THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 8, 1941.
BRITAIN IMPROVING ON SPITFIRES AND NIGHT BOMBERS
BRITISH FIGHTERS, even better than the Spitfires and Hurricanes which are the terror of the German Air Force, are being built. And the same applies to our bombers.
The new types, faster and better armed, are on the secret list and nothing may be said of their de- sign or other technical details but they will put even the proud Spitfire and Hurricane in the shade.
The Spitfire, our most de vas.a- ting fighter plane, is already out] of date in design. It was a modi- fication of the British winner of the Schneider Trophy.
While it continues to perform1 wonders in the defence of this country, the Spitfire is bound to suffer the fate of all types -- ik will become obsolescent.
Better Bombers, Too
The confidence of the Air Mimir- try in the multi-gun fighter ha been more than justified. L before the war, when Continental
HOW
LONDON
ETON DOES ITS BIT
Victory, it seems, will, after all, be won by the white ties of Eton.
Cast-off ties are being collected from every school-house at Eton as salvage, to be re-woven into bandages or used for paper.
Nine thousand ties have already
been collected.
ROOSEVELT CALL TO
SHELTERS ACTION
A census taken in De-1
countries, notably Germany, were cember showed that five developing fighter planes relying! on capikon for
armanent
tain put her trust in the turn care and Spattire, each type ärm
designers have been working on teclinical are still beating mass-produced
eight guns suaced in the wings.
All the Ume
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improvements while existing types
Janikers.
Meanwhite, Britain is produc- ing more powerful bembers. Few people know the details, hut those who do know are co- Adent that the shower of bombs - which is falling on Germany's
military objectives will soon be- come a fled,
his
"President Roosevelt's speech is much more per cent. of the population powerful and much more of the London region oc- enlightened than cupied public shelters, "fireside chat," says the nineteen per cent, domes- "Ta Kung Pao," in an edi- tie and coinmunal shelters torial this morning. and the rest were living in
"It is an attack their own homes, accord-
on the New Orders and an open challenge to ing to Sir
Wilson Jame- war against those advocating son, Chief Medical Officer force and brutalism. of the Ministry of Health, yesterday.
were
In the Metropolitan area peo- ple using public shelters Heavier Loads Further eight per cent and domestic and
communal shelters 21 per cent.
Our new bombers will Carry heavier loads further with even greater safety than they do now.
For years, Britons living near R.A.F. stations on the coast have objected to the right activity of bombers practising overhead. The | pilots were fulfilling what has be- come a tradition in our Air Force
the perfection of night flying. In this --as Berliners will dis- cover the British reign supreme. Flying by instruments, our air- men will batter military objects in the furthest east of the Reich.
THIS
TOWN WAS NMOG
B
There has been no outbreak of epidemic or infectious diseases in deep crowded shelters.
Sir Wilson Jameson
added:
"I bellave dispersal of the child 'population to the country had a great deal to do with the low incidence in 1940 of infectious diseases in Britain."
The figures quoted for 1940 up to December 14, as compared with the similar period of 1939, show- diphtheria, a slight ed a decrease in scarlet fever and increase in pneumonia and a heavy increase in cerebro-spinal fever. British Wireless.
'SECRET' BOMBER
industrial centres.
A "secret" bomber now being National head-standing week! produced in large numbers will has ended at Elsinore, California, soon be dropping its deadly load with the inhabitants so busy that each night on Germany's vital they don't know whether they're on their heads or their heels,
Day after day most of them, the ex-Mayor downwards, from are spending much time standing on their heads to obtain the right perspective of this topsy-turvy
world.
Strangers motoring through the town have exclaimed. "Why, everybody's nuts," "when saw staid shoppers being assist-
counter-hands..
The new aircraft will take their place in the R.A.F. pro- gramme of operations
which is planned to reach a climax of destruction.
With the longer nights our bombers have Berlin that
already shown relays
they can attack in extending over three
they hours.
"It reveals the American na- determination to render every possible assistance to the nations opposed to aggression and that she will not be an idle
looker-on,
"It accepts, on behalf of the American nation, the responsi- bility of fighting for and pre- serving international justice and peace.
"in a nutshell, the speech is the sound of the call to action" against the aggressor nations."
ed to stand on their heads by along and the possibility of in- It all started when an Elsinore vasion becomes more- remote, newspaper editor, Hub Crehan, large numbers of machines will weary of reading that the world be at the disposal of the Bomber had gone topsy-turvy, suggested Command for still longer and a National Upside-down Week to heavier raids.. conform with the topsy-turviness.
And as the bad weather comes i
His Slogan
[At "the same time the, whole of our experimental servłoda are trying to find further means of combating Nazi' night raiders' "Down with the Domel Junk The nation which first finds an the jitters with bottoms up, "was effective defence against night the slogan with which the Mayor bombers will go far towards final opened the Week, when all Elsin- | victory, and there is reason to ore should stand on its head and believe that our brains, and our inspire the nation to do likewise. Initiative will succeed in this
Crying "Bottom side is better direction, than topside," the Mayor par- formed the opening ceremony
In the Town
Hall by being: photographed standing on
-similar posture,
а
More Deadly
hla During recent nights it has been head by a cameraman in noticeable that raiders making for London have dropped: their When people entered the cine-bombs in little country towns ma they were ordered to stand on and villages within 30 miles of their heads before being given the metropolitan area. tickets
This suggests that the barrage
Police Chlat Barker several is having its effect: on the rails times went on duty at a busy ders, who are finding the A.A. junction where, propped upside- guns: mora deadly dach, night." down against a lamp post, he
It is known that, the air dis- 'directed "the traffic,.
turbances caused by the› intense Gymnastic Instrictors were at barrage" give the Germans anxi- hand to give lessons in head-oue moments, and that they are stands,
ften violently ill as a result,
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