1958-09-02 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER ::2; 1958. **

THIS WEEK-Yes, It's In Britain! ZANTES

Arriving in the English

countryside...the first

Made-in-America H-Bomb Rocket

by CHAPMAN. PINCHER

The first 11-bomb-carrying rocket to be set up in Britain—a 62f1,-long Thor- is scheduled to arrive from the United States this week, it was disclosed at the International Rocket Conference in Amaterkum.

Ballistic Missile Site No. 1, secretly built near Feltwell, Norfolk, is ready to receive it.

A glant American plane will fly the huge missile to the US. bomber base at Lakenheath. There it will be mounted on its transporter-launcher and taken by runt to this base.

Fuel tanks, guidance vehicles, and a miss of other equipment needed to ready The missile for firing have already been flown in by the Americans.

Thick concrete launching pads are ready. The R.A.F. firing crews will begin practice in erecting and handling the inis zile soon.

AIR-FERRY

The site near Feltwell, which is sur- rounded by thick barbed wire and pro- tected by guard dogs, is scheduled to be fully operational soon, though the Ameri- can scientists are far from satisfied with

Amsterdam.

Thor's performance so far. From now on there will be a steady ferry service of Thor warheads and equipment until the total number of missiles-about 60-are ready for aetion.

This site and the other missile bases near the East Coast will be under Sir Hurry Broadhurst, chief of Bomber Command.

But so few R.A.F. men have been trained for missile work that the bulk of the technicians will be Americans for several months.

ADVISER

Colonel Harry Zink, who is to be the chief U.S. adviser on the site, is already in Britain.

The Americans will keep the H-bomb warheads for Thor in their custody in A dump several miles from the missile sites. They would be brought to the sites in the event of serious international tension but even then would be under U.S: control.

The missiles will be fired from Bri- tain only in the event of war. Practice firings will be carried out in the U.S. or possibly in Australia.

Umbilical Lines

MISSILE Paralin Fuel

Blockhouses for H-Bomb Warheads

THOR

Storage Tank

Nitrogen Tank

Blast Tent

Blast Wall

Blast Wall

Erector Transporter

Mathios

Fuelling Caravan

Storage Tank

Liquid Oxygen

Concrete Launching Pad

transporter-

WHAT THE ROCKET BASE WILL LOOK LIKE IF ONE IS BUILT IN YOUR AREA. The 62-foot long Thor misalle, still 011 launcher, has been raised to, the vertical firing position on the concrete launching pad. Faraflin and liquid oxygen are being pumped in to fuel the 70-ton Theurt engine, Ita fuel tanks are pressurised with nitrogen gas. Then the gyron- copes, which keep the misalle on course to its target 1,500 miles away, are net in motion. Technicians in the guldançe caravans operate the radio- control mechanism which will set the missile on its fight- path.

BUT...and there's a

big 'BUT' about

Thor is designed so that it

can never b

the pit

very it!

so much

and

Guidance Caravans

GRAPHIC PROJECTION BY RAYMOND HAWKEY

within 15 mules, it has not British strategic policy, They xet been readied for action are litle more U forward in ter than two hours, even at Nato bases under U.S. control. Cape Canaveral, Florida, where there is every facility,

a

The RAF would be doing well to tre a Thor within one hour of being warned that Russian rocket was on the way The Russian rocket would take ics than half an hour to arrive.

INTRICATE

Even their value in this capacity is criticised by some U.S. experts in Britain. They General quote the views of

"Same strings on that and it would make a smashing guitar "

ROUND-UP

James ("Slim Jim") Gavin, who FOUGHT EGYPTIAN WAR recently resigned his job as Chiet of the U.S. Army Office of Ro- search and Development.

DMIRAL Sir Dudley Rawson Stratford de Chair, Britain's senior admiral and probably the last survivor of the Egyptian War of 1882 who has died at his home at Rottingdean, Sussex, would have been 94 on August 30. He served as a midshipman in the Britannia during the bombardment of Alexandria, He land- ed with the Naval Brigade and volunteered to deliver a message to a marine outpost. While going on horseback through the enemy benes he was captured by Egyptian cavalry. He was knocked off his horse and was about to be killed when an Egyptian officer in- tervened and ordered his removal to Cairo, where he was interned in a palace. Queen Victoria ordered prayers to be sold in all churches for his safely. After six weeks of captivity, during which It was said he was treated with great courtesy, he was released to rejoin his ship. Sir Dudley served as a naval attache in America and then returned to command a number of ships. Promoted ad- miral in 1920, he retired three years later to become for neven years Governor of New South Wales,

Gavin claims that, even I used as a mobile weapon, That would be no good for Dritain. The hirieacies of fuelling Owing to the immense area of

which devastation

would the rocket are terrifle, because it us liquid fucis paramin caused by each Russian 11-bomb, and liquid oxygen plus bellum enough Thors could survive to retatiale cffectively only If and nitrogen gas for pressurising them. If the

a large rocket in not widely dispersed over fired immediately after Aling ur emptied there are severe freezing probleme.

These fuels help to explain

area.

