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Toll Of The War In The Air AIR RAID

MANG DIFFERENT estimates have been given of the number of aircraft which Germany has lost since the invasion of Norway and the Low Countries. It has been said, for instance, that in the four weeks of air war in and around Norway 138 German aircraft were destroyed and ninety-seven damaged, while forty-nine Allied aircraft were lost.

On the Western Front statistics published in the French papers stated to have been communicat- ed to the German Air Ministry give a total loss be- tween the invasion of the Low Countries and May. 17 as 1,060 aeroplanes.

It is further stated that 1,522 pilots were lost in the same per- iod. Total losses for German avia- tjon since the opening of hostili- tles have been estimated at 2,230 aeroplanes. The rate of loss, ac- cording to official figures, averages about forty a day.

FIGURES AND FACTS

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It is, if course, impossible to judge how near these figures are to the facts, but there is ample evidence that the wastage rate of! the German air force has been a

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age rate in the Allied air forces. The German air force. has been on the offensive. The Allied air forces have been partially on the offensive and partially on the de- fensive, so that a higher wastage rate in the German air force might have been expected. But that it should be so much higher is cer- tainly noteworthy.

It seems that the Germans have been using a fairly large concen- tration of aircraft, and in the bat- tle of the Maas, it is said that they had 5,000 machines at their disposal. They have not shown)

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aircraft any more than they have shown any tendency to conserve their man power or their machine

power on the ground. They have hurled vast numbers of air-

craft into the battle.

This very fact of concentration of forces has made the task of the Allies more difficult, so that the favourable balance of losses must be looked upon as exceptionally promising. The great numbers of enemy machines do not seem on jany-point to have outbalanced the superior technical quality of the Allied machines.

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OUR NEW FIGHTERS Recently came the report perhaps one of the most astonish- ing battles of the air war in which a large number of the lat est type of German bombing aero- planes, namely, the Junkers-Ju. Messerschmitt 88, escorted by fighters, were tackled by a re-

ton Paul Defiant

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BRITISH

TROOPS

IN FAROES

latively small formation of Boul- Living On Whale Meat

turret fighters} accompanied by Hawker Hurri And Playing Football cane single-seat fighters, with the result that twenty-two enemy air- craft were shot down for certain without the loss of a single Bri-

|tish machine.

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Berlin Radio has broad- cast an admission that British air raids over Ger- many recently had been' So sudden and unexpect- ed that there was no time to give an air raid warn- ing.

The announcer tried to explain that the British 'planes were raiding areas where there were no military objectives. People should not wait for warnings, he said, but should take cover as soon as as they heard the anti-aircraft guns.

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"In future," he said, "air-raid arnings will not be sounded in large areas. Work is to continue until anti-aircraft fire is heard. Then you must seek shelter."

On the night that Berlin was raided, it was added, British 'planes dropped 26 high-explosive bombs over Duisburg, on the Rhine, and 30 incendiary bombs over Bielefeld, 40 miles east of Munster, destroying three houses and setting fire to others. At Duisburg a school building severely damaged.

was

NAZI PLOT IN URUGUAY

IN

A Fully Documented

Exposure

A. LETTER FROM THE GER- MAN MINISTER, PUBLISHED ALL THE MONTEVIDEO NEWSPAPERS, WHICH FLATLY DENIED. THE EXISTENCE OF A NAZI PLOT AGAINST URUGU- AY OR ANY. KNOWLEDGE OF ITS ALLEGED LEADER,, FUHR- MANN, HAS BEEN FOLLOW- ED

DOCU- BY A FULLY MENTED EXPOSURE---OF-THE- PLOT IN EL DIA THAT LEAVES NO

ROOM FOR FURTHER

DOUBT.

The numbers and disposition of the forces required, the help ex- pected from Nazis in Argentina and Southern Brazil, the time THE BRITISH TROOPS IN needed for .the campaign and WERE OCCUPIED AFTER THE fiscation of State THE FAROE ISLANDS-WHICH plans for the subsequent con- NAZI INVASION OF DENMARK owned land are all given in de-

and privately

The Boulton Paul Deflants had ARE LIVING ON A DIET OF tail.

Public demonstrations reflect their greatest success when twelve WHALE MEAT AND PLAYING

REGULAR of them shot down thirty-seven CHES WITH THE ISLANDERS. are quite orderly, but the people FOOTBALL MAT- the country's indignation. They enemy machines without loss to themselves.

On the very day that a Ger- are demanding strong action by It seems as if the theory of the turret fighter is be- man announcer at Bremen stated the Government. ing justified in a sensational in Danish that the islanders were resisting the British "with-rifles

manner.

Whatever allowances should be

in their hands," the first Anglo- FASTER In response to numerous requests The South made for false estimates-and it Faroe soccer match took place

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is obvious to everyone that the and, incidentally, the conditions of air combat to-day are such that accurate, observa Last year was a record one for

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that the German losses must be the islanders and their visitors very much higher than the Allied alike-Reuter. losses. That la a most encouraging sign.

New methods for the quicker "turning round" of ships have been devised by Mr. Bevin, Min-

It may be true that Allied pro-and is, and the fact that British ister of Labour. He has altered duction is not yet great enough to pilots are always advised to be the flying squad arrangements give quickly an overwhelming cautious in their claims, mount which he was largely respon- superiority in numbers, but the up to give a solid basis for full aible, for making in October, achievements of parity will be the belief in the fact that the German and under which a mobile corps first stop, and as the output of air losses have been enormously of dockers was formed to move British machines and the receps greater than the Allied and pro- from port to port according to tion of American machines and machines built in the Dominions bably something of the order of shipping exigencies.

three or four to one.

