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Charlie's Close Shave PRIVATE LIFE
Further extracts from the diary of a journalist now in the Army.
"THEY
ful, Sonnie, we'll take away that rifle and give you a violin. Your golden hair is hanging down your back. Get it cut, Sonnie,
:
OF A PRIVATE
get it cut like a soldier." you not, issued with a brush and
to the barber, comb?" 'Corporal,' I says, 'shave my "Well?"
"Well we wouldn't give you
"So I says
THEY can give me drilla," says Charlie the Chan- cer. "They can give me Com- pany Fatigues, corblimey! They head."
can give me C.B. I don't care! "You mean haircut,' says brushes and combs unless it was "Let 'em send me to the Glass the Corp. I says, 'You heard assumed that you had hair to House. Let 'em send me to what I said. I want this head brush or comb, sce? So there- Dartmoor. Let 'em send me to shaved,' I says.
fore you've got to leave enough Devil's ruddy Island!.
I sits down, and the Cor- hair on your head to use your
Got it?" "I'm through
the poral starts clipping away with equipment on.
"What do you call enough? asks Army."
Charlie.
"Either an inch or half an inch. I forget which."
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AS THE NIGHT FIGHTER PILOTS
"I
SEE
IT
66T. COULD have hit it each other head-on (the worst
with
a stone," the case for interception) tho muxi- woman was saying. She was mum relative speed would be sitting behind me on the 'bus.about 180, To-day the maxi- and, not being able to see her mum relative speed is to the face, I wondered if there would order, 650 miles an hour. Since be any scorn in it. She was the enemy can fly in at 30,000 describing how a Heinkel had feet, we can see that the volume been circling her house the of search has assumed immense previous night, apparently with proportions.-
such outrageous impunity that Consider who has the best sho had been obliged to ask chance of spotting the raider- herself bitterly, "Where are our the pilot in his open cockpit, or fighters 7"
the modern fightor encased in Well, for a start, we are not rather frosted glass at twice the .allowed to say where they are. height?
But they were not there, over Think, too, of the power of her house; that was the point, evasion, the chances of escapo,of and she certainly had a right to the bomber. Those who remem- an explanation of some sort. ber seeling a Gotha at night in Here it is.
the last war sny he used to
Tho difficulties of night interception are almost solely due to tho fact that man cannot, like a ent, see in the dark. Were it possible to inject him with h vitamin that would en- auro hini daytime vision,
BY
ONE
OF THEM
"hang liko A kite" in
the sky. Whether he turned, or stalled or dived, he still retained the aspect of lofty dignity. Now, at a gentle pressure on his control- wheel, the searchlight- scared Nazi pilot can
his troubles, and ours, would be accelerate from 100 to 500 miles over. That does not mean that an hour and dive from 30,000 to ho cannot see at all in the dark; 5,000 feet, he can, but with a limiting rango These are not the only dimeulties of a few hundred yards."
that confront the night fghter. In order to maintain his equilibrium on Why, then, even with this
dark night, at least half his atten- limited vision, can he not ace to tion is focussed on his Instruments, shoot at the most obvious moon. Inside the machine. That is to 503... Jit Heinkel over our rooftops? that, owing to the high efficiency of the modern blackout, cloudy, The answer is that, as we moonless night allows the plot no look aloft from our back gardens, horizon, or floor, as he calls it, by our eyes are, directed towards which he can orientate himself.
While the lightly loaded machitte the machine by the drone of.its of the last war was inherently stable, motors, whilst the fighter pilot, the modern one, designed for four deafened by the 2,000 horse times the speed, is by no means so. power of his own, hears nothing. In fact, unless constant attention is Why does he not switch off paid to its condition, It will become
uncontrollable and fall to earth. his own motors and listen?
SPEED OF LANDING Alas, that is no better. He
What awaits the nightghter when hears nothing then but the rush he finishes his patrol? Here he has. of air over his machine, which, the satisfaction of knowing that lis radio will working unlike his motor-car, he is un- clciently
direct him swiftly to his base, áble to stop.
whatever the weather. The Camels Therefore, until other means and
no such Bristol Fighters had of detection are developed, he is
luck. But when he gets home he has nono of the friendly left with his eyes as the sole half-petral-tin paraffin dares as re- means of seeking out the enemy, membered in 17. He lands beside Ho is, at the same time, directed lights that are almost extinguished. by the Observer Corps' intel- like dying torch-bulbs. And with what a speed! The old-time S.E.4 was ligence transmitted to him by condemned for its landing speed of 52 m.ph. Now we land at night at nearly twice that
The penal- speed ties of faulty instrument flying near the ground are swift and terrible. Might we say, then, that the For all this, a steady record of position as regards interception success is being maintained, and it is has improved since the last war? true to predict a progressive rise in the percentage of raiders destroyed. No, this is not true, for the fol- This is based to a large extent on the the Improvement by experience in lowing fundamental reasons.
