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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 8, 1941.

MAINTENANCE COMMAND'S VITAL WORK

(By Wing Commander L. V. Fraser) THE RECENT ANNOUNCEMENT by Lord Beaverbrook that vast reserves of fighters and bombers are being held all over England in secret storehouses ready for imminent operations, draws attention towards the work of a little known, but vitally important part of the R.A.F.'s organisation. This is the Maintenance Command.

PACIFISTS

CAUSE A STRIKE

The Maintenance Command stands ready to pro- vide all equipment from a nut to new aircraft ready to take the air in Britain's increasing offensive. Wardens and first aid The following is the inside story of the department men walked out of Edg- of the R.AF.

ware Road Tube Station London when they

isped, checked and insted A giganin te teet 01 cars and formes IN enstantly on the move all over learned that stretcher- Britain delivering supplies flum bearers attached to the dreds of thousands of tons equipment and ammunition are shelter first aid post were

transport, pacifists.

The Maintenance Command the universal provider for opera tional stations at home and abroail. Thousands of men and WOLDEST, masters of almost CVOLV fadr, are working at till speed to keep attesat ie the air, or should they be brought to the ground in un- serviceabl endition. to

handled by this road

10

and it

which covers a 1 restoru | quarter miles a mouth The total

effort is equivalent

moving 70,000,000 tons of material around the earth in a year.

theo to service with the mammina of delay

Ammunition Depot

One group deal- with general | equipmerit, such as barrack stores and clothing, another deals with complete aircraft A third and fourth are concerned with

la ammunition depots unend. munition, fuel and oil, and salvageing rows of heavy high explosives and repair operations, respective. stand, giving an indication of the

blow being struck at Germany.

One equipment_depot alone

ly.

The repair depots

are

great

These mel members al the Pacifist Service Union, offeren themselves for any suitable sor vice, and were appointed to then job by the Marylebone Medical Officer of Health, Eight of them took it in turns to do duty at the Tube shelter.

Dressed in brown dungarees and wearing armbands with the initials "P.S.U.," they had been at Edgware Road Station for a fort-

fists."

I workshops, dealing immediately averages nearly 50,000 posting night before the shelter wardens with every repairable piece of of stock each month, and among realised they were pacifists. Some RAF. equipment. Engines, hon- | the civilian staff working with one had put up a card on the place ourably scarred on service, art the service is a strange assort they occupy: "Reserved for Paci brought to these workshops, ¦iment of people. Every unit is Sometimes masses of dirty greasy bound up with every other. inetal are brought in which are one cannot supply a certain part hard to recognise; within a few hours this metal takes on X new appearance.

Parts Re-Conditioned

they

immediately, it is known which one can and in a few seconds orders can be sent to it.

Little is known of the vitally important task the Maintenance

meu,

in

"Are you pacifista?" asked a spokesman,

"Yos, definitely." was the re- ply.

"Well, we won't work here so long as you are on duty," said the warden-and the warden marched out. St.

ance sion.

John Ambul men took the same deci

Rescued A Woman

The chief warden has now re- that the pacifists

Various parts are re-condition-Command performs in carrying ed and faulty parts replaced, and on its shoulders the business end us trollied racks carry the en- of the R.A.F. It is operated by gines round the workshop.

a keen, powerful body of once more begin to take

all its heads being experts them accustomed shapes. In other

their own sphere. The R.A.F. workshops, instruments damaged is never in doubt of the service rommended in service are similarly re-condi- behind it. Expansion of the force should be withdrawn.

is increasing rapidly, but its needs

One of the stretcher-bearers told tioned. They too, whatever thei condition when brought to the

have been foreseen and anti-a reporter:-

requirements workshops, pass out perfect after cipated the final inspection.

