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NAVAL COUNTER TO A ERIAŁ ATTACK

IMPENETRABLE BARRAGE OF 8-INCH SHRAPNELL'!

HAS THE PROBLEM OF AIR MENACE IN WAR BEEN

A very interesting article in the Daily Express states that highly important conclusions on anti-air-

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land. The gun and searchlight bar There remains for the Navy the rage, coupled with the airplane craft gunnery and the defence of question of low-flying airplanes Patrol and the listening posts, has London and the naval ports have with torpedoes which would be reached such a point of efficiency already been reached by the ex-directed against battleships and that for every 300 machines that cruisers. The work of the anti- might possibly attack London in perts as an outcome of Atlantis aircraft gunnery school has been the next war 273 would be lost. such that in the opinion of gunnery officers there. In very little chance of a low flying airplane penetrating the "sharp" barrage.

Fleet exercises..

It is the opinion of the Navy that aircraft attack on ships at sea has been defonted..

matter what its

The work of the Gunnery School at Whale Island, Portsmouth, has low the blast of the eight-inch gun If any attacking airplane fich been so effective in anti-aircraft alone is enough to upset it into gunnery that, it is claimed, no high-the water, no flying airplane can effectively at speed. tack. a British warship at sea, Three-pounder guns, two-pounder Tho success of the, gunnery ex-pom-poms, and the eight perts against aircraft has been due to the mounting of the eight-inch gun which has been fitted in the latest battle-cruisers and cruisers of the county class.

The mounting of this eight-inch gun allows it to be raised and fired effectively at an elevation of 75 to 80 degrees.

new

barrolled machine guns, which fire a time shell, have made it possible to put an impenetrable wall of bursting shells round any ship.

The two combined the new eight-inch gun high-elevation fire of shrapnel shells and the efficiency of the smaller gun barrage against low-flying aircraft make it phy sically impossible for effective air craft attack to be made on the British fleet at sea

At that elevation the gun has an effective range against aircraft of 27,000 feet higher than any bomb- ing aircraft can possibly fly against. It has been eateninted that for & fleet at sen.

any airplane to get through the There is no doubt that the eight-barrage of the eight-nch gun shrap inch guns of the British Navy when nol and the small gunfire would, a battle fleet is at sea can effective mean the loss of no fewer than 130 ly stop any number of high-flying machines. One machine to drop an airplanes. The eight-inch guns, effective bomb against 130 loat- under director control, will, fire a such a proportion makes air attack curtain of shrapnel shells through impossible which it will be impossible for any airplans to penetrato.

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The loss would be due to gunfire or attack from defending patrols.

work of the Admiralty and of the. The whole point of the recent

the chief provincial towns, or the War Office shows that the real dan ger of aircraft attack on London, Fleet, is negligible. The only pru

viso is this-that there must be a sufficiency of the right type of guns, searchlights and airplanes to make the defence effective.

Immense Progress,

The technical research in anti- aircraft gunnery at Whale Island- for the Navy, and at Shoeburyness for the Army, has reached an extra- ordinary condition of efficiency. 1 "The Navy have made immense strides. in anti-aircraft defence," said a senior Army officer to Daily Express representative. The Navy, however, have not progressed so far as we have, for they are dealing all the time with the problem of shooting from a moving platform.. Our problem is simpler. We shoot from a fixed platform on the ground,

were

If the full story of anti-aircraft development since the war told to the British people, it would The War Office is making similar be surprising. For many obvions | progress in 12ti-aircraft defence on I reasons it cannot be told,"

Diary of Coming Events.

To-day,

(February 10.)

Queen's "Temple Tower" World Theatre: "A Robbers

| Idyll” (Chinem picture).

Star Theatre: Popular Sin." H.K. Land Investment Meeting' (Jardines) 12.30 a.m.

Football Interport Trial, H.K. Football Association Council Meet ing. 5.30 p.m.

H.K.C.C. Tennis Tournament: -- Open Singles: A. O. Johnson v. S.

World Theatre; "A Robbers Idyll" (Chinese picture).

Star Theatre: Popular Sin." Paris.

Majestic Theatro: "Innocents of

Prizo Distribution Fairios School 3 p.m. (St. Stephen's Girls' Col- lege).

Football: Intorport Soccer Trial, Probables Navy, Club ground, 4.30 p.m. -

Hockey.Club . H.M.S. Med way (U.S.R.C. ground), 5 p.m.

II.K.C.C. Lawn Tennis Tour

C. Etherington R. R. Todd, Wong Fuk Nam r. C. E. Holmes,

W. Liang, G. W. A. Tufton . Dr.nament:-Open Singles: Capt. E. D. J. Valentine, Ho Ka Lau W. F Edge, W. C. Hung . F. Grose, Open Doubles E. C. and E. F Fincher . B. C. H. Hawkins and R. R. Todd.

Pilo W. T. Lee, T. Honda E. F. Fincher, J. A. Cassumb hoy H. D. Rumjan, Iu Tak Chess-Kowloon Chea. Club

Lam H. S. Lee. Open Doubles: Championship, H. Bush . D. E. V. V. Soonderam and Lee Han Mo Carvalho; da Silva; T. G. Stokes

v. G. IL Sayer and A. B. Raworth. . C. M. Sequeira; Lieut. Comdr.

Ten Danco: HK. Hotel, 4.30 p.m. A. Pigott F. A. Barradas.

Dinner Dances: Peninsula and Repulse Bay Hotels, 8.30 p.m.

European Mail:Outward: Europe via Siberia (Hikawa Maru) 10 p.m.

Ten Dance: H.K. Hotel, 8.3z p.m. Dinner Dances: H.K. Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m.

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World Thoaire; Tho. Hawk" Part 2 (Chinese picture).

Star Theatre: "Barbed Wire." Annual Meeting of Star Ferry Co., 12.30 p.m.

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Friday. (February 13.) Queen's Theatre:"Song of My iHeart."

World Theatre: "The Hawk" Part 2 (Chinese picture).

Star Theatro: Barbed Wire." Concert at Helena May Institute, || Golf :-Final of Taggart Cup: Second round of Captain's Cup (Ladies).

Tea Dance: H.K. Hotel, 4.30p.m. Dinner Dances: Poninsula and H.K. Hotels, 5.30 p.m.

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