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WINSTON CHURCHILL'S ́WAR MEMOIRS: THE SECOND BOOK

THEIR FINEST HOUR

adverse

But the enemy may have under- rated the

conditions of fighting above and

астояв the Channel

compared with those which had

prevailed in France and That Belgium.

they regarded the them as serious is shown by the efforts they made to organise an efficient Sea Rescue Service. German transport planes marked

with the Bed Cross, bogan to be appear in some numbers over the All nows contribution to

Channel in July and August where addressed to Editor-in-Chief. Advertisements and Business com.ever there was an air fight. We did not recognise this means of munications should be addressed

rescuing enemy plots who had

to

*

The Luftwaffe's Plans

1

By Winston Churchill

tensive damage had been done to

Good Morning!

"Sun Fo to resign or-?" For five of the Group's forward air-the benent of the headline writer fields, and also to the six Sector the word is "else."

Stations Manston and Lympno

on

on

the Kentish count were on several occasions and for days but- fighter aircraft. fit for operating Biggin Hill Sector Station to the

German losses, added to those in, wrote in their diary of September South of London was so reverely the North, were 70 to our 34. This 10: was a recognisable disaster to the German All Force..

It must have been with anxious minds that Germap Air Chiols measured the consequences of this defeat, which boded fit for

the Company CHINA MAIen shot down in action, in order future. The airfields of Kent,

abit

LTD.

BIRTH

that they might come and bomb Sussex and Middlesex had still our civil population again. We be engaged and neutralised while

wej rescued them ourselves whenever the German Air Force fought their It was possible, and

made them way to the estuary of the Thames,

aśc

could

And so

Sun Fo

Must go? Good show.

An agency reports that "the chief nccused sobbed and clutch- And

damaged that for a week only one We have not yet attained the fighter squadron

had persist- operate operational conditions which the from it. If the enemy Supreme Command as being en-jacent sectors and damaged their weren't allowed to practise their sential for the enterprise, name-offeration-rooms or telephone com-art in courts of law.

nd-

Naval Staff stipulated to the ed in heavy attacks against the add the court microphone."

wo always thought croone

ły undisputed air supremacy

謝

the Channel area and the elimin

muntentions, the whole intricate

ation of the enemy's air activity organisation of Fighter Command

in

the

in "U.S. Swimming."

milk

De pale for the events you stand

assembly aron of the Ger- would have been broken down. This and honey?

At the cinema the other night, man naval forces and ancillary would have meant not merely the shipping.

It would be in con-maltreatment of London but the

in con-ons to us of the perfect control Myrtle turned to the gentleman

ons to us of

Lacking her and sold at me I was led to visit svanston I'd be happy to take it on." mense line of docks with their

parations for Luftwaffe now concentrated less. masses of shipping, and the largest

on London and more on Ports-August 28), and Biggin Hill, War city in the world-seven-millon

mouth and Dover, as well as on which is quite nene my people to be fed--which it did not require much accuracy to hit,

Red Tape

must

of interne

stations, particularly

ht

"Picasè don't,” said Me man. home, "The hat's muchi funnier than the

the naval ports in and near the They were getting terribly knocked movie." operational area.

To Appeal

but their

their

"Mock At-Bomb." Brother,

no advlee to give.

For

prevails in

the Bank's

ambulances were forced or shot to down by our fighter, on defnite RODRIGUES--On March

by the Cynthia, wife of Dr. A. M. orders approved Rodrigues, a son, Bath mother Cabinet They soon abandoned the and chuki doing well. (Shang-experiment, and the work of sex

about, and runways ruined had and incen papers please retete for both sides was enrried by a small craft, on which,

by craters. It was therefore with: During these weeks copy).

of course, the Germans Breil on

struggle are ceaseless anxiety

A by this tinie fitler has been a sense of relief that Fighter Com- that's

Goering

that the mand felt the German attack turn out part, we will treat it with every occasion,

the greatest respect. September ཏྭཱ By August the Luftwaffe had Lord Beaverbrook rendered signal persunded by sathered 2,869 operational aircraft. service. At all posts the Fighter major attack on London would be on London on PUBLIC ENEMY

