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THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph" Is used by the tongkang Telegraph to indicate news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni- cations Ordinance, 1916. Such news bears the indication "UP" is received in Bungkang out the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who so serve all rights and forbid republication, either wholly or in part without previous arrangement.

The Young Nazis

It is often said that the atroci- ties committed by the Nazis' are the work of young men who have been systematically drilled in ruthlessness-and-filled-with- the spirit of hatred of the Allies, and especially of the British.

They have been taught to know no pity, to be regardless of all rules commonly recognised by civilised peoples, and to think only of the destruction of the enemy, by whatever means it may be attained.

That explains, it is said, the brutalities of the submarines and airmen, the cold-blooded murder of the defenceless civilians.

There is truth in these asser- tions. It is a fact that Hitlerism has produced a type of youth that can be described sub- human.

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A German educationist who had contact with one of the schools in which young Nazis are trained to be future "leaders”— he is better employed now-said that these young men splendid machines, but they had no souls. Every decent human emotion had been suppressed in the name of military efficiency, There have been of late many

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Air Chief Marshal

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Sir Cyril Newall

Air Chief Marshal Bir F. Bowhill

Sir Hugh Dowding

Air Chief Marshal Str. Ludiow-II «with

Air Marshat Sir A. M. Longmore

Six Men,

ONE

Who is Sir Cyril Newall? Who is Sir Edgar Ludlow.

Howitt?

Who is Sir Hugh Dowding?

Who is Sir Arthur Longmore?, Who is Sir Frederick Bowhill?

IVE knights. And each knightly name scoms familiar to you. So I re- peat-Who arc they? Don't tell me it's on the tip of your tongue. Answer! And, if you can't, study this further question:

Who is Arthur Sheridan Barratt?

A clue: Arthur Sheridan Barratt was front-page news earlier his week.

You don't remember?

All right. I'll tell you.

Newall and Ludlow-Hewitt, Dow- ding and Longmore, Bowhill and Barratt are six men doing one job,

If they did it badly, Britons lives would be in danger. Because they do it well, this

so fur war has created astonishingly little distur bance in the everyday routine of civilian Britain.

The six men are the chiefs of Britain's Alr Force.

And, because the RAF., youngest of Britain's defence army, is just as much a Bilent Service as the Navy, you have heard very little about them-so little that their very names fail to ring a bell in

civilian

minds. most

I praise the modesty of the RAF. And I realise that its chiefs would rather that I did not lift the curtain

their personality, -functions and careers,

But it ought to be done....

IR CYRIL NEWALL, He Is No. 1. His official title is Chief

SNo. 1. His emein

If I were tempted to write Journalese which I am-I should call him the brain behind the operational emciency of the R.A.F.

Kia oficial record must fl pages. He was not the next officer in seniority when the key post of Chief of the Air Staff became vacant in September, 1937. But his brilliance in number of vital jobs won him promotion.

He has an easy way with him, la a good speaker, and has a nice His closest sense of humour, associates make no secret of their affection and respect for him.

He is 63, spruce, straight-backed, tanned, with dark, greying hair.

He has an American wife, and three children,

Newall comes of Army stock. He was born at an Indian hill station; and when he began his service with the Army, 33 years ago, aeroplanes realist's + weapon were fantasy.

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But, early in his Army career,

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he served with the Gurkha Rides In the hilla; and that turned his mind to the possibilities of air- craft for reconnaissance.

In 1011 he cume on leave to Eng- land-and spent his time, and his. own money, learning to fly.

At that time there was no Royal Flying Corps; it was not founded until the following year.

But in the second year of the Arst European War he was given command of a squadron of the R.F.C., and fought with it at Loos.

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his personal example of bravery:

In January, 1916, he was on duty near a Flying Corps bomb dump. The dump caught fre.

In it were 2,000 bonds.

Newall climbed to the roof, and, holding the nozzle of a hose, poured a stream of water through a hole In the roof of the shed.

Later, four men ran into the shed to stamp out the flames.

Newall led the party. After the fro the bomb-crates were found to be charred black.

Ho also commanded a wing in France, the forerunner of the independent Air Force, the first of its kind in the world.

