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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The Spitfire, our most devas a- ting fighter plane, is already out of date in design.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 perform wonders in the defence of this country, the Spitfire is bound to suffer the fate of all types will become obsolescent,
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Better Bombers, Too
The confidence of the Air Minis- try in the multi-gun fighter huts been more than justified. Long before the war, when Continental countries, notably Germany, were developing fightër 'planes relying
On canon for armament, Br- tam put her trust in the Hurri-
HOW
LONDON SHELTERS
A census taken in De- cember showed that five per cent. of the population of the London region oc- cupied public shelters, designers nineteen per cent. domes have been working on technical tic and communal shelters improvements while existing types
cure and Spitfire, each type firing eight guns spaced in the wings.
All
time our
Junkers.
Meanwhile, Britain is produc- ing more powerful bembers,
are still beating mass-produced and the rest were living in their own hones, accord- ing to Sir Wilson Jame- son, Chief Medical Officer of the Ministry of Health, yesterday.
Few people know the details, fident that the shower of bombs which as falling on Germany's
but those who do know are con-
military objectives will soon be- come a flood.
Heavier Loads Further
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 night 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,
PRISONERS A SECOND TIME
MEMBERS OF THE CREW OF
A HEINKEL 111 WHICH MADE A FORCED LANDING IN KENT RECENTLY, ARE NOW PRISON- ERS OF WAR FOR THE SECOND TIME.
They were shot down in France
peo-
In the Metropolitan area ple using public shelters were eight per cent and domestic and communal shelters 21 per cent.
There has been no outbreak of
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.
Britain Has New
Bomber
A new type of 'plane is being added to Britain's air strength and is ex- useful pected to play a part in the war,
A light twin-engined bomber.
the new plane is to be known as experiments carried out at
the Botha I, and is the result of
one
of the most important aeroplane factories in Britain,
Its performance and arma-
ment are a close scoret at pre-
gont
It is a general reconnaissance epidemic or infectious diseases in and torpedo bomber and is po- deep crowded shelters.
Sir Wilson Jameson added: "I believe dispersal of the child population to the country had a great deal to do with the low incidence in 1940 of infectious diseasca in Britain."
The figures quoted for 1940 up to December 14, as compared with the similar period of 1939, show- ed a decrease in scarlet fever and diphtheria, a slight increase in pneumonia and a heavy increase In cerebro-spinal fever. British Wireless.
ROOSEVELT CALL TO
ACTION
and taken prisoner, but released "President Roosevelt's by the French five days after Armistice. After some time in hos- speech is much more pital and on leave, they returned powerful and much more Their aircraft was leading a enlightened than his a "fireside chat," says the
to their unit early this month.
flight which
operated from
French base to attack the London Ta Kung Pao," in an edi-
docks. The starboard engine was
hit by A.A. are and as oil escaped, torial this morning.
the engine ceased. The aircraft
lost speed and fell behind the formation. It was chased by Spit fires and the steering was put out of action.
The pilot said that they would have baled out but one of the crew had been wounded. So he force landed and immediately threw an incendiary bomb into the cabin. Soldiers arrived in time to pull the bomb'out and the aircraft was saved,
BOMBED FROM HOME
AND SHOP
war
those
Orders' and an open challenge to "It is an attack on the 'New
against
advocating force and brutalism.
"It reveals the American na- tion's 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 natións."
later his house was damaged by. blcat. He was out of work, but had been offered a job at £3 week.
When a solicitor suggested that A West End antique dealer, ap- £10 a month could be paid, and plying at Westminster County that it was a business that did Court to pay a debt of £60 at not need a shop, Judge Austin 108. a month, said that his stock Jones said: That may be so, was: destroyed by bomb blast... but it is not the kind of business
All his best pieces of china and that is flourishing just now." glass, were in the window, and all An order to pay £4 a month; were smashed, he said. Five days! was made,
wered by two Perseus engines.- Reuter.
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