Saturday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
November 2, 1940,
NANCY
PRIVATE NANCY --- GO DOWN TO DLAKE
AN' GUARD D'
WATERFRONT!
O.K., GENERAL!
HM--- LET'S. SEE WHAT I WANT DONE NEXT!
PRIVATE JENKINS! PUT SOME BARBED WIRE IN FRONT OF OUR NEW TRENCH!
SORRY.SIR--- 'BUT NANCY USED
UP ALL OF OUR
BARBED WIRE!
By Ernie Bushmiller
?
CANDY
"You prefer them! So do I"
"Grand to see you
back so soon. I know what you'd like-you · must be dying for a smoke,"
“Bless you, what
a thoughtful soul
you are! du Maurier, of course."
BOMB RAIDS AREN'T
HAPHAZARD
Neutrals who, with
Photographs and plans of the tar- Ket are shown on the screen white
the competing claims of the intelligence officer points out the vulnerable spots to be bomberi. He the belligerents before tells the crews what most of them them, may be inclined to defended areas to be avoided on the doubt whether. Our outward Alght over Germany
know alreadythe dangerous, weil-
rea,
enemy ocrup.ed territory. Then
target
No attempt
are strong anti-aircraft bat
in the
mhac
bombing raids on Ger- come details of the known defences many and Italy are al- to minimize the dangers; if ways quite as effective teries or balloon barrages the men
says the
officer.
要
as the Air Ministry re- are told so plainly, but they are also
shown the best way through them. ports would, doubt no "The Flak (anti-aircraft) and more if they could see searchlights are pretty heavy to the
intelligence north, for themselves the skill "Attack from the south-east to north- west. There tre high chimneys
13 and care with which on this factory, you can't miss it. Here are the vulnerable spots (in- every raid is planned and carried out.
dicating the points on the screen).
Make sure you are over your bit of he asks for permission to land, and are told that "p" is to be given pre- data. This
nouncement that aircraft of roints to
to the
once.
board.
EL
enables him to assess F the target and then let 'em have having got it, he comes down. Af- ference when he comes in to land. the accuracy of the crews reports. The public sees only the Or, The hangars are on the east ter a time he enters the room, reports One by one the bombers approach They report things which they saw somewhat bald official an- of the aerodrome over here" (again to the intelligence officer on the en- their aerodrome, get permission to on the way out and on the journey
signals, Indicating the spot). Once more he gine trouble, and disappears again. land, and come floating down like back-ships,
lights, and targets, "Look photograph.
out Meanwhile news is coming through glani gulls. The station commander guides to future
Then the crews go off to break- the Bomber Command have for aircraft on this part of the aero of the other raiders. "J" of Y squn goes out to see "p" alight. His un-
drome. No need to tell you about dron, flashes the message "Off target dercarriage comes down after all and fast, and the intelligence officer sifts successfully attacked a mili- the defences, you know 'em pretty at 01.21. He can be identified by he makes a perfect landing.
Information, assesses the damage, the The crews grin. his enil-sign. One of the ground One ufter another the crews troop builds up a complete picture of the tary objective in one of the well already.
to make raid, and prepares his report for the enemy countries, but behind They have visited this spot more than stuff records the time on the black- into the operations room
thele reports. They look tired but Air Ministry.
will.read "All through the night the receivers contented; most of them have had To-morraw the world it lies a history of scrupul
successful night. They answer that the R.A.F. has bombes such news come through, until something carefully the questions of the Intelli- a target. The crews will read this ous preparation, of dogged Final Instructions keep up their whining. At intervals has been heard from most of the
gence officer. It is a
a friendly but modest statement of their activities highly determination in
Sometimes questions are asked and bombers..
thorough "third degree." The men with quiet satisfaction. The task trained crews to carry out the photographs or charts are flashed
been allotted has The station commander glances at describe how they found the target which they had
and the difficult and dangerous on the screen two or three times to the clock. "No news of F of X and where they saw their bombs ex- been successfully carried out,
clear up some difficult point. Then squadron yet?" he asks. His voice plode. The intelligence officer knows next day their colleagues will be tasks allotted to them, and the station commander gives
tells them the lureasstre
betrays a slight anxiety. As though everything about the target from, a doing a similar job with equal suc-
himself he adds, "He long und careful study of all the cess. of the use of every known el Instructions,
take-off time and the precise minute
never wants to leave it." scientific means to help the by which they must be away from
Sometimes the message tells of K they are gel home aircraft get safely to and before dawn. The crews listen, as often it announces briefly. Target failure to locate the objective: more as though they were unconcerned from the targets.
ere bombed," and gives the time. If the _being_advised_on_n_peaceful
note
the bomber will try to locate the
the
works
the
The ve Primary-objective cannot be found
on its
own. Once
*G, sir." says, the QS from
Queen Shows Interest
In New "Effect" Piano
There is nothing haphazard nigh
They night. about these raids, Each is objectives which may be attacked if alternative. planned with the utmost care they fail to locate the primary one. Sometimes a morse message, brings some time in advance. For Then they troop out and make for news of tragedy.
