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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 13, 1940

R.A.F. Planes Earn Great Fighting Reputation ABYSSINIA

ALREADY RECONNAISSANCE aircraft of

FIGHTS ON

Coastal Command have earned a great fighting re- Ras Abeba Atragai is putation. Sunderland, Hudson and Anson are Commander - in - Chief of names in the best tradition of British sea fighters of the Ethiopian forces of na- the past.

tional liberation. When

Named after Admiral Anson, the famous navi- Italy began her invasion gator of the 18th century, the Anson is a low-wing lonel and Chief of the Po- of Abyssinia he was Co- general reconnaissance monoplane specially pro- lice in Addis Ababa and duced for coastal reconnaissance work by A. V. Ros and Co., Ltd. This is one of the oldest firms in the

aircraft industry, whose Avro in various “marks" was the standard trainer in many air forces for more than a decade.

Designed mainly for reconnais-m.p.h.

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had done much to train a disciplined modern force. There is no other whisky with quite the genial

The office was no sinecure; new mellowness, the smoothness, the exquisite

ways were replacing old, police men on point duty now directed traffic, modern surface drainage fragrance of White Horse. When you find

and daily garbage collection had the Fiat and 313 been introduced. all the qualities of finest Scotch whiskies sance and training work, the An- m.p.h. for the Macchi-is defin-service was told off to remove the A special police

wandering dogs which formerly blended into one, you know it can only be son is of unusually roomy con-itely low as modern fighters goinfested the streets..

struction. A feature is the good Against this they are reported to White Horse Whisky.

visibility, secured through special- be very manoeuvrable and sturd- As well as the duties of main-· ly large front and side windows. ily bult. Another fighter, a bi-taining order and obedience A recognition point for aircraft plane, reminiscent of Britain's ob-law there was a special guard at "spotters," is that when the un-solescent Gloster Gladiator, is the night to prevent the incursions of engine nacelles half the wheels der-carriage is retracted into the Fiat CR.42.

hyenas and other denizens of the wild from entering the city. remain protruding below.

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May, 1936, the Emperor's North-

Three-Engine Bombers In the tragic days of April and ried-pilot, navigator-bomb-aim- | Italy's best known bombers are ern Army retired on the capital, radio-operator/air gun-Jof the 3-engine type. The Sa-land the menace of the Italian ad- ner.. They are so placed that alvola-Marchetti 79 and 81 are ex-vent hung in the air. Rioting free passage is left down one side amples, the SM.79, powered with broke out among the least res- of the fuselage for inter-com-engines of the Bristol Pegasus ponsible elements of the desperate munication and movement from type, being the more successful. soldiery and people. Abeba Arra- one part of the "ship" to another. This aircraft, with a wing span of gai did all a resolute man could Thus, when not bomb-aiming, about 66 feet and a top speed of to maintain the order and dignity table midway between the pilot in size and speed with the British he failed nobly. and the gun turret. But his 2-motor Hampden. Newer are the bombing post in action is in the 12-motor Savoia-Marchetti 85 and extreme nose of the aircraft 86, and the Fiat B.R.20. B.R.20 where he lies prone watching his has a speed of about 260 m.p.h., When the Emperor left the target through a sliding window and besides carrying a useful country Abeba Arragai remained load mounts four guns. Most of with a trusty bodyguard to carry Italy's bombers are more lightly on the struggle for national in- jarmed.

dependence. He won his way to

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Out of roughly 2,100 first line recognition among the varied Two Armstrong-Siddeley Chee-aircraft the Regia Aeronautica forces of national resistance in the tah IX engines with a total pow-musters some 340 seaplanes and federated Empire, and was elect- er output of about 550 h.p. give flying-boats: Many of these are led by his fellow-warriors, Ras the Anson a top speed of just out-of-date; but this high propor-(Marshal) and Commander-in- under 190 m.p.h. It cruises at tion of sea-going craft might in-Chief. He has co-ordinated the about 100 m.p.h. and the maxi-dicate that Italy intends to take diverse forces of the country. His mum range is over 800 miles. The advantage of her many

island intelligence system is first rate. overall-length is 42 feet and the bases. The fastest seaplanes are To-day his soldiers are in good wing span 561⁄2 ft. The wing the little Caproni Ca.312, and the heart. The whole of the North area is 410 sq. ft.-less than one-big 3-motor Cant Z.506B. None West, with the exception of-four third that of its big brother of of them compare favourably in or five towns, is under Abyssinian the Coastal Command, the Sun-Jarmament or performance" with rule, Officers and derland flying-boat,

[the British Sunderland and Ler- Ethiopian uniform of the 1935 Anson is comparatively lightly wick flying-boats.

