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The R.A.F.

LET US take a look at this Royal Air Force whose “paper bullets" dropped over a wide area in Ger- many will have a more devastating effect on the Hiller regime than all. the bombs it is capable of hurling on German heads.

How does it stand now in men and machines? The answer will encourage the Democracies. Bri- tons have every reason to take com- fort in our air strength.

From

1935 to early 1937 Ger- man bebera were superior to those of the R.A.F. in speed, range and bomb load. To-dny Britain's Intest aircraft surpass the corres- ponding German typea i both flying range and homb load.

The speeds of the two are said to be about the same, but the operational value of the British machine is far superior.

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September 7, 1939.

It Means a Lot to be

FIRST LORD

Mr. Winston Churchill is the new First Lord of the Admiralty. He will get £5,000 a year with luxurious house). The magnificent Admiralty yacht, the Enchantress, will be at his disposal.

He Gets

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sidence in London-

a yacht which a millionaire might envy-

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his own wircless station.

The salary probably seems attractive to you, but a good First Lord carns and spends every penny of it. He is the representative of the Navy in Parliament, res- ponsible for the direction and supervision of all naval matters, with power to promote and discharge, recom- mend honours and awarda.

He is very much of the Boss of the British Navy. His responsibility is so great that he has a little Cabinet of his own, the Board of Admiralty, to advise and direct him. Though ho is not compelled to take the Board's advice--he usually does. On the Board aft Bri- tain's Son Lords-first, second, third, fourth, and the recently appointed fifth-the big executives of the Navy,

Even in the Cabinet his position is enviable. is one of the most powerful of Ministers,

In Room 40

. he

The house that goes with the job is a much finer place than either No. 10 or No. 11, Downing-street. It stands at the south-east corner of the Admiralty build- ing in Whitehall. Its rooms are spacious and beauti- fully furnished. The drawing-room has unique furni ture--chairs, tables, couches with legs and arms carved in the shape of dolphins, Lord Nelson's body once rested there..

A connecting door links the houso with the Ad- miralty itself. The First Lord has access to every room in this, London's most exciting building. There is Room 10, for instance, the eyes and ears of the world.

Here cipher wireless messages, intercepted from the enemy, were decoded during the war. To-day the Ad- miralty's most trusted and talented men sit there, linked by radio with the ships and ports of the seven seas. Messages, secret and confidential, pass through their hands. They are just a few of the First Lord's 4,000 staff.

There is the superb Admiralty library, too, if the First, Lord feels like rending. Not ordinary reading, though. A hundred thousand books and documents giving details of almost every naval engagement ever fought. Charts and maps and plans to bewilder you.

His Yacht

And if you want to get away from the stuffy air of Whitehall there is the yacht already mentioned. It is a a long-standing tradition that the First Lord is free to use the yacht as he wishes in the performance of his duties.

The Exchantress is finer than any rich man's ship. It is the Admiralty afloat, equipped, as the cinema pos- ters say, "regardless of expense,”

The First Lord has a busy job. There are dinners, banquets, luncheons to přeside at, speeches to make and naval manoeuvres to attend. There are admirals to interview apd inventions to be considered. There is the all-important question of the £ sd of running the Navy. And, finally, there is the task of telling Parliament and, through Parliament, the people all about it.

Members delight in asking difficult questions about the Navy The First Lord has to answer them.

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25 Years Ago

The

At

Gates Of Paris

Anniversary Of The Marne

It was on the morning of Sunday, September 6, 1914, that Poris knew that something had happened which would decide the fate of the war.

For three days von Kluck's Army had been within striking distance of the capital; for three days we had. waited for the sound of gunfire from the forts, signifying that the alinck had begun. And now It was not coming;

it was quite clear that it not coming. พล.ท

Gallion's brici communique, collected late on Satur-

day night from the Press Bureau in the Rue de Grenelle, hnd TH ns follows:-

The German Army is still moving away from Paris and continuing the movement entered on two days ago.

follows from the Information re- ceived that the enemy's troops have evacuated the Compiegne-Senlis dis-

We had known nothing about the movement away from Paris, but that made the news all the mare declalve. Something had happened. The Ger- man Army, which a week before had been in full march through Com- piegne and Senlis for the gates of Parks, had found something to take it elsewhere. "Ah," said the street gossips, "nous verrons, nous verrons, bientot quelque chose,"

Paris in those days lay as though hypnotized. The terrible reality of the invasion and come upon it Fo swiftly as to be almost unrealizable. The writer, then a member of the Paris staff of The Times, had left France about August 20 for a short visit to Englund. Fighting on the Belginn frontier was then still con- fined to skirmishes. The name Mons was still unfamiliar. A short ten days later, on Sunday. August 30, he returned to France.

