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AERODROME BOMBED

FUEL OUMP:

These are the vital targets

our British airmen go for

LANDING FIELD.

SMOKE WIND INDICATOR

SWIVELLING LANDING

CONCRETE RUNWAYS.

CAMOUFLAGED

WITH NETTING®

BOUNDARY MARKERS

INATED AT NIGHT)

FIDEL TEN MIL

CONTROL TOWER

GIVES BEARINGS TO AIRCRAFT, "AND" PERMISSION TOWE TAKE OFF OR LAND

MACHINE-GUNS.

ALL ROOFS

UNDERGA

TUMBER one objective of

British Bombers in Scan- dinavia are the aerodromes notably at Stavanger, Nor- way, and Aalborg, Denmark --which have been taken over by the Nazis.

How big is un aerodrime? What are the vital points a raiding bomb- ing squadron must aim for to put the aerodrome out of action? Why is it necessary to make repeated

rnids?

air flek may cover The whole several quare miles of ground. Stavanger particularly large,

Is hence the need for repeated raids to cause sumclent damage to pre- vent aeroplanes from using at least one section of the field.

In bombing an berodrome, how- ever there are several key-points which, if once hit by bumbs, render The whole field useless, Glance now at Jaworth's sketch, showing the typical layout of a big nero- drome: notice those concrete run-

ways;

they're pitted with once bomb craters it takes days to re- pair them. In the Interval it is unlikely that any aircraft would be able to take off.

What other key-points are there?" Hangars full of valuable xenbers and Aghters; the radio control towers-nerve centre of the whole aerodrome which guide 'planes back to the base; the main bulld-

MAIN BEACON

FOR APPROACH - G`LANDING IN SE CERABAD. WEATHERSUA

AEROPLANE HANGARS

TEMPORARY ENGINE REPAIR SHED

NAVAL POWER

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Goebbels Isn't So Smart With His Propaganda

years the

Germans

Faye proclaimed the ex- cellence of their propaganda technique. But now it seems that they are not as smart as they thought they were.

You would have thought, for instance, that they would have preferred to gloss over the loss of the Graf Spee, and ' allow the world to forget how their "invincible" pocket bat- tleship ("strong enough to destroy smaller ships, and fast enough to run away from bigger ones" was defeated by smaller and lightly armed British cruisers.

Yet they have made the amazing blunder of trying to focuss publie attention on it again.

In propaganda sheets now being clrculated in the Far East they at- tempt to refule the recent dis- closure of the crew's refusal to put 10. sea and face British guns ugalui

They quote a statement made by. Captain Koy of the Graf Spec:

"We, apicers and men of the 'Admiral Graf Spee', alt down the fact that the chief of the British navy does not shrink from fighting with les soldiers of

AND

MEDITERRANEAN

The hostile attitude of the Italian Press to the Allies gives nolui to a comparison of the combined British and French and the combined Italian and German strength In capital shilps. The Illustrations below of ships built exclude the tonnage officially reported to have been sunk. But the German ships, Scharnhorst and Vou Scheer, which were oMelally reported to have been seriously damaged, are included in the Hallan-German Four of the strength. Fourteen of the Allied ships (shown in black) have 15in. and five have 13n: guns. Italian and German ships have 12in. and three have 11in. guns.

In the comparison of ships nearing completion the Italians and Germans, having started buliding car- ller, are given the advantage, but it is doubtful whether they should have it, since the Allles are able to build faster.

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overwhelming. Itler's The Alles' supertority In categories other than capital ships is stil, more strength was vitally weakened in the actions off Norway, and the British Fieri could rel ase bizger forces for the Mediterranean lian would have been possible a fortnight ago.

CAPITAL SHIPS BUILT.

BRITAIN and FRANCE

5 BATTLE CRUISERS

159.000 Tons

16 BATTLESHIPS

488,645 Tons

ings housing the headquarters sair ITALYand GERMANY

and precious inups and plans,

The fuel storage tanks, of course,

are an obvious

target, but these

are usually hidden below ground, Bomb and ammunition stores are protected by the intest arts of camouflage.

Spotting the Rank

CAPTAIN

This rank is regarded as the highest of a junior officer. A Captain acts as a Troop Commander in the cavalry and a Company Commander in the Infantry." In the Royal Artillery ho generally second in com. mand of a bat- tory.

His duties in the present-day Army, however, are almost en- tirely adminis- trativo, though in the absunco of his Company Commandor ho assumos com. mand of his unit.

He is respon- sible for such mattore as tho lue of cloth- ing and pay,

is

and keeping company ас counts and for recreation and sport...

The word Captain comas from the Latin" "Caput" chandi

Pay: £540 a year after B years' servico; £586 after 11 £668 after 14 yours, and yours.

1 BATTLE CRUISER

26000 Tons 6 BATTLESHIPS

114 000 Tons

4

CAPITAL

SHIPS BUILDING

EXPECTED IN -SERVICE SHORTLY

3 BATTLESHIPS

105,000Tons

4 BATTLESHIPS 140,000 Tons

10 BATTLESHIPS

UNDER CONSTRICTION 370,000 Tons

4. BATTLESHIPS

UNDER CONSTRUCTION 140,000Tons

the German navy which he could not defeat in open battle. We have nothing but most profound disqust

for there fighting methods of the British Navy."

A pretty cool speech from a inan whose ship is lying on the, mud of the River Platé estuary, utterly destroyed!

THE Germans scuttled their ship because they knew that certain defent awaited her, at the hands of the navy which (according to Captain Kay) could not defeat her in open battle.

