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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1937.

FERTILE FIELD OF FEAR

feeling Japanese

against Great Britain grows bitter. The

the resolution of

group of experts, acting in an advisory capacity to the Government in the present crisis, that a na- be should tional movement undertaken with the object of relations severing diplomatic with Britain is distressing. The aim, it seems, is to create a popular anglophobia, with what object remains to be seen.

There is one very reasonable explanation for this rather sur- prising development. The Japan- ese Government must recognise that to continue a campaign on the Asiatic continent of the magnitude of that now in pro- gress, it is essential to have tho unquestioned loyalty and sup- port of every subject of the realm. And not only loyalty- for there is no question of the almost fanatical zeal of the Japanese people in fighting battles, commercial or political, for their Emperor-but the con- viellon of the public mind that the Government's cause is just and Its methods necessary, is requisite. To preach hatred of the Chinese, to fan that hatred to red-hot enthusiasm for con- quest, would be too contradic- tory a policy entirely when it is

Japan justifies her air bombing massacre of defenceless Chinese by claiming that her pilots aim at military objectives. A famous British air expert disproves this by showing that air bombing is

JUST HIT or MISS!

.BY.

AIR COMMODORE

L. E. O. CHARLTON

(Author of "War Over England" and formerly Clef Stag Officer of the R.A.F. in Iraq.)

HILE thousands of defence- less Chinese civilians have been exterminated by a rain of death from the air, Japan assures the world that her pilots aim only at military targets.

As each day brought its new and dreadful toll of death dealing, few could continue to believe such a blatant falsehood as this.

Many people, ignorant of the technical facts, still think that the bomber has it in his power, if his humanity and his military orders permit him, to avoid hitting innocent people and unessential objectives." They think that bomb- ing apparatus is of such accuracy and dis- crimination that isolated objec tives can be picked out by the bomber in the same way that a markoman with his rifle scores a bull's-cyc.

This is a tragic Illusion- every air expert knows it.

Here is an analogy to show you how horribly, devastatingly inaccurate bombing is, even whon tho bomber has the honest intention to do every- thing he can to hit only military objects,

If buck-shot were fred from n twelve-bore.shot-gun at a mark on a white-washed wall the re- sulting disfiguring spray and. spatter of shot marks on the wall would be ille a small-scale ropresentation of what happens when an acroplane bombs a particular object on the ground.

A sighter on

MODERN bomb- an acro- pline is a mathema- tical marvel, but that does not make it a miracle. Think of some of the problems a bomber has to deal with while he is swooping over the ground at, perhaps, a speed of four mlies a minute.

The war pilot has to calculate his exact height and speed. He has to take into account the wind velocity and the exact point of the compass, to a frac-

BITS

HAVE a passion for bits of string.

.

That bomber looks prally big up there, but travelling at 200 odd miles

an hour do you think he could "lay his oggs" just where he likes,.. flying thousands of foot high?

tion of a degree, from which it is blowing.

Moreover, the ninthematical equation which the bomber has to solve is further complicated by the fact that he is moving. Every moment of time adds a new factor to the problem he has to solve, and has to be taken into account as part of the equation.

At his chosen moment the bombing pilot releases a bomb from the mack. But the bomb does not fall sheer like a plumb- line; it starts its downward course with the initial velocity of the aircraft. it has just left -perhaps 350-tect a second: It gradually assumes a curve, and then falls straight.

the all this, Because of boinber must release his bomb ucfore his machine is directly above the object required to hit. And therefore the slightest error in calculating the course

It 19 the

point of attack. For all practical purposes, it is, therefore, hit or miss-and a carnage of destruc- tion somewhere other than the point nimed at.

But there is another kind of air attack to which what I have said above does not apply. This is point-blank bombing from very low down.

B

OMBING of this sort is perhaps the most of all to be feared. Why? Because neither anti-aircraft gun-sights nor searchlight

сип beams

be adjusted fasten on an object which is whisking through the air, just overhead, at a speed of 240 miles an hour.

to

The natural enemies of the bomber are the anti-aircraft gun and the interceptor-fighter aircraft. The former

attacks

from the ground, the latter from the air. Of the two;

the interceptor.

of the bomb will result-in-hit--greater reliance is placed upon Ling something else. humanly impossible for bomber to calculate with exact accuracy his time, distance and

OF

Combat between bomber and. interceptor acroplane so close to the ground is unthink-

an

STRING

are treasure trove. As a matter of I do not know when it first grip- definitely a bit. Thick string, thin fact they are not so useless as one ped me; I have, so far as I know, al- string, weak string-all are grist to might think; there is nothing better weys had it, and I suppose I shall my mill; though I have, If anything, for stringing beads than

+

piece of

of

ably Impossible. It is against this low-flying strategy that the balloon barrage is designed to provide an impassable obstacle.