Within the steadily met. depots are foundries, where scrap metal is melted down and put into casting machines making into machinery.

for re-

Salvage sections are constantly on the alert. Mobile units stand by for 24 hours a day, and should any aircraft, including enemy planes, crash they move off in- mediately. The crash is located.

and the wrecks either repaired or reduced to scrap. Even if an

aeroplane crashes on a moun- tainside, salvage crews will dis- mantle it

SOVIET

EYED

can

ASKANCE

and move the parts carefully to proper destinations. The

Not one ounce of metal is wusted.

The salvage parties climb

be

"Members of our organisation have done all kinds of service In this borough and elsewhere. Personally I'd rather be doing rescue work.

"The other night we spent an hour getting a women out of the basement of a building hit by a bomb. A gas

main had burst Three of us had to be carried to a first-aid post for treatment but we got the woman out."

The chief warden said:-

"I am afraid our fellows acted a little hastily by walking out. But they are back on duty to night.

"The pacifist volunteers are no

Japanese Army longer here. We are making other

the up organ,

"Kokumin arrangements to replace them."

mountains where neither horse Shimbun" suspects the

nor tractor could go. The parts

of dismantled aircraft have to existence of ✡

be carried by hand to a

Soviet- MOSCOW ATTITUDE

place United States agreement |

where transportation can be ob-

tained. During the bitter win and warns Japan to be ter weather such parties worked

through the night in bogs or on wary of future Soviet- "Encouraging," was the frozen earth, but never once left United States moves, com- comment of Mr. Cordell the job half-finished,

menting on the Soviet-Hull, U.S. Secretary of Yugoslav pact.

State, on the Russo-Yugo-

Commercial End

In a sense the Maintenance Command is the commercial side

The paper adds that the Ja-slav Pact yesterday. of the R.A.F. It operates in apanese should not allow them- He also commented at his press large, closely-knit system, which selves "the least bit of optimism" conference on the increasing will follow the smallest part of on future relations with Russia number of nations becoming an aircraft, or a whole new and United States.

acutely aware of the world na- squadron, from the time it is or- dered, to the time it is delivered. keeping a close check on every

move.

The "Asahi Shimbun" says that ture of the movement for con- under the name of a peaceful quest of peoples by force neutral policy, Russia has gained This is the secod recent favour- ૩ political advantage in the able comment on Russia's attitude Throughout the country there Balkans, and adds that German-by a high State Department off- exist depots, stocked with every Russian relations must be watch-cial, the Assistant Secretary, Mr. conceivable item. Three-quarters ed carefully, but there is no im- Sumner Welles, having a few of a million different stores are mediate danger of their rupture, days ago applauded Russia's de- classed by name; and any one -Reuter.

claration of neutrality if Turkey can be obtained by sending 8

were attacked.' — Reûter. ten word message.

PREYED ON YOUNG BOYS

ORCHIDS STOLEN FROM GARDEN

Sentence of 12 strokes พลง Imposed on a 14-year-old boy by Mr. H.. G Sheldon, K.C., in the Juvenile Court, this morning, for

The greatest civilian business houses have been combed for technical or executive skill, to deal with the vast wholesale and retail distribution the cominand undertakes. Great stores are in- vestigated for. quick deliveries, and mail order systems of industrial combines examined for points. Chan Chi-hop, 26, was sen- The value of decentralisation and tenced to eight months' hard la cfficient serving of the world's bour by Mr. H. G. Sheldon, K.C., stealing 22 orchids from the gar- commercial carrier systems are this morning, for stealing jerseys den of No, 53, Conduit Road yes- looked into and when modified from young boys at Seven and terday, meet a greáter business combina- | Sixpenny Hill and in Kennedy'j' The lad was seen cutting the tion than even these civilian ser-Road on March 27.

orchids, valued at $23, from the vices handled.

It was alleged that accused was garden of Mr. S. M. Churn, Stocks, hundreds of millions of responsible for four different about 12.30 p.m. yesterday. pounds in value, are stored, ship-¡ cases of a similar nature, ; ∙Sgt. Goldje prosecuted.

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