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WEDNESDAY, Nov. 20, 1935.

NORTH CHINA

.....CRISIS

modern technique of bomb-: would be turning and twisting through most vertical currents by Great Britain on the North dropping from the air has been in a "dog-fight" many thousands with safety so that so far as can West Frontier and elsewhere. nut into operation by the Italian of feet above the ground, with be seen there is nothing to pre- that the aeroplane in its present. air force, Italian aeroplanes the chances of making the home vent Italy's acroplanes flying highly developed form can be are as advanced in design and aerodrome ever becoming more exactly where they like over used successfully where the con construction as any in the world remote.

"Abyssinia."

ditions are more primitive... and Italian pilots are among the Bombs are not, now released Their real problem will be to The movements of tribesmen best trained and most daring, by wire controls. They are discover targets suitable for can be watched and a check kopt The effects of their attacks will either released by electrical bombing attack. Railway sta- upon the movements of their to some extent be a measure of means, with some form of tlons, bridges, factories and am- cattle. Their villages are open the powers of modern aerial solenoid pin-withdrawal mechan- munition dumps are the stock to any form of attack the aero- bombing, which is far removed ism or else by a cartridge, elec- bomber targets and nearly all plane may wish to launch. And, from the elementary methods tricully ignited, which shoots the bombs that fell on towns in finally, it may be noted that the

destructive. and which is many times more largest bomb to be dropped ed for such "military objec- bomb is more horrible than at- without perceptible time lag. tives." The fact that often the tack by shell fire is illogical. Even then, when the 1121b. Moreover, the methods of aim- military objective was missed The aerial bomb, like the shell, bomb was one of the largest ing and dropping have been and something else hit could is a container filled with high used, the release of a bomb or vastly altered. The bomb sight a salvo of bombs upon a target was simply a form of drift in- was for the aircraft crew a dicator at the beginning of the atrange. experience. The re- European war, but now it is an lease may have been done by a elaborate specialised instrument wire cable control and, on the capable of greater accuracy, throwing over of the lever, the There is the new method of bombs could be watched moving diving bombing, which is be- along under the acroplane at lieved to be especially effective first and gradually curving for certain sorts of target. In down towards the ground. Had this the bombing aeroplane the pilots and gunners of the plunges down from a height and European War period had time releases its bomb when it is to do so, no doubt they would near the target. Pattern bomb- have considered the ethics of ing is done by formations of offensive bombing; but they had bombers and has an effect some- not the time.

what similar. to the gunner's "bracket."

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They were constantly under

Not long ago the conditions the menace of sudden death. in Abyssinia would have been a At any moment enemy fighters bar to effective bombing attacks. might swoop down upon them - The height in many places is

over 6,000ft., and the country in many ways, unsuitable for avia-

ITALIAN AEROPLANES BE ING. SHIPPED AT NAPLES

NOTES OF THE DAY tion. But to-day the Italian air have been due to a hundred explosive or other destructive

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anti-aircraft

"The Very Idea!

Started From Scratch

force is able to find and to attack causes; not the least being the elements. But it is sent to its IS THIS FIDDLING?

a limited number of targets. activities of defending guns and target by means of a petrol- North China is again in the

Day bombers can fly at over aeroplanes.

driven machine instead of by a We suppose it is necessary that 20,000ft. with full load without One form of aerial attack gun. The only difference lies in throes of a crisis, with clear in Nanking at the present moment any difficulty, and their speed which is being used by the the method of conveyance. evidence of Japan playing a a battle of wits should be proceed and rate of climb are such that Italians is that known да Bombing from the air is hated leading part therein. The ing with respect to the apparently they can afford even in the pre- "ground strafing," It came in mainly because it is more de- autonomy movement, which vital question of the proper num-

of enemy aircraft, to to existence on a large scale dur- moralising than shell fire; but ber of members to be elected to the sence aims at the separation of Shan- Central Executive Committee of sacrifice height at the moment ing the last few months of the why it is more demoralising has tung, Shansi, Suiyuan, Hopei the Kuomintang. Whether the of attack in order to discover war of 1914-18 and consists of nover, so far as I am aware, low-flying attacks with machine- been satisfactorily explained. and Charhar from Nanking con- Committee should have 160 mem- their objective.

The only real bers, as at present, or less or more,

protection guns and 'small bombs upon It seems certain, however, that trol, obviously represents 蟲

is engaging the attention of many against bombing, no matter how scattered targets selected by the so long as there are wars, there repetition of the tactics of the leaders of the Chinese peo- well concealed the target, is pilot. This form of attack from will be aerial bombing and that which Japan employed in ple. In the ordinary course of fighting aeroplanes together with the air was found to be extra the use of this method of attack Manchuria. There will doubt-proportion of people being in out to their pilots the position ceedingly

events we can understand a fair an offective system for pointing ordinarily effective. It is ex- will probably increase, in - the

demoralising to future. less be the same explanation ad- torested in such a matter; but just and course of the bombing ground, troops. vanced by Tokyo to account for now, with the country facing the

machines. Without fighting It is curious that the Abys- the origin. and growth of the | probable dismembering of its plan-that .i1 represents a northern territory in the move to aeroplanes to contend with the ginians, although they are vir spontaneous 'movement for wards autonomy by five provinces, bombing aeroplane pilot has a tually without aeroplanes and

their it might be expected that the na- relatively easy time. He can go although independence on the part of a populace anxious to secede from tion's leaders would concentrate so high that anti-aircraft guns guns seem to be few in number, the Central Government. Act-pon this problem. The activities of the latest pattern, manned by are armed with one weapon ually, the scheme is Japanese- of Kuomintang give the impreston the most skilful crews, would which is more feared by the ex. HOP! HOP! HOORAY! -inspired, and it may be expected while something in the nature of a duly, and his gunner, instead of any other, the rifle, The range to .follow the Manchukuo conflagration is rising near being continuously on the watch of the rifle is very limited, but precedent in its major details, enough to scorch them. with free use, made of local

for enemy machines, can keep its accuracy is grent and the In Whigh The Writer Has track of the navigation and pilot of the low-flying aeroplane War Lords in the setting HUNTING FOR JOBS

make ready for the actual bomb learns to fear it. A good rifle of another puppet regime., The development comes as 10 of unemployment is constantly be