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IR CHIEF MARSHAL SUR -EDGAR R. LUDLOW-HEWITT. controls the Bomber Com-

mand,

Somebody who knows him well told me his characteristics can be summarised in the phrase, "I've said it—and that's that.”

It is not that he is intolerant. But Sir Edgar has definite ideas about his job. Bold, enterprising idens, fortified by faith and convic- tion.

He is responsible for the control and administration of all the Home Bomber Squadrons the striking force of the air fleet,

For over 25 years ho has been a qualified plot.

He knows all the theories of air warfare, ahelent and modern. Aa Commander of the R.A.F. Staff Col- lege for years, it was his job to ox- pound them.

But the director of our bombing forces is no text-book airman. He holds decorations for distinguished active air service in the Great War. He likes playing games. Particu- larly hard games, which test musela and sinew.

If you went round to his country home for tea, he would probably rather talk about gardening than about his daily job. He is keen on

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horticultural pursuits and has had opportunities to develop his in- terest in many lands.

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IR CHIEF MARSHAL SIN HUGH DOWDING 13 boss of the Fighter Command.

His work touches your life-the life of the ordinary British civilian more nearly than that of his cul- leagues.

For, of course, the Fighter Comt- mand has the task of beating off enemy raiders. Moreover, it is Sir Hugh who must decide whether an appearance of enemy aircraft in any part of the country merits thr sounding of an air raid warning. He gives the word.

Dowding has a nickname. He in called Stuffy" Dowding. Nobody knows why. Certainly his person- allty is anything but stuffy.

The nickname dates back to his days as a junior artillery officer.

He was in the Artillery when the last war broke out, then joined the Royal Flying Corps in France and quickly set to work on a task in which his experience in the old jeb and the new was linked.

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He was largely responsible for developing wireless communication between aircraft on reconnaissance fights, and the big guns.

Stuffy is now a widower with one son and one daughter. Te is genial, debonair, with a ready car for a joke and-to use his own phrase. quiet confidence 10 the strength of Britain's anti-air- craft defences.

He is confident, but he dislikes over-confidence. I shall naver for- get his words in pesco time, to a batch of R.A.F. cadets passing out" from Cranwell College:-

"Hundreds, thousands of accl- dents happen to pilots with 150 or 200 hours' flying experience, who think they have nothing more to learn. Always keep a healthy re- spect for your plane."

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IR CHIEF MARSHAL SIIL FREDERICK BOWHILL has the job for which taste and experience at him.

He is chief of the Coastal Com- mand. He has salled the sea, and he has flown above it.

As a boy he served before the mast in the merchant service. He took his air pilot's certificate in 1013.

In the last war aircraft carriers, as we know them to-day, did not exist. An old Channel steamer was

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converted into an aircraft carrier,. and rechristened H.M.B. Empresa.. Bowhill served in beries, acting. Flight Commander.

Now he is 60. He retains the nickname of his youth-" Ginger "* his quarter-deck walk, and his. unquenchable sense of humour.

His most prominent facial char- acteristic is a act of extraordinarily long, bristling eyebrows.

Tennis is his hobby-forbidden to him since the war, except on days when the weather is so bad. that no enemy rald need be feared.. Chief task of his planes la recon- naissance looking for enemy planes. submarine or surface ratders, and reporting their pre- sence to the shore bases for neces- sary action.

He knows every move of the air war game. Not long ago ha phoned the Admiralty and told them to expect enemy air attacks. on certain cruisers and capital ships at a specified time.

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The attack took place. and Ginger was only two minutes out in his calculation. It was not shoer technical

Reports had come in from scnt- tered pilots of the movements of enemy planes. By exact plotting and reckoning, the head of the Coastal Command was able to flx the precise time and scene of the attack.

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IN CHIEF MARSHAL SIX A. M. LONGMORE has a proud distinction.

He holds the oldest flying certi- ficate in the Air Force.

It is the 72nd Issued by the Royal Aero Club, and it is dated April 25, 1011

Longmore is an ex-Naval mau.. dour and sturdy, 56 years old, fie was born in New South Wales, is married, and has four children.