PROTEST

why out of 19 Thors test-fired All Britain is not wide enough at Capo Canaveral, nine have for this, Gavin claims. failed at launching or in flight, usually explosively,

seems

DUKE SELLS VILLAGE

siding HE entire Derbyshire village of Sheldon has been sold by the

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ENGLISH BY RADIO

Во nol think an

Duke of Devonshire. Including eight farms and 1,100 neres with the recent protest mar- of land, it had been owned by the family since the early 17th en- site near tury. The Duke gave the tenants first chance of buying and almost U.S. Defence Secretary chers at an .A.F. WHEN the Thor rocket the yong-down position. This from bombhis, would be pro- launching pads W

that Neil McElroy will win his Mepal who tried to whip up every one of them decided to buy his own house or farm. The To ballistic sale is the latest of the steps taken by the Duke to rulse Death local opposition kept hibitive. is sited on East Coast means it

each would be used city anee. het to have the first Thor missiles of any kind for reasons House, his Derbyshire mancion, remains in the family,

Duly amounting to £2,250,000 while ensuring that Chatsworth launching uses, it will ready for Bring in a deep and F-

So, though the pada The missile, therefore, must be simple, so

are base ready in Britain this which have little relation ground pit, because suffer from three major would have to be more than fired from the surface, which built that the concreting

many have to year, but its value "if the British Interests. drawbacks: -

2011, wide.

makes it exiremely vulnerable rod work will cost

went up" Britain balloon The cust of building a' pål of to H-bomb attack, Its jet of £10,000,000. 1 is to be set and evlerd this sare, they encuh to be safe fa

worse than chancy

I am strongly in favour EIGHTY students of English from 10 nations, ranging from nien who courted death by listening British radio broadcasts would damage

of H-bomb carrying mis- during the war, to girls too young to remember the Nazi occupa Under the rew Anglo-U.S. sites which can be perion of their countries, are altending Westfield College, Hampstead, alom agrement the Americans manently housed in

the the B.B.C.'s English-by-radlo Summer School. During the next ore to keep rigorous custody of upright position in deep nunciation and will be taken to places of historic interest in and

two weeks they are having lessons in English grammar and pro-. which

underground pits and are around London. The B.B.C, broadcast its first lesson to foreigners completely under Brilish in 1938 and continued in the war when facilities for learning Eng- control, as the Blue Streakish in Europe were severely curtailed. These lessons were broad-

cast regularly. rocket will be.

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MOBILE

With all its equipment Ther the warheads, without was originally designed to the missiles are uscles.

be completely mobile. That is why the missile, the guidare

and

servicing equipment Be mounted on trailers and why every part can be air-lifted,

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'NO' GOOD'

artement

from

which could be

They will bring them on site if extreme emergency threatens, My objections are to the Thor Britain the sites are to be but even then they must wall it is now, being mounted of permanent ixtures'in a narrow

bases Washington statle Zirip on the East Coast before allowing them to be wiped out with a couple of sure missile Maginot Line which the crewed OTL 10 the milles. Prise H-bombs. Russians will be able map Unal this la 'done no fueling. precisely.

A deterrent is useless unless up can begin,

i deters. I do not think Mr Though the missile fu- it is now clear, therefore, that Krushchev will be much deterred supposed

fireable the Thor sites are no part of by Thor.

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ICELANDIC PATROL

THIS year's Motor Show, opening at Earl's Court, London, on October 22, promises to equal if not surpass any seen in post-war years. Of the 330 exhibitors who have taken space, more than 89 will be car manufacturers and this year for the first time models from Netherlands will be seen alongside those from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Czechoslovakia, and the United States. British car manufacturers are preparing a gigantic chop window" at a time when the demand for their models is greater then ever before and production is running at record levels,

Tell It To

"Ready mon, we'll give 'em The Fishermen of England if they cross our

London Expreja Servies

12-mile limit.”

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The Marines

Twin

Twin brothers Peter and John Crawley, of Henlow, Bed- fordshire, found part of a clay pipe on fand they were digging In the village. On the bowl was the cap badge of the Royal Marines with the letters RMLI" The Royal Marino Light Infantry was disbanded at the end of the 3914-18 war. Off To Aden

"Air even the auster

LI present and correct

is at "the order." The Drummer Roland Kitchen, of Harrogate, Yarks, was waitßi) to board tho troopship Devonshire taking the Prince of Wales's Own Regimant of Yorkshire to Aden,

Chef's Future

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POYAL Air Force men at Ken- Joy, Surrey, miss the cook- ing of 20-year-old Paul King, who han just been demoRabeck, For Paul, who was a camp chef, holds the illo Best Chef in England" in his age group of 10 to 25. And now Paul da helping his mother's idibchen, at. Their home at Bexleyheath, Kent while he walte to take up a job In a London restaurant,

Rolic

WORKMEN demolishing old property in East Street, Berwick, discovered a rotle of Scottish Border warfare. It is a stone ball of the type fired from n wing and may," "according to local Historians," have been "übed; against the defences of Berwick | about the 14th Century,