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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 18, 1940.

OF NIGHT

R.A.F. IS MORE EFFICIENCY THAN MATCH FOR "LUFTWAFFE"

LUFTWAFFE, OR "air weapon” as Germany calls its air force has, in a mere eight years, been forged into the most potent instrument of terror which has ever been put into the hands of a brutal and cunning people.

DEFENCES

Evidence of the growing efficiency of Britain's night defences is shown by the fact that all four enemy bombers, which an Air Ministry, communique revealed yesterday were brought down on Monday night, were shot down by anti-aircraft fire, says Reuter's air correspon- dent in London.

It is understood, that none fell in the London area but along lanes" followed by the enemy to the capital:

To the Luftwaffe, and to it alone, can be as- cribed the speed of the Nazis' triumphs over Poland; Norway, Holland. The mere threat of its use over the city of Prague caused the aged Czech president to capitulate in the name of his country, and a powerfully armed and wealthy nation passed into Hitler's hands almost without a shot being fired, states a writer in "Illustrated", discussing Ger-enemy aircraft is believed to be a many's aerial might from the British point of view.

Nazi Bluff ?

It was disclosed on Monday that two, other enemy; bombers were

victims of R.A.F. Aghter patrols.

The bringing down of six-

record bag for defences in which,

wherever conditions are tavour- able for anti-aircraft guns, bar rage balloons and fighters, Will be. used more and more effectively

thing pertaining to the service. This device, which gives many RED CROSS

over

GIFTS

It came into being only in 1933 when Hitler, as Reichschancellor appointed Goering as Commis- We made. Goering a present of together-Reuter. sioner of all flying, a post equi-'this power-driven turret when ong valent to our Secretary of State of our leaflet-carrying "Welling- for Air, but with more dictatorial tons" was brought down in Ger- powers over industry and every- many. But it does not, matter.

At once he began to build it up Aghter alike, the "edge"

of our British types, bomber and into a gigantic force, pressing the whole of Germany's industry into Germany's best can only be fitted support with material and labour. in their machines by re-designing No effort or expense was spared nearly all the jigs and similar CROSS

their fuselages and so scrapping THE UNITED STATES RED HAS SENT SUPPLIES in the planning.

machinery throughout the aircraft] AND CASH TO THE TOTAL Factories were laid down to-factories of Germany.

VALUE OF ABOUT' £1,000,000) wards the eastern portion of Ger- Naturally, of course, after the FOR THE RELIEF OF CIVILIAN many so as to make them less demonstration of superiority put WAR VICTIMS IN BRITAIN, vulnerable from attacks from up by our fighters, after this war Since the beginning of the France. They were designed so broke out, Goering rushed re-heavy raids on London, the that essential processes could be placement types into production American Red Cross has provided carried on below ground and like the Messerschmidt "110" a £5,000 for clothes for women, during the worst raids.

twin-engined heavily armed figh- £1,000 for warm coats for men; From the first, Goering con-ter, and the Junkers "88" bomber. £18,000 for boots and shoes; and centrated on mass production, But experience has already shown large quantities of materials for since the primary object was to that the new Messerschmidt is no other warm clothes. achieve terrifying numbers in match for ighters like the "De- Most of this is distributed the shortest possible time in filant" — or even the "Hurricanes.” among people who have lost their accordance with Nazi.time- The Germans call the "Me 110 homes or suffered heavily in Nazi tables already fald down for a "destroyer." implying that its raids on the East End of London, aggression on smaller countries. main tunction is to destroy, bom--Reuter.

To get this swift accumulation bers, and that tackling fighters is

in numbers he concentrated on ala secondary jub. A few montlıs very few standardised types. The agu flocks of: "110's" failed to bulk of thein were to be two break a formation of "Welling- main types the Heinkel "III" tons" off Heligoland. bomber and the Messerschmidt As to the armament of the "109" fighter.

Junkers "88", only a few weeks ago alx tried to take on a single "Bunderland” flying boat had to call it a day. While the Luftwaffe's factories!

