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NAZIS' BIG
hot air BLUFF
by WILLI FRISCHAUER
two. EALLY there are German air-forces. One has been "built up" by Goebbels and has been used to frighten small States into surrender, and to threaten the British people with Blitzkrieg from the air.
What of the other; the real Nazi air force, which Goering described as "colossal, "terrific and "un- paralleled in the history of avia- tion"
Council of Empire NO event has been more grati-
fying to the British public/ during recent weeks than the spontaneous and loyal manner in which the Dominions and the lesser units of the British Com- monwealth have ranged them- selves on the side of the Mother Country.
"Since the Nazis'came ́into power The Dominions, as indepen-aircraft production was steadily in- creased until, at the beginning of dent States, had to decide each 1930, the strength of the Nazi air- for itself what line it should force was estimated at about 300 squadrons of nine planca each, take,
There was in the case of with an average of Ave reserve
planes for each squadron. South Africa some hesitancy,
Approximately half are bombers bomber but there can be little doubt that experts speak of 170
squadrons. General Smuts, when he decided to keep in line with the other! Dominions, fulfilled the desire of a large proportion, probably u majority, of the people of the Union.
ELIABLE information shows that there were 50 aircraft factories in Germany before the war. In these factories 200,000 people, a third of them women, were employed, work- ing between 52 and 60 hours per week.
An official German source ad-
mitted in 1938 that the monthly του production was output of planes, a figure which could be in- creased by one-third in war time.
Now all the Dominions have but one desire and resolve to contribute to the Allied victory in the manner that is most likely to be effective. This finds ex- pression in the decision, to form in London what may be called n Council of Empire, for consulta tion and co-ordination, on which each Dominion will be represent-German designs for modern air-
led by a Cabinet Minister.
Grent as was the Dominions' contribution to victory in the last war, there can be little doubt that their part will be still more decisive in this war. In a struggle of endurance thoy may easily turn the scales in Britain's favour. During the past quar- ter of a contury their industrial development has gone steadily ahead. Far from possible inter-
ruption by enemy attack, they can make aeroplanes and other And the food war material. supplies they can send us will be invaluable,
The foundation of this produc- tion was laid in Russia around 1923, when Germany was still under the restrictions of the Versailles Treaty,) and not, allowed to produce war planes at home.
German engineers travelled sec- retly to Russia, taking with them
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craft. Soon experimental produc- tion was started and intensified. Finally, Germany's biggest aircraft producers, Junkers, established a branch on Russian soll.
Then underground factorios were established in Germany, where secret air rearmament went on and to-day Junkers, with headquarters in Dessau, near Berlin, has fac- tories in Breslau, Koethen, Leipsig and Magdeburg. Messerschmitt, Heinkel and Dornier are the firm's chlet competitors.
B
UT output is not the most vlial factor. In air efficiency.
Even before the war the boosted. Messerschmitt was viewed with distrust by foreign experts, Their suspicions were increased when Switzerland, tested five machines and, contrary to expectation, did not place a large order with the German Arm.
The Swiss teal-fights had
If Hitler thought that Britain would not fight he made a great mistake. If he assumed thai, even if we did take up arms, the made a still more serious miscal- other members of the British culation, as time is certain to Empire would hold aloof, ho prove.
proved the Messerschmitt fast and effective. But the material of the plane did not stand the strain and all five Messerschmitts returned from the testa ready-for repairs,
It is unlikely that Germany, of the under the stranglehold British blockade and lacking most of the raw materials essential for aircraft production, is now able to produce better machines.
Even if she could it would make Goering's air-force just half as formidable as he claims it to be.
A
STUDY of Germon newspapers during the last two months alo shows the dimculties of production. Junkers, Heinkel, Messerschmitt, B.M.W., and Gema are badly in need of skilled labour. Their-ad- vertisements, inviting applications for jobs, are prominently displayed
in every Nazi newspaper.
technical ingenuity has produced #Ome
aircraft highly efficient mudels, but when it comes to mass production this genius is wasted and the result inferior.
British airmen are most likely to encounter in their combats the Messerschmitt 100, provided Ave - day by Bayrische Flugzeug Werke
Augsburg.
It carries four machine guns.
in
A fghter said to be capable of 350 m.p.h., it is an excellent model. The quality of the material is excused by the Nazis with their theory that a Dghter's life in war time is not longer than 30 days.
Lighter!
ein wei
weight, but even more emcient, is the Heinkel 112, pro- duced at Germany's best equipped aircraft factory In Oranienburg.
Like many other German fac- tories, Oranienburg has a duplicate equipment underground. The Heinkel mounts six 200lb, bombs, In addition to its four machine guns,
There is also the Flying Pencil, as the Dornier 17 model called.
a long, slim and elegant bomber equipped with guns, machine-guns and heavy bombe. Its range is 1,500 miles.
The Henschel plane is chiefly used for reconnaissance work. Junkers, Blohm and Voss provide most of the other models, Dornier and Arado also produce large air- ships and waterplanes.,
Tis strange that the man
who has done most to build up the
They cannot get the men. They German Air Force for his Nazi cannot get first-class material. And lender should be of Jewish blood.
He is Erhardt Milch, a former they try to meet these deficiencies
in chemist and close frlend of with unskilled labour and ferior material. In air battles Goering. bolween British
German and
An Aryan was substituted for planes British aircraft has proved his father, who has Jewish blood superior. What such an experience in his veins, and the Aryanised the is to-day means for the morale of tho Nazi General Milch flying corps is obvious.
greatest figuro in German avia- There is no doubt that German tion-except Goering.
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Five Years Ago To-Day
Tydawn this morning French
troops re- sumed their attack on the wooded hills round Saar- bruecken, the. biggest town. in the Saar.
What exactly is the Saar- the district which has often made front-page news since the end of the war?
It is a country which has
many times.. changed hands "Only twelve-years-ngo it - wna-gar- risoned by French soldiers.
Five years ago to-day British troops (1,600 of them) were there- with Hitler's approval.
They were part of the inter- national force, preserving order dur-. ing the League of Nations plebiscite which, on January 13, 1934, gave the. Sanr back to Germany with a 02
P cent. pro-German vote.
Until Hitler came to power there was no doubt at all that there would be a 90 to 100 per cent, pro-German. vote:
But when Hitler began to show his hand, doubls, began to fester. Seventy-two per cent. of the Snar population was Roman Catholic, and under League of Nations rule the standard of life was higher than in Germany.
But the Intensity of the Nazi pro- paganda and the underground intimidation that was carried on cut down opposition.
The Nazis also collected every available German-evén' those in USA who was entitled to a vote. By this they added over 10 per cent.. to those qualified to vote.
The fact that the Roman Catholle. bishops advised the people to vote also helped to give Hitler his ma- · dority.
So Hitler had no trouble at all in winning this, his Drst fight for "one people, one State, one leader." It was the beginning of his country- which has landed. collecting habit him, and us, in war.
The Saar, noar the north of the present western front, is about the size of Surrey about the size, - too, of the free city of Danzig, al
From 1920 to 1935 the League of Nations was trustee of the Star, so that the French could take the coal as compensation for the war damage done to their own mines.
There was a Saar flag (black, white and blue) and Soar postage. stamps.
The Baar is one of the most pro- ductive industrial
areas in the
world. That is one of the reason. why the French
attack is conten-- trated on it. It produces about a tenth of Germany's coal and about a Afth of her pig-iron and steel.
On regaining the Saar Germa
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