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Plans For Invasion
There are these in Great Britain
who believe, and seemingly with
sobie reusoni, that Germany will st terapt árvision of the British Isles at
may
MINALANGOUsły, The Posty is assembling trooper in the western Dura < Norway
and gathering together a great number of statt craft, macrusting motor bouts of The Norwegian saing feet it ir
inut nearly 200,000 Jerinas Legen pre Az+ Norway Situally Troups are being concen- 1 le +1 many ps along the 1 Bu ka barbeli + OBRIS. WITH VARIOUvioris at barges und niotor-
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CONTENUTECH MONS Arc
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September 26, 1940.
Doubt
Filipinos Defence Strength
BY RICHARD C. WILSON (United Press Staff Correspondent)
MANILA, Sept. 26 (UP),-Filipino efforts 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 smashing victories U.S. defence programme and will over small nations in Europe has welcome the sending of U. S. convinced Filipino leaders that Army conscripts to the Philip- they must look to the United pines for training. States for protection from ag-
'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 islands were believed to have of late about independence. been taken during recent con.
In announcing emasculation ferences between Common-
of the MacArthur programme, wealth President Manuel L. Que- zon, U. S. High Commissioner Quezon said he no longer be- Francis B. Sayre and Maj. Gen. Heved the Commonwealth could make itself impregnable to in- George Gruneri, commander of
vasion with the limited finances the U.S. Army's Philippine
available for defence. Under Department.
the MacArthur programine, the
"COME ON, MUGI"
EGYPTIAN
MIRAGE
Maj. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Commonwealth has been spend government could afford the ita manpower former U.S. Army chief of staffing approximately $4,600,000 cost of the armaments neces. and for the last five years annually military adviser to Quezen, did tions. not participate in ferences.
the con-
on military prepara-
MacArthur's General
pro- Kramme was based on the theris
sary to defend 7,000 Islands.
* * * First step in the new pro
MacArthur's plan for making that the islands could be de- the Philippines safe from ag- fended through a mass training gramme of co-operation between
gression after 1946 has been sharply curtailed.
the U. S. Army and the Com-
streng-
tremity of the archipalego und
YUMMUM!
MINCETRONE
SPAGHETTI, STEAKA DA ÖVET AND CHANTI,
and fighting equipment in the Philipines. Prior to this year, little new equipment had been sent to U. S. Army posts here on the theory American armed forces would be withdrawn from the islands in 1946.
Working quietly, the U. S. Army substantially increased the number of technicians and aviation personnel. Nichols
Instituted programme in which every man
would be a potential fighter, manwealth'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 dependent of American schemes become apparent after the Nazi Philippine Army was 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. Inst May.
large island at the Houthern ex- In, has become a beehive of ac- Instead of training 40,000 men
Even though the islands less than 100 miles from Dutch tivity with dozens of new army annually, as provided in Mac- Arthur's plan.
Common possessed a huge trained army, Borneo. wealth has decided to train bat this would be helpless unless
The U.S. Army maintains 20,000 each year.
equipped with modern arms. only a small force on Mindanao racks The Philippine Army possesses at Pettit Barracka, Zamboanga.
"navy" composed of two
★
★
the
planes arriving each month.
Although two additional bar-
were, recently built to- house the enlarged personnel, Coincidental with the revision many non-commissioned officers must live in nearby Paranaque. informed Washington that the force of about 35 small planes, of the Commonwealth's mill- All available living quarters at guns, tary programme, the U.S. Army Fort Stotsenburg, 67 miles frankly doubted his has substantially strengthened north of Manila, are reported
Quezon is understood to have 55-foot torpedo boats, a flying
Commonwealth government de- and sires to co-operate fully with the Quezon
no
large
coastal
LEARN TO
BE
A SNIPER
First-judge your distance
filled.
Differing from MacArthur's programme of large infantry de- tachments, the U.S. Army's scheme 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- more Gerthan victims for wealth government's revision in shot Command, where selected mean
LD.V rifles. Filty yards under- officers and men of the British stimation of the range means that its military programme will have Army are given three-week your bullet strikes 41⁄2ins, low at 300 on General MacArthur's status Quezon I went to the Sniping yards. Fifty yards over-estimation, as military adviser to courses. School to ask the experts who and it dies 3ins. high. That might has become a subject of conjec-
ture among Manilans. run it what hints they could give easily mean the difference between h Boche heirnet and the space be- to L.D.V.S.
tween a Nazi's eyes.
MacArthur came to Manila Their answers, .collectively.
For distances greater thon 300
early in 1936 following his re- yards it is beat to use the "appear tirement as U. S. Army chief
Space out men at LIFE-SIZE cardboard man were→
from 200 to 600 yards and of stuff. Shortly after he in- get your section familiarised with stituted his defence programme
By George Millar
Any destruction that Germany can wreak trom ne aur on the Erilish Intex
will be valuciess us paving the way TUVAD, so long us
The Itoyal Navy controls the seas. enemy's high Command knows this full well. More and more now, wir benbarament is being concentrated on shipping in the eltert to destroy both naval
and
merchant vessels.
