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"How do you feel this morning, Jock?"

"Ugh!"

"Like that, eh?"

"Worse than that!"

"Good party, though. Never enjoyed an evening as much for years.”

"I've never hated a morning as much. I'm still tossing feverishly on my bed of pain. In fact I don't suppose I shall ever get up again. Send me some books from time to tinte, will you? And a few flowers. Tell the boys I'm keeping a stif upper lip."

FOR

"Has nobody told you about Gimlets? I stuck to them all evening. Feel as fresh as a whole field full of daisies.”

"You mean that Rose's Lime Juice takes care of the hangover before it starts ?"

“Definitely. It's known as 'a thera- peutic agent if that conveys any thing to you."

It might, if my mind could grasp words of more than one syllable. I say I think I'll send out for some right away. May act retrospectively. Thanks for ringing old boy. I feel better already. See you one of those days at the club. Good-bye."

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NEW TACTICS IN WAR OVER BRITAIN

GERMAN AIR tactics now aim at two things; maintaining the pressure against the Royal Air Force by day and diminishing our industrial output.

U.S. FIFTH COLUMN LINK WITH

by night. To reduce their losses the German pilots EX-KAISER

are using diverging attacks by day and the cover of height and darkness by night.

The enemy is trying to keep the Royal Air Force dispersed and to damage its bases and sources of supply under conditions of reduced, risk to itself while preparing fresh, large scale assaults.

The Luftwaffe has been defeated once; but it has not been destroyed, or even crippled. It will come again. Meanwhile under cover of its interim offensive it reforms units, assembles stores, re- plenishes fuel supplies, and brings up bombs and ammunition to its advanced bases.

The British reply is imposed by the German tactics. It must parry the daylight attacks on aerodromes and industrial plant, control the night attacks as much as possible, seek to inflict ever heavier losses on the enemy, and strike with mounting weight at his fuel, aero- dromes and war industries.

Leading German Fifth Columnist in the United States is a naturalised American, George Sylves- ter Viereck, who is actual- ly registered with the State Department in Washington as a

Nazi propagandist and agent of Hitler's third Reich.

Viereck, who is understood to greatly to balance the strategical Kaiser, gets

a descendant of the first.

at least £250 1 situation in the air. For our pilots month for his activities, and lives flying over the sea is not like fly-in a large palatial £75-a-month ing over friendly territory: but it flat in Riverside-drive, is much better

New than flying over York. enemy territory.

A cousin of ex-Kaiser Wilhem II Viereck had spent a good deal of time with the Royal exile at Doom in Holland before the out- break of the present war.

Some of the German targets, however, present special pro. blems. Those who advocate re taliatory bombing of Berlin in return for the bombing of Lon- don seem sometimes to forget that the bombing of Berlin en- talls a flight of about six times the distance.

Brilliant Planning

be

His job now is to put out Ger- man propaganda in a way suitable. to Americans. He

sees that' pamphlets are written with the right U.S. slant and reach th right people.

Papen's Associate During the last-war Viereck as- sisted Dr. Helfrich Albert, then German Commercial Attache in Washington.

The German day raids have been elaborately mounted with the zim of damaging exposed targets, military or other, without heavy loss. The aircraft come over in large formations and closely suc- ceeding waves. They are preceded and accompanied by big #ghter escorts. When they have crossed

It is for this reason that the suc- the coast they suddenly split up cessful attacks on military objec- into smaller formations, which jab tives in Berlin recently, attacks quickly at aerodromes and then of much greater weight and pre- try to make their own way back.cision than anything launched on

Effective interception of these London, were such notable Dr. Albert, whose activities of scatter raids is difficult,

triumphs of professional skill on influencing big industrialists were Although partly face-saving the part of the Royal Air Force finally exposed, was an associate raids, the night attacks also have and of aircraft design and instru-of Gerhard Westrick, the Com-: the serious purpose of diminish-mentation.

mercial Attache who has just been ing our industrial output by main- All our night bombing has been compelled to leave the United talning long periods of alert. The brilliantly planned and executed. States. aircraft come in singly or in smail When we can supplement it with groups-not in formation and day bombing of equal weight we they fly very high.

shall be achieving air supremacy. The need for very high perform- ánce day bombers is urgent.. Recently, though the destruc-Perhaps the most hopeful sign tive effects were small, the raids of the past week is, the increasing did impair industrial output. It wildness of the German attacks. has been argued, in consequence, At one town which was attacked that the sirens should not be in daylight, the bombers flying at £25,000, from German Govern- sounded, and that the taking of about 15,000 ft., the sticks'

the ofment agents after

United cover should await the instruc- bombs fell across small dwelling-States entered the war tions of individual factory look- houses miles from any military Viereck himself admitted in outs.

