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Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

MAGAZINE

AERODROME BOMBED

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These are the vital targets

our British airmen go for

LANDING FIELD

SMOKE WIND INDICATOR

SWIVELLING LANDING

CONCRETE RUNWAYS

FUEL DUMP

-CAMOUFLAGED

“WITH NETTING"

BOUNDARY MARKERS (ILLUMINATED AT NIGHT)E

CONTROL TOWER GIVES BEARINGS TO AIRCRAFT „HAND

I was tau a PERMISSION TO

TAKE OFF ORLAND

REPAIR SHEDS

-GUNS

ON ALL ROOFS

AA GUNS ALL ROUND FIELD

TUMBER one objective of British bombers in Senin- dinavia are the aerodromes— notably at Stavanger, Nor- way, and Aalborg, Denmark --which have been taken over by the Nazis,

How bly in an oerodrome? What are the vital points a raiding homb- ing jundron must alm for to put the aerodrome out of action? Why is it necessary to make repeated roids?

The whole air field may cover several square miles of ground. Stavanger is particularly large, hence the need for repeated raids to cause suffelent damage to pre- vest neroplanes from using at least one section of the field,

In bombing on aerodrome, how- ever there are several key-points which, I once hit by bombs, render' the whole field useless. Glance now at Haworth's sketch, showing the typical layout of a big cro- drome; notice those concrete run- Ways; once they're pitted with 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 bombers and fighters; the radio control towers-nerve centre of the whole aerodrome--which gulde 'plunes back to the bnan; the main build- ings housing the headquarters staff and precious maps 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 latest 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 is generally sacond in com- mand of a bat- tqry.

Hie duties in the present-day Army, however, are almost en- tirely adminis trative, though in the absenco of his, Company. Commander ho assumos.com-

mand of his unit.

He is respon sible for such, matters as the Issue of cloth

ing and pay,

and keeping company counts and for recreation and <sport.e

The word 'Captain comer from the Latin "Caput"— hoad.

Pay: £540 a year after 8 yours sorvico; £586 after 11 yours, and £668 after 14 Ypars.

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May 6, 1940.

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Isn't So Goebbels

Smart With His Propaganda

OR years

the Germans

Fave 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 hat- tleship ("strong enough to destroy smaller ships, and fast enough to run away from higger ones" was defeated by smaller and lightly armed British cruisers.

Yet they have made the arnazing blunder of trying to focuss public attention on it again.

In propaganda sheels now being circulated in the Far East they at- tempt to refute the recent dis- closure of

of the crew's refusal to put to sea and face Brlush guns again. They quote a statement made by Captain Kay of the Graf Spec:

"*We, ogleers and men of the Admiral Graf Spee', nail down the fact that the chief of the British navy does not shrink from fighting with ties soldiers of

AND MEDITERRANEAN

The hostile attitude of the Italian Press to the Allles gives paint to a comparison of the combined British and, French and the combloed Italian and German strength in capital ships. The illustrations below of slúpa bullt exclude the tonnage officially reported to have been sunk. But the German ships, Scharnhorst and Von Scheer, which were officially reported to have been seriously damaged, are included in the Italian-German strength. Fourteen of the Allied slips (shown in black) have 15in, and five have 13in, guns. Four of the Itallan and German ships have 12in. and three have 11in. guns.

In the comparison of ships nearing completion the Italians and Germans, having started building ear- lier, are given the advantage, but it is doubtful whether they should have It, since the Allies are able to bulld

faxter.

The Allies' superiority in categories other than capital ships is xil more overwhelming. Bitter's strength was vitally weakened in the actions off Norway, and the British Ficet could release bigger forcen for the Mediterranean than would have been possible a fortnight ago.

CAPITAL SHIPS BUILT

BRITAIN and FRANCE -

5 BATTLE CRUISERS -

159.000 Tons,

16 BATTLESHIPS 488,645 Tons

ITALY and GERMANY

1 BATTLE CRUISER 26000 Tons 6 BATTLESHIPS

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114 000 Tons:

Unsolved

ANY fine ships have al- ready been lost in the eight months of Nazi piracy. Many others will be lost be fore the piracy, ends.

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

sed.

