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June 29, 1939,

BRITAIN CAN NOW DEFY RAIDERS Guns Would Hit Before Bomber Could Take Aim

BRITAIN IS NOW IN A POSITION TO OVER-

COME THE THREAT OF BOMBING AIR- PLANES.

This assurance is due not primarily to bomber and fighter airplanes which are steadily overhauling foreign air forces in power and in numbers-but to the extra- ordinary development of the anti-aircraft gun.

So efficient and so accurate have the new 'anti- aircraft batteries proved themselves in practice shoots that military experts are confident that within two months of an outbreak of war the enemy would have to call a halt.

So many of his aircraft would have been shot down that the enemy could no longer put a striking force of warplanes into the sky.

These are the guns which will take the terror out of air raids: 1.-4.5in. gun on a permanent con-

crete emplacement, firing a 551b shell at rate of nine per minute. These guns, the heaviest of the anti-aircraft guns, can fire up to 36,000ft. Ench shell has an effec- Uve radius of 100 yards-that is to say any aircraft within a hun- dred yards of one of its shells when I bursts would be brought down. The guns would be fired in groups of four.

which lay the guns so that the shell

fired to the point the aircraft will have reached by the time the shell has taken to travel through the air up to the enemy, and the increase in the effective arch of the bursting shell.

At a recent practice shool guns firing 40 rounds between them re- peatedly, shot down a target towed by an airplane at 20,000 feet.

It is reckoned that 25 per cent

of the shells fired make hits.

The raider would have to start diving, twisting and zig-zagging, and this would render almed bombing practically impossible.

Such is the concentration of fire from these batteries that once within 2.-3.7in. gun on a mobile mounting, ang no ralding airplane could main- This is the standard A.A. gun. Ittain its speed and direction for more can also fire to a ceiling of 30,000 than 45 seconds. ft., but at a rate of 12 per minute The shell weighs 3016, and has an effective radius of 60 yards. 3.3in. gun firing shells at a rate of 20 per minute to a height of 10,000 ft. The chief purpose of this gun Is to keep enemy alreraft up above 10,000ft. and so lessen the accuracy of their bombing.

4-10mm. mobile light anti-aircraft gun firing 21b, self-detonating shells at a rate of 100 a minute to a height of 5,000ft. These guns are the equivalent the Navy's poms. They would be used like

WILL FIND TARGET

To bomb with any accuracy the pilot must bring his airplane to on even keel and constant speed before ; he can use his bomb-sights and re- Icase his bombs.

This cannot be done in less than half a minute. Most pllots take a minute.

President Roosevelt, left, and President Anastasio Somoza sign agreement, la President's office, Washington, extending $2,000,000 in credits to Nicaragua. In rear are Secretarles Hull and Morgen- thau. Dr. Reyes and. Dr. De Bayle of NicaraguL.

AVIATION'S TREASURES

In that time four anil-alreruft M.P. Dies In Famous

guns, working from one predictor, will have red 36 shells at the air- plane. Before

the minute has

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machine-guns with tracer bullets, to protect strategic points such as

elapsed the airplane is bound to Sir Francis Dyke Acland, Airfields, magazines, factories and have been hit.

and bou before and after the raid Liberal M.P. for the North Corn barracks. As aircraft dive down to bomb these objectives they would the British fighter airplanes would wall division since 1932, died be sprayed with shells like water lake their own tull of the enemy recently in London. He was 66.

from a hosepipe,

busts. The fearful wastage inflicted by the guns would be heavily in-

All these guns, except the 4.5, are creased. mobile.

ONE IN FOUR HITS * Two factors have brought about

the Increased efficiency of these gur

the accuracy of modern predictors,

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CLOUDS HELP US Finally consider the height factor. Weather experts state that on 300 days out of the year clouds make it impossible for bombers to fly over

Sir Francis was found dead in bed by a valet at Brook's Club, St James's-street, S.W. He had been medically attruded for tluce or four years for heart trouble, and no in- quest will be held,

ON SHOW

UNIQUE exhibits, illustrating vividly the first uncer-

tain steps towards the establishment of two of the most important features of modern life-aviation and photography-were recently shown in London.

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Three historic aeroplanes were added to the collection of old. machines at the Science Museum (writes the Air Correspondent).

They have been louned to the Bleriot crossed the Channel earlier museum by Mr. R. G. J. Nash, of the that year. International Horseless Carringe Com- pany, at Brooklands, racing driver Sir Francis, the 14th holder of the and pilot, who specialises in collect- England at a height over 15,000 feet.title, first entered the House of Com-

Experts believe that the highest bombers can fly and bomb with any mons as M.P. for the Richmond divi- in and restoring old bicycles, motor- necurmey given good weather is 27,000 sion of Yorkshire 33 years ago. Later cars und neroplanes.

he represented North-West Cornwall feet.

and Tiverton, as well as the present constituency.