Or are we expected to believe that the Germans chose to break off the battle in order to have the interesting experience of scuttling their own ship?

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Really Dr. Goobbels, this is not

our best vein.

same interesting document quotes other claims, that the Graf Spee did not run away (but ap- parently only because the "attack- ing vessels had far higher speed"

at odd admission), and that she "suffered no essential damage to hull, armament, or machinery, but one lucky shot rendered her fre control tower Inoperative".

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ALL right, let us concede that she did run away.

Let us just confine ourselves to pointing out that she was hounded into a neutral port na a bullock might be hounded into a shed by

a couple of dogs-though the bul lock could kill them both if only It had the courage to turn and Bght.

"The "lucky" shot exeusO is a pretty lame story: there must be something for wrong with German warships if they can be put out of action by a single slx-inch shell "lucky" or otherwise-which did no "essential damage"!

No, Goebbels, you'd better lay off the Graf Spee episode: it really did you no good at all. twist it as you wilt.

INANITY FARE

Poor Grace Moore Singing "Ave Maria "

As a career.

Unsolved Mysteries of the Sea

[ANY fine ships have al-

MANY

ready been lost in the eight months of Nazi piracy. Many others will be lost be- fore the piracy ends.

Some are fast without trace, to become another mystery of the

sen.

The sea has many such mys- teries. Take the story of the Flying Dutchman.

She was captained by a blas- pheming Dutchman, Vanderdecken. In the teeth of a head wind, "strong enough to blow the horns off a bull," his ship was battling round the Cape of Good &lope.

His crew in pante begged him to turn about, He swore at them and went on drinking.

Then

0 vision appeared and, cursing the captain for a stubborni fool, condemned him for ever to sail the sens, unable to rest, unable to land, a phantom sent to haunt the waves, to torment and mislead succeeding generations of mariners,

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THERE was the queer case of the Dutch emigrant ship Palatino which sailed for Phiindelphia 1762. She was beaten by gales of her true course, Discipline aboard collapsed. The crew held the emi-

ransom,. stole grants to

their savings and made off in the boats. The passengers, dying of discuse and hunger, drifted helpless on to the beach of Block Island. The sur- vivors were rescued, all except one woman who had gone mad and re- fused to leave.

By Paul Reilly

The ship was set on fire, and the Palatine, blazing from end to end, drifted out to sea, with the screams of the maning sounding above the roar of the flames.

And now, on the anniversary of the wreck, they say that a light ke that of a blazing ship appears to the north of Block Island, and no one along the coast doubts that it is the Palatine Light,

MORE recent and more dramatic owing to the size of the boat was the inte of the 10,000-ton twin- screw Blue Anchor liner Waratah.

With a crew of 120 and 02 pos- sengers she put out for Capetown from Durban on July 26, 1009. At six o'clock in the morning sho was sighted by the Clan MacIntyre, a smaller and slower vessel bound for East London. The two ships exchanged greetings and compared weather

Waratah reports. The passed on and in a few hours was hull down on the horizon. She was never seen or heard of again.

The Clan Macintyre reported heavy zens later in the day, and ori the next day it blow a hurricane, but no distress almals were re- ceived and no wreckage found..

No evidence was given at the court of inquiry that gave any light on the fate of the ship and its hu-

ກ cargo. A fine, seaworthy modern liner had been swallowed up in a night without warning and without the usual

pathetic relles

left floating on the surface to mark the grave of a lost ship.

Two years inter n sea-worn life- buoy, battered and barnacle- covered, was washed up on a New Zealand shore seven thousand miles away. Beneath the barnacles the letters "WARAT" could just be deciphered. And that closed the story of a disaster that shocked the world as few have done in the his- tory of ships.

NONE of us can have yet quite forgotten the tragic story of the training-ship Kobenhavn, the last and finest of the five-masted bar- qucs.

On December 14, 1928, the Ko- benhavn have salld from Buenos Ayres for Melbourne with a com- plement of sixty, including forty- Her five young Danish cadets.

the southern. course lay nerosa oceans, through the wildest seas the known

to sailors, through "Roaring Forties" where the giant rollers sweep round the Cape and through seas made dangerous by leeffoes from the Antarctic.

For 120 days no word had been heard from her. Though equipped

Kalem (5* •*MBERTENTANGANE EM with wireless she could only com- municate with the world through other ships. Still there was hope. Her lust voynge had taken as long. But time passed, her reinsurance quotation rose to 00 guineas per cent.. and steamers sel off their courses to search. The British ship Halcstus, calling at the loneliest island in the world, Tristan da Cunha, in the Southern Atlantic, was the first to report news of a solling vessel that answered the right description.

The Islanders had seen ship pass one January morning. She had five masts and a white band painted round her stern. They watched her drift off shore three hours. They saw move on board. Only a jlb was set. A current caught the vessel and she turned off into the mist

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for one

and was not seen again. No

wreckage was washed up and no further reports of the Kobenhavn were received. The fine barque with its youthful crew became in- other tragle, unexplained loss.

Only seven skeletons, discovered beside the remains of a lifeboat half-burled

desolate among the annddunes of a West African const, seemed to

a clue to the provide riddle. Pleces of Lattered blue cloth clinging to the bones showed that the men had been, sailors. From

the shape of their skulls they were Nordic. But it was only a could ever know guess. No one whether these seven had indeed survived the wreck of the 'Koben- havn. The sea had given up its dead but still kept. lts, secret.

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