1939-12-20 — Page 23

NANCY

"FOR NANCY--

DO NOT OPEN

UNTIL CHRISTMAS!""

WOLSEY,

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

December 20, 1939.

By Ernie Bushmiller

Dear Presi lent Rooswelt.

How about moving Christmas ahead

like you did with Thanksgiving?

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800-A-Minute Deadly

Hail of

The Bren Gun

By IAN MACKAY

BRENTOWN.

NOV-17

I DESCRIBED recently how British and Dominion journalists watched a great 14-inch iron-lunged monster hurling à ton of steel at a sandbank 300yds. away.

To-day we saw a murderous little spitfire which a boy could sling over his shoulder peppering a target with third-of-an-inch-long bullets at the rate of 700 or 800 a

minute.

This was the famous Bren gun, which the Czechs invented to Save their freedom but were never allowed to use,

It is an Incredibly simple thing to watch in action, but, in reality, a more complicated mechanism never emerged from the mind of man. It consists of.

172 parts which require 3,174 here, not in the workshops, but in separate operations to create the drawing offices.

Everywhere I went to-day I came and 4,987 different gauges to across bottles of milk on benches, perfect.

even in the smithy. I naked the Factory Superintendent about 11, and Perhaps the most remarkable fen- he said they sell about 4,000 bottles ture of this wonderful weapon is a day to the workers. that the first bullet to leave the muzzle fires all the rest. The gas produced by the first explosion sets all the others going,

Non-Stop Hail

One result has been a surprising reduction in the number of cases of influenzo.

The condition of the men is very good, although some are showing signs of strain, particularly since the black-out which, I was told, has n bad psychological effect.

One last picture of this great

Every gun has EL space barrel which can in one movement be sub- stituted for. the first when it gets hot, thus ensuring: a continuous hall of small-arms workers. A river runs bullets.

through it, and during their rest

As I stood in the proof butts, my period the workers amuse themselves ears stopped with cotton wool, and by feeding the swans at the foot of watched the vicious thing spraying waterfall.

up fountains in the sand, I wondered

how it could be possible for even the most fearless of men to stand up against it for more than a second or two.

But even more remarkable than its performance is the magic of its malding. Among the Instruments used to produce it are micrometers which mensure parts to one-millionth of un inch. In case this figure is incanlag less to you, it may help you to grasp} it when I say that by comparison human halz (1/2,500 of an would look like a telegraph-pole.

need

Fuch cosanmer

Jach)

R.A.F

Want Cheap

English Beer

By RONALD WALKER MEN of the R.A.F., battling accuracy will be understood with rain, mud and cold, havo say that in testing the Bren barrel aa great grievance. They have flaw of 1/10,000 of an inch makes been badly let down on the all the difference whether the bullet Home Front. leaves the gun or jams the whole works.

Smithy Sensations

Just how serious the position is I discovered when I went into a N.A.A.FI, canteen to-day and found that the only English beer obtainable Then there are great air hammers costs six francs, approximately Ed, to pounding the white-hot steel into Bd. a bottle, holding just over half a shape. And there are dreadful red pint.

caverns and Incandescent furnaces Weeks agu, back in London, I read where the Ingots are cooked and the brave news that some 4,000,000 rousted by "devils" in dungarees who bottles of beer had been shipped out stand all day in the glare of the to the troops in France. That ap- ovens prodding away with long pears to be quite true, as English pronged forks,

bottled beer is now on sale at 50 In the smithy I had an eerie feel-N.A.A.F.I. canteens, ing that every time an oven door opened Virgil and Dante would step

More Than Champagna

out to ask why poor mankind was But beer at this price is too expen- still engaged or its endless but detersive for the men. English beer is a mined task of wiping itself out,

luxury here, costing much more than Important though it is, the Bren champagne.

gun in not the only product of this Because this is a land of plenty, it place. Vickers machine-guns—still is all the more irritating to the troops the standard machine-gun of the to find that the beer in their own British Army-and Lewis guns are canteens is so dear, and that they also being turned out in large quan-|cannot afford to buy it. tities, including special types for the French beer, to which the men Navy, nnt aircraft and for tanks. have not yet become accustomed, Then there is the new .38 Enfield costs 3d. a glass. They drink the pistol, much lighter than the old 455 French product, and oye the British used in the last war, but equally battles behind the counter, sadly. deadly.

One reason for the high cost of our own beer in the bottle. The con- Boys Best For The Job

sumer has to pay for the bottle, One of the most interesting fea-which is not sent back. This was tures of Bren production is that the explained to me by an officer in springs of the gun are made by boys, charge of beer supplies, but he falled as it was found that their nimble to explain why beer should not be ingers were best adapled to the sent out in barrels or metal

tainers to quench British thirsts nt Girls are also doing splendid work the right price.

work.

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and

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