
PATCHING SHIPS
THE war at sea has resulted
the structure—not merely a skin to take air pressure and suction..
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JUST before the war, dis- tinguished people, including foreigners, were invited to Northolt to see an early De- flant.
Pictures taken by British newspapermen were mutilat- ed by the Air Ministry censor- ship-80 that tax-payora should not see the power- operated turret.
Very wise too. Unfortun- ately the Germans freely published pictures showing the turret, so, in due course, Britons were allowed to see pictures of their own machine.
"Haw-Haw" affected to despise our power driven tur- reta. "We do not find them necessary," he crowed.
Our heavy bombers proved his error. Defiants drive the
lesson home.
One day recently 12 Do- fiants shot down 37 German machines, of which 7 were fighters.
And now the Germans do not know whether our figh- ters are going to hit them coming or going.
SHIPS AT SEA
floated and taken, possibly under her own steam, to a repair dock. Some salvors became extremely expert at the use of the standard patch and a number of ships were
in the revival of the hcti- vities of a body of men which in the last war played a va- liant part in the campaign saved in conditions which would
against U-boat sinkings, namely, the salvage experts.
In times of peace it is often not worth while spending money on efforts to raise sunken ships or float those which have gone aground after being torpedoed or mined; but in war tonnage rises enorm- ously in value. Time is the essen- tal factor, and hundreds of pounds can be profitably spent on saving a ship which would be left to break up in other circumstances,
have been regarded as hopeless a few years previously.
One
of the most remarkable cases of salvage was the result of a bold experiment. A ship lay in o South American port with a gap- ing hole in her port side, and there were no facilities for repairing her. Yet somehow or other she had got to make the passage" home.
The men on the spot hit on the idea of building up a new side of concrete. A wooden mould was built against the ship's side from within; this was filled with cement, and when it had hardened the "wall" was shored up with timber. The ship safely made the long passage home, though the crew ad mitted that there were several mo-
Like everyone else, chip salvers learned many lessons during the last war which have already been put to good use in the present struggle. Among "them were several crafty dodges for quick re- pairs, enabling ships to be taken to dockyards where they could receivements during bad weather when attention to make them perman- they fully expected the concrete wall to cave in and the ship to go ently sound again. Many a ship which had had a great hole blasted to the bottom. in ber elde by mine ar torpedo, Imped like, a Jame duck into dock after a few hours work on the part of salvors.
Timber And Concrete
One of the simplest and most useful expedients evolved during the last war was the "patch" It was found that yawning holes in ships' sides coull be temporarily patched with timber, and the Ad- miralty evolved a standard patch ready for immediate use.
This could be lowered over the hale and fixed in position by divers. The flooded hold could then be pumped out, and if the ship was aground she could be re-
Perilous Repairs:
L
the Channel and was run ashoro near Gris Nez When the British salvors went over from Dover to patch her up It was found impossi- ble to approach within a very con- siderable distance owing to the ap palling smell.,
On another occasion the oil hod to run out of a stranded tanker. With a very short time all the men at work in or near her col- lapsed owing to the fumes, and it was only with great difficulty that they were rescued without a co- sualty.
Rolos Reversed
been Wau arazed to
thet
A tug went to the rescue of a disabled ship off the south coast, and was towing her in when she developed engine trouble. In the meantime, the engineers of the ship had
hard, with the result that the
at the tuger caning in on
the wrong see her coming. end of the tow-line, being towed by-the ship she had gone out to assist. Not only did the tugʻa mas for comin for some good-hui koured bauter, but the financial experts were set a nice, problem in deciding who was to receive what
in the monetary award.
the war, of 1014-18 produced
⠀⠀ from layinen a number of ingeni, ous buffantarties suggestions- for zhizing sunken: ships/lyThere; wai way of getting wire cables attached to a munken vestel, was to attach the cables to torpedoes and, are them through the wreck. ⠀ Angther suggested cables with hooks could be attached to the port-holes of n could stand the strain of a lit: of several thoumunds,
Perhaps
Another remarkable piece of the man who suggested; that one
of
work was the salving of a monitor, which was mined in Dunkirk Roads... Although almost half her bottom had been blown out, she was saved by that Indomitable rescuer of ships in distress, the harbourmaster sunken
upper
Lofa of Dover By aboring the upper thin platih, imagining that the deck with baulker of timber work carried out under igrent difficulty, owing to repeated air raids, the ship was made to font. In this precarious condition she was towed he was sent as a Bghting unit to home and repaired. After the war the Far East
Salvors often had very unex- pected conditions to cope with. A meat ship had been torpedoed in
came from an Expert restion of a most ingenious sug -in refrigeration, Ho suggested, that the water in a sunken ship should be frozen into sold lee by means of chocolate fonts," be told. "The ihip will come up without further trouble or the need of com plicated apparatus
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