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THE EGYPTIAN FRONT
As hostilities extend the im- portance of the Eastern Medi- terranean in Britain's Empire defences cannot be under-estim ated. To the ordinary citizen, Mediterranean campaign may appear to be less real than the raids over Britain with the
the
attendant destruction of life and
-and the Future
By A Special Air Correspondent
Newspapers
Equal To
Any Trials
Mr. F. P. Bishop, assistant manager of The Times in a. talk broadcast recently de- scribed how newspaper pro- duction is carried on in spite of air raids. He said that those engaged in the industry were determined that Hitler should not suc- ceed in destroying our free Press or in holding up news- paper publication in London. Newspaper workers were equal to any trials the war might bring.
Perhaps the best way to use these few minutes, he said, ia to make a sort of lightning tour and try to catch a glimpse of war-time night life in a London newspaper office. Let us start at the top, on the roof. It is midnight, or any hour of the night you like, hfter the sirens. have sounded. We stumble up a narrow staircase' and 'out on to a platform under the stors and the searchlights; Here you will find a little group of men, steel-helmeted, leaning on the parapet and staring into the night. They are all volunteers, and their principal job up here is to warn their fellow workers down below when danger is really imminent.
The “Ducking Squad”
It is not a very easy or com→ fortable job. The ducking squad" one group call them-
come
HE war in the air has gone sometimes, than a Hurricane or forward "with pleasurable anti-selves; they have learned to be THE
through so many phases Spitfire, but it manoeuvres bad- cipation" to aceing what it is. I very wary and very quick in- down. Sometimes recently, that we may profitably ly, and its cannon, though spite- have heard of at least half a deed when the bombs
dozen schemes, 'one or two quite whistling make an appreciation of the ful, have not the "band-saw" scund, but mostly foolish or fan- they tell the people below to stop work, for a time, but it situation as it is to-day, and take effect which eight high-speed tastic.
soon starts again. Even during look, with proper prudence, at machine-guns have.
There must be an answer, be-air raids the production of a the future.
Those air-cannon are queer cause every attack has appro- newspaper cannot be held up for Remember that, until the things. If one of their shells printe parry. French were beaten, the Royal bursts as it hits a man, it al- Air Force had been employed as most certainly kills him, or an auxiliary to the Army-and, blows off most of a leg or arm, tomato to some extent, to the Navy.
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long. Let us go, down below and, hayo. a look at it.
The paper goes to press very early these nights, and if we but if it bursts outside him, and OUR losses in men and aeroplanes misses his eyes, it does little in fighting have been so small, com- have been lucky the first edition It had bombed railways and harm. It probably punctures pared with those of the Germans, may have been finished in the that we can afford to lose a few proper place on the first floor. roads and munition dumps and his flying-suit, and perhaps his more man-hours than they can. But When the sirens go work is bridges and troop concentra skin, with minute splinters man-hours are the only source of transferred to the basement. tions and harbours and so forth which an
things which R.A.F. doctor wealth and the only property, but the future of the all to stop the Germans from diagnoses as "foreign bodies," will win the war in the end. So The Editor has a small room world may well be decided by pressing too hard on the French in a patient's leg. An R.A.F. German night-bombing must be stop-down here, and his staff, as well
Ashmore, GO.C. Landon Air De- and on the British Expedition- friend of mine described them ped, as it was stopped by General as the proof readers and others, the outcome of the coming strug-
carry on among the typesetting ary.Force in Flanders,
as "like lots of clippings off steel fence Area, carly in 1018.
machines and the moulding gie in the Eastern Mediter-
When the evacuation from toe-nails"-which is just what
Among the workers themselves I press which have been moved. ranean area.. Hitler's failure to
and a gallant willingness to take the downstairs... The casting foun- Dunkirk was the most impor- they do look like.
risk of working during night raids, invade Britain has made him tant phase of the war, lots of Captain Harold Balfour, our long we they feel that the bosses dry and the great printing. turn to these parts where he our fighters but by no means all.
or presses have their normal place of (owners, directors, managers hopes to find an opportunity to
of them, were flung into the State for Air, who is still a first- whatnot) are doing their best for below, and the only change here fight across the Channel the class pilot, told us some months sever some of the great arteries first time the enemy had come of the Empire. Hence the care- ful preparations which the Axis partners are making before at- tucking Egypt and Suez.
Some surprise has been expressed from time to time that the Italian Army in North Africa, which has upparently been fully equipped and ready some months past, has shown no particular haste to move, forward. But the opinion so widely spread that the Italians
are contemptible soldiers, and dislike the prospect of
160 mile trek across the desert to reach the first line of British des fences, is not the only reason for the delay. British strength ́ along the Egyptian border has became · so
practical
Under-secretary
near enough for our fighters to go that we also were using air- cannon, which were doing very meet them in mass.
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them.
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We know little of those of the
is that the papers, as they come from the presses, instead of be ing carried up ron elevators to the publishing room above, are sent down a chute to the sub- basement to be packed and labelled there.
mydła k "So far so good. We can carry on
well, but we have heard little NEW types of warplanes are, na- And that may be regarded as about them since then. Our turally, being produced by both one of the turning points of the fighter pilots talk always about sides. war, for then our Oghter pilots their eight fixed Browning guns, discovered, slightly to their own or the four guns in the electric Germans, but we have some very surprise, how superior to the turrets of the Defiants, just as good new long-range fighters in pro- without too much interruption and German pilots. they were.
our-bombers talk of the four duction, which should be useful across without, too much risk. But we have to come up to earth again to send the guns in Archie Frazer-Nash's the Channel.
papers away to the railway stations. I know men in the R.A.F. who hydraulic turrets.
