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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1947.
Two thought-pro- WAR IN THE FUTURE
voking articles on
Wanted: a Royal Space Force
BRITAIN MUST WAKE
UP TO
THE FACT THAT THE BOMBING AIRPLANE IS OUT OF DATE
NEW defence need is ap- <=; pearing, although no men- tion was made of it in the Service Estimates.
It is concerned with the use of space
as an all-way. ever- open express route for men and
missiles.
If there were another war it is likely that space forces would dominate it. In the silent re- glons, hundreds of miles up, at speeds of many thousands of miles an hour, new military en- gines,
some manned, some automatically directed, would awing through giant trajec tories. The stars would look down on man's crowning mad-
ness.
Many papers read before the learned societies testify that there is nothing fantastic about such, military vohicles, which are in the direct line of development already establish-
ed.
By OLIVER STEWART
It is
In the Air Estimates £214,000,000 is down for the Royal Air Force, and that is well. But nothing is down for starting a space force, and that is not go well.
Lord Portal has told young men joining the Air Force not to worry about developments which might make it obsolete. But who dares not to worry about these developments?
both old and new. The earliest the
There is the picture.
Sir Alwyn Crow has said that development of the long- military text books empha- range rocket is a "necessary sised the advantages confer parallel" to atom bomb develop red by high ground and rapid movement; and the latest air force text books emphasise the value of height and speed.
Spacemen, in wingless vehicles, moving where there is little or no air, will go higher and faster than airmen. They will look on air forces as a little old-fashioned, much as airmen to-day look on naval forces.
Our team of specialists on the rocket range in Australia is studying
The the subject:
facts are simple and have been repeatedly stated.
move
Could
ment..
EXIT THE BOMBER
UR team in Australia is not enough. There is the nucleus of the practical, opera- tional side to be considered as well.
forces have been set. Bombing The limitations of ordinary air airplanes are as out of date as the antinacassar.
we
the Army?
W
E now have to ask our- selves as a nation this To
objects-whether
question: Is it worth our bodies bombs from one while to retain forces of the kind place to another on the earth's that we used in the war? surface in the shortest time it It seems doubtful whether is necessary to pack them in the military mind has yet ap- pointed holders and to send Preciated the gigantic advance
that has been made in them off vertically upwards,
forms of warfare. With the The pointed, wingless holder atom bomb we must change our bursts through the sonic barrier whole ideas. and, if it ascends high enough,
casts off the fetters of air re- sistance and even gravity
new
"In future warfare there will be only one problem: how to de- liver atom bombs or poison on to the main population centres of the enemy."
Air forces are needed, but not for siriking at the enemy. That will be done by wingless vonicles, manned or unmanned, not air- borne, moving in the outer part of the atmosphere and in space. The memorandum accompany- ing the Air Estimates speaks of maintaining the continuity of Royal Air Force development. That is alarming, for it suggests that the authorities are reluc- tant to accept the implications of the work done on rocket vehicles.
WATCH THE STARS
HIGHER and faster should be the watchwords of those who seek a technically efficient defence system.
·Our future · defenders must rise through the atmosphere and move into the
space where speed is easy.
POCKET CARTOON
BY THE
WAY
by Beachcomber
THE kipper has always been it was the custom of actors
It is a tragedy that we should on provincial tours to nail him thus be forced to relate this under the dining-room table, to achievement of applied science be discovered by
the next to military purposes.
troupe.
But they are being taken very In the
over war just
because they We seriously nowadays, learned to look up at the skies, have become like ancient papyrus
to not to find beauty in the clouds, the touch, and to the taste like old hut to find bombers.
unless the world changes its them, recalling the song of my child- One day bits of Viking beats dug out of cs- tunry mud. Yet I think kindly of ways or undisputed mastery of hood. the earth's envelope is in the
we shall look up to the stars not hands of a peaceful Power Two little kinders swimming out
with admiration and wonder but with fear.
scrap
the trouble comes to an end. We saw clear examples of this in Greece and Persin but as the war receded there were fewer and fewer mobile troops to carry out this work.
to aca..
Lost their Mama sonchow.
They saw a title hook.
Which they very quickly took,
And they're hanging on a fishstall
now.
Potato v. Poteto
FOR the second time the legal pro-
ceedings, if such I may call them, broke down yesterday. While Mr. Potnio was being cross-examined a man began to squirt water out of a bit of lose, announcing that he be enged to the Society for the Preven tiun of
woman drag- Everything. A Indder go
got in the
of the Ging a usher who tried to remove
pter, and two boys, dribbling a
the inter
If manpower and money were of football, passed through the Court. shouting "Up, Everton!" M Justice no importance we should obvious Cocklecarrot, renmriding that it was ly keep up these mobile forces to the festive season, adjourned the deal with our milltary commitments case, sine die, by the application of of this nature all over the world. At n writ of omuna me impune laces- the same time we would retain the init nucleus of the forces used in the last war (as many military men recom- Printers' frolic mend) in case it might be needed.
Complaints continue of people first-class marriages
and find the crowded.
