DONALD DUCK
DOGBONE IT. WHY BONIT
THEY MAKE THESE BIGGER
8-5
Cher 1940, Wat Daney ProdottanH Wield Ripes Rowersed
Wednesday,
HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH
MAGAZINE
Air War is Fought Five Miles
up
THE higher the safer" is an old flying maxim to
which added point is lent in wartime when the attainment of great height may often prove an air- craft's best means of evading unwelcome attention from the ground defences while flying above enemy territory.
But the great heights al- tainable by modern aircraft bring their own problems in flying and fighting.
ALC
Heights of kies and four miles
the
frequently Above reached by bomber atrernfl of the Royal Air Force to the course of their flights into the heart of Ger 13911 tunny, while even mark does not represent the "cell- ing to which the intent Types of 14183 siltam st 1.A.Fghter craft search of the enemy
the five
At Bach mense heights, when Lo the the earth below shrinka
esti proportions of a relief inlands resemble jocks awah in
the the tide.
At Turt strange new work of
apare
2120 Conditions thats lonely arena both men and machine are far dir ferent from those prevailing t Jower levels and must be met by puter autoits an essential to the pre- servation of life as those of a diver preparing to descend into the revan depths
Agonies of Cold
The extreme rok and the sure- fled war of high altitudes are the
Cu [/ twa greatest dangers
(n
night physion?
standpoint fight over Gerninny during recent weeks bornber crews, dying ligh. juw have reported temperatures as
(Fahrenbesty 64
1024
dest s
frost and the forgatum of layers of ice on the cockpit fits mante
the aft
DÜŞ
the
air (n another gunner of twin-engined bomber, nying at 20.009 feel over ʼn Gerinar reinoved naval base, mamuenzlataly
his loves to manipulate his wire- less key.
wright sul find Connected by a
Памя Length of
aircraft's to the electrical system, are no longer generally employed in the Royal Au Foue
In the event of the fate of the election ad supply at high altitudes the enbre crew would immediately be deprived of their sole protection
in the cok! Not a
RAF craft are fitted with cabin-heating equipment and though the single-engined alreralt palot derives a certain amount of heat from the pawer-plant me- diately in front of him, the crew the multi-motured bomber whose engines are mounted out on the wings some distance from the fuselage, bave no such comfort,
Men Must Breathe
AS height increases air pressure becomes Jass derive and the atmos phere progressively more randed The effect of Dan dimation The oxygen content of the wir fell at different heights according to the physique of the individuid
ill
JA
Some pilots experience no dis- comfort up to belgkin us great an 15,000 feek, but the majority begin
suer from the want of oxsaru evidenced by shortage of breath and a growing feeling of laskude after passing the 10.000
maste
..t
--MB1 teel mark.
To guard ngalant task
Jac Collapse t Prema the Royal Aut Fute full [ca begi at
•λ3'44' 10,000 feet the rule of suppoy then Fairy tendily a teased n the al-
Kodak hanghi
which
In a bumber wucraft the oxygen metal bottles supply stistes in
central { kr stowed
เร thr from these belles lead to Trie in each of the crew c
and each postul Is talet la
He was no severely frost-bitten that it breamie necessary amputate the top joints of all four fingers of one hand,
For protection against such in- tenise cold the airiñon relies mely fur-lined clothing upon Warn boots renelung above the knee, fire- close-fitting ny- lined overalis, ing-helmet and a pair of heavy
worry aver uly
$1 Uuza gloves,
erve as insulation silken
inst the cold.
11
Electricmy-mented flying-clothes,
in which beating
sewn into the
were
elements Uning of light-
Walli
provided valve and meter for regulating recording the rate of supply
A second dial, close by, registern the pressure in the sain supply to bring And, when the oxygen used allords an indication of the mount of gas remaining.
In his flying helmet, euch unen- of the crew wears an oxygen breathing mask sovering hose and this mask is trani mouth, und
Nexible length of suspended o
On taking up bis position lubing.
the aircraft the airman plugs in
mask-tube into the oxygen his
point close by and is thus directly connerted to the source of supply The length of the tubing allows Ireedom of univement and, in the ense of the air gunner, permits him to stand up and manipulatə his ku while t Altarbel to tus oxygen point
Just before the steralt leaves the ground thu tall the oxygen bottles are turned full on and when the 10.000 feet
mark Jas been reached the UTOW who treamwide, hve
been kreathing through the
101 their nuska, open their individual con- trol valves sufficiently to allow the constant emission of a slight quan- uty of the gns
With each 1,000 feet increase in height The valve opening is slight- y terrased and the rate of supply quickened until, when the ntreraft 10mhed Ith "klimat," the oxygen is
is being delivered through
12
The munka at maximum pressure.