The loading and discharging is increasing day by day, parity TRIBUTE TO GROUND STAFFS of vessels, although considerably will be followed at a brief inter- val by gradually mounting In examining the air wastage speeded up, was not fast enough rates of Germany, tribute must be for him. Through an agreement per

TECHNICAL SUPERIORITY. paid to the unremitting service of with port authorities and dockers It is accepted that Allied ma-all the ground workers upon whom representatives he is dividing the chines are superior in technical the air effort of the Royal Air country into four regions, with

headquarters at London, Liver quality to the German machines. Force is founded.

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|It would therefore be remarkable No praise can be too high for pool, Newcastle and Edinburgh. if German losses were not higher the work of the atters, riggers, regions will be available for work than Allied losses. Technical armourers, radiomen, and all those superiority has been known since other tradesmen and aircraft in any port within the region. If the beginning of air fighting to hands who have been keeping the the situation demands it, dockers. ensure a higher, loss rate in the Royal Air Force in the air. It has will be transferred to ports out- enemy.

been accompanied by great dim-side their region. Another point to be noted is culties often of an unexpected that if the German claims were to kind; but the work has gone on BOMB IN U.S. TRAIN be accepted the Allied, air forces and its high quality has must be bigger than the Allles been maintained. The brilliant! A high explosive aerial bomb.. All donations will be acknowledged in the themselves thought they were. achievements

·of .... the Royal has been found in a Pullman car On the whole then the evidence Air Force. -in.......

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air of A -Washington-New York columns of The S. C. M. Post.

contained within the figures them-have their foundations well laid train. selves, the knowledge of the con-in the tireless service of the stats This was disclosed in New York. Haitionis for pule (fighting as it was on the ground, Kabir pekkaa jok

yesterday, he is para Eskomi tidak

THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 20, 1940. --

Laurence Olivier, sensation-

al star of "Wuthering Heights", is coming to the King's Theatre in Columbia's "Clouds Over Europe”, with Valerie Hobson. Ralph Richardson Is also featured in the new film, a gay comedy romance with a Scotland Yard background.

BOMBERS MISSED OBJECTIVES

THE ENGLISH SPIRIT

Apollyon having decided to employ His anger of, blind armaments for this- That every valued virtue and guarded joy Might grieve bewildered by a bombed abyss

The ghosts of those who have wrought our

English Past

Stand near us now in unimpassioned ranks Till we have braved and broken and over-

cast

The cultural crusade of Teuton tanks,

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MOBILE "HOSPITALS" PLANE FOR FACTORY INJURED

IT IS SAFE to expect that the Royal Commis- sion on Workmen's Compensation will recommend radical changes in the law.

The weight of evidence for such changes is very great already, and it cannot be ignored.

workman, OFFEN- THE GERMAN AIR

But some time must pass bê- sation to a disabled SIVE AGAINST BRITAIN fore the Commission is ready to but to ensure adequate facilities doctors AIMS NOT ONLY AT INFLICT-report, and

who were for the restoration of his earning ING MATERIAL DAMAGE BUT heard made out a strong case for capacity."

This problem of skilled hospital) ALSO AT IMPAIRING OUR IN- immediate action in some direc- LUSTRIAL

treatment and proper measures MORALE OVERtions. LARGE ALEAS.

They were not content to ad- of rehabilitation has already been This was the enemy's policy in vocate better facilities for treat-pressed on the Commission's at- industrial casualties, but tention by the Trades Union Con- the last war, when it. was proved ing

with the that industrial efficiency declined they showed that the war-time gress in collaboration for some hours after a night of conditions made reform urgent.

Perhaps Mr. Bevin's new Fac- raids.

In night conditions R.A.F. tory and Welfare Board will con- fighters have had a degree of sider this, for it is closely linked success which was in close accord with industrial welfare.

DOCTORS' CASE with the expectation of Service experts. In daylight raids the Many of the bigger industrial enemy would suffer much more concerns already have facilities heavily.

for prompt treatment of casual-'

B.M.A.

NAZI HAUL OF GOLD

So far it is impossible to escape ties as well as the simple first-that the amount of French gold the conclusion that enemy bomb- aid provisions. aimers are inferior to those the R.A.F. The failure of the bombs Germans to place their

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anywhere near two objectives obviously aimed at, is striking Damage in and encouraging. the military sense has

been negligible.

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Many more could, no doubt, be required to do the same thing.

But there is a strong case for the doctors suggestion of mo- bile units always ready at hos- pitals to be rushed out to works accidents.

It is estimated in New York

believed to have fallen into Ger- many's hands may exceed £450,- £150,- 000,000. This includes 000,000 which is supposed to have been sent to Paris from Belgium.

Whether the vaults of the Bank of France have been flooded- which would prevent the invaders laying hands on the bullion re- Manned by a specially qualified serves for, several months-is not IT COMES FROM THE surgeon and nurse, such a unit known.

ENEMY

could give prompt treatment on the-spot-instead of the patient having to wait until taken to hospital.

Warning that the Nazis are

This would be specially valu- still attempting to deceive Brit- ish listeners by the use of a able in the case of small work and station calling itself "the New factories, which could not well British Broadcasting Station" be expected to employ full-time was given ⚫yesterday

the surgeons and nurses, B.B.C., who added that the sta- tion is in Germany and issues only enemy broadcasts.

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STEEL HELMET SAVED HIM IN FIRE

-When Lance-corporal Philip on leave Walker arrived home

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He mobilised waiters and guests, They bluntly told the Com- many in dressing gowns, into a mission that the amounts of fire-fighting team, and hoses and By compensation must be raised. stirrup pumps were used."

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