There are those, however, who claim that the leading aeroplane of an enemy forma- tion can breach" the barrage by the simple method of charging a selected balloon in mid-air, the crew descending by parachute to surrender them- selves as prisoners of war, while the rest of the formation filles on through....

The modern anti-aircraft gun' by is highly efficient, and means of marvellous Tango- finding apparatus can locate its. target in the twinkling of an: oye. Unfortunately the shell which follows takes an appreci→ able time to reach a high alti- tude-as much, for example, as 20 seconds to reach a height of 18,000 feet.

F the bomber under

pursued

Lattack

n

straight course anti- bo aircraft

would günnery greatly assisted. But what bomber would continue to fly straight knowing he was under Dre?

If the attacking aeroplane deviates a fraction out of its course, the gunner's calcula- tions are completely ruined and hopelessly inaccurate. His shell will go wide. Even in the 20 seconds that the shell takes to reach the necessary altitude, the bomber can fly more than a milel

The art of interception,.. especially at night, is one of in-. finite difficulty.

If a bombing formation were reported to be approaching at

be at least 15 minutes before 21,000 feet, it would, necessarily, the interceptors could be in a position to attack.

During that time the bombers: could have advanced nearly $0 miles towards their unknown destination.

OREOVER, by altering thelr course; they could have completely

M nonplussed the defence organ-

isation.

avowed of the Japanese lenders always have it, for it seems to be in- a predilection for that strong, hairy silk E-string, while the strength the celling altitude of, say,

Once upon a that to punish

moter-cycle three miles, China for alleged affronts and string leave me quite unmoved. The and is really a kind of juvenile rope it would tether an ex. indignities offered to Japan and something in me that desires string rather than string proper. At the time I rode

of Ink covet fascinating kind

between gether with D-string. that the ultimate object of the evidently stiles at quantity; but it is other end of the scale, too, there is a with a broken magneto-chain tied to

the little odds and ends that

I like tarry string, too, such as sal- war against Nanking is thenat, as it were, string, per se, but thread and string-very, thin, pure

white, and wonderfully strong. In tors use. It again is not of much has u divine pacifying of the country, check-simply blts of string,

My tastes, however, are wide. Any practice, it is not really very useful, practical use, but it ing of the influence of Bol-

itind of string will do, so long as it is for one generally acquires it in ex-smell fragrance that suggests the shevism and the making of

tremely short pieces, and it is difficult tea, buccaneers, doubloons, and Cap- to untic; but it has an alluring tain Kidd. It is rather a rarity, for friends of its people. Moreover effort at mediation and settle-daintinens, nevertheless,

sailors so seldom send parcels. One there is no good reason for the ment of the Far East hostilities. I never well hardly over-cut the finds it, of course, on board ship, but Japanese to hate the Chinese as an act of arrogance and in-string of a parcel. I used to, but one it is difficult of acquisition even the There is certainly no reason for sult, or a move directed against day anather string addiet stayed my for if one goes round shipping of

knife with the warning words: little bits here and there it is likely) Japan to fear them--at present. the Japanese, is as obviously "Never cut a bit of siring. Ind; yn to attract notice and even cause ad-

fear of But hatred and

So, you see, there seems to be unreasonable na it is unjust.never ken when your gallowses'll verse comment.

no escape from the oft-repeated Britain are more logical in such Denial of the right, yes, and the break."

conclusion that the bombers I have taken the advice- to heart. a nation. If the public can be duty, of Governments signatory Disaster has not no far overcome me;

There is an artistic value in bits of will usually get through, and convinced that Britain has been

their got through, 4 tins for 70 ct. Assisting China in her battle of to the Nine-Power-Treaty to perhaps this is the reward of my here isollar a merely utilitarion having Heinz

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As a natural corollary of my unty with 1. The old game of cat's criminately.

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But there one thing I cannot do. But there is what I want, or if the length is right obvious. If, in addition, it is is a thin one.

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-------- To-day's Thought pointed out to the Japanese material there which, if pre- they are of the wrong nort.

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and thus threatening the pros-more fertile field than in foar to Ing to tic; and someone has to go and mogtenlly, I cannot break string lice

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cept oneself

Some day, though. I am going to carning power of the people, crop will spring surely enough right bit of string. one can be tolerably certain of Whether it will ever be reaped I do not despise even the shortest begin & flirtation with the girl in the the animosity which will results problematical, but it is safe bit of string. Although I am no baker's, and I shall worm the secret tice, I can sakk a ship's hawaer, 1 There is no question as to to say that it were wiser to let Kreisler, I sometimes play a violin, out of her, for she does it beautifully, shall go on the stage and make my Britain's part in the organisa-such harvest wilt and perish and as violin strings are not immortal And then I shall go round and twid fortune; and then, like the princes in

sessor of bits of violin airing from I can find, until I have snicked them over after. tion of the Brussels conference.than to put the reaper to work I periodically become the proud pos- dle my fingers at all the bits of string the fairy tales. I hall live happy

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