1940-11-21 — Page 25

THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 21, 1940.

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CAUSED BY GUNFIRE

GERMANY'S NEW PARACHUTES"

STRATEGY IN THE AIR

WHETHER THE invasion attempt is made now, or later, or not at all, the German air bombing stands clearly revealed as a preparation for it.

A "swinging" attack is being made in which mass formations alternate with single raiders in the attempt to maintain a continuous pressure in which there come at intervals the heavier thrusts which are intended to do most of the damage.

When it attacks in force the Luftwaffe suffers so heavily at the hands of the Royal Air Force that it must have intervals of recuperation, and during these intervals single machines or small formations, working mostly at night or in cloud, seek to pre- serve the continuity of the offensive.

cloud for

war,

the

In some ways the single ma-, indeed, is a classic of air chines are the more difficult to performed with a cool regularity counter. The raiders during the which is the highest testimony day keep within

a to the skill and courage of great part of their time and come bomber pilots. into the open only to note land- narks or to drop their

Not only have military objec- bombs, tives in Berlin So. the raiders are probably sa-Ruhr been repeatedly

and in the er. But the work they do must but, in addition, the

attacked, he less in intensity and far lower air bases and shipping concen- German in accuracy than that of raiders trations have been kept working in the oven.

under heavy and almost continuous bombardment,

So to the German air effort there is opposed a ground repair and air

mounting British resistance compounded of defence, and at the same time a strongly developing counter attack.

be

The New Barrage The night raiders should able to obtain a higher accuracy but the new system of anti- aircraft fire seems to be effective in hampering their operations. It appears to keep them high ΟΙ even to turn them from their primary objectives.

Position To-day

the

Armed patrols of. police and Home Guard turned out at Q South-East ⚫town and searched river- side wharves and rail- way sidings following" reports that six. para- chutes were believed to have been.. seen descending in that direction.

Half-a-dozen si- milar reports were re- ceived from respon sible sources in half- an-hour. An extensive search of the area, however, failed to pro- duce any result..

It was later decided that. the supposed parachutes were white puffs of gunfire drift- ing across the sky in the moonlight.

JAPANESE

OPPOSE NEW

CENTRAL BANK

The trial is hard and will be To that anti-aircraft

long, but the air position' to-day there will be added increasingly been expected when

defence is far better than could have effective night fighter

the defence, mans made their

Ger- for work has been going on with Royal Air Force strength is in- assault. The the object of perfecting this and creasing and is being fed from is likely shortly to show results.

sources which are outside

The Japanese are opposing the If now the whole of the period of the air offensive from In this respect we have a

range of the German bombers. establish its Central Bank of China new Nanking regime's attempt to August 11 be scanned, grounds graphical advantage of enormous gime's policy of issuing bank notes geo-in Shanghai because the new re- can be seen for believing that the full force of the Luftwaffe proving adequate to deal

importance. The resistance 15 is duplicating the Japanese attempt has been thrown in. It may be all the various forms which the their military

with to increase the circulation that a few. squadrons are held German attacks

notes, states on the Russian frontier,

but taken.

SO far Chinese news agency's report pub- they are not likely to be ones equipped with the latest types worth noting.

There is one additional point

lished by the. "National Herald.", of aeroplane.

It is that

The report denies the rumour cently the Germans

that the new have

regime's Central it is stated, has caused uneasiness Bank will be established which, in the market, especially in the our. rice market where prices. have

"

have

re-

not

con-

More urgent calls, will un- been using the Junkers 87 dive doubtedly be made on the Ger-bombers. These machines were man Air Force and, as every easily brought down by disciplined and trained force docs, fighters when they made it will undoubtedly respond to tact with them, but the reason them and put forth greater efforts. is unlikely to be that they are, But that it still has many front therefore, being withdrawn, 3ne units which have not been These machines are an essen- used seems improbable.

tial part of the German air

Lines Of Defence

Our defence must, therefore, continue along the two main nes of repair and recuperation from the German bombing at- tacks and fighter and anti-air- craft action.

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Although the Nanking regime establish the bank ns soon as possible, the plan cannot SIZE-N be carried out at present in view method and it is more likely Japanese are

of the Japanese opposition. The that the dive bomber

circulating large drons, including some

quantities of their military notes ped with the Junkers 87, are and as the proposed Central Bank in order to meet military expense being reformed and got ready of-China will also issue notes, the for the invasion attempt. For

squi equip.

that they would certainly be Japanese consider that their efforts thrown in in large numbers.

American Output....... Reports from the United States

suggest

are duplicated and their policies condicting, it is pointed out.

It will be recalled that the old Central Bank of China building on the Bund vacated by Chung-.

others who labour to make good of America now

king oficials long ago was taken damage done. They are as essen- output there has reached 1,000;

that over by representatives of the tial to our air defence as our aeroplanes a month and that the

new regime, It was then learned aeroplanes. And they have shown figure of 2,000 a month will be that the ultimate purpose of the full appreciation of the import-reached early next. year. ance of speed in repair.

step was to enable the new re- This rate of expansion should enable gime to establish its Central Bank

of China there,

As important as this added

Every minute that a road or Britain to receive something ap- railway is out of action, theproaching 700 machines a month German bombs are working for as an average for the next eighteen the enemy. "So that the aim must months. be to set things right in the shortest possible time. To build numerical strength is again and to build quickly; that that some of the new American the. .fact is, the aim of the civil defence machines are of the highest tech- services, and it has been showninical quality and a that nothing dismays them in great advances.

Icw show their task.

DUTCH TANKER TORPEDOED

FARMER'S SANG-FROID

After a bomb had fallen within forty yards of a South-Western farm cottage, breaking every window and blowing off the door,

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A great deal of indignation |· has been expressed at the in discriminate bombing indulged in by the Germans. Income caces there does seem to be analm in their bombing. but In others no sort of explang- tion can be offered for the been torpedoed about 300 miles be done about it, anyway. So, The Dutch tanker Hermes has places hit except complete dis off the coast of Portugal.

The shaking the glass from the coun regard for aiming at any spect- tanker, which had sailed from the

terpane, they settled down fic target. This sort of scatter bombing is abandoned ship after the ex- Tagus, was holed and the crew

sleep: extremely trying for the civilian, plosion. They returned, however, population, but the military when the ship did not sink," and damage done is slight. No train the tanker ed air force would resort to it own

steamed under her unless it were prevented from Tagus.

power to return to the doing properly aimed and direct-

ed bombing. So the very fact of the increasingly indiscriminate bombing by the Gormans sug gests that their air

force is

already beginning to feel.

WARNING TO RESTAURANTS

ESCAPE FROM TIME BOMB

An Isle of Wight Post Office engineer at work near a telephone cable cut by a delayed-action

the As the returns from catering | bomb hearing a sizzling in his

may decide.

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The Royal Air Force, on the tioned foods are still incomplete, his van while his mate jumped other hand, finds it possible to the Ministry of Food has issued a into the driver's seat and placed strike at military targets in warning that it can compel these a bucket over his head. Neither Germany with great force and businesses to supply the informa-was injured when the bomb ex- precision. Its counterattack, tion..

{pledeal thirty yards away.

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