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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, AUGUST

27, 1937.

FLEETS CANNOT ELUDE AIR

WATCHERS

Lesson of Mimic War

(By CAPTAIN NORMAN MACMILLAN)

Redland G.H.Q., Lee-on-

Dorchester. The nones of bases are

no longer secret.

Solent, July 23:

reconnaissance plane at No. 220 Squadron to

which was allotted.

At 5.90 am. I left in the Anson

AERIAL

makes it almost im-ATTACK ON CARRIER possible for a sea fleet to Here Is the order we were off to approach Great Britain un- detected, however bad the weather.

as

fuit: "Despatch buth squadrons (Nos. 200 and 220) to attack an air-

craft carrier reported in position 264 deg. and 43 miles from secret fixed polni at 4 a.m. Course 140 deg. Although it is too early to Speed 12 knots. Time of origin, 5.4 rench definite conclusions, this

Halt an

hour after leaving the emerges one of the vial ground we spotted the Blueland ships factors in the "war" between the aircraft carrier Furious, a Redland (England) and Blue-out of the sun we lowered slightly to cruiser, and two destroyers. From land (an imaginary country attack. south-west of the Scillies), which ended to-day.

In assessing the lessons to be learned from these exercises it seuns) to be too readily assumed that the ships are more or less unsinkable while aeroplanes are easily destroyed] by gunfire.

SEVEN PHASES

The exercises developed into seven well-defined phusca,

Phase 1-Thit was the effort of the Redland aircraft to locate and attack the Blueland forces. In this the aircraft are offlelally held to have; hod success.

Fhase 2-The Blueland Fleet was attacked by surface and submarine forces. Ireland argraft meanwhile, raided Plymouth and Portland, and were heavily engaged by anti-aircraft | defences.

At 5.50 our squadron was bombing the carrier from 10,400 ft.

Four minutes later we were right above the cruiser. Not one of the ships gave the recognition signal ihat they had seen us. The old ruse of attacking from out of the sun had worked again, and 6,000lb.. bombs were theoretically dropped.

ΟΙ

The attack was over with astonish- ing speed. With our noses down we headed towards the coast at 170 miles an hour, dropping height at a rate of 1,000 ft. a minute.

Everything

In New York Is Criminal

Phase 3 This began soon after dawn on Thursday with the engage-

By HARRY FERGUSON ment of the raking fleet by thei United Press Stag Correspondent l'ortsmouth local defence flotila and! shore defences. Both sides are held

New York-Practically every to have suffered losses, Falmouth breathing thing in the nation's was attacked by the aeroplanes of largest city except the artificial the aircraft carrier Furious, operating lung at the medical centre was from the Bristol Channel. Bal weather prevented them from reach a criminal because somebody dug ing Plymouth.

up an old set of ordinances which apparently were passed just after the Indians sold Man- baftan Island,

FLYING-BOATS ATTACKED

Phase 1-Occurred during the tor-1 rential ruin and thunderstorms yes-

The discovery was made in the terday. Both carriers were located office of Paul Windels; corpora- Blueland aeroplanes attacked the busy drawing up a new set of shore, and by submarines. tion counsel for the city, who is

from

Mount Batlen flying-boats,

Phase 5 Coastal raids, by e

laws for New York.

Blueland Acet. Bomber counter- Right away it developed that attacks developed against them. the kiddies are the worst erimi-

Phase G-The air raid precautions nals, especially if they happen! test in Southampton and Portsmouth to own a tricycle or a Much damage was done by air attacks against Calshott and Guspari roller skates. uir stations, the latter being heavily "gasked.'

Phase -The Blueland ships were beaten off Plymouth when attempt- ing to make a

dawn

attack this morning. Portsmouth combined alr and shore defence also resisted, a Blue fleet attack. A

reported land-

UFS

BOURBON PRINCE WEDS- Prince Alvaro of Bourbon-Orlean and his bride, the former Carla Parodi Delano, who were married in Roine, It was at this wedding that the former King Alfonso and his estranged former Queen Victoria appeared together for mally for the first Ume in six years. Friends said it was "polite accident." rather than a reconciliation.

