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R.A.F. FOR NAZI OF GLIDERS

READY

THE POSSIBILITY of the Germans using glid-| ers in invasion attempts on Britain is a matter which provokes much discussion, especially when it is re- ported that the enemy has transported large num- bers of these machines to Norway or that gliders have been seen in other occupied territory.

It is known that the Nazis have been experiment- ing with multi-seat sailplanes for a considerable time and that the German Research Institute for Sailplaning has developed a motorless seaplane.

capable of taking

A sailplane

off from and alighting on both land and waler has been demon- strated at the Rangsdorf Lake

in Berlin. Demonstrations of towing gliders by aeroplane have been carried out from time to time in several countries during the past few years, and Soviet Russia has shown that a flying train in which a series of gliders are towed by une powered aircraft

by means impractical.

Germany's Pre-War

Research

Germany fostered and develop- ed gliding and the science of sour- ing to a remarkable extent before the war, and to-day the official organisation, the Nationalsozialis- tisches Fliegerkorps, has

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also controls in various parts of Germany 465 camps and 25 fully equipped gliding schools,

It would not be at all sur prising, therefore, if the enemy were striving to develop the glider in some form as a poten tlal weapon.

At first sight the possibility of

conveying large numbers of troops and equipment by flying trains

HONG KONG

THANKED

Mr. F. G. Maunder, Secretary. Hong Kong Earl Haig's Fund, Hung Kong and China Brunch, British Legion, has received the following letter from Captain W. G. Willcox, of Poppy Day Headquarters:

I now beg to acknowledge with very sincere thanks receipt, through the Hong Kong & Shang- hai Banking Corporation, London, of cheque to the value of £350, which together with the sum of £1,200, received in Novem- ber last, makes # total of £1.550. Os. Od, which I am pre- suming represents the truly magnificent and record result of your 1940 Remembrance Day Ap- peal and sale of Popples in Hong Kong and Districts for the bene- nt of Haig's Fund, and I give you assurance that it is a most wel-

USE

ACCUSED OF STEALING SHIP

Charles Gibbs, twenty-six and Tho- mas Harris, twenty- eight, were charged at Cardiff with steal-

ing the steam tug Nora, value £6,000, the property of John Davies.

They were remand- ed for a week and al- lowed bail in £10 each and a surety of a like amount.

AUSTRALIA

WAR DRIVE

CAMPAIGN

"This is an opportunity

come and valuable addition to our to give the lie to German funds,

propagandists who are

seems rather fantastic. Closer We have been very anxious

examination, however, shows that under certain conditions such a manoeuvre might be successful. In

about the result of this year's Ap- saying there is disunity peal in view of the now greater between Britain and Aus- responsibililles of the British the first place, the construction of Legion and the adverse conditions tralia," said the acting a multi-seat glider involves no under which the 1940 Appeal has Australian Premier, Mr. practical difficulties, and a ma- had to be made. chine which could carry at least!

Fadden, launching a £35,- I am happy to say, however, fourteen men, and which would that there has been a widespread 000,000 loan and recruit- weigh about 6,000lb., could be tow-recognition of our difficulties and ed with ease by a normal medium our greater needs, and the people ing campaign at a mons- bomber. Such a troop-carrier of this Country, together with our ter win-the-war rally at could be built with well-stream- many friends overseas, have given lined form so that it would not with conspicuous generosity for Sydney Town Hall yester- seriously affect the speed of the their emblems of remembrance. towplane, and three or more ma- chines, coupled by cables, could be towed by one aeroplane. Each glider would be controlled, of course, by a pilot, who would be able to converse with the other pilots by means of a normal tele phone arrangement connec.ed to euch unit of the flying train.

The behaviour of the flying train in the air is normal; there is little risk of the machines pet-

ting out of control through being deflected by bumps, and a quick release rear ensures that trouble

developing in one of the train does not bring disaster to the whole.