The Queen's interest, shown at the British Industries days before the bombers start, the crews' roums. Here each crew news of tr experts are. busy getting ground they will fly alone and may operations officer quietly: "been hit Fair, in a piano which gives the effects of five different together all the available data not see the other aircraft until they The damaged alreratt continues to instruments, decided the inventor to adapt his design in
Pilots and navigators discuss and report its progress for some time, photographs and plans are brought plot their course so as to make the and then there is silence. Its posi- an effort, now proving successful, to increase export out, and each navigator is equipped best use of distinctive or well-known tion is worked out on a large-scale business.
landmarks such as rollways, Auto. map of Europe spread on the table with a special chart showing even bahnen, canals, rivers, and inkes, and a dag is stuck into the appro-
about the objective.
Large-scale maps arc studied.
way.
off the
thay by Flak,
are back on the aerodrome ugnin,
gets
crews
and
pured for an important race. Every they emerge in flying kit to find lor- Speeding
part
and
examined, from the electric-
some dis-
Home harpsichord, gultar, banjo and harp,
"As far as
The first of the new pianos is will not make excessive and un- The men discuss in at present on the high seas and econoinical demands on cargo space. the smallest details of the factory. The navigator
busy with priate spot.
the possibility of "G" orders are being fulfilled for Evans, "we are using Empire woods, possible" said Mr. aerodrome, power-station, rallway, dividers, parallels, and scales, and undertones
and got down Malaya, South America, Penang) and here the Timber Control Board, or canni to which he must and his soon they have decided which route having baled, out
safely. they will follow.
"Last heard 02.37" is chalked on Iraq and for the Dominions, recognising how vital it is that our On the day of the raid, the giant Preparations complete, the
By simply pressing a pedal, the industry should expand overseas, has done its utmost to release the neces- bombers are serviced and over- go off for a meal. Soon they are the blackboard beside his name.
pinnist can achieve the effects of the rooms," In the "robing hauled, rather like horses being pre-back
sary materials. Formerly we used tric- ries, waiting to take them to their
by means of an improved Interceptor Rumanian pine, but trial and re- ally operated machinery, the engines aircraft standing out on
Time drugs badly. Somewhere in between the "hammers" and the search have helped us to find a more fabric, to the Internat telephones, tant part of the aerodrome. Mast bombs are loaded into the racks, of the men have Basks of tea stick the expanse of darkness outside the strings. And, of course, there is the than adequate substitute."
design, has greater resonance and petrol tanks filled, guns armed, and tng out of their pockets. Nigh! By- operations room 20 or 30 bombers piano itself which, by virtue of its the aircraft ate dispersed on the Ing is a cold business, even in stand are over the sem. Requests for a better tonal values than, it is cloit FRIGHTENED aerodrome, under guard, to mer. All carry little bundles of food are over income ed, any other plano designed for the
ta location and
When a German airman was shot await the time of departure.
parachutes. Soon the roar of the engines, being
being through from the aircraft, and surely export market.
guided It is neither an "upright" nor of down recently in a-raid he landed by Meteorological experts having supersed up, and then, in the gather- and methodically they are
baby grand but a combination of parachute in a field near a Kent vil- plied the reports which tell the
farmer, and four of his crews. what sort of weather they are in darkness, the great bombers, taxi home.
reports that he has been hit both. The shape is that of the Inge. A One obligatory circult of the and his undercarringa may be dam-grand, but the sound board is verti workers ran across and captured him. likely to experience, everything is across the landing field and take
calls are aged. Telephone
paf cal. The inventor, Mr. W. Evans, They found a frightened 10-year-old ready for the "briefing," which forms off.
uerodrome and they
in the casually crews to who plays only by car, is confident airman, who said in good English, indispensable part every. Inside the operations room some- throughs bombing raid.
one chalks the departure times on a stand by, and the control tower men that the comparatively small size "Don't torture met" Towards tea-time the pilotu, navi-blackboard. Nothing much more is gators, wireless operators, and air to be done for two or three hours, gunners, fresh from a good sleep, begin to file into a large room atted and only a skeleton staff of wireless ailed operators remains while the others
of
their
are away.
one
out very much like the lecture hall who are to be on duty all night go
of, a technical Institute. Usually off for their evening meal.
there
tor
is while rereen and a projec-
and always a blackboard. Each e
navigator as he enters is handed an
chart showing him the con
Just in Case"?
tours of the country in the area of Just before midnight the operations the target, together with a detailed officers come back and the stallon
plan of the objective itself
commander strolls in. He says that
11
What follows is a very Informal he has decided to stay up "just in affair.
Oncers and men sit around case anything goes wrong." Actu- in easy chairs, smoking pipes or ally he does this avery night his cigarettes, while the station com- men are operating, although he will mander and the intelligence officer be on duty in the morning. In the give them a great deal of useful in- adjoining room trained men are in
of *com- formation about renching their tar- terpreting the splutters get and about the site they are to plichted wireless sets. They stan attack.
for news of their bombers and fre quently pick up morse calls from aircraft belonging to another station. Presently one of the operators writes something on a slip of paper which n anessangor: taking Into the "opa" room.
"D for Donald, of X equadron, i The crows listen intently and make
back with engine trouble, notes. It is difficult to realise that strannounces the operations officer. these calm young men are being The group captain nods. This is in- "Urlsfed" · "for è a dangerous task, evitable at times, however good the There: la no trace of doubt that they engines. A mark is put on the bisek- will have bombed this aerodrome or board beside D for Donald's name. power-station and be back again be- couple of hours later "D's-en- fore dawn. Ba
gines can be heard in the distance:
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