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THE CHINA MAİL, MAY 10, 1941.

BRITISH A.A. GUNS GROW IN EFFICIENCY

HUNDREDS OF BRITAIN'S ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNNERS MAY BE SEEN TRAINING INTEN- SIVELY WITH THE WESTERN COMMAND IN ANTICIPATION OF A NAZI BOMBING MORE FIERCE THAN ANYTHING YET EXPERIENCED.

The ground defences by the system so far or-

MURDERERS

TO RADIO

ganised, do not expect to stop the high altitude GOOD-BYE

bomber, either by night or day alone. Nevertheless an enormous advance has been made in this form of defence.

are

vsed

Four murderers broad

This is the defensive aspect casting their farewell to of what is clearly going to be a radio listeners, will be the two way offensive this spring.

Sir Archibald Sinclair, Secretary | star

with the Today, gunlaying. latest detector aids, does not de- pend upon the target being visible. Į Searchlights.

less adgonets to the batteries to-day. clustered instead in They such way

I

As 10 provide the, come. maximum visibility for the tight- ers and fro serve as beacons, Tell-

ng the tighters where to go.

This system has meant a valul.omsing

of the scheme of

re

turn on station

of State for Air, has warned Brit- ain that worse attacks are to KMLB Monroe, Louisiana,

But he

gave assurance that Immediately after the broadcast "Britain's anti-aircraft defences | the murderers will be taken in will really begin in an offensive | turn into the execution chamber

guise over German cities Our of their prison in Columbia to be blows will fall faster and harder | hanged in the presence of a spect-

enemy. Don't imag neally invited title audience.

| Brush might defences, for the on the

Searchlight can reach up to very they are soft now." high ceiling and con show up Naz planes, to British patrols oni search aloft.

Anti-Aircraft Record

DIED RATHER THAN BREAK UP HOME

Although the main responsibility for night defence of Britain's cities is gradually falling more upon A few hours after being advised

as new devices to enter hospital, and so the fighter pilots

enabling them to up the home where are developed

with the enemy lived for thirty come to grips

years, the anti-aircraft guns Henry Hannant, seventy-five, quicker,

are by no

means

ment, although

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wre

The

condemned men William Meharg, William Landers, William Heard and L'oyd Boyce, who killed a sheriff after having" escaped from another prison last September.

"A Little Sermon"

The broadcast was the idea of Meharg, who, through a clergy- the approached

would saying he listeners a little

break

they

had

Willcom

man

friend,

}}

radio station

like to give

a disappoint- retired builder, shot his wife and the belief that then took his own life.

radio sermon on the text "Crime doesn't pay" before being hang. ed.

When

killers

they are is rather general. This' At the inquest at Grayshott.

Was true especially in places that Hunts, a verdict

returned have been bombed

that he murdered his wife, Mary Esther Hannant, seventy-nine,

the three other Actually their operations have exceeded the most optimistic and took his own life while the heard about it they asked to be

was dis-included in the broadcast. anticipation of the experts. Not balance of his mind only have they brought down at turbed, least 600 raiders since war be.

P.O. WOMEN IN

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They were found dead from There is some anxiety regarding gan, they have probably dis. gunshot wounds in their cottage what Landers, Heard and Boyce

will say in their broadcast, posed of many others and worri.it Stoney Bottom, Grayshott.

they are pretty tough. Nazis ed the

progressively in proportion to the ever increasing

Heard has received a notifica- number of batterica in service.

tion from

in a newspaper As the "zone of destructiveness"

Arkansas that his subscription ex- for shellburst of the biggest antl-

pired on March 8. He replied: "If aircraft gun has a radius of less

Any postwoman who wants to you read your own papers

know than 50 yards it is obvious that

alteration the height, wear trousers on duty may do so, closely as I do, you would

in

Since I Post Offee, granting that I'm to be hanged. direction, or speed by the bomber states the pilot can reduce the artilleryman's permission for this to a Scottish don't know my future address, I'm relationship who prefers trews afraid our pleasant accurate efforts to a matter of postwoma to a skirt.

must be severed." chance.

any

Indeed the closer the approach to perfect gunlaying and perfect ammunition, the more is the ri- der likely to avoid danger if he kicks his rudder over or jerks his joystick on seeing the gun- fash.

German Problem

This problem, of course, is not peculiar to British gunners. The Germans are seeking to solve it. too, and the evidence provided by the number of Royal Air Force bombers returning safely from the increasingly heavy raids they now! make over Nazi-held territory shows that the German gunners have as ye little reason to feel satisfied with the results of their fire.

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TROUSERS

HUN GUNS EAST ANGLIAN VILLAGE

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A HUN RAIDER dived on an East Anglian village, fixed his gunsights on a little school, and sent bullets crashing through the roof and into the room where eighteen children were sitting.

Six-year-old Joan Easter was wounded in the thigh. But as the bullets ripped round them, not one of the children panicked. They remained steadily in their places until their schoolmistress made sure that the raider was gone.

"The children were really won- derful," said the schoolmistress,

"The bullets also

backdoor

the

While the multiplication of guns

of Britain's anti-aircraft defence plan. British guns no longer are used for a barriage in the real

damage was caused to property. "The 'plane seemed to skim the sense of the word. This is because The concentration of fire brought

smashed housetop." said an eyewitness. "It started the circled the of

village, then to bear on a 'plane from several through quarters s'multaneously is con- school. My house, nearby, was machine-gunning over soine flelds. Later it came again and dropped sidered far better than the fan-gunned too." tastically expensive procedure of

bombs." Joan's wound was slight. atterning to fill a large area of Single German 'planes, using shell cloud cover, were over most parts the sky

whizzing with fragments so that the enemy can't of England in daylight obviously on reconnaissance. Not only were get through.

made, attacks

but some gun bombs dropped.

A number of people killed and injured when a sin:

raider gle

bombed Industrial premises in on East Angilan town.

Though this can be done with success against low-fiving bembers by quick firers specially situated it can. to guard specific tareels not be dune to save whole areas.

Difficulties Of Defence

People Shot Dead

were

on.

w28

and

During two raids on a North Midlands town bomba wor➤

and dropped

the people In streets

One machine-gunned. person

killed

some Injured. Several people were taken to werc hospital when two houses demolished at an East Angliar coast town, The German circled the town before diving to release his bombs.

Two Raiders Were Destroyed-

no

A single 'p'ane was the cause of London's short morning Alert While rescuers and doctors wet turned back. There were It is casy to say that cen- tres like Swansea, Southampton, at work, the 'plane appeared out reports of bombs. Portsmouth and London would of the clouds for a second time not have been blasted out if there and dropped another heavy bomb.

work went had been an effective barrage. But But the rescue it has to be realised that high- Women ambulance drivers waited. fying 'planes finging down bombs, coolly at their posts. Bay at a height of two miles, and approaching from all angles, would necessitate a closeknit barrage around a circle of, say, a two- mile radius, and call for immense quantities of guns, and ammuni- tion.

Another single" raider" swoop- A Dornier bomber was ed "down out of the clouds and down by machine-gun fire off th dropped a number of bombs and coast at Gorleston, Norfolk, and ..

attacked machine-gunned people in a Heinkel 111 which village in the north-west. There convoy in the North Sea was shot were a number of casualties, down in flames by. H.M.S. Guille some of them fatal, and somel mot.

shot