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ABSENCE

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WEIGHTY FACTS FOR GOERING

By Major F. A. de V. Robertson LONDON.

One lo constantly asked why there has hitherto been no wisole-hearted air action by the bomber forces of either side. As regards our own reasons we cannot go beyond whist the Prime Minister said in his broadcast recently, Our bomber force will be used at the proper time that is to say, when it can be used with the greatest effect.

A

is a sort of general bomber force reserve and la the most flexible of all arms. When a land battle is in progress its proper function is to attack the back areas of the enemy's army and hamper the moving up of reinforcement and munitions. It can at a moment's notice be awliched over to attack factories and indun- trial areas. It can help the fleet,.bs the RAF. did when I raided

Willicimshaven and badly damaged the Graf Spee, and ns the Germans the tried to do when they raided Firth of Forth.

Our own bomber force, already strong, rows stronger every day as the factories turn out more machines and the training schools turn out more crews. When the time comes to use it it will be a very formidable striking force.

The German Air Forco As for the Germans' abstention from mass attocks on Britain and France, one can only make conjec- tures. But it is remarkable that,' whereas the German Navy has abandoned all the rules of civilised warfare, the German Air Force has hitherto scrupulously respected them the Polish cam- -since the end paign, apart from the dropping of mines by paruchute. There

have

been no attempts to bomb residential areas, and in the raids on convoys the bombs have almost certainly been aimed at the naval escort ships quite legitimate targets--and not at the merchantmen.

be It may

that the Germon authorities

alive to the are fully vulnerability of their country. The Ruhr, for instance, on which about 00 per cent of Gerinan henvy indus- trics are based, is very vulnerable; and it may be that so far the Ger- mans have shrunk from provoking great competition in bombing pene- Lice.

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They muy conceivably also restrained by tactical considerations. There is not the least doubt that in both bombers and fighters the Ger- man Air Force is less well equipped than tho RAF. Taking bombers first. we have adopted the polley that bombers must be able to defend themselves, and, realising the dif- Aculty of holding a machine-gun stendy in the rush of air at the pre- sent speeds of aircraft, we have Atted our bombers with gun turrets which are operated by the power of the engines, so that the gunner can swing his gun and himself in any direction without exertion.

December 18, 1939...

Somewhere

in France

SECRETS of the transport of the British Expeditionary Force-revealed by Mr. Hore- Belisha, Secretary for War, In the House of Commons.

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25,000 VEHICLES including tanks, weighing fifteen tons or

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First Man To Fight In Air

Mexican Battle Recalled

not The German bombers have got-power-operated turrets. They decided that bombers must rely on

NORFOLK, (UP) Capt. evasion, and they have speed and been proved wrong. They coanot Patrick N. L. Bellinger, com- bent off our fighters, wille our manding officer of the U.S. bombers have frequently driven off Naval air station here, piloted German Bghters and

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have been a great success, greater Vera Cruz during the Mexican trouble even than we had hoped. The Ger- in 1914, Bellinger's Curties pusher covered tins man fighters have only four guns, seaplane was hit by bullets fred by keep the tobacco

since the French rap-

and ground troops. tured

Messerschmitt

combat against Bellinger also is believed to be the it in inock tested their own machines we have learnt first aviator to attack enemy soldiers that it is a bad aeroplane. Both the from the air, even though the "bomb" Curtiss and the Morane proved their he dropped was a cuke of soup. Bel-C. INGENOHL'SCIGAR STORES "LA PERLA DEL ORIENTE” superiority the Messerschmitt, andlinger became angry, when ground we know that the Hurricane is better troups fired at his ship and he threw than elther of the French fighters, at them the first thing he could lay All these considerations may well his hands on-a cake of soap.

glve pause to Field Marshal Goering.

Of course designers are busy on

appear,

The incident involving his plane

both sides. We must expect better when he first was shot at ia men- but tioned in a recently published book, German types

"Navy Men," by James Connolly, an we shall also have bolter types to meet them. Finally, there is a dif-old shipmate of Bellinger. ference in the men. There is con- scription for the German Air Force. but none for the R.A.F.

U.S. Labour Wants German Boycott

CINCINNATI:

It was not unti Bellinger had landed that he realised what a close call he had. Examination of the ship revealed three holes, bored by bul- lets in the fuselage of the plane.

The purpose of Bellinger's hopa over Mexico were for observation.

Flying a plane in those days was a tough job. The old seaplane be Blew had a top speed of about 60 miles an hour and its ceiling was

about 1,000 feet.

A recommendation that the trade union boycott against German and Italian goods be reaffirmed is made Fighting back was almost out of In the annual report of the American the question. Keeping the plane in Federation of Labour, issued to-day, the air required all the pilot's time.

Many descendants of the old pusher

"We protest," it says, "against the persecution of minorities in the totall-type seaplane now are under Bellin- ger's command. But these craft, with tarlay nations. We protest against their incredible speed, remarkable rncial persecution and the develop- ment of racial hate. We plend for the substitution of freedom, de- mocracy and tolerance among all the people in all nations throughout the world."

"We favour our nation offering our mediation servicea for peace," it states, "and we hope that the war- ring countries may be prevailed upon to accept them.

manoeuvrability und bristling guns. bear little resemblance to their an- ecstors.

CHRISTMAS CAROLS

The auditorium of Ilop Yat Church was filed to its capacity on Saturday evening when the joint choirs of and Hap Yat Church presented a choral concert. The programme was two parts, the first comprising Creation," by selections from "The Haydn, and the second, a variety of Christmas carols.

It la amphasised that the report Christ Church's Mandarin Service was drafted before Germany's "peace offenalvo" opened, and the Federn tion is therefore in no way support, ing Hitler's attempt to bring about the end of hostilities,

NEW YEAR FIREWORKS

Merrymakers greeting the New Year will not be hampered, by res- trictions on the use of fireworks as permission, has been given for fre works to be discliarged from 11,45, pm, on December 31 to 12.15 am, on January 1

The recital will be repeated on December 20 at St. Andrew's Church. UNIVERSITY CONCERT The Hongkong University will hold its annual Christmas Carol Concert In the Great Hall of the University at 0 p.m. next-Sunday, December 21..

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