A knelt under the juniper L.D.V.s should accept every ance method." The resus cannot de encouraging to the Germans. The extravagant claims they make of destruction of tree, his eyeless "face" peering opportunity offered
them of
distances
tonnage have been disproved again between two bracken clumps musketry practice on miniature the look of them and other objects for the Commonwealth govern-
busty,
The
air
defences
Liacks how well these
during fighters
are their
In defence.
flea. They will, and
All ruids.
at all the
muny launches an attack from the
your range,
(3) Get cach man to make an es
Navy Wanted To Teach Him Photography
MR. HENRY HARRIS, one of
una uit. Then am 19 not func-out over the brown heath. Six or open ranges. This part of of more or less standard size--like tioning to anything uke the extent rifle shots, six black holes the job can only be learned by the doorways of houses near them. ment, Quezon appointed him.
body outline remains firm, but his Army. desired, and, so long us it falls, suc-jumped into the yellow face, practice and individual instruc- You will see that at 100 a man's Field Marshal in the Philippine cessful invasion receoes as a possi-arks whirled up over
action. It is the most important face is blurred, at 600 his head to
a dot, his body a post. part. the of
Next comes the art of judgings" you cafa use to help you set THERE are four other proved British Isles have taken the measure heath, otherwise there was no
by Domivers, no matter sign of life.
distance. Every L.D.V. man defended by Şix young officers, two of
the (1) Halve
distance. Judge: should be able to judge dis- your sights accurately. They are: Gennun raids 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 Even thew fighters 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 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 Ger- spat six rounds at the nine-inch several spots exactly 100 yards mun alt attacks will flot be intensi black square on each target, 100 from the section. Every man mate, then take the average,
(4) Most accurate of all. If you the most experienced profes- glonal film cameramen in Grent greater risk, Before however, Gers yards away.
Four of the men had 11⁄2 inch gets the "look" of 100 yards have a good map-ise it. firmly fixed in his head.
One of the instructors at the Snip- "perfect" Next walk your section up to some ing School said to me, The ride Britain, has given an example sea she must achieve far greater groups officially successes in the air than any so tar shooting-and the instructor selected object, say, a tree, telling power possibilities of the L.D.V. are of red tape and delay in recruit-
enormous. The men ing. evident. If she contemplates an in- told me that earlier in the morn- every man to stop and stand when the absolutely vasion through the medium of
He sought to join the Navy as an of small
the
tree. Then measure the di- I heard 2,000 of them turned up at craft, thousands of these would haveing there had been a half-inch believes he is exactly 100 yards from themselves know it. Lust Saturday
a certain range. Now this is how official cameraman. iance out with a surveyor's tape. to be employed, and therefore ne group.
You will find that some men have I would organise their ride power. targets they offer would be multi-
I was told," he said, "that I ON
ench L.D.V. sector I would should have to undergo a six months piled. Such a programme would be
stopped too far away, some too near, some (perhaps) exactly on the spot. pick a number of firing points, cover training course on photography, and a venture of despair, and one show-
Measure from the nearest man to ing if possible the whole sector. In ing absolute disregard for loss of
each firing point I would fix boards that my experience counted for life. There is no doubt that Herr could only be a plecemeal 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 watch could be met and defeated in.
was about thirty ing ranges of trees, houses, walls, "The Admiralty frequently en- Sniping School, that any unsuccessful attempt at in- a piecemoal manner.
gages civilian newercel cameramen, vasion on a large scale which sul- It is significant, even now, at a yards, a big margin of error in a roads, bridges.
"The Aring points would not need who got their salaries of £10 a week fered drastic defeat would severely tune when Germany still possessen guess at 100 yards. Practise and. 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 de
cume, the commander would order
"I have photographed dozens of grace in the peoples he has con-It is the Royal Air Force that shows of error is smali.
THEN mensure out longer dls- 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 Stars: methods to employ, but they are not skill, and is inflicting far more dam-tances up to 300 yards. Make each the area. The
yet I am invited to join, his an AB at 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, 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 energy in reprisal. Great Bri-sighting of his rifle). They must use.There is a tendency now to sneer in 4d. a day to be taught (
ready in training many quite i and mechanical equipment in the tain is more and more, taking the their Inowledge of what 100 yards at the rifle. Your sub-machine-gun was Informed that men are al- British Isles to gain a victory: What offensive in the air with the weapon looks like, splitting up the distance, is useless except at abort ranges. that would mean in the way of which Germany has claimed will into so many hundred yards, with Six or, more men with rides, Bring experienced, and that oven 1 shipping or in Berlal 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 for
Thorough practice in this will yards, will get rezulta be readily envisaged. Moreover, it Empire."
I WATCHED those things at the Sniping School of the Alder-
at least a montu