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February 23, 1940.

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ALSACE IN THE WAR

BY RICHARD CAPELL. "Sunday Times" War Correspondent with the French Army

Between Selfort, the fortress: that guards the famous gap be- tween the Vosges and the Jura, and Mulhouse, in Alsace, there are still to be seen relies of the last war-battered pill boxes and the like.

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NEW QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

BOMBERS But We Have

Super-Fighter

GERMANY has two new-type bombers but their secrets are out already.

Bomber No. 1, a four-engined seaplane capable of carrying 20 bombs, made its first appearance when the unarmed British and steamer Highwaye was bombed

machine-gunned on Tuesday, says 趙

Homeside reporter.

ON LEAVE

-I'm sorry you haven't slept well; but at least you were not disturbed

tus.

(Orlugoire, Paria)

In 1870 Delfort gloriously with-

travel over this ground is to realise even more vividly than the maps tell you how uncomfortably close

No, but I can't stand the tick-tock the frontiers of

that beastly clock. the peace of 1871 brought the Germans to this gateway to the interior of France when in 1914 it had again to be defended. The "Bei- fort Gap" is, geographically speaking, what it always was, but, militarily speaking, how comfortable is the position as established by the peare of 1019!

Belfort, the much, tried and the much besieged, can survey the new war with a lordly sense of security. The bastions of the mountains to left and right serve the fortress as

as they have always done; but the eastern line of defence is now fung for for ward. It is the Rhine, and the Rhine to-day is a barrier against the Inva- der such as it has never been from the down of time. A War of Toil

An invitation from the Army which guards this front afforded an opportunity of seeing in much detail the fortified lines and of appraising the spirit of the troops. The work done in the last few months has. 10 Dut it in general terms, made as- surance doubly and trebly sure. !! has been a war not of fighting but of incessant taborious toil

Nothing more different from 1014 is conceivable, and it would falsify the picture not to mention that one has fairly often heard sighs for the

opportunity of winning glory and re- It is a dull war; by compari- hown. son the front in

in Lorraine and in the Northern Vosges is adventurous. But this war, which for the rank and Ale consists so largely of sheer navvying, has revealed in the French soldier a prodigious capacity for dogged work. What he has here accomplished in these uneventful and tedious months

mount

this-willo hly to German invasion of Alsace in Scp- tember would have been hazardous, It would now appear to be hazardous

a higher degree of improbability Not that the smalicet measure of pre- Fability is ruled out by the French Command.

This was interestingly demon- strated to the visitor in an excursion to the friendly frontier of Switzer- land. Less celebrated than the Bel- fort Gap, there is a secondary cap, near Swiss territory. There were indications In November that the Germans were not

ate the venture in the north- not indispered to con- template weat corner of Switzerland, If the charming scenery In this really induced them to pay that ras- gap had toral land a visit they would not have taken the French by surpriza. It would have been an adventure

Ingénohl's

-Up to now, Germany has used only twin-engined Heinkels and Dorniers in attack British shipping.

The new bomber is believed to be of the HA 140 class a military ver sion of the four-engined commerelol HA 139 'planes built for the Deutsche Luft Hansa for trans-ocean fights.

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the MARCH OF TIME

According to June's "AIL World's Aircraft," the HA 1398 have Iour $10 h.p. Junkers heavy oll engines. Their maximum speed is 195.0 m.ph, cruising speed 161,5 m.p.h., and their range is 3,100 miles. The crew of the Dutch motor-ship Rian, who saw the attack on the Highwave, say that the bomber re- leased its bombs In groups of five, from about 1,000ft.

the

The Rion was lifted 4ft. in water by the force of the explosions.

Bomber No. 2 was described in an Air Ministry statement yesterday, and is a high-speed, twin-engined Junkers the JU 80.

It has not been used to any great extent, but the Air Ministry say: "It entailing for more than ordinary may be assumed that considerable mountaineering risks; and a large numbers of the type are likely to mumber of industrious Frenchmen form part of any full-scale attack are engaged in rendering any such against Britain." excursion less and less sitractive as ench month goes by.

Becoming More Fronch

Tin facts about the JU 68 are

(1). Although its maximum speed of about 315 m.p.h. is high for a There is in Alsace on interestlag of 205 m.p.h, is only

bomber, its range at a cruising speed side aspect of the war.

1,300 mites....... It raises the

the British question-will not Alsace in the fu- less than half that of ture be more French than ever be-

Wellington, fore? In peacetime one always had tons one in the nose and one above (2). The JU 88 has three gun post- a feeling there of a little country of and one below the fuselage-but it independent character. But to-day has no tail gun. broad strip of Alsace along the river

After their experience with British

has been evacuated. The inhabitants have taken refuge. in the Interior of Bghters and bombers the Nazi ex- France must be losing their accent and be- is failing, but the design of the JÚ The younger people at least perts may try to find a way out of coining more "Frenchifled," while the

ATC 88 1s ugainst it. immense number of French troops

The maximum "ceiling" of the JU quartered in the non-evacuated towns BB is just under 30,000ft, or nearly and villages of the country must also, six miles, but even this is no as time goes on, make for Franco-tection against British fighters, such Alsatian unifleation.

(as the eight-gun, 107 m.p.h. Spitfire. The local

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published in Gennon, and in such a fown as Colmar one has the feeling of being in Switzerland. But

And the answer: To overcome the the limitations of fixed machine-guns, reople. have welcomed the troops which prevent "broadside" attacks, a wholeheartedly; while the Alsatians new two-seater fighter, the Bouton contribution to the ranks of the Paul Deflant is being developed for RETURN SHOWING BY POPULAR DEMAND ! French Army is very appreciable.

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The Deflant an all-metal will have a power-driven gun turret, batler of Runs and

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Flying alongside a formation of hostile bombers, the Dedant gunner would be able to rake them from nose to tal

tall.

The Deflant is a low-wing mono- plane with single Rolls-Royce Merlin engine of over 1,000 h.p. The wing area is 250 square feet Ittle more than that of the Spare and Hur- ricane fighters.

HERTZOG FACES

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CAPE TOWN, Feb. 22 (Reuter) — In the South-West Africa elections, the Nationalist Party, which is pro- Hertzog and is supported by Germans In South-West Africa, is being badly defeated.

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