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September 26, 1940.
Doubt
Filipinos Defence Strength
BY RICHARD C. WILSON.
(United Press Staff Correspondent!
MANILA, Sept. 26 (UP).-Filipino offorts to make the Philippines safe from military in- vasion by the time the United States grants the islands independence in 1946 have been aban- doned, informed sources revealed to-day. Germany's amashing victories U.S. defence programme and will over small nations in Europe has welcome the sending of U. S. convinced Filipino lenders that Army conscripts to the Philip- they must look to the United pines for training. States for protection from ng-
The mercurial Filipino presi- gressor nations,
dent has indicated no change in First steps toward closer co- his avowed desire to see the ordination of Philippine Com- islands become completely in- monwealth armed forces and dependent in 1946, although he those of the United States in the has made few remarks publicly : islanda were believed to have of late about independence. been taken during recent con-
In announcing emasoulation
ferences between Common- of the MacArthur programme, wealth President Manuel L. Que- zon, U. S. High Commissioner Quezon said he no longer be- lieved the Commonwealth could Francia B. Sayre and Maj. Gen.
make itself impregnable to in- George Grunert, commander of
vasion with the limited finances the U.S. Army's Philippine
Under available for defence. Department.
the MacArthur programme, the
on military prepara-
"COME ON, MUGI""
EGYPTIAN
MIRAGE
manpower
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MAINESTRONE, SPACKETTI STEAKA DA OYST AND CHIANTI
and fighting
Maj. Gen. Douglas MacArthar, Commonwealth has been spend government could afford the ita former U.S. Army chief of staffing approximately $4,500,000 cost of the armaments neces- equipment in the Philipines. and for the last five years annually military adviser to Quezen, did
in the not participate ferences.
tions.
ron.
MacArthur's plan for making
General MacArthur's pro- gramme was based on the thesis that the islands could be de
Prior to this year, little new sary to defend 7,000 islands.
equipment had been sent to * *
U. S. Army posts here on the theory American armed forces First step in the new pro- would be withdrawn from the
under the provisions of the Telecommun- the Philippines safe from a fended through a mass training gramme of co-operation between islands in 1946.
cation Urdinanen, 1976. Buch naWY US bears the indicatión “UP” is recolved in Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who werve all rights and forbid republication, either wholly or in pars without previous Arrangement.
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Working quietly, the U. S. Army substantially increased the number of technicians and. aviation personnel. Nichols
programme in which every man would be
a potential fighter, monwealth's armed forces was in 1936, the MacArthur pro-
the announcement that the gramme was being carried out in. But the anomaly of the situation
Army was streng- dependent of American schemes became apparent after the Nazi Philippine for defending the islands prior invasion of the Low countries thening its forces in Mindanao, Field, on the outskirts of Mani- to their independence in 1946. last May.
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large island at the southern ex- tremity of the archipalego and la, has become a beehive of ac- Instead of training 40,000 men
Even though the islands tess than 100 miles from Dutch tivity with dozens of new army annually, as provided in Mac-
planes arriving each month. Arthur's plan, the Common- possessed a huge trained army. Borneo. wealth has decided to train but this would be helpless unless
Although two additional bar- The U.S. Army maintains
racks 20,000 each year.
were recently built to equipped with modern arms, only a small force on Mindanao
house the enlarged personnel, The Philippine Army possesses at Pettit Barracks, Zamboanga.
"navy"
many non-commissioned officern Lwo composed of
Coincidental with the revision Quezon is understood to have 55-foot torpedo bouts, a lying Informed Washington that the force of about 35 small planes, of
nu large Coastal Commonwealth government de- and sires to co-operate fully with the Quezon
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the Commonwealth's mili- must live in nearby Paranaque. All available living quarters at guns, tary programme, the U.S. Army Fort Stotsenburg, 57 miles frankly doubted his has substantially strengthened north of Manila, are reported
LEARN TO
BE
A SNIPER
First-judge your distance
By George Millar
over the
of
get your
Next comes the art of judging distance. Every L.D.V. man
victims
filled.
Differing from MacArthur's } programme of large infantry de- tachments, the US Army's acheme of defence appears to be based on small, well-trained and highly mobile units, backed by an air force. These units travel in caravans of speedy trucks which also tow field guns and other weapons. Much mobile equipment has been re- ceived here in recent months.
What effect the Common- for wealth government's revision in Fitty yards underita military programme will have
a dpt, his body a post.
THERE are fout other proved "ulds" you can use to help you set!
Six young officers, two of should be able to judge dis- your sights accurately. They are:-
(1) Halve the distance Judge
Navy Wanted To Teach Him Photography
German more shot Command, where selected mean officers and men of the British LD.V. rifles. Army
are given three-week estimation of the range means that
your bullet strikes 4%ins. low at 300 on General MacArthur's status courses.
Quezon I went to the Sniping yards. Fifty yards over-estimation, as military adviser to School to ask the experts who and it flies 3ins, high. That might has become a subject of conjec- run it what hints they could give cuslly mean the duference between ture among Manilans..
n Buche helmet and the space be- to L.D.V.S.
