1941-02-25 — Page 39

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 25, 1941

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GERMANY'S AIR CONCENTRATIONS IN THE BALKANS

DISPOSITION OF THE GERMAN AIR FORCE IN RELATION TO THE OPERATIONS APPARENTLY CONTEMPLATED IS ́NATUR- ALLY OF GREAT INTEREST IN LONDON AT THE PRESENT TIME. TWO QUESTIONS IN PARTICULAR ARE BEING DISCUSSED IN LONDON.

In the first place, does Germany's opera- tional air strength give her sufficient concen- tration in the Balkans adequately to support any military operations she may have in mind there?

Secondly, if such a con- centration is possible. what bearing has this on the undoubted recent diminution of the Luft- waffe's activity over Bri- tain?

In regard to Bar Red question it is clear that the Germans

of

have gay pd some Hundred areast to the Meditanan area. including a nuntiber of JU87% and overzea (long ranges recennaly - Some long range sance planna. fighters have also heen shifed though probably not a large num-

ber.

Balanced Force

HEIGHT NO

ESCAPE

FOR THE BOMBER

THE EARLE

INCIDENT

[SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"]

State Department officials in Washing- ton show no concern over the altercation involving the United States Minister to Bulgaria, Mr. Earle, when a German threw a bottle at the Minis- ter and the latter re- taliated. Interna-

tional News Service.

EXCITING DESERT EPISODE

By dive-bombing and machine-gunning from a level pilots of

low

the

In night attacks car- Army Cooperation Squa- ried out by the German dron of the South African Air Force recently, the Air Force gave great sup- Whatever shift in squadrons has enemy machines have port to British armoured! been made it is unquestionable, heen flying at increasing cars gone down into Rumania with a ly high altitudes in an at-

however, that the Germans have

balanced air force that is.

ed.

tain.

to

•

in an attack on a village and fort in south- ern Abyssinia, says the

It was found

air force sufficient for full strate-tempt to evade detection gic and tactical cooperation with by our searchlights and Air Ministry news service. Immediately an armoured car land forces possibly to be deploy- to avoid the fire of A.A. had broken through the enemy de

The second question Is of guns writes the Air Cor-fences and had started to use ma- chine-guns it was engaged by course of prime interest to Bri- respondent of the "Man-

nests of Italian machine-gunners. An Army Cooperation aircraft The lessened air Onslaught, chester Guardian.” however, cannot be attributed These tactics serve to confirm at once joined in the fray. diversion of attacking the conclusion that the tremend-holed twice and the pilot strength. In fact, the Incidence ous anti-aircraft barrage which that the engine was losing power of bad weather is held to be has been adopted is successful in so rapidly that he could not climb solely responsible for the fewer torcing the raiders to fly at such with safety.

Determined to give all possible German raids as it is also re-heights that accurate bombing is

car, It has been fully assistance to the armoured sponsible for lessened British impossible.

turned low over offensive air activity.

established also that a very consi- however, he

gunner This weather factor must be derable

proportion of the Nazi the fort so that the air taken as applying to Britain in a bombers are turned away before might bring his gun fully to bear general sense and has not neces- they reach their intended target on the Italians who were trying sarily a bearing en the undoubted by the intensity of the shell fire. to escape. heavy and successive raids re- cently on Swansea and other areus,

Area Of Bases

It has been asked, however, The aircraft's engine was falling. whether these high altitude bomb-Manoeuvreability was very limit- ing ralds and the efforts that the ed.

armoured

bombs enemy as well as ourselves are The pilot dropped his

the making to increase the operational and continued to turn over height of bombing.aeroplanes will target until the air gunner had So extended is the area of bases result in anti-aircraft guns even- used all his ammunition.

By this time more from which German bombers cantually becoming ineffective. Such

While cars had come on the scene and operate that the weather is bou a situation will not arise, to be more favourable in some substratosphere flying is certainly joined in the engagement. areas than others.

being developed, there is no like-

The engine of the aircraft now In any case, no doubts are lihood of

the bomber ever out-began to miss and the pilot made

the a forced landing in

bush. entertained that large scale at reaching the gun,

his tacks on London and other tar-

Armoured cars then went to gets will shortly he resumed.

assistance-a perfect example of

between close cooperation

land and air forces.--British Wireless.

As regards possible daylight at-

GOOD

Altitude Record

tacks it is agreed that Britain has It is true that as long ago as now a much stronger fighter force 1932 a Bristol biplane established than when she beat the German a record altitude flight of 43.976 onslaught last autumn and the feet and that since then the world record has been raised to 56,000 Torce is steadily expand ng.

fcet. But these flights were made "WE ARE IN VERY SHAPE TO GIVE THE GERMANS with special aircraft which were

lightly loaded, and they had

forea bomber could be built to TAIN'S AIRMEN — AND CIVIL-| Byat any height approaching many problems

#t

BATTLE." SITUATION TO WHICH BRI-

SUMS UP THE comparatively short duration. Be-

IAN

POPULATION

CAN these figures

LOOK FORWARD WITH CON- would have to be solved. FIDENCE. BRITISH WIRE- LESS.

CAUGHT SELLING THE GOODS

Accused of having broken into a store at No. 372, Reclamation Street and to have stolen five cases of mineral powder, yester- day. Wong Yuk-sang, 20, Wong Fook, 24, and Chan Shing, 38,

On the other hand, the difficul- tles of evolving an unit-aircraft gun capable of fring projectiles

superable. In the last wor

the

Laon over a distance of 82 miles.

NO OFFER MADE TO JAPAN

w extreme altitudes are not in- No proposals have been Germans bombarded Paris with made by Britain regard- their notorious "Big Bertha" from ing any Japanese move to This weapon was constructed the south, it was learned from a 15in, gun combined within London yesterday, 6.2 gun, and it fired a shell weigh- ing 250lb., which rose at its high" est point 25 miles,

WEATHER REPORT

The Royal Observatory reports

There have been various con- tacts between the Japanėse Am- bassador, Mr. Mamoru Shigemitsu. Mr. and the Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, and in Tokyo be- tween the British Ambassador, Sir Robert Craigle, and Japanese

wert each sentenced to two that the anticyclone remains sta-statesmen. months hard langur by Mr. D. Jtionury over China and Japan, At these exchanges...the British N. Anderson at Kowloon this pressure being highest over Man-view of dangers in the Japanese morning.

southward expansion has always They were arrested when they The Loochoos depression has been made clear but these state- attempted to sell the powder to a moved eastward to the south of ments of view are in no sense shop. in Shamshulpo district. the Bonina,

proposals-Reuter,

cheria,

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