So with a ceiling of 30,000 feet the enemy is well within range of our

guns.

MISSED HIS CHANCE His heir is Mr. Richard Thomas

Barnstaple division of Devon since 1935. He is 32.

Fought In Indian Dyke Aend, Liberal M.P., for the

Mutiny At 16

He was 98,

—Sir Francis__was_Under-Secretory.

COL. GEORGE CHRYSTIE for Foreign Affairs, will Sir Edward one of the two survivors of Grey as his chief, when war was de: the Indian Mutiny, died at Farn-clared in 1914. ham, Surrey, recently.

Hi appointment in 1915 to the financial secretaryship to the Treasury The only other Indian Muliny sur-indleated, according to tradition, that vivor now is Mr. C. J. Palmer, who he was regarded as a future Chan- lives in British Columbiu.

cellor of the Exchequer, but the Col. Chrystie was the oldest officer Liberals' loss of power robbed him In the British Army, and his name is of high Parliamentary office. still in the

List. Army

In his big house at Farnham he had collection of swords, daggers, knives' heads and skins which he brought back ago.

"AS A PROTEST"

Sir Francis, whose country seat was at Killerton, Exeter, was large

FLOWN ON SHOW

Fitted with a 25 hp. engine, the tittle monoplane, built of wood, wire and canvas, had a maximum speed of

15 m.pin.

The second Bleriot is a super affair - racing monoplane which had a Some of these pre-war and war-speed of 130 km. an hour with a 50 time aeroplanes he has flown at fly-h.p. Gnome rotary engine. 11 ing meetings, providing startling con- flown by Gustav Hamel at trasts with modern machines.

Two of the three 'machines now to be seen for the first time are Bleriot) monoplanes,

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THE FAMOUS CAMEL Third machine is a Sopwith Cumel, one of the most famous single-seat "One" the Bleriot flown by the fighters.of.the war. Nearly 6,000 of them were bullt during 1917-18. French pilot Leon Molon at the first They had synchronised twin machine aviation meeting at Doncaster in 1000, guns and a speed of 113 m.p.h. is similar to that in which Louis

The Nash exhibit is completed by a fuselage of a Fokker D VII., one former secretary, Miss Constance of the most famous of German figh- Dudley-Sir Franels announced that ters and rival of the Carnel. he ceased to be a member of the Church of England, and was joining the Society of Friends as a protest against the Church's attitude towards divorce,

from India 70 years land-owner and an expert agricul- tates a by-election in North Cornwall

The Colonel was. ensign at the time Mutiny.

Most treasured possession of the museum is the original Wright biplane in which Orville. Wright made the first flight in a man-carrying power- | driven acroplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1003.

The death of Sir Francis necessi-

Directly behind it is the Super- where his majority at the 1935 Gen- cral Election was 830 against a Con- marine SGB Schneider monoplane, In December, 1937, a

Britain the few days servative opponent who polled 18,036| which won for

world before his second marriage-to Jils vote to his 16,872, ·

speed record at 407 m.ph. in 1931.

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NINTH

ANNUAL

AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION

June-September, 1939

$250

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PRIZES

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(Donated by "Hongkong Telegraph”)

TWO SILVER TROPHIES, VALUED $250 (Donated by ILFORD, Ltd., London) SEND YOUR ENTRIES IN NOW CLOSING DATE & TIME:

29th SEPT. AT 5 P.M.

THE ILFORD TROPHIES WILL BE AWARDED TO THE BEST AND SECOND BEST ENTRIES IN 'THE COMPETITION, IRRESPECTIVE OF CLASS.

Prizes will be allotted as follows: SECTION ONE:

For Story-Telling Pictures. ist. $30. 2nd. $15. 3rd. $10.

SECTION TWO: General Pictorial Section: Landscapes, Seascapes, Architectural, Street Scenes, etc.

1st. $30. 2nd. 315. 3rd. $10. -

SECTION THREE:: Poriraits, Informal Close-ups, Human- Studies.

1st. $30. 2nd, $15. 3rd. $10. SECTION FOUR:

Sull Life and Table-Top Studies. 1st. $30. 2nd. $15. 3rd. $10. SECTION FIVE: Snapshots taken by children under fourteen years. 1st. $15. 2nd. $10. ård. ́$5.

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1The Competition is conflued ex- clusively to amateur photo- Fraphers

1-No employee or member of any Arm in the photographio trade, is permitted to compote.

3-The prizes will be awarded to the competitors sending in what are adjudged to be the best photo- -graphs-in-east-Beolón..........Kach. entry must be accompanied by a form which will be published during the period, of the Cam- petition, and which raust parted on back of entry.

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