MacArthur tween a Nazi's eyes.
came to Manila: Their
For answers, collectively,
distances greater than 300 early in 1936 following his re- yards it la best to use the "appear tirement as U. S. Army chief LIFE-SIZE cardboard man were:-
ance method," Space out men al L.D.V.s should accept every stances from 300 to 600 yards and of staff. Shortly after he in- knelt under the juniper opportunity offered them
section familiarised with stituted his defence programme tree, his eyeless "face" peering clums they make 03 "Geruch of between
two bracken clumps musketry practice on miniature the look of them and other objects for the Commonwealth govern-
or open ranges. This part of of more or less standard size-ilke ANG MABIN, Their gun is not fun out over the brown heath. Six the job can only be learned by the doorways of houses near then, ment, Quezon appointed him Honing to anything like the extent rifle shots, six black holes
body outline remains arm, but his Army. desired, and, so long as it fails, suc- jumped into the yellow face, practice and individual instruc- You will see that at 400 a man's Field Marshal in the Philippine
tion. It is the most important face is blurred, at 600 his head 28jv cessiul Hivuston ree.acs as a poski-
of the Larks whirled up acfences
part. biny, The air British Isles have taken the measure heath, otherwise there was no OL BLICKA by Domoers, no mutter sign of life. tow well these are detended by lighters during
raids. All German ralas are hit and run efforts. them Australians, lay on the fir- tances accurately by eye up to the half distance. Multiply by two. (2) Take the shortest estimate in their nighters accompanying ing line, faces clamped down on 600 yards. This is how to learn. the bombers do not abide the issue; cheekpads, senses centred on Take a central point, stand your section or group of men, then take the longest estimate and take they are invariably driven off; it is telescopic sights, trigger fingers your section on it, and fix flags the mean estimate as your range. the British who are on the offensive gently squeezing. Each rifle (or anything else easily seen) in They call this "bracketing
All this does not mean that Ge:- spat six rounds at the nine-inch several spots exactly 100 yards (3) Get auch man to make an es- MR. HENRY HARRIS, one of man air attacks will not be intensi- black square on each target, 100 from the section. Every man mute, then take the average.
(4) Most accurate of all. If you the most experienced profes fe. They will, and at the yards away.
gets the "look" of 100 yards have a good map use it.
sional film cameramen in Great: Four of the men had 11⁄2 inch firmly fixed in his head.
One of the instructors at the Snip Britain, has given an example officially "perfect" groups -
Next walk your section up to some ing School suid to me, "The rifle successes in the air than any so far shooting-and the instructor selected object, say, a tree, telling power possibilities of the LDV are of red tape and delay in recruit-
enormous. The mening. evident, if she contemplates on in- told me that earlier in the morn- every man to stop and stand when he absolutely vasion through the medium of small
He sought to join the Navy as an craft, thousands of these would haveing there had been a half-inch belleves he is exactly 100 yards from themselves know it. Last Saturday the dis- I heard, 2,000 of them turned up at taneo out with a surveyor's tape. a certain range. Now this is how offlctal cameraman, to be employee, die group.
You will find that some men have I would organise their rifle power. I WATCHED those things at targets they offer would be multi-
"I was told," he said, "that I "ON each L.D.V. sector I would should have to undergo a ax months" plied. Such a programme would be the Sniping School of the Alder- stopped too far away, some loo near,
Bome (perhaps) exnetly on the spot. pick a number of firing points, cover- aventure of despair, and one show-
In training course on photography, and ing absolute disregard for lose of
Measure from the nearest man to ing if possible the whole sector.
each firing point I would fix boards that my experience counted for life. There is no doubt that Herr could only be a piecemeal venture the furthest..
This distance, when I did it at the with range cards set on them mark nothing. Hitler is astute enough to recognise which could be mot and defeated in
"The Admiralty frequently that any unsuccessful attempt at in- a piecemeal manner.
was about thirty ing ranges of trees, houses, walls, Sniping School,
godes civilian newsreel cameramen, of error in a roads, bridges. vasion on a large scale which suf- It is signifcunt, even now, at alyards, a big emargin
at 100 yards. Practise and The fring points would not need who get their salaries of £15 a week time when Germany still possesses guess fered drastic defcut would severely. injure his prestige, and put heart of numerical superiority in the air, that practise until your section's margin to be occupied. But when the alarm and over.
came, the commander would order grace In the peoples he has con it is the Royal Air Force that shows lof error is small.
I have photographed dozens of THEN measure out longer; dis his men to whichever points covered, quered. He may have some novel the greater initiative, daring and
men would get to British films, including. The Star methods to employ, but they are not skill, and is inflicting far more dam-tances up to 300 yards. Make each the area. The apparent, and, in any case, the only age on Germany's military and naval man in the section estimate these their station, sight the enemy, know Look Down and This Man in Paris, yet I am invited to join as an AB, at method that could succeed would establishments than is being done by distances (in fifty-yard units like the his exact range. Money for jam.. |be the landing. of sufficient troops the enemy in reprisal. Great Bri- sighting of his rifle). They must use There le a tendency, now to sneer is. 40. a day to be taught and mechanical equipment in the tain is more and more taking the their knowledge of what 100 yards at the rifle. Your sub-machine-gun way informed that men are al- British Isles to gain a victory. What offensive in the air with the weapon leoka like, splitting up the distance is useless except at short ranges ready in training, many quite in that would mean in the way of which Germany has claimed will into so many hundred yards,, with Six or more men with rides, ring experienced, and that even t shipping or in aerial transport can lead to the downfall of the British perhaps half a hundred yards over at ranges even greater than 1,000 joined, the course could not begin tor
Thorough practice in this wil yards, will get results."at least a month: be readily csvisaged. Moreover, it Empire.
All greater risk. Belore however, Ger- many launches an attack from the SCA she must achieve far greater
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