Goering Felt Good

four "Blenheim." It was

any

and

concen-

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CHILDREN

SIX CHILDREN NOW ON

The Heinkel at the time it went into full production, about 1935, and its training centres are mostly THEIR WAY TO CANADA WILL was easily the best bomber in the situated in. eastern Germany, its BE ABLE TO GIVE FIRST-" world. It was designed before operational stations are nearly all HAND ACCOUNTS OF THE faster in the west, the fighter groups in BOMBING RAIDS ON LONDON, than our best fighter of the time the north-west mainly

Five of them-three girls and the "Fury." The Messerschmidt trated in a line drawn from Ham-two boys--are from the same was more heavily armed than burg to Frankfurt.

other fighter. A stripped! But the force is highly mobile, family. Their home was destroyed model specially motored subse-In Germany there are at least 500 while they stayed safely in their

shelter. quently took the world's ultimate aerodromes fully equipped and The sixth, a boy, was rescued record speed for any aircraft of manned. The Luftwaffe is from the children-evacuee ship ganised Into Geschwader (which recently torpedoed by the Nazis. over 469 m.p.l.

So Gooring felt good. The correspond to our RAF groups He arrived back to find his home. bulk of the rest of the machines Gruppen (equivalent in strength wrecked by a bomb-Reuter. word troop carriers like the to one of our stations), and staf Junkers "52" and dive bombers, feln; or squadrons of about fifteeni made by both Heinkel and Junk. machines each o

ors.

The thing to remember though

The Geschwader canı .move! about the country with ease, ac-f

SHEEP AND

is that Goering in the design of companied by troop carrying and d

the aircraft and the training of transport machines carrying staff GOATS

his pilots never thought of the and even office equipment. So a possibility of war with Great Bri-large force can appear on one

NAZI SYMPATHISERS

tain, and the likelihood of having frontier one, day and be hundreds AMONG PEOPLE INTERNED IN

to

use the Luftwaffe in raids of miles away the next. against this country.

The whole German Air Force is built round one idea only — army

cooperation. It is part of. the German Air Force. It has worked perfectly as we well know, in the Invasions since last September. But its whole set-up presupposed cooperation

invading with an army-all the business of "bomb- jing ahead," of destroying the com- munications, the aerodromes and the cities of a defending country

There are some: acute' neutral BRITAIN WILL BE SEPARATED observers who still believe that FROM THE OTHERS AND PUT a large part of Germany's for INTO A SPECIAL CAMP.

Some of the women interned in midable air strength assump

And the Isle of Man have already been tions are largely bluff.. that the exceptional mobility of put into a special camp, They are the Luftwaffe helps that bluff. the ones with Nazi sympathies. In other words Goering is like A total of 2,500 have already - that "Grand-old. Duke of York been released and 17,000 are still

who had ten thousand men he interned.Renter, marched them half-way- up a

hill and marched them down

again. There is no easier im GIFT FROM NEPAL

so that the German army can seize Presalon to create if he gaThe Maharajah of Nepal has in

loss.

At no time up to September 3, last year, did. Goering, visualise

a thousand warplanes on

one: frontier one day and on another the next. .......

"t •

London to present 25,000 rupees The personnel of the Luftwaffe, for relief in the East. End of Lon- sea crossing without an invading different from any other branch of on. His Majesty's Government have expressed, their grateful- army, to assist and support. His the German forces, is nearly all thanks Reuter.. pilots were not trained to operate Volunteer. The pilots and air staff far from their bases, nor were the are. hand-picked for proper Nazi bulk of his aircraft designed to sympathies, Indeed most of them meet heavily-armed fighter op have imbibed the doctrine since ing at the cost of crack-up casual- position, even of relatively elderly their childhood in the Hitler Youth ties which have reached-formid-

Their able figures., types like our Hurricanes and and similar movements, "Spitfire."