SCIENCE CLAIMS TO HEAR STRANGE RADIO STATION

Efforts to Make Contact

Paris, July 22.

French astronomers and radio experts are excitedly of a famous American engineering organisation, who discussing the claims made by Professor Jansky, director

states that he has received short-wave radio signals. which originate from some station p He has ascertained that these signala take from three to Alteon seconds to reach his receiver.

beyond the earth!"

pair of He is in Paris placing details of his theory before French There it was, down in black and experts, and will shortly leave white, that each child must go to for Stockholm, where he will his borough president and reta consult Professor Stranger, one permit before venturing into the streets. Skates and tricycles are of the world's leading authorities. bad enough but the law is part-on short-wave radio. cularly Lough on children whe

Was while Professor Jansky wear sultis both a fine and gaol, ing at Bigbury Bay, near Plymouth,

was making short-wave experiments The railways catch it where it that he was forced back within 15 minutes. hurts, too, because nobody ever re-signals..

received the mysterious Then came recuenaissance flights and pealed the law that says they cannot bomb attacks, on one of-which I flew enter the city unless a man walks this morning. The exercise ended at one-eighth of a mile ahead of them, walks away and leaves it. If it is 7.50 .m.

shouting I understand that throughout the way to try five minutes: "Make after dark a lantern must be placed whole period coastguards gave valu- your

steam cars and beware of on the horse und-night or day- áble help in reporting the approach;

safety

there must be attached a tag, bear Kite-flying appears to be a border-ing the name of hostile aircraft.

line offence There is a law against owner.

and address of the

the

i This would fx the place of their

miles from the earth. original th spot many millions of

HOPING FOR REPLY?

The signals are immensely power- ful and are repeated A2 regular intervals, 25 though some extra- terrestial station

were signalling repeatedly, hoping for a reply.

Shortly, the Professor will con- struct the most powerful sort-wave received in the world, so that he can study these signals more closely. though the thought of extraterrestial Professor Jansky points out that) communication may. seem fantastic, short-wave transmitters send signals) already our more powerful military)

Redland's headquarters, in a re-ever, on playing a musical instru- however, is a law that says anybody that could be received in the noun

it. There is no compromise, how- The must embarrassing situation, sume, state that the results, so farment in public. Either you have a who desires quiet can place tanbark if anyone happened to be there. as they can be analysed without permit or you go to gaol and pay a

on the street outside his house.

detailed information from 11: enemy feet, would show that the objects have been realised.

dine.

Bulls on the streets a law says. must wear a green lantern on their After observing the air raid civil horns and have some sort of red defence at Southampton last night I light attached to their talls. again returned to the Redland air Woe unto the man base at Wondsford aerodrome, nearidles on Broadway

whose horse nud who just

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FAME (AND GOLF) ON LONELY ISLAND

TEN years ago Jimmy Shannaw, Marlborough public schoolboy. sailed from Nassau to Cat Island one of the loneliest outer-islands in the Bahamas group-with a port- able, gramophone. the latest dance band records and a bag of golf clubs. "I'm investing money in a propo- sition made to me in New York," he said. "There's a fortune in growing early tomatoes In the West Indian islands for the New York market,

"I've brought my golf clubs, as I hear that there's an 18-hole course on Cat Island."

would

Local people told him he And only bush, scattered negro settlements, and desolation.

Living in Hot

him

Soon afterwards I visited there. He was living in a hut that- ched native-fashion with falmetto straw, the only white man in a twenty-mile radius.. He confessed that he had not yet made a fortune. His golf clubs were rusting away.

Recently, Jimmy Shanhaw went on holiday to England to see his mother in London. He returned to his island home.

Three dayA OKO nows reached Nassau that he had been found dead with a gunshot wound in his headL

The Commandant of Police has ordered an Investigation into his death, Jimmy Shannaw's body will be exhumed. Statements will be taken from Negro dwellers on the island. And Jimmy's mother in London will be told how her.son alled,

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