1939-06-29 — Page 2

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

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 which iny the guns so that the shell take the terror out of air raids: is fired to the point the aircraft will have renched by the time the shell

1.-4.5ln. gun on a permanent con-has taken to travel through the air)

erele emplacement, firing 851b. up to the enemy, and the increase in shell at a rate of nine per minute. the effective area of the bursting These guns, the heaviest of the shell. anti-aircraft guns, con fire up to 30,000ft. Each shell has an effec- tive radius of 100 yards-that is to say any alreraft within a hun dred yards of one of its shells when it bursts would be brought down. The guns would be fired in groups of four,

2.-3.7in. gun on mobile mounting, This is the standard AA, gun. It can also fire to a ceiling of 35,000 ft.. but

8 rate of 12 per minute. The shell weighs 30lb. and has an effective radius of 60 yards. 3-3in. gun Aring 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 aircraft up above 10,000ft. and so lessen the necuracy of their bombing.

4-40mm. mobile light anti-aircraft gun firing 21b, self-detonating shells at a rate of 160 n minute to a height at 5,000f1. These guns are the equivalent of the Navy's pom- poms. They would be used like machine-guas with tracer bullets, to protect strategic points such as airfields, magazines, factories and barracks. As aircraft dive down to

bomb these objectives they would

be sprayed with shells like water from a hosepipe.

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

It is reckoned that 25 per cent. of the shells fred make hits, Such

is the

the concentration of Are trom these batteries that once within range no rolding airplane could main- tain its speed and direction for more than 43 seconds,

The raider would have to start diving, twisting and zig-zagging, and this would render aimed bombing }practicnlly impossible.

WILL FIND, TARGET

To bomb with any accuracy the pilot must bring his airplane to an even keel and constant speed before he can use his bomb-sights and re- |lease, his bombs

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

President Roosevelt, left, and President Anastasió Somoza sign agreement, in President's office, Washington, extending, $3,000,000 in credits to Nicaragua. In rear are Secretaries, Hull and Morgen- thau, Dr. Reyes and Dr. De Dayle of Nicaragua,

AVIATION'S TREASURES

In that time four anti-aticraft M.P. Dies In Famous

gons, working from one predictor, will have fired 36 shells at the air- plane. Before the minute has elapsed the airplane is bound to have been hit.

London Club

Sir Francis Dyke Acland,

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UNIQUE exhibits, illustrating vividly the first uncer-

tain steps towards the establishment of two of the Liberal M.P. for the North Corn-most important features of modern life-aviation and the British fighter airplanes would wall division since 1982, died photography-were recently shown in London,

And both before and after the raldi

take their own toll of the enemy recently in London. He was 65. hosts. The fearful wastage inflicted by the guns would be heavily in-

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

ONE IN FOUR HITS Two factors have brought about the increased efficiency of these guns the accuracy of modern predictors,

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CLOUDS HELP US Finally consider the height factor. days out of the year clouds make it Weather experts state that on 300 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 silended for three or four years for heart trouble, and no in- quest will be held.

Sir Francis, the 14th holder of the England at a height over 15,000 feet.

Experts believe that the highest title, first entered the House of Com- bombers can fly and bomb with any nons as M.P. for the Richmond divi- accuracy given good weather is 27,000 sion of Yorkshire 33 years ago. Later [feet.

he represented North-West Cornwall So with a ceiling of 30,000 feet the and Tiverton, as well as the present enemy is well within range of our constituency. guns.

MISSED HIS CHANCE His helr is Mr. Richard Thomas Barnstaple division of Devon since 1935. He is 32.

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

Mutiny At 16

COL GEORGE CHRYSTIE

Sir Francis was Under-Secretary for-Foreign Affairs, with 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.

He was 98.

The only other Indian Mutiny sur vivor now is Mr. C. J. Palmer, who lives in British Columbia.

In his big house at Farnham he had

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

They have been loaned to the Bleriot crossed the Channel earlier) museum by Mr. R. G. J. Nash, of the that year. International Horseless Carriage Com-

Fitted with a 25 h.p. engine, the pany, at Brooklands, racing driver little monoplane, built of wood, wire and pilot, who specialises in collect- and canvas, had a maximum speed of

and restoring old bleycles, motor-15 m.

cars and aeroplanes.

The second Blerlot is a super affair FLOWN ON SHOW

- racing monoplane which had a Some of these pre-wor and war-speed of 130 km. an hour with a 50 time acroplanes he has flown at fly-k.p. Gnome rotary engine. It was ing meetings, providing startling con- flown by Gustav Hamel trasts with modern machines.

church in 1911.

be seen for the first time are Bleriot monoplanes..

Two of the three-machinca now to

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One -the-Bleriot-flown-by-the French pilot Leon Molon at the Arst aviation meeting at Doncaster In 1000, is similar that in which Louls

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THE FAMOUS CAMEL Third machine is n Sopwith Camel, one of the most famous single-seat Aghters of the war. Nearly 0,000-of They had synchronised twin machine. them were built during 1017-18. guns and a speed of 113 m.p.h.

His appointment in 1915 to the financial secretaryship to the Treasury

The Nash exhibit is completed by Indicated, according to tradition, that former

a fuselage of a Fokker D VII., one he was regarded as a future Chan- Dudley-Sir Francis announced that ters and rival of the Camel.

secretary, Misa Constance of the most famous of German figh- cellor of the Exchequer, but the he ceased to be a member of the Col. Chrystie was the oldest officer Liberals' loss of power robbed hilm Church of England, and was joining In the British Army, and his name is of high Farliamentary office.

Most treasured possession of the still in the Army List.

the Society of Friends as a protest museum is the original Wright biplane against the Church's attitude towards in which Orville Wright made the divorce.

Arst flight in a man-carrying power- Sir Francis, whose country seat was

The death of Sir Francis necessi- North Carolina, in 1903.

driven aeroplane at Kitty Hawk, land-owner and an expert agricul- where his majority at the 1035 Gen- at Killerton, Exeter, was

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tates a by-election in North Cornwalli

the Directly behind it is Super- cral Election was 838 against Con-marine SOB Schneider monoplane, In December, 1937, 1 few days servative opponent who polled 16,030 which won for Britain the world before his second marringe to his vote to his 16,872.

speed record at 407 m.p.h, in 1931.

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ago.

The Colonel was 16-year-old ensign at the time of the Indian Mutiny.

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COMPETITION

June-September, 1939 CASH

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