The not-to-be-forgotten problem dropping.

shot is probably the best coun-f It has been said that the Abys- ter to a ground strafing acro- surprise, for it represents the fore the administrators of the sinians believe that the strong plane.

By Ed. Kelly, Big Bug. culmination of long-planned | affairs of Great Britain, and it is vertical air currents caused by Japanese efforts to secure politi- largely due to painstaking experi- the mountains will form an effec- consideration when the effects

Another point to be taken into TF it's not one thing it's cal and economic control of ment in this matter that the tive barrier to air action by of bombing in the present con-

another. North China provinces. It is nation's progress towards it normal Italy. So far as bombing is flict are being considered is that fleas in Europe. The Berlin Now there's a shortage of suggested that Chiang Kai-shek employment level has been so im- concerned their belief is a delu- bombs are probably most effec- University wants some for re- has tacitly accepted the Federa-pressive of late. Considerable pro- sion. Bombing aeroplanes do tive when used against Indus-search purposes. As one who,.. tion plan, provided that Chinese Kress has been achieved with two

aubsistence production" schemes not stagger about with their trialised areas and at their least territorial integrity is not in- which were established in Great load now as they used to de; effective when used against on various occasions in Hong fringed. But apurt even from the

Britain during the spring of this they have an ample margin of agricoltural areas. The more, have searched and re fact that the

year to provide useful occupation power and can keep above the complex and the more artificial searched for hours for ours, we scheme very patently would for unemployed men. The centres vertical currents formed by the system of life, the can oblige them. interfere with China's sovereign-of the two schemes lie in the ground contours if they want to deadly will aerial attack be: At flen industry hasn't

The world-wide depression in the ty, there

be the Eastern Valley of Monmouthshire. slightest ground for believing and in the Wigan neighbourhood that the Generalissimo would for in Lancashire. In both these dis- one moment condone this lafest tricts there are many unemployed, piece of Japanese intrigue. He, and; although the schemes do not in common with everyone else, provide employment In the ordin will realise the full implicationsary sunse of the word, they do en of the developments now occur supplement unemployment assist- ring. That the scheme will meet ance by the frults of their own with resistance there cannot be labour, while at the same time leav much doubt. Thus once again ing them available for employment; we are likely to see world atten- through the labour exchanges. tion focussed on Japan's efforts | According to the original, plan the secure the domination of menbership in each area is to com- North China. Another testing prise five hundred. The main pur- time for China's leaders has ar pose of these subsistence produc- rived, and indications are that tion societies is to organise groups on this occasion there will be no in which unemployed men can work disposition tamely to submit to ductions as foodstuffs and clothing co-operatively to provide such pro- Japan's designs on the territor- for exchange among themselves, lal, political and economic in- and so raise, their standard ·of tegrity of the country. With living. Everything that is pro- the major Powers greatly pre-duced is used) or consumed by occupied in other issues, Japan members of the group and their has carefully chosen the moment ject to the common restrictions of households. The men are not sub- for the carrying out of her pro-employment, but work under a gramme. China now realises purely co-operative system.. They' that she will be forced to fight are expected to work in groups für her own battles, but, in the event about 36 hours a week on land cul- of Japanese penetration making tivation, dairy-farming, horticul serious inroads on the country's ture, poultry farming and other sovereignty, it is quite conceiv-pursuits. Progress has been com- able that an appeal might be paratively rapid; each society al- made for League of Nations in-ready being in possession of n tervention. Apiquant situa

dairy farm whereby it is ensured tion would then develop, shoulddairy products, Some may call this of a supply of milk and other the League Powers be asked to Socialism: others common-sense, apply the same principles as they

to

.cannot

able a limited number of men to

are now doing in the Italo-the meantime, the portents are Ethiopian dispute. Whichever that a fresh war will break-out way the situation is viewed, its in the North in the very near gravity cannot be doubted. In future,

what do you think we discover

delicatessem!"

more

this

struck Colony yet.

At least, we haven't noticed it. Dinty, our kitten, is a taipan in hit. own right where Heas are concerned.

Then there has been the time when flea research work has kept us up all

night.

We have put our finger on more places where the Ben isn't than any investigator in the world.

And we always started from scratch. The len has invariahly

won.

We once knew a ticklish contortion- ist who had a floa. It wasn't his own flen somebody gave it to him, It took two coolies three-quarters of an hour to undo him. He became hys- terical towards the end.

If we had a fies and someone said to us, "What kind?",we'd say, "Ne, Marage."A

There are no kind fleas.

GLASGOW LOCKOUT

OWNER'S PROTEST AGAINST STRIKES

London, Nov. 19. A complete lockout has been. declared nt Gasgow Docks ́ns' a' protest by the employers against recurring strikes, and unofficial stoppages.

It is stated that such Interrup.. tions have caused much. Incon- venience in the past year and have. eulminated in a number of stop- pages over week-ends.

Över 1,500 men are affected and number of ships have been held. up Indefinitely at the Glasgow Docks Router Special.