The train from Boulogne was four hours Inte in starting and the chef de pare would not guarantee Before that it would get to Parts,

It had reached Abbeville was crowded to roof and doorstep with refugees from Belgium, from Lille, from every town in the Pas-de-Calais, soldiers and civilians together. It

took

10 hours to reach Paris. Crowds were gathered at every little railway station and level crossing through Normandy to ask, for news from the north as the train rolled slowly by. All through the night, at one junction after another, we were held up to let troop-train after troop-train pass, all moving south.

In Paris everything was in a hub- bub. Everybody seemed to be teny- Ing. The railway stations at the Quai were pack-

d'Orsay and Montruggling

ed with helpless

for places in the trains, People poured left on to the river steamers, and without knowing where they would No get to. It was swelteringly hot one knew where the Germans were. The official news placed

them

at Noyon, but a chance acquaintance who had come

me that morning from Compiegne testifled to having seen British sappers blow up the stone bridge over the Olse, That meant that the retreat was still in progress, and Compiegne was only 30 miles. away.

THE FIRST BOMBS-

of the troops (Incidentally, in many On the following day, about

place of bombs it could fly non-step and appraising facts of value about Sir., Michael Bruce cases it had ibis effect) but was a o'clock, a German aeroplane appeared

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of bombardment, and it made no Captein XXX, who is in charge of What happened was this. A great impression. The bombs were What can be the use of these facts transport at a port, is a secret drug young offleer, either home on leave obviously not much bigger than 6- should a war be declared? And in taker, or that Major YYY at the or recovering from a wound usually pounder shells, and did little

damage.. this work necessary among countries War Omee gambles heavily and is drift to the West End, and many

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Regiment after regiment of The answer to the first question weaknesses. It is the collecting of marvellous headache cure. A few African tiralleurs, Senogalese,

and is naturally, the absolute know this type of knowledge that becomes closes, and the boy began to find he Chausseurs d'Afrique, were moving wanted this cure more frequently. out to the north. It was the Tunis ledge of a country is extremely use so important. ful in the case of invasion. Not

These boys were picked from different the Before the war,

division which German

had been rushed only the details that can be found

regiments and brigades. Later, be- the day before by rull from Mor- thousands of fore they returned to France, the sellies. This looked like a change in ardnance maps, but those of Secret Service had

the men employed as wailers and bar agent told them that they could pro- tactics. The men were in splendid supplies, timber, crops,

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The disclosed performances of on British bombers at prosent are of thousand und one details that an men all over the world; thousands of cure these "cures" if they wrote to condition and gave promise of hned

on the march must know. women working as governesses and him,

telling him machines fitted with two engines, | army

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prise to come. Inside, Paris each

there about 1,000 horse-power. parts of a spy's work is the obtain collected for more useful knowledge they

were going, 13 is had were no morning newspapers to be in France who would had. The Government had left the More powerful engines are in the ing of the codes used by various than the man who wandered about they

countries. These are sent to skilled the countryside with a camera and a friend

bring the "cures" to the line.day before for Bordeaux. Everything now types of machines. The extra omcials who are trained in the art sketch book.

Officers were allowed 10 censor in the way of an authority thất was Let us suppose that A., o large their power is being applied to the carry- codes, and against them there is al-manufacturing country, is likely at very small proportion of them were The Allied Embassies and all news-

of decoding. Even spics usually use

own letters, and only anot military had gone with them.. ing of heavier loads of bomb ways working the "counter-espion- any time to go to war with B., a

as important a branch of a country that relies on its agriculture that, in the case of any large move walls was posted the first proclama- opened at the base. The result was poper offices were closed. On the faster speeds.

age country's service as that of Intelli- for its wealth. A will naturally These are typical examples of the genge itself.

want to know, besides the essentials ment of troops or a big concentration of General Gallient Spying has another role in times of the strength of B's forces, the tion, it was easy to forecast where has attained in invention and con- of peace, that is the knowledge of dopots for coal, fuel, and the main an attack was to be launched, and task of defending Paris from the in

how

Enemy or probable sources of supply: the exact amount to make a pretty good gucas at the vader. That task i shall fulfil to the

number of divisions and unlis tak-end, enemy, even an allied country, can or munitions stored and being or ing part.