Whalevor colour - be replenished

shed decisive, the Naval Staff did not and encluded that the enemy had 1,915 hombers, 340indrous

Goering should changed his plan. Following correspondence ribers. 933 Bghters and 376 with trustworthy machines. This venture to appeal to the Supreme cinly have persevered against China today, there didn't seem to

enaine airfields in this honey fighters. tuberculosis

on whose organisation be much red about The Fuehrer's was in time for red tape and cir Command; newspaper in recent weeks, rective No. 17 authorised the Inclocution, although there have continued, and on the 12th they and the appalling statistical tensified hir war against

remarkable The air war b being conducted Gaering never set placid system. All his

"A nissolute air war with qualities Alted the need. His per-

and reports, comes an article in Augmet 5.

mut regard to the present re- / to be able

quirements of the

naval war outsile the framework of operationi "Sealion." in its pre- sent form, the air

war cannot

This same period (August 24-ence was said to be n little strain-. assist preparations for "Sealion",

After | H-minute plenary which are predominantly in the September 6 bad seriously drain--el. hands of the Navy. In parti ed the strength Fighter Com session, neither side had been in- cular, one cannot discern any mand as a

had lost in this fortnight 103 them to remember their old school

the

and combination the whole fight balance sheet. well-ordered renched this sombre conclusion. their place in a England

contrivance,

HIS

com-

heart today's issue by Mr. J. R. | much store by "Sealion": la un buoyancy and vigour were Rose, director of Methodist i was in the "absolute" nir war. In tonic. I was glad

consequent distortion of the ar- medical work in South China. rangements disturbed the German onetimes to lean on him. He did His remarks, those of a de- Naval Stair. The destruction of fail. This was his hour.

personal force and gentus, Force and our air-ined with so much persuasion and stand by the Royal Air votee to a cause.

but A

aside many swept themselves and are without craft industry was to

the menus to and end; when this was obstacles. Everything in the supply implication--except to

accomplished the air war should I thoughtful, who may regard turned against the enemy's the battle. New or repaired air- pipeline was drawn forward lo them both with fear and warships and shipping. They repinnes streamed

to the delighted gretted the lower priority assigned squadrons in numbers they had by Gering to the naval target, never known before. All the ser- and they were Arked by the delays, vices of maintenance and repair On August 6 they reported to the

were driven to an intense degree. Supreme Command that

the I felt an much his valse that on preparations for Germau minelay-i jing in the Channel area could not

shame.

there are

He claims that in the ad- joining mainland "millions of sufferers" from this dread discase, which he names as Public Enemy No:

De

1. While leprosy carries the proceed because of the tomatunt dire traditional stigma of British threat from the air. death and is still common

Air Fighting

The continuous heavy air flight- enough, it is much less to be feared than T:B. Its threat,ng of July and early August hind he says, "hangs over almost ben directed upon the Kent pro montory and the Channel const. every family, and the stu-Gvering and bla skilled advisers

dents of schools and univer-formed the of reda Bl) our fighter

sities have

good reason to have drawn fear the onset of the 'scholar's squadrons

disease' for which

They

He talks of the penniless was well run.

them to take, and the risk

ם

Norway does not believe neu- ing power of our Air Force at this

of teality has any relation to the moment kopensked. By departing fron the classical principles war as well ne from the hitherto facts of ilfe. Someone must have weepted dientes of humanity, he told her that big fellow with all the whiskers Is not Santa Cinuski'

1

a foolish mistake.

Many Cases

whole.