Provided this procedure is rigid. Ir adhered to mud the supply rutr
height steadily in seared. gamed i nonal crew will expert- ST14 m-effects and little dia- comfort at height Kroad un four ad Ave niles above the earth
Above 30,000 feet huwever low pressur of the atmosphere rakes breathing, even with the art of an oxygen-mask, impossible and I then brcones necessary to en- case the airman In an airtight "pressure" sult,
resembling
the
diver's outfit, inside which a pre- determined pressure, sufferent t peretut of the tribulation of oxygen.
De mittained
An Altitude Adventure
MILITARY
however, niretuft koldovan affatty heights greater than about 30,000 test At these rent
life altitudes the airmen's
Irity end apron the cferent function- ne of his oxygen supply.
Not evry man c Jonant upon lamp at fortunate as the patient af Sedlice Btotes who recently Borate Lat great height owing to fuller as his oxygen system and
his aircraft ments later to find
ealthward! under full engine 11. ab ainest vertical dive
S
*
Instinctively, and before he bad fully regained his senses, he eased back the control coturn and such was the necupulated velocity his dive that, next frand hitelf climbing nearly vertically at some 400 miles AJI hour.
Instant.
A falare of the oxygen supply at heights below 20,000 feet, or the
disconnexting uf wemporary
The runak while the weer uiters h position to the aircroft, will not evessarily result in an immediate lows of consciousness, Urough there will be Ciscomfurt, varying in direct proportion to the height at which the cutting-off of the supply vecur
The greatest donger for the alr mon lies in the slowing-up of the thought processes and reactions which lack of oxygen induces in the human mind. Concentration
September 11, 1940.
HAGWANT DHOKBy Walt Disnev
PAGE
FIRST CHAIR COOLIE: Moro discrimination.
oxompt the skinny ones?
becomes difficult and in the feel-
袋 caf
which quickly lasstttttt
էր
over lakes the oxygen-starved air- man even such sample actions us
or picking up wiping his nose fallen top come tasks too in- tolerably burdensome tu
FL2- tempted.
18 breathing, often without his being aware of the fact, will be came laboured and even though Ne sumnDNS all his energies tu will be neapable of any exertion Jusling for
than about ** mimate
more
on
If he perisia, as members of bomber crews have
Occasion tried to do under the stress
of vital necessity, his exhaustion will quickly render him comatose.
He will lapse into fainting condition unl}] elther oxygen is administered or the aircraft des-
where lower level normal breathing is possible.
cends
Hard Air to Fly In
Hero-
APART from the physiological considerat.cns, high altitude fly- ing also introduces special pro- blems relating to the aircraft it- well. The supercharged engine has now satisfactorily over. come the difcuity of compressing a combustible mixture at a low outside pressure, a problemn which previously limited neroplanes to a maximum height of about 1,500 feet.
-yo
Why didn't they
But the thin wir of great heights sl takes its toll of an aircraft's performance by reducing its rate of climb and rendering it for less manoeuvrable than at lower levels. At heights above 20,000 feet, for example, the ultenuated atmo sphere provides so little lift" for the neroptune's wings that, com- bined with the lower power out-
rute put of the engines, the climb may fail to about one-tenth of the aircraft's ground level ability.
In other words, an al ernik which con chimb frum ground Jevel to 3,000 feet 2 minutes may well take 20 minutes to climb from 25,000 feet to 28,000
High altitude dying also calls for exceptionally careful handling of the aircraft, for though the thin nir offers the minimum of resis- lance to the aircraft's passoge und O permits of the attainment of higher speeds, its buoyancy is far less Un at lower levels.
Even to maintain level fight i becomes necessary to keep the air- craft in a lightly tall-down at- titudo so that the wings are pre- at their sented to the afratrcar angle of maximum lift.
air A steep turn in that thin would be impossible and to attempt it would result only in an im- mediate loss of height us the air- craft, suddenly robbed of much of Its lift by the altered angle of the wings, slipped sideways on one wing-tip.
STALIN & HITLER AREN'T GETTING ANY FRIENDLIER
AS
(United Press War Expert)
NEW YORK, Aug. 29 (UP). There seems to be growing evidence that the Russians and the Germans are moving apart clash in their interests south-eastern Europe.
The Seviots' absence in the Vienna...conference called to prevent the outbreak of War In south-eastern Europe is most significant.
Josor Stalin, the Soviet dictator, several times this summer allowed it to be known that. Russia has major interests in the Balkans and he does not regard compl⚫cently Adolf Hitler's and Benito MuSO- lini's, assumption they are respons sible for regimenting the Balkans. (Italy, Germany, Rumania, and Hungary were the Vienna con- ferees) w
The more Italy and Germany show, cffective power in forcing Rumania and Hungary to come to terms, the less will be Stalin's satisfaction. There is, an ouncer-
And besilo pinion
tain element in the Balkan situa- tlon which must concern Hitler and Mussolini.
