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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 5, 1941.

SPEEDING UP DELIVERY TO BRITAIN

(By ANSEL E. TAIBERT)

THE ANNOUNCED DEPARTURE for London several days ago of Air Marshal Sir Frederick Bow- hill on a huge American-built, four-engined bomber from Newfoundland signalizes a tremendous speed- up in the flow to Britain by air of aircraft built in tactories of the United States.

Sir Frederick, known throughout the Royal Air Force as "Ginger" Bowhill, is one of the best organ- izers in the British Empire, and until recently was head of the important coastal command of the Bri- tish Isles, with the responsibility of seeing that every German air or sea attack on a convoy was met by immediate and appropriate counter measures.

He was relieved of this job so' ef such luxuries, but it hasn't that he could fly to Canada and affected the morale

I never a bit. study how the delivery of Am- heard, in all of my visits to Eng- Ferienn aircraft by air to Britain fand, a single man, woman or could be increased several hun- | child say in even a private con- dred per cent.

versation that he had the slight-�· est doubt of England's ability to win this fight."

Now in London making an off- cial report embodying detailed recommendations, he is expected hack soon to direct the ferrying operations in person.

"Really Rolling”

Now

It has been no secret in avia- tion circles that British defence leaders were concerned for a Lime by the slowness of the trans-Atlantic ferry service to get into high gear.

The hop from Newfoundland to Britain takes from seven and one-half to ten hours at present, and the return trip thirteen or more, Col. Hutchinson disclosed. Ferrying bombers, he says, isn't the hardest job on earth, although It's far from easy." He asserted that during all the delivery flights made to date, not à single ferry pilot had been attacked by a Gér- man raider.

AMERICA COULD FEED BRITAIN BY AIR

i

Speaking at Schenectady, Mr. Kenneth Farrell, the food chemist, said that if shipping was unable to reach Britain it would be possible for the U.S. dried food industry to ship enough supplies by 'plane to feed every man, woman and child in Britain.

He calculated that could 300 bombers supply one day's food.

"SPIES" FIND ARMY GOSSIP

The Army is talking too much in this war.

This is the opinion of officials who have been "pumping" people "The way we slip Into Britain in towns near big camps. at varying altitudes and timeal They were sent out to discover each trip would make it almost how much anyone would talk. a miracle for any German How much a Fifth Columnist fighter pilot to accomplish an could discover if he tried, and Interception," Col. Hutchinson, what people were saying. And

they found it easy.

1

At present, in the process of being taken over by the British Air Ministry, the service has been successively in the hands of a Canadian civil group and the British Ministry of Aircraft Production, Operationa were hamperod mainly by a lack of experienced personnel in the directorate on this side. But, according to Col. George R. Hutchinson, American pilot who participated in the flight de- livery of the initial group of Lockheed Hudson that went across the Atlantic last fall and has since flown many more trips, the bombers "really are rolling overseas" now. It is routine, he revealed while on his way to visit his family in Baltimore, for sever- al score a day to take off for England from the run ways of the giant airport at Hatties Camp. Newfoundland. Canadian and Cal. Hutchinson and other though, if they had done so, they

related. The reapted German bombing! Civilians generally cold. raids on Britain, now "one huge

shoulder them. But soldiers, According to Col.1 aerodrome,"

from captains down to privates Hutchinson, are ineffective. Con-¦ often-casually and ingenuously crete runways are not generally

gave them all the information used in airports built in the Bri-

they want, and more. tish Isles, he related, and the huge

Dropping into the conversation craters blown In the ground are with a subaltern in a village bar, Olled in and packed down in a an official had no difficulty in - few hours by fast-working repair discovering where his H.Q. was, crews. Col. Hutchinson said that how many men were stationed in the raids he experienced, none there, and what other troops were of the bombers ferried over was in the neighbourhood. hit directly, although one or two

minor suffered

from damages bomb fragments.

British engineers hacked this field several years ago from the forests of the Newfoundland wilderness in anticipation of its use in war involving Britain.

The official's report showed exactly what information he had received from different ranks in the Army and exactly what ans- wers he got from civilians.

No

al- one challenged him,

with whom would have found reason to doubt high praise his Identity.

Praise For Britons

transAtlantic pilots

I have talked have for the British Overseas Airways pilots assigned to work with them. One in particular, Capt. D. C. T. Col. Hutchinson is head of the Bennett, the director of operations, famous 'flying Hutchinson fami- is credited with keeping the ser- ly" consisting of himself, his wife, vice at a high point of efficiency Blanche, and his two daughters, in spite of slip-ups and bottle- Kathryn and Janet Lee, who have necks outside his control. Capt. Visited fifty-odd countries toget- Bennett, the pilots report, often her in their own plane in the last, works all day on administrative ten years, Since last August, details, then decides to take over- when he joined the trans-Atlantic seas a four-engined bomber, and ferrying service as a charter after a few hours' rest in Britain member, he has drawn so many files back again with a load of flight assignments to take bom- ferry pilots in his plane. bers abroad on holidays such as Christimas Day, Easter Sunday, Armistice Day and Memorial Day that his fellow pilots nicknamed him "Holiday Hutch".

AXIS

SHOWBOAT TO WOO S.

AMERICA

According to an official an- nouncement of the British Press Service, four types of American bombers are being delivered by air. It reports: "There is the! There's

a gay

and

A

She's an Axis bid to lure South, Americano from friend.

Britain ship with

U:S.A., and trade includes

her

an

and the stock-in orchestra,

He and the other pilots, a mis-] Lockheed Hudson, latest verson luxuriously equipped cellaneous group of former crop of the reconnaissance bomber, dusters, barnstormers, airline men which has done such magnificent showboat sailing across and British airmen drawn main-work. There is the Boeing "flying the South Atlantic. ly from British Overseas Airways, fortress." This is a big, four- have taken some strange cargoes motored, high-flying bomber with over. Not long ago a Canadian a fire reputation. There is the four- general with his two aidés, a cap- Consolidated Liberator tain and a major, sat in Col. Hut- motor bomber, one of the fastest chinson's bomber for the Atlantic heavy bombers in the world. And crossing on boxes of flare shells there is the long-range Consoli- and pouches of diplomatic mail in dated Catalina flying boat, one of company with a noted Canadian which already has gained fame scientist.

by its twenty-hour shadowing of The monotony of the trip was the Bismarcia." broken by an unusual serenade --that of 200 bullfrogs croaking in unison. These were being transported for experimentation In gas-defence, laboratories so that England might have man .air-tight, defence against the possible use of polson qus - by the Luftwaffe,

Found Courage High

"On another occasion I decided

rich foods, rare 'wines and lots and lots of honeyed words. Flying the flag of "neutral" Spain, the showboat is the 6;735 ton Cabodehornos, and aboard are South American There have been persistent Spanish and rumours that Britain Intends to officials notorious for their links fly some of its smaller fighter with Nazis. alteroft, equipped with extra gasoline tanke, across this sum- mer, but so far, none has gone,

COULDN'T JOIN US-

DIED

on my own to carry twenty-four: Rudolf Landmann, 19, of Tor-

...

Cabidehornos will call "at-all- the chief ports of South America, and leading citizens will be invited abbard.

BURIED IN ONE GRAVE

cartons of American cigarettes onto, Canada a German, tried Sir James and Lady Frazer, and a couple of crates of oranges to join the Canadian Air Force, who died within a few hours of to distribute among my English was refused and committed sul- one another, were buried in one friends," Col.. Hutchinson related. cide under a goods train--British grave at St Gilesis Cemetery, "There is something of a scarcity United Press.

Gambridge.