pattern, Ethiopian passes armed. There is one forward Air-

necessary to travellers. There are ing machine-gun for the pilot, and

areas of resistance also-in-the-east another, mounted in a rotating

and centre of the country, and gun-turret aft of the wing, is

even within a hundred miles of handled by the radio-operator. A

the capital, and around the great number of bombs can also be

North Road from Dessie to Ma- carried, and there is storage for

kalle. the special gear required for air operations over the sea, such

Tangible evidence that the country is unconquered, and that collapsible dinghy, sea-markers When a letter from Switzerland the war continues, is provided by and flame-floats.

addressed to Miss Jennie Wilde of leaflets, printed on one side Although not designed forjOldham, Lancs, was fighting, Ansons have often been fragrance of a twenty-seven-year- lian, which are showered

opened the Amharic and on the other in Ita- involved in scraps with the enemy old romance

from and come out of them with glory.pages.

escaped from the Italian aeroplanes. These leaflets The most

appeal to the chiefs and people to

05

27-YEAR ROMANCE

remarkable Instance! Jennie Wilde, in 1913, went to submit. was a few days ago when three Canada with her father and there. Ansons engaged nine Messersch-[met Charles Hirt. mitt fighters flying low over

Although he the could speak seven languages Hirt Channel. Two German fighters[did not know a world of English. were destroyed and one severe- But the language of love is uni- ly damaged whilst the. Ansons' versal. Jennie and Charles fell in casualties were two members of love. Then Jennie returned to their crews wounded.

England:

For many years there has been Italian Aircraft Types silence in between. Then the Jet-

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ter arrived för Miss Jennie To the list of familiar enemy Wilde, heavy with censors' seals. types-Heinkels, Messerschmitts, It came from Charles Hirt, in the Junkers and Dorniers-shot down Alpine town of Niederueningen. It by the Royal Air Force, Italy's was opened by a crippled woman HAVE BEEN USING entry into the war will bring new of Afty-eight, in a frugally names. Fiat, Macchi, Breda, Sa-furnished bed-sitting-room.

ENCE DEPARTMENTS OF! voia-Marchetti, Caproni, Cant are "He will be sixty now, and he PUBLIC LIBRARIES TO OBTAIN may not still be a bachelor," Miss TRACINGS OF MAPS OF PARTS Altogether the Regia Aeronau-Wilde old a reporter, "but I should OF THE BRITISH COAST tica (Royal Italian Air Force) em-love to see him again and I am ploys about thirty different types, writing to him straight away." including some half-a-dozen sea- planes and a flying-boat. But

some of these.

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WHERE ENEMY FORCES MIGHT ATTEMPT LANDINGS. · An alderman of a London the war progresses it is likely that the Italians, insofar as they use

of aliens resided before the war, Italian and not German. aircraft,

stated that in his district: for: will concentrate on one or two of

about three years past foreigners... the most advanced types in each

had been making so much use of category.

In a nation-wide poll held to the public libraries that extra. Foremost amongst their fighters discover America's ten best-dress supplies of German and French can be reckoned the Fiat G.50 andjed men -- they were selected books had had to be bought. the Macchi C.200. Both are mo-for their ability to wear clothes Within the part » few weeks. dern, single-seat monoplane types, in keeping with their budget foreigners who had not been in with a single radial engine. They standards Adolphe Menjou wasternad had gone to the reference each carry two heavy machine-voted America's best-dressed library and asked for maps of guns, firing.forward. "Their actor, and Mr. Cordell Hull, U.S.A. East Yorkshire,

wings span of about 35 feet is two Secretary of State, as America's Other popular coast lines in de~. feot less than that of Britain's emartest politician. Lawrence-Tib-mand by callers were those of smallest. fighter, the B-gun Spit-bett was voted the best-dressed Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex - and dis- {fire; a whilst their speed-305 topera star..

tricts of Scotland.'

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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 13, 1940

RAIDERS' "HELL'S CORNER"

The Germans have a name for a fifty mile stretch of the South-East Coast - it is "Hell's Corner.":

The guns that have barked at them on their almost nightly raids on this Channel- side section have claimed a dozen or more of their planes.

An officer on a Bri- tish warship which re- ceived a party of cap- tured German airmen told what the enemy say about it:

"It is a terrifying job to fly over that sec- tion," one German said. "The search- lights don't leave you alone for a minute and the anti-aircraft guns put up an almost impenetrable curtain of death.

"I have been one of the lucky ones."