As head of the Training Com- mand he directs, at high pressure, the training of the vast new host. of recruits who are flocking to the Bir service.

It must tickle him, as he turns. out airmen by the thousand, to recall how he himself learned to fly in 1911.

He was one of the first four naval officers given permission to do so.

The aeroplanea were lent by a public-spirited philanthropist-on. one condition: that the puplis did nok ng on Sundays!

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IR-MARSHAL

ARTHUR

SHERIDAN BARRATT ends my list.

He turned the RAF. Big Five- Into a Big Bix when, this week, he was appointed Air OMeer Com-

British

Air manding-in-Chief, Forces in France.

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18 a new post. Barratt, in consultation with the Army chiefs, has to ensure effec- tive R.A.F. support for the British and French Army on the Western Front.

He is the youngest of the Big Six -only forty-eight.

France is no now air battig- ground to him. He served through.

It is a mistake, however, to ANY people are worried because one of us at the present moment. (our fears Immediately get the upper think that this is a new develop M they inglue that the strain of Apart from iis immediate effect of hand and we are sure we are at least the last war in the R.F.G.

As soon as the present war broke ment of German mentality. war will bring an increase of illness enabling us to think

in its wake. Actually, apart from any quickly and decisively than usual, twice as bad as we had previously

has worked tremendously hard- The same characteristics were | casualties, the reverse will be the the increased adrenalin content of the imagined. For that reason I sugerat / Out, to Franco ho went again. Ho

The cose.

blood acts considerably to our power that we abolish "for the duration," but there was an occasion in Octo- of resisting infection.

the most iniquitous phrase in any ber, for which he took a few hours. civilised language; "How are you?" of. Sorry For Ourselves

Health should be a thing wo`take His only daughter, Buzanne, Was. for granted. Let someono ask us getting married in England,

It was not expected that her father could attend, and arrange- ments were made for hor god. father to give her away Inntend,

Just before the wedding Alt- Marshal Barratt arrived-by air.

He gave Buzanne away, and four- hours later flow back to France.

With his wife and: Suzanne,

revealed in the last war. U-boats did precisely what they It is a tremendous help in these are doing now. International times to realise that the body has its Jaw was ignored. Neutral own mechanism for dealing with emergencles, and that if we only waters meant nothing to them.permit it to function normally it will normal life the adrenal gland re-how we are, and we at once begin to

In any healthy person lending o Ships were torpedoed without guard us against most Ils, warning and the Germans took

cuperates during a night's sleep, and seek for some little ache or pain that This is a phenomenon which, on u is capable of performing its additional we can parade as a bait for sympathy no thought for the safely of the smaller scale, is constantly ex work next day.

Tho mara suggestion of a phrase crows. They frequently des-perienced by doctors and, nurses. It There is only one thing likely to that has apparently become meaning- conded to the lowest depths of they are called upon to fight an cause its powers to diminish. That less by constant repetition in terrific

epidemic of infectious disease, it is in worry. Although few of us are so in its power. barbariem. by shooting men well known that although they work cold-bloodedly dispassionate that we struggling for their lives in the killingly long hours and are almost can avoid all worry during a war, continuously in contact with disease, we usually adopt the sensible course

Must Not Brood germs, they themselves are seldom and look on the bright side as much The only difference between victims.

as possible. the last war and this is that The reason is that the adrenal But it is easy to work up an appall-example of this than the way the ruffianism has in its hands gland, which is stimulated to activity ing amount of self-pity if our friends German nation has drugged itself into larger and more deadly instru- by anger, excitement, or danger, I are sufficiently misguided to greet us a belief in the infallibility of their

cheerfully working overtime

Fuhrer by the incessant repetition of menta with which to perpetrate pumping adrenaln

and with sympathetic inquiries about theell Hiilor." Into the blood. state of our health. If people begin' its barbarities.

That is what is happening to every; to tell us how poorly we are looking, PLEASE Turn To Page 2.

sea.

One cannot have a more convincing

Barratt has travelled over most of Europe.

His outlook is cosmopolitan. That was proved by the education. ho chose for his daughter.

She went to school in England until she was 13. The rest of her schooling was completed in Ger- many, Italy, Austria and France..