The Israef-Trunsjordan confer-

The Comtroduced to the other.

effort on the part of the Luft-killed and 128 veriously tles next time.

waffe lo engage the units of the

Tench

British Ficct, which re now wounded, while 460 Spitfires and able to operate almost unimolest- lurricanes had been destroyed or Russian-led Japs might sweep ed in the Channel, and this will seriously damaged. Out of total to Australia's gates in 10 years, an American general. prove extremely dangerous to pilot-strength of about a thousand, declares

nt the Japs are the transportation. Then

the nearly

a quarter had been lost. American-led Their places could only be filled by commercial gates right now. 260 new ardent but

There are two classes of peo-

“VERY WELL, ALONE"

pilots drawn from

•

In many cases before their full ple the righteous and the in- The classifying is courses were complete. The night righteous,

attacks on London for ten days done by the righteous.

after September 7 struck

1 the

London decks and railway centres,

and killed and wounded many elvi- lans, but they were in effect for had the utmost period I usually

un a broathing of which we

During

this

managed to take two afternoons, a week in the areas under attack in Kent or Sumex In order to see for myself what was happening. For

tral

this

purpose I used my which was now most conveniently fitted and carried a bed, a bath, an office, a connectible telephone, and an effective staff. I was thus able to work continuously, apart from sleeping, and with almost all the facilities available at Dowsing. street.

FOR

SALE

BRUCES CAVE

that they must

this

Southern medical to make a daylight rald North of struggle. They therefore decided science has still no complete the Wash to the manufacturing His words elties of Yorkshire. The distance cure at hand." gain grim weight when we was too great for their Brst-class

fighters, the ME 100's. look at the last government would have to risk their bombers reports in Hong Kong alone with only escorts from the ME -seven deaths daily from 10's, which, though they had the tuberculosis. And no one is range, had nothing like the quality, immune, not even the dwell-which was what mattered now. This was nevertheless a reasonable ers on the Peak.

for them stop

the King's op- August 2, with

main safeguard against British We must take September 15 os date. On this naval forces would have to be the culminating thousands who have spent

twp Accordingly, on August 15, about proval, I invited him to join the

the minefields, which, as re-day the Luftwaffe, after their meagre savings to buy 100 bombers, with an escort of 40 War Cabinet. At this time also

peatedly explained to the Sup-heavy attacks on the 14th, made counterfeit drugs which they ME 110's, were launched against his eldest son, Max Aitken, gained

and at least six remo Command, cannot be re-its greafest concentrated effort in mistakenly believe will keep Tyneside. At the same time a raid high distinction

victories as a fighter-pilot.

garded as reliable protection for a resumed daylight attack on Lon- shipping.

don. It was one of the decisive their loved ones alive, and of more than 800 planes was sent

consorted to pin down our forces in the adds without comment that South, where it was thought they Bevin, Minister of Labour and

theother Minister

at this time was Ernest The fact remains that up to now battle of the war, and, like the

the intensified aig war has not Battle of Waterloo, it was on sanitorium treatment, with were already all gathered. But National Service, with the whole contributed towards the landing Sunday. I was at Chequers. I fresh air, good food, sunlight now the dispositions which Dewd-

operation; henco for operational had already on several occasions

visited and military reasons the execu Fighter Group in order to witness the headquarters of No. 11 etc. is still the only hope foring had made of the Fighter Com-man-power of the nation to man- age and animates All the workers Rignally vindienten.

tion of the landing cannot yet victims of this disease. Mr. and were

[SIZE=] in the munitions factories were The danger had been foreseen.

the conduct of an air battle, when In

be considered. Rose says

rendy to take his direction. with authority:

Hurricane Seven

Spitüre

not much had happened. How- SINGLE-HANDED squadrons had been withdrawn Cabinet. The trade

too joined the War August he THE

ever, the weather on this day seem. unionists cast DOCTOR CANNOT PRO-from the Intense struggle in the their

fighting between od suitable to the enemy, and se slowly-framed, jealously. I the VIDE THE FACILITIES South to rest in and at the same guarded ales and th rank, ber 6, 1940, the scales had tilt and arrived at the Group Hend- | Kirkpatrick-Fleming, 'Dumfries

privileges upon

August 24 and Septem- cordingly I drove over to Uxbridge the North. They

altar where NECESSARY FOR SUCH tinue to guard

had suffered severaly, but were

quarter. TREATMENT: IT NEEDS A none the less deeply grieved to much in harmony During these crucial days the