It is now. obvious that we cannot take on both these commitments, Inele get into our attempt to do so we have found ourselves with、ut the necessary light forces to deal with urgent canimit- ments in many parts of the world,
We should, therefore, use all our available resources to preduce a rea-
and By LIEUT-GEN SIR GIFFARD LE Q MARTEL Konably large and simple form of
whoots into the field of smooth, swift and easy motion. There
it can travel not twice as fast
as the fastest aeroplane, not three or four times as fast; 10, 20 or 30 times us fast.
8,000 MPH
but
I will be remembered that V2. or A4 as the Germans called it, had the rather modest maximum speed of 3,400 miles an hour.
If we had possessed two or three
(News item.j
Easier divorce is no good. Blgamy. must be made more difcult. Another statuc
army composed of light
N entrancing suggestion is being mobile A
considered nothing less (or troops and light armour, and up more, for that matter) than the erec ported by similar forces of the other
atom bombs at the time, does any hands down.
The country that does so first wins two Services, to deal with enemy in-tion at one end of Waterloo Bridge ültration and propagandu and the of an enormous statue of John resulting danger of Insurrection. At Strachey, 600 feet high, with a packet world the same time we must of
of priority egg-dust in one hand, and
one suppose that we would have risked the grent adventure of land- Every individual in the
to come before the world some form of international peace.
POISON ROCKETS
course
skin. The sausage skin would be
would have an internal mechanism devised to utter a squeak twice an
To a lady 'trombonist.
ing on the Normandy coast in 1944 hopes no doubt that the necessity proceed at full speed with the de-in the other, held aloft, a sausage und the subsequent Aghting? We-or such terrible warfare will never .velopment of the new kinds iluminated at night, and the statue would have taken no such risk.
urlse. But it is probable that we weapons of war. One atom bomb dropped on Ber- shall all have to develop this form
of warfare to gain security by the We can put this into effect without in would have annihilated that city threat of retaliation for many years any increase in cost or manpower hour. The heated controversy about leaders who were there at the time. and killed Hiller and the other
indeed accepts
a saving might well result what sort of hat the statue should The military chiefs would have
by dropping all the heavy equipment wear is expected to break out short- taken control in Germany and ac-
for war which the Services, and the ly. cepted unconditional surrender.
Army in particular, are endeavour- Does this mean that we
ing to maintain today. should But it. was only the pioneer; strap all the defence forces in their THE launching of atom bombs or Great savings in manpower and the Wright biplane among the present form?
polson may be carried out by air Bnance would result from the aboll- Solne
had atom bombs, but rockets will be used in most cases. maintenance and training establish- cessful flight nearly five years that only one of them had normal The rockets carrying the atom bombs ments,
and also from reducing ago, in October 1942. It start defence forces in addition, then the or poison can be kept in security schools and colleges for the study of intter would win. In support of this deep underground and launched into a type of Great War which we are ed vertically, went up about 60 they point out that the possession
sion the air miles, had a range of about 200 of fighter alterat by one side would Once they reach the air they can be
air through
narrow tunnel. never likely to fight again. miles, and took five minutes on enable his bombers to deliver the directed on to their targets by radar. its journey from launching site atom bomb right on to some protect methods, regardless of the direction to target.
ed and vulnerable target, which the in which they emerge from the tun- other side would not be able to do. nel. Only a comparatively small force of regulor personnel is neded for this form of warfare.
rockets. It made its first suc- two na pinary men argue that if craft or rockets. It seems likely that tion of the heavler weapons and their
Now it can faster.
go farther and
Salon
ONE PROBLEM MOREOVER they point out that it
Mr W. G. A.
The possession of normal defence Perring, our would often be necessary to fight forces will not give a nation the leading authority on the sub- for and scize some area where they smallest degree of protection. Ject, has discussed before the could install their aircraft or rocket bases from which to launch atom Royal Aeronautical Society the bombs or poison-and that this could means of increasing its range not be done without the possession to 2,000 miles and the pos-
ní normal forces. sibilities of multi-stage rockets From this they argue that we still need defence forces of the same with a top speed of 8,000 miles nature as that which we used in the an hour.
recent war but modernised in minor- whys.
In these circumstances will any nation dare to launch great offensive operations against another nation knowing that the latter possesses the latest types of atomic or polson war- fare? I do not believe that this will ever happen.
some
But I do believe that for time to come certain nations will confide propaganda and infiltration defence tactics.
To break loose from the It is obvious that the nations of earth's gravitational field and the world will still need
forces of some kind for many years. What is the answer? It is
Are
to travel as a heavenly body a But I dlangree entirely with the iden possession on the other side of plenty three-stage rocket is required that they should be of the existing of light mobile forces in all three with a top speed of about 24,000 types, miles an hour. It is still the direct line of development, and I believe it will be done in this generation.
*NANCY
'It's Traditional
Services. When the enemy inal- trates into a peaceful arcs. the of people do not dare to object. though they would very much like to do so. If the protecting powers can send up plenty of light mobile forces at once
In future, warfare there will be only one problem: the problem how to delfyer atom bombs or poison on to the Industrial areas and main population centres of the enemy.
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