The Americans are sending us Driving a newspaper van to catch a thought that our fighters could
some extremely useful aircraft. We train in the black-out is ordeal So far, we have got the enemy count, confidently on the further in-enough at any time. But night after safely take on a 60 per cent. superiority of German pilots, or, set on armament, and even crease of their ald. Indeed, Amerlen night our drivers go out in the quist. at a push, 100 per cent., but they though they may copy the Fra- may be regarded as the final weight spells, to Euston or King's Cross or have to dodge bombs or shrapnel in did not expect to regard 3 to 1. zer-Nash turrets from shot on our side in the scales of victory. Paddington, hoping they will not against as normal odds and 10 down bombers, they will need Meantime, we are drawing from the streets before they get back again. twelve months to get what en- North America, but from our part Some of them have had narrow to 1 as a sporting chance.
gineers call the "clearances and of it, Canada, numbers of plots escapes, but they take all risks and
navigators, wireless operators and discomforts as a part As soon as the French were tolerances right--there is a lot gunners,
The Empire Training work. down and out, the war on us of know-how" about those jobs Scheme is going strong, and the first started, and the Germans began and by then we shall have batch of trainees should soon be
here
In operational training squn- sending over their bomber for something better.
drons. Most of those from Canada-I expect some of your papers have are likely to be either Canadians, been delivered very late these last mations by day, with fighter
British cocorts. Our fighters met them
pupils who have been sent to few days. If so, do not blame us too Canada for training, or else near severely The "All Clear"! may not with charming impartiality
THERE seems to be no doubt Canadians from the USA. I hear have sounded until dawn, and then,
that Austraila prefers to trhin the when the work that the Germans' daylight mass Australian pupils and send them to
our own drivers. is done, the wholesale newsagents: attacks have been deliberate at- war in squadrons of the Royal Ausrull have to
collect their bundles will be
offices and tempts, as a preliminary to in- tralian Air Force. There
from the newspaper distribute the papers to all the
retail shops round London. Transport is dimcult not only for the papers going.. out but also for tired workers trying:
formidable that General Graziani, who has the reputation of" being ya skilful officer, recognised the futility of attack without further support. Italy's action in Greece was intended to give him that support by diverting British attention and, at the same time; pro-either bomber or fighter was an viding Italy with further alc and military bases closer to the Aeld of operations. The fall of Greece would Also facilitato Germany's “"drang nach Osten".
j. Greece's gallant stand has, at least temporarily, frustrated these moves in the Intricate field of politics, and Hillar, fully aware's of his delicate position in the falkans is fuvling with all the blandfahmentsrol which he is capable, the support dr at least, passivo consent, of neutrall countles
to nas next move south to 15 at
equally good target,
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Why Papers Are Late
of
AT first, some R.A.F. people vasion, to beat down the protec. plenty of all sorts.
tive power of the R.A.F-Lam thought that the twin-motor Messerschmitt, the 110, the not going to call it defence...De. fence is so often confused with bomber-fighter called the Jaguar, might trouble our fighters, be a phase of defeat, and our is concerned, the Germans, may as may be I dare say you get it before fighters are attackers all the well give it up til next spring. They some of the people who made it have cause it carries so-called "cantimo. non" and has a gunner bolund the pilot! It may be faster,
land or sl. The battle will be grim MAKING all allowances for the same time, supplementing Italy's, the defence of Britain itself and loss of man-hours caused by North African Army by sending a will be maintained with no less re R.A.F. bombing--and the loss solution. It has botit recognised number of fanks and aeroplanering
that the successful defence of the of man-hours, unfortunately, Is well as between 3,000 and 4,009 ex-
idem not concentrated on German Canal Zone will turn the stem aircraft factories entirely we perts who are already on African those countries bordering
Mediterranean, are ready to should be unwise to reckon that
In Britain's reaptable prospect we are destroying as many nero- hot ready planes per week as theyard be taken as a tribute to the formida“ |- "of victory blo character of the British defence to take an nation; which they fear making, wal
be tantamount to would Greece Is giving them encourage Whitch brings us to the matter must and Graziani attack on
These careful preparations: may, 1 consignza "Pen-a3 S
ystem, which has been strongly reinforced with man and equipment from Britain The Bitlah forces zhavas da Takondant una “In Along the entire fronts whole army tanks, guns and monan, sunk jaalf to the,
So far as the threatened invasion to get home, and late as your paper
may try dropping parachutista anti got to begin marg troop carriers on West Country Modra Nepers uro, small just now, na and rushing small ships (not burges) (wall and inte; but, after all these are Into Western intels, just to create a comparatively minor disadvantages: diversion-how, diverted our bored What the reader rots for his penny- or twopence is gilli sonsething that fighting men would
no German, of Italian could buy at But they cannot hope: for a per- any pricomion Independent
Paper manent holding unles and antif free to give the real news to the best they have besten the RAF' which | of its ability, and free lo comment on Just won't happened 215 VERTRETEN WEST
the news to the best of its Judgment, smaller of fact, the WAY. Hitler would like, among other
is much nearer to having command things, to destroy, the free Press at of the French and Belgian conate England. It would be a great victory to-day, to an extent which would for his air force even if they coud make land-bold poble, than the stop us publishing in London -2: Genharia are to having any, wort of be not succeed, and:
time,¿“We are determined. superiority on our coaste
Come unt of night-bombing. Woʻz have "But, Drst of al, we emust: stop.thelan that
-night-bombérgvard put up, the man- whenever it comel will be protavit been promised 'something new hours-ing the workshops, And I bee auch resolve that confidence wil;fimc| with renewed strength from the after which will deal faithfully with eve that both those focuales re
the night-bomber. I am looking already at handaan
of fear.
that
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