skill of pilot and observer, but main- In the last war the pilot was a Britisher,"
ly is due to systems of detection flying in an open machine with a devised by our scientists, speed of about 100 miles an Remember one last cheering fact. hour, while his quarry crossed Science does not flourish under the const it about 80 If the tyrannous regime. The Nazis have lost their most brilliant mën. Ours two peroplanes were approaching are being mado now,
The Wigan Sergeant, Hitch, the calm man, looks up from a "I want my head shaved,' I
"So say I have my head shaved, book called "The Screaming "says, just to shake the R.S.M.' all but a bit as big as a penny-piece
And the Corporal says:--No on top. What then?" "So now what's got up your doubt you want your face "Why," says Sergeant Hitch. "You .. like a proper_twoop." blacked too, but you can't have look like a nose?"
"But Is there any law against 117" "I'll tell you," says Charlie it..
"Not that I know of." the Chancer. "I'll take it be "I says, "What? Not have my fore the C.O. I'll write, cor- head shaved?' 'No,' says the
"Then," says Charlie, that's what I'll have done. And it the. R.S.M. blimey, to the War Office. I'll Corporal. write to every newspaper in the "I tells him: 'It's my head,' complains, I'll tell him straight to country."
and he says:-So long as it his face that I'm within my rights."
"I daresay you could be ordered E stopped a 'aircut," says ain't mine, I don't care whose to grow it again," sayo Sergeant the Lad from the Elephant and head it ruddywell is.
"Then I asks him: You tell Then I'd grow Castle..
long." "Then you'd stop a haircut." "We-all," says the Wigan me for why I can't have my
"Then I'd grow a topknot again. Sergeant, "go to the barber's head shaved. And he says: I'll stand on my rights. 05 and get a haircut. Take it easy, 'Contrary to King's Regula, says Charlic, and stamps out, son. Why let it upset you?" tions. Seram. Tell me Sarn't what a twillip that man is," says
"Where do I stand?" cries what has the King got to do the Sergeant, returning to Charlie, terribly excited."Strike" with it?" --
Screaming-Skull Him and his Rights. What does a Britisher want. me dead where I stand-me Sergeant Hitch saya?
with rights, I'd like to know?" head was cropped. Me hair
was
shorter than
93-days' beard.
"Who issues you your equip-- well ments?""
"So the R.S.M. just stops me
"The Government.”
"Well, that's the same as the
and 'e says: 'If you're not care- King. Now were you, or were
UNDER NAZI RULE
STUDENT SLAVES
By WALLACE KING
LUXEMBOURG, the tiny State The next day they were trans- whose frontiers adjoin Ger- ported to Poland and they are many, Belgium and France, is still there doing forced work on the object of Hitler's antagon- behalf of the Nazis. ium now.
Authentic reports of similar The prisons of Luxembourg conditions reach me from other aro full. Its citizens who can countries under German occupa- not be accommodated in prisons tion.
camps.
are being sent to concentration Denmark, just now, ja piti
fully short of fuel-both olf and What is their crime? Listen- coal-and this has resulted in ing to the news broadcasts put the closing down of many im- out by the B.B.C. each evening. portant factories.
Pinpricks
There
is
another offence.
are дв
Sometimes the people tear down Holland and Belgium are suf- posters put up by the German fering equally-and in these occupation authorities.
countries the minor pinpricks of For either of these acts the German officialdom minimum punishment is a year's difficult to bear as the more hard labour. The maximum is general oppression imposed by imprisonment for 12 years. Most the army of occupation. offenders have been given the 12 years.
Students from this former in dependent State who want to continue their learning at Ger man Universities must sign a declaration stating that they approve of Nazism.
Holland was formerly a nation of cyclists. To-day there - áre few cycles to be seen in the country.
Tyres are strictly rationed and a new one can be obtained only after going through the most tiresome official formalities, In Belgium it is the samo. Sixteen students who signed up went to Germany and ex- And yet hore a much more sinis- pressed their views, without ter campaign is being conducted reserve, on the occupation of by the Nazis.
their country by Gorman troops,
Its aim is to split the country
The next day they wore dismiss into two sections to put the
ed from the university..
Forced Work:
Flemish-speaking part of the population in opposition to the Walloons, who speak French. Before leaving, they had to Formerly such antagonism report to the district Nazi could have been fostered. To Icader, who forced them to sign day, after months of German. a "voluntary" contract to work occupation; Belglúm is again for Gormany.
united-against the Germans,
Hitch.
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