The Take-Off

Will you please find some means of expressing our deep thankful- ness to our friends in Hong Kong and Districts who have so very generously supported your Ap- peal and assure them that their practical sympathy will mean much during the coming year to the men and women who have served their Country and are in need of a helping hand.

day.

He adder "When the full story of Greece can be told none will be ashamed; there is a credit as well as a debit side." Mr. Fadden announced that £10,500,000 had already been subscribed to the loan and military enlistment had already increased all over Australia.

'MR. HERBERT EVATT, LA- BOUR MEMBER OF THE AD- VISORY WAR COUNCIL, SAID AUSTRALIANS WERE INTENT

May I also thank you, the Mem- bers of your Committee and all other helpers very warmly for your valuable work, undertaken at a difficult time and in the face ON A UNITED WAR EFFORT of so many handicaps. You have AND PARTY made a really valuable contribu- RECEDED INTO

GROUND.. tlon to what I am sure will prove to have been a remarkable war-

AND THE

ARMY STILL

The take-off presents the great- time effort. est difficulty. because owing to the length of the cable between each machine an immense area is required. This difficulty has been overcome by the Russians by means of brake-controlled drums which are fitted in the nose of each glider and upon which the cables. are wound. This arrangement allows the machines to be grouped close together on the ground and to be made air-borne after brief run. In landing the glider train "disbands," each craft being detached from the towplane and landing separately.

If the Germans #re planning to use towed troop-carriors to

GOES ON!

the

Amongst interesting facts and figures revealed by the auditors' report on Army accounts is fact that some £2,000,000 worth of expenditure, incurred while the B.E.F. was in France and Belgium, Invade Britain they they pro-lative books were lost or destroy

is unvouched for because the re- bably visualise operations in which the gliders would be ed during the retreat prior to the towed to a great height and then evacuation at Dunkirk. unleashed. to make their ap- proach in silence over our sound

Jocators,

Such an attack might be made at dusk or dawn, when visibility is poor. To approach, our coasts at any other time would be to court disaster, for no sailplane, even if armed, could engage, our fighters and survive, ....

Whatever form of glider ́altack

Another item is that of

over

the

£400,000, representing cash lost or unaccounted for during evacuations of France and Nor way-British Wireless.

DARK DEEDS AT LIBRARY

POLITICS HAD

THE BACK-

They were determined to de- monstrate to friends and enemies alike their essential unity.

The deputy Federal Labour leader, Mr. Forde, proclaimed Labour's attitude as complete- ly indissoluble with the Allies. A recorded speech by the Lord Mayor of London, Sir George Wilkinson, inaugurated the rally. . -Reuler.

500 MILES THROUGH GALES TO JOIN UP

KNEW NOTHING OF NAVIGA- FOUR ENGLISHMEN :· WHO

TION HAVE ESCAPED FROM MADAGASCAR, FRENCH COL- ONY OFF THE EAST COAST OF AFRICA, IN A FIFTEEN- TON TWO-MASTED BOAT THEY

BOUGHT FROM NATIVES.

They arrived on the Mozambi- que coast, after fifteen days at sea and will go on to. Durban, by steamer to join the Army and They lied the sails to the mast, fastened the tiller, battened them- selves down and travelled over

<but

ra prepared to sali to the Portuguero condemned, the yau-

the Nazis may have planned, they: In the darkness of the past few 500 miles", through three suvere will in no way spring any sur- nights, people, have been furtive-starms. prises on Britain. Every develop ly dropping basics into a red bar. i _ment of air wurfure is, the sub-retoutside- West Hartford, Con- |-fect of constant, study by the necticut, públic library,

RAF. to-day, and the towed gli- The barrel was placed there so der is one of the many devices | that borrowers, embarrassed" by which for many months has been having kept books so long, might ›business "Investigated" and tested. “

return them without being ace. "Reuter,

car, the men said, at a standstill. -----