He knows better now. Both the Heinket and the Messersch- midt 109" have been shown to

morale, is

Men

And there is a great dearth of- trained staff officers and instruc2 torb......in fact of all: those impón- derable, but immensely important

be "jam” to the British, fighters. But even the Germans cannot factors which can be summed up He made another mistake. To build up an ambers would uply worer, the heading of "ground numbers work." And which are the result get maximum speed and load on able as

his bombers, and to get speed and in less than eight years. It is easier of uninterrupted progress in nle range on his fighters, all the Luft- and quicker to build a warplane training. Germany, you will re- walto's - aircraft have got very than to turn out a fully efficient member, was not allowed, to pos- thin fuselages. So it is impossi- pilot or observer.}} NO SCEs an air force, until eight years ble to fit power-driven gun turrets. The numbers have been obtain-ago she was permitted to build into hisjälect K1NORAT

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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 18, 1940.

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A BERLIN MESSAGE. SAYS THAT THE GERMAN MINISTRY OF INTERIOR IS CANVASSING

LONIAL SERVICE.

It is typical of the pro- paganda.put out daily by the enemy that the Italian Government wireless re-

The great destructive GERMAN OFFICIALS FOR MEN effects of the R.A.F.'s WILLING TO ENTER THE CO- peats that Reuter's new raids on Germany cannot It is stated in Berlin that "be- building in Fleet Street has been bombed and as-

be concealed, no matter cause final victory will mean the how much the Nazi cen-of officials willing and suitable for serts that Fleet Street it- self has been reduced tcceived in London yester-comment but is headed "What a sors try, as messages re-service in the colonies is required.

The Berlin message makes day showed.

ruins.

This report is, of course, fantas- tic. Reuter's is entirely untouch. ed and the same is true of

return of the colonies," the names

waste of time!"-Reuter.

no

A Basle message says that trains from northern and western Ger- the whole of Fleer Street............ many are arriving up to 14 hours has reached Newfoundland to in-

late.

Only the "Evening Standard' and "Daily Herald" offices have These parts of Germany are been hit and the damage is sc among those getting very keen slight that work was totally unin attention from British bombers. terrupted' and no edition has fail- ed to appear on the streets at the scheduled time. Moreover, neither of these buildings is in Flee Street.-Reuter.

LATEST FROM ROME

Another interesting report effect that the Germans are trans- comes from Berlin itself, to the

porting by land many giant barges from the Baltic to the Danube, where they are badly needed for shipments of oil and grain from Rumania.

Water transport is slow-only] six miles an hour-and nearly three times the distance of rail transport. Taking into account the windings of the Danube and the fact that navigation of the river by the biggest barges stops) at night, rall transport is over 10 times as fast. 20

ITALIAN PROPAGANDA 18 TRYING TO ASSURE THE EGYPTIAN' PEOPLE OF ITALY'S "FRIENDLY FEELINGS." 8TE. FANI, THE ITALIAN OFFICIAL NEWS AGENCY, SAYS THAT It is more than probable that THE ITALIAN ADVANCE INTO the destruction of railway wagons EGYPT "WILL NEVER CONST-by the R.A.F. is at least partly TUTE A DELIBERATE INVA-responsible for: the decision SION OF EGYPT”. BUT”, THAT transport the barges. Reuter,~ "THE ACTION 19-INTENDED TO}}

"LIBERATE HER FROM INTO. LERABLE BRITISH -, DOMINA. TION."

This may be the Italian idea of "liberation," but that it is not the Egyptian idea is shown by the

to

EMPIRE AIR PILOTS

Cairo press which says that the · THE FIRST AUSTRALIAN news' of the Italian advance does FIGHTER PILOTS UNDER. THE not cause a panic because the EMPIRE AIR TRAINING Egyptian people have "full" con- SCHEME WILL BE FLYING fidence in their leaders.

OVER THE ENGLISH``CHAN- Every inch of the soil of Egypt|NEL EARLY NEXT YEAR, IT IS is sacred to the Egyptians, the ANNOUNCED IN MELBOURNE. papers continue, and Egyptians Each man will have hadTM 150 will see to it that their flag con-flying-hours in Australia, follow- tinues to fly over the whole of it. ed by another course in Canada'ori -Reuter.

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