target. The 'weather was clear and 1934 that he had received £437 a there could have been no doubt month from a big firm for help- about what was being attacked. ing them get a German Govern-

contract. ment publicity

The New York newspaper "PM" says This sort of thing Indicates a that Viereck gets another £125. mounting anxiety in the minds a month from a Munich newspa- of the German crews. It will per. próbably lead to even wilder Wild bombing in the future. bombing can never have much military effect. One precisely directed raid.on a military tar-

Industrial Output

Knowing the limitations on the. amount of information which can be gathered by even the best- equipped and most aeronautically experienced look-out man, I prefer that the sirens should, as at pre- sent, be sounded on the instruc- tions of the Fighter Command, but that the taking of cover should not be compulsory, or even be urged, on workers until the local look-out man gives word: - (And, by the way, the word "alert" in- stead of "warning" more exactly fits the conditions as they should he organised when raiders are re-tacks. ported.)

Advanced Bases

Mounting Anxiety

Viereck was also associated. with the inept Franz Von Pa.. pen, now German Ambassador. to Turkey, who was then Ger- man Military 'Attache in Wach ington, and, was sxpelled for clumsy espionage.

A New York Attorney-General once alleged that Viereck received

U.S. FIRMS

get does ten times the damage. AND PACT

The Germans seem to be using heavy bombs in many of their at- Some of them are of 500 kilograms weight (about 1,100 lb.). Though by no means the biggest

WITH

size of bomb now being used, the KRUPPS

most generally favoured type is only about half this weight,

recently · as

The German air squadrons are now

massed at advanced bases plong the strip of occupied terri- The point has been taken up Charges of profiteering. tory near the coast line. They gain several advantages from hav- of anti-aircraft fire in many dis- Government's rearma- to the absence at the expense of the U.S. ing these advanced bases.

tricts when night raiders were A modern bomber may use overhead. The anti-aircraft bat- ment campaign were de- 100 gallons of fuel an hour, and teries are not free to have a shot nied by Mr. Robbins, pre- the shorter the distance it must at anything they see. They work fly to its objective the better, in with the searchlights and sident of the Carboloy

Fighter escorts can be provided. sound-locators and with the Fight Company, a subsidiary of If the sea were controlled by er Coinmand, and their part is

the Germans, or even if it were a clearly defined. If they withhold the General Electric. Cor- no-man's-land, the present posi- tire there are good reasons for so poration, in Detroit.

doing.

were

tion of the German air force for attacking our industrial centres

These two companies, Krupps/ would be better than our position

General Situation of Essen, and other firms for attacking their industrial cen-

The general situation at the end indicted in New York 09 tres. In many cases We should of the last few weeks re-charge of violating the Anti- have to fly farther over hostile mained unchanged. The Royal Trust laws. It was alleged that territory from what may be pre- Air Force was continuing by a secret-agreement the United sumed to be our advances bases,

to bring down enemy air States was compelled to pay three Command Of The Sea

craft at a rate which must lead, times the normal prices for alloys sooner or later, to another hold-up necessary in the production of But the Royal Navy holds the of the German day-time offensive, armaments. command of the sea, and con- The German attempts to knock Mr. Robbins described the, al-

the tasks before our out the Royal Air Force were more legation of a secret agreement- own and the enemy air forces in desperate than before, but even with Krupps: as ridiculous. striking at the opposing country's less effective. industrial

The indictment alleged that centres are about of Our own raida on Germany Krupps had the right to veto the equal difficulty.

and German occupied territory issue of patent Licences to Amer-. continued with

Increasing ican" manufacturers, and that the weight and precision. We found General Electric Corporation had · difficulty, however, in intercept-paid Krupps £275,000 in. 1928. Ing

the enemy's high-flying under the alleged agreement. Immediate needs ere for an ad-

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No realist estimate of the situa- tion can avold taking note of the 'special problems which are pre- sented to the Royal Air Force In hitting the Luftwaffe at its acro- dromes. The large number of aerodromes at Germany's disposal and the big area over which they are distributed make effectiva at tack hazardous, -

- night raiders.

justment of raid alert methods so the Royal Air Force aeroplanes- that industrial output is affected especially in the day bomber field na lttle as possible; a suprême-and further improvements in the technical effort to enhance still armour and armament of all But command of the sea helps! further the technical advantage of types."

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