Germany several days ago suddenly annexed the neutral Polish area which was to re- main an independent buffer state,
It now seems apparent that the annexation was a countermove to Russian border attacks on Ru- mania, which censors concealed until Tuesday. Hitler, through the annexation, thus became able to strengthen his strategic
position
the
-By-
J. W. T. MASON
The trade commissar sald Britnin could demonstrate friendship for Russia by re- Icasing gold-laden ships be- longing to Baltic states re- cently incorporated into the Soviet Union, which are being held by Britain.
Russia. thus made possible a re- newal of Anglo-Soviet amliy_dis- cussions which had been dend-
If the time should come to strike against the USSR. -
well understands Stalin German technique und hence, imlocked. mediately afterward Russia coun- tored with a surprise gesture of. friendship toward Great Britain. In Moscow, Trade Commissar A
Berlin and. Rome must regard 'with suspicion ony Russian 'move to establish friendship in the
1. Mikeyen Informed British Am-enemy camp. bandal bassador Sir Stalford Cripps that "discussions of far-reaching pro- posals might result ir Britain abandoned her hostile attitude" 15ward Russia, the MRT
With Russia's attitudo proving uncertain, Italien agitation, regard= Ing Greece almost halted. The Italions are now, enraging them selves regarding Egypt while keep
ing Balkan ambitions in the back- ground. This changed attitude can only mean tear of Slay complica- tions Interfering with Berlin-Rome plana.
Behind uncertainties and obscurities is the basic fact that German, air attacks on Britain have not been success- ful.
Ten days ago, Russian newspn- pers sald Hitler, was getting .Do- where with his trans-channel nssaults. To watchful non-balli-, gerent European eyes Hitler is re- ceiving his first check,
Russia is preparing for the possibility of an. eventual Nazl defeat Hitler and Mussolini can- not
such a conception ; to permit spread now mon
They must keep a controlling grip on the continent or see their authority begin to dissipate. If they will settle the Rumano-Hun- garian teritorial dispute they will demonstrate, outwardly, that this control is not yet broken.,
pomen Vollowingata ekish matt, al
They must realise, however, that events show Russin' wants it broken eventually which fact seems destined to play an impor tant part in the future character of the war.
TALKE
ANCHOR
Butter
THE WORLD'S BEST
OBTAINABLE FROM ALL LEADING STORES Sole Agents: LANE, CRAWFORD LTD.
MAR
"KEPLER' COD Liver Oil MALT Extract
with
The Natural Vitamin Food for Infants Children and Adults
Give them the nourishment they need and watch their strength and vitality increase.
'Kepler' Cod Liver Oil with Mali Extract is a valuable, nutritious food. Prepared from the finest cod liver oil and best malted barley.
Bottler of two alxu
All Chemists and Bor
BURROUGHS WELLCOME & CO.
7.4
FOUNDATION WOLLOWME
1. LEON,
COPTRICK
LONDON AND SHANGHAI
Go Empress
ONE MANAGEMENT DIRECT to North America
and Europe!
-IMPRESS LUXURY.
Speed across the Pacific by luxurious, Empress liners, then
Victoria stop over if you wish and Vancouver in Canada's Evergreen playground.
NEXT SAILING FROM HONGKONG
FIRST WEEK IN OCTOBER 10misting Honolulu)
Fast through AIR CONDITIONED trains from ship's side at Vancouver take you through the Majestle- Canadian Rockies-Lake Louise, Banff--800 milles of Travel through Marvelous Mountain Scenery, Niagara Falls and the Great Lakes can be included as optional routes on your coast-to-coast trip. Stop over anywhera you wish.
Then Montreal and Quebec, gay French-speaking cities on the famous St. Lawrence Seaway, and a quick. crossing to Europe by one of Canadian Pacific's Atlantis acet
NEXT SAILING TO MANILA FOURTH WEEK IN SEPTEMBER
For full information consult your travel agent,
Union Maliking. Hoor Kong. Telephone 20762.
OT
Canadian Pacific
World's Greatest Travel System
PRESIDENT LINER
Sailings
TO SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS
ANGELES
Via Shanghat, Kobe, Yokohama & Honolulu.
SS "President Taft"
SS "President Cleveland"
SS "President Pierce"
To NEW YORK AND BOSTON
SEPT. 17
OCT.
OCT. 18
Via Manila, Singapore, Penang. Colombo, Bombay & Capetown.
S9 "President Polk"
SS "President Garfield"
TO BINGAPORE & PENANG
SS "City of Newport News"
SS "City of Norfolk*`
SEPT. 29
OCT.
SEPT. 25 oor.
To SAN FRANCISCO. LOS ANGELES
SS "City of Los Angeles"
via Yokohama, ...).
Direct
SEPT. 18
**AMERICAN ** PRESIDENT LINES
BASES "ROUND-WOELD SERVICE" BANGE AGENTS, POR TRANSCONTINENTAL & WESTERN,
DAIR AND UNITED AIR - LIVES.. 13 Pedder. Street
“Telephong" 22171)
!