So there was to be a siege. turn her factories, workshops, and capable of being manufactured; and resources into those supplying muni the routes by which raw materials addicted to the drug that he would Over a million of its inhabitants, and Later, should the boy become so Parls now became a curious place.. tions of war. Here is the real work will be brought into the country.

This knowledge will have to be do anything to obtain it, a slight they the best-to-do, had left. The of the spy. The photographing of

days of peace, in order pressure was often put upon him boulevards und the fashionable troops, dying grounds, and barracks gained in ing provided to the world, but than a work given to the beginner to test that A's forces can conimence their and he actually became an unwitting streets in the centre were deserted.

him out. The only value this can be aerial

the organisation that was respons. You could look down the Avenue de has been a tremendous speed-up of is the fore-knowledge of the amount against 'e ports and deputs ss002 ble for this branch of activigova Opera at maldday, and not count new construction during the past of machines which could be massed war commences. B will likewise

The terrace of the and equipped at these grounds in want to know the food supplier to A, discovered and squashed at a very dozen people or more than a couple times of emergency...

and the amount of food she is cap chrly stage, not before they had of vehicles. A week before the war started,

able of storing. These factors: WIB brought about the death of several Cafe de la Paix and Tourtel's were empty. The famous restaurants had be B's weak points.

boys who, rather than betray their hardly 250 orthodox firms and 3,500 sub- "The Black Book"

a single diner. The oyster contract firms were making aircraft, Perhaps the most sinister of all some of the most concentrated work

It is interesting to remember that own country, had taken their lives sanson had just begun; barrels of the

in their own hands.

finest Marennes were displayed on The number to-day almost cer- spy's work and the work calling for done by spies during the war, was Splas are not cowards. They the counter at Prunier's, and there tainly greater. The joint Anglo- the most brains combined with not in the belligerent countries, a work like moles, underground, he was nobody to eat them. After D French aircraft construction ex- complete knowledge of humanity, ceeded the German output. as long the section which femployed to might be imagined, but in America, streng trying or weakening the o'clock, at night there was not a soul

Sweden, Holland,

of their opponents. They in the streets, except the patrols of and Det face trial, imprisonment, and death the Municipal Guarda Meanwhile, ago as June. It was boasted then find out and exploit the weaknesses These countries were the sources of face that, at any time, British and

to the combatants, and it was for their own countries, knowing the life of the bumbler. cinzees went in opponents' runkkat

suppl importance. for either alde that should they bo discovered none French output of new machines Years ago there was a great libel of could, at instant notice, double that case in which the words "The Black to on quietly and normally, but it was village than price of failure is shame. They suc-more like the life of Book", occurred very frequently. It side was running short. of German factorles...

ceed--and was stated that the Germans had a Drugs for: Young Officers

only they and those of a great city. Every one gossiped British aircraft, output. last June book

ever hear of with every one else. In the absence, directly above them the hames of nearly

man of newspapers, the greengrocer, and was 1,000 planos, a month; Lee every important and public person At the beginning of the last war their success. than three years ago it was at the in Britain, and against these names a large amount of drugs wis belnur No rewards no honours come the milkman, who were in dolly rate of only about 400 in 12 months were their habita, vices, and re-imported into Britain. These were their way. Only the knowledge that touch with people from outsidej, be-,

Way handed to agents who, using still they have served their country as came the chief sources of new. - It is a diabeartening achieve marks on their characters.

There is no doubt that some sort further, agents, passed them on to well as and perhaps even better than After the fearful furry, of the past. ment from the German point of of book does exist in every couns young officers. This was not done another one, who led on army or few days, with the bulletins from the

ASTER PLEASE Turn To Pare 8. try's records. It would be extreme-l'with any idea of reducing the morale captured a citadel.

twelve months.

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