lege and

had atrendy ed against Fighter Command. property leave the battle. The pilots res with both Beaverbrook and There is no real arguing pectfully represented that they in the white-hot weeks. After Germans had continuously language, strictly prohibited. with the expert who has de-were not at all tired. Now came wards they quarrelled, which was applied powerful forces vited his life to a cause, no an unexpected consolation. These a pity, and esused much friction against the airflelds of South by "China Mali",

climax

we were all and South-East arguments placid or poll-quadrons were able to welcome the

England. as they crossed the together. I cannot speak too highly Their object was to break (To Be Continued TomOTTON) tical or economic. There coast,

of the loyalty of Mr. Chamberlain must be sanitorla well plac- Mortal. Conflict or of the resolution and efficiency down the day fighter defence ed in the country where Thirty German planes were shot of all my Cabinet colleagues. Lot of the capital which they were fresh food is abundant, and down, most of them heavy bombers me give them my salute.

impatient to attack. Far properly designed for fresh (Heinkel III's with seven trained Still Confident more important to us than the air and long views. A team men in each crew), for a British There was a spell of fine weather protection of London from of specialists with modern loss of only two pilots injured. facilities must be at hand. The foresight of Air Marshatin September, and the Luftwaffe lerror-bombing was the func- Dowding in his direction hoped for decisive resulta. Heavy tioning and articulation of of attacks fell upon our aerodrome of these airfields and the Social workers must be there Fighter Command to make the necessary ad-praise, but even more

high installations round London, and on squadrons deseable the night of the 6th 68

working from justments, and full occupa- had

had been the

aircraft restraint and the tional therapy has to be pro- exact measurement of formidable attacked London, followed on the them. In the life-and-death

7th by stresses which had reserved

the first large-scale attack struggle of the two Air Forces vided. And not only for the Fighter force in the North through of about 300. On this and succeed- this was a decisive phase. We sons of the millionaire mer all these long weeks of mortal con- day, during which our anti- never thought of the struggle

alrcraft guns were doubled in

COMMUNITY EFFORT.

ass llanta

at

this

st

11

Ex-

chants, but for the bewilder-flict in the South. We must regard/numbers, very hard and continuous/In terms of the defence of ed, tattered souls who huddle the generalship here shown as " piral

fighting took place over the London or any other place, suffering in foetid matsheds, example of genius in the art of capital, and the Luftwaffe were but only who won in the air. war, Nover again was a daylight still confident through their over- and who regard rest, good raid attempted outside the range estimation of our losses. But we Fighter Headquarters at Stan.

There was much anxiety food and pure air as unat-of the highest-class fighter pro-now know that the German Naval more, and particularly at the tainable luxuries.

tection. Henceforth everything Staff, in anxious regard for their Headquarters of Number The comfortably-off families North of the Wash was safe in

own Interests and responsibilities, Fighter Group at Uxbridge. daylight. may discount the chances of

August 25 was the largest air their children contracting battle of this period of the war; the discast, but this is fal-five major actions were fought, on lacious, as has been seen a front of 500 miles. It was indeed DO YOU numbers of times since the crucial day. In the South all our 22 squadrons were engaged, many war. And it is well to re-

twice, some three times, and the member-the cure is longi and not always certain.

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At the Methodist Hospital offered to philanthropists? in Fatshan a large-scale, re- How much contagion and building scheme is in hand, death might be avoided by and long-term plans have the foundation of several been made to realise the such institutions?.. ideal conditions. It is in- Infected persons continue tended to receive 40 patients to flock into Hong Kong, of each sex as soon as it is often for treatment, but pre- completed. Not many, but sent facilities are limited. something. The hospital is The infection remains. It is looking for people with a hidden hand that can strike money to endow the work us all down, that makes all and enable the poor to make races and social conditions use of the facilities. What equal. It is, Public Ency worthfer cause could be No. 1.

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