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 teail of a head wind, "stronk enough to blow the horns off a bull." his ship was battling round the Cape of Good Hope.

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

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

THERE was the queer case of the Dulch emigrant ship Palatine which antled for Philadelphia' (in 1762. She was beaten by gales, of her true course. Discipline aboard collapsed. The crew held the emi- grants to

their ransom, stole. savings and mode off iri the boats. The passengers, dying of disease drifted helpless on to and hunger, the beach of Block Island, The sur- vivors were rescued, all except one' woman who had gone mad and re- funed to leave.

· CAPITAL SHIPS BUILDING

EXPECTED IN

SERVICE SHORTLY

3 BATTLESHIPS

105,000Tons

4 BATTLESHIPS 140,000 Tons

10 BATTLESHIPS

UNDER. CONSTRUCTION 370,000 Tons

4 BATTLESHIPS

UNDER CONSTRUCTION 140,000 Tons

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the German navy which he could not defeat in open battle. We have nothing but most profound disput for these fighting methods of the British Navy.”

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

scuttled

THE Germans their ship because they knew that certain defeat 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 tuit the Germans chose to break off the battle in order to have the interesting experience of scuttling their own ship?

Really. Dr. Goebbels, this is not in your best vein.

The

sume interesting document quotes other claims, that the Graf Spee did not run away (but ap- parently only because the attack- ing vessels had for higher speed" --an odd admission), and that she "suffered no essential damage to hull, armament, or machinery, but one lucky shot rendered her fire control tower inoperative".

*

☆

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 as a bullock might be hounded into a shed by a couple of dogs-though the bul- lock could kill them both It only it had the courage to turn and Aght,

The "lucky" shot excuse' 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 six-inch shell -"Bucky" or otherwise--which did no "essential damage't

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

INANITY FARE

Poor

Grace Mooro Singing "Ave Maria" As a career.

Mysteries of the Sea

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 maniac sounding above the roar of the flames.

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

MORE recent and more dramatic owing to the size of the boat was the fate of the 16,000-ton twin- screw Blue Anchor liner Waratah.

"With a crew of 120 and D2 per- sengers she put out for Capetown from Durban on July 20, 1900, At six o'clock in the morning she was sighted by the Clan Macintyre, a smaller and alower vessel bound for East London. The two ships exchanged greetings and compared reports, The

weather

Waratah

passed, on and in" à few hours was- hull down on the horizon. She was never seen or heard of again.

The Clan MacIntyre reported heavy seas later in the day, and on the next day 1 blew a hurricane, but no distress sigouls 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-

man

fine, seaworthy cargo, A modern liner had been swallowed up in a night without warning and without the usual pathetic relies lett floating on the surface to mark the grave of a lost ship.

Two years later a sen-worn life- buoy, battered and barnacle- covered, was washed up on a Now Zealand shore seven thousand miles away. Beneath the barnacles the latters "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 quile forgotton the tragic story of the training-ship Kobenhavn, the lost and finest of the Ave-masted bar- ques.

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

-across the southern course, lay

the

wildest punt oceans, through

through known to sailors, "Roaring Forties" where

the rollers sweep round the Cape and through seas made dangerous by Icofloes from the Antarctic.

the

glant

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

with wireless she could only com- munfeate with the world through other ships. Still there was hope. Her last voyage had taken os long. But ilme passed, her reinsurance quotation rose to 90 guineas per cent, and steamers' set off their courses to search. The British ship Halesius, calling at the lonellest island in the world, Tristan da Cunha, in the Southern Atlantle, was the first to report news of a salting vessel that answered the right description.

The islanders had seen a ship pass one January morning. She Find five masts and a white band painted round her stern. They

for, watched her drift off shore

one

three hours. They saw no move on board. Only a fib was A current caught the vessel and she turned off into the 'mist and was not scen again. No wreckage was washed up and no further reports of the Kobenhavn were received. The fine bárque with its youthful crow became on- other tragic, unexplained lots,

Only seven skeletons, discovered beside the remains. of a Hebont half-buried among the desolate sanddunes of a West African coast, clue to the seemed to provide riddle. Pleces of tattered 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 n guess. No one could ever know whether these seven had. Indeed survived the wreck of the Koben- havn. The sen had given up its dend `but still kept 118; secret,

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