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POLITICIANS TO LEAVE THE RED ARMY

THE OFFICE OF POLITICAL COMMISSAR IN THE RED! ARMY AND NAVY HAS BEEN ABOLISHED BY A DECREE- OF THE · PRESIDIUM OF THE SUPREME SOVIET WHICH IS

TSUNGMING ISLAND

OUTRAGE REVEALED

BY GENERALISSIMO

"NO DISTORTED PEACE or abject surrender can avert the Japanese slaughter of Chinese civilians and their sinister design of exterminating the Chin- ese nation. Only by resolute resistance and a fierce struggle can we shatter their ambition to conquer China," declares General Chiang Kai-shek in a lengthy manifesto issued on the third anniversary of the outbreak of the Shanghai hostilities to-day.

General Chiang says that under Japanese ag- gression the Chinese are living in the dark. Not for a single moment has he forgotten the suffering of his fellow-countrymen, especially those in Shanghai and other enemy "occupied" areas. So long as the enemy have not all been driven out of China and the Chinese are not fully emancipated he considers his duty unfulfilled.

The Generalissimo states that, the International Settlement au- he frequently receives reports on thorities in Shanghai have prohi- the situation in Japanese "occu-

pied" areas. During the past year bited the publication of General the Japanese have intensified their Chiang Kai-shek's address to the efforts at epslaving and narcotis-Chinese population in occupied ing the Chifiese.

areas on the occasion of the an- Chinese in "occupied" areas are actually under three strata of en-niversary of the Shanghai war. slavement. The Japanese armed The American-owned vernacu- forces form the first stratum,

lar newspaper "Chinese-American Japanese civilians the second stratum and the Korean and For-Daily News" appeared this morn- mosan ronin the third stratum.ing with a large white space on In addition, there are the Chin-the front page. - Havas. ese traitors and puppets.

Increasingly atrocious methods are employed to break down the staunch Chinese morale. In July, they burned down more than 7,000 villages in western Shang- hai, Tsingpu, Sungkiang and the vicinities and slaughtered over 10,000 families.

Tsungming Outrage

Only a few days ago, Tsung- ming Island was the scene of rape, incendiarism and massacre. Whole families were shut up in their houses and burned to death and groups of civilians mowed down cold bloodedly with chine-guns.

ma-

"Even while we are gallantly| offering resistance, our enemy are treating us like slaves. Should we stop resistance or submit to AIMED AT "STRENGTHENING is no telling how they will treat their coercion and cajolery, there

THE AUTHORITY MANDING OFFICERS," AC- us," Generalissimo Chiang

OF

COM-

CORDING TO MOSCOW RADIO YESTERDAY.

marks.

re-

However, the staunch Chinese spirit of resistance cannot be de- The decree states the measure stroyed by blockade, bombing or was taken because "political com-

force, any other method of

if missars have fulfilled their essen- fellow-countrymen in

the "'OC- tial tasks while commanding ca- cupied" areas add every bit of dres have been considerably their effort to the nation's power strengthened in recent years."

of resistance and do everything

The decree provides for the ap-in their power to hasten the col- pointment of deputy commanding lapse of the enemy. Negatively, officers who will be attached to they should avoid gambling and Red Army units and warships smoking opium, red pills, heroin and will be in charge of political and other narcotics, while posi- work in the armed forces.-Reu- tively they should co-operate ter.

with the Chinese troops to de- stroy the enemy's military and economic establishments, and attack the enemy garrison units. The "occupied" areas should be

Central News. made a shackle for the enemy—

SWEDISH HARVEST

FAILURE

Sweden's harvest is very poor, declared Moscow radio yesterday, adding "This is especially the case on the island of Gotland, an im~ portant harvesting centre where crops are the worst for 70 years owing to drought." Reuter.

Manifesto Banned In Shanghai (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"!) Enforcing a strict censorship,

MR. HORE-BELISHA WANTS AN ARMY OF MILLIONS.

CREATION OF AN army several millions strong] was suggested by Mr. Leslie Hore-Belisha, former War Minister, in a speech at Devonport last evening. Mr. Hore-Belisha said we should plan to strike at the enemy in the territories he has occupied. was possible that only thus should we bring the war to a successful end.

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The project should contemplate sumption should be the the creation of at least 100 divi-compatible with the indispensable] sions equipped in a fashion im-requirements of the people. proving upon all recent experience and provided with their own sir

lowest

Export Trade

arm.

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The present incompleteness of The export trade should, be our Industrial mobilisation kept at the minimum. level which; ́should'not' be tolerated for a supplementing our other means of moment longer; we could not payment, could meet the cost of beat Germany with 800,000. un- our necessary importations, employed.

The whole of the rest of the in-

Our economic task; was to re-dustrial machine, should be con- the Cruit and embody fully. all: avail-centrated day and night.on able productive čapácity,

output of war production.-Reu÷|

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