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This spectacular and aggressivo en- ployment of the parachutes by Soviet Russia immediately found opt immita- tors in Italy and Germany, who tried. to emulate her in the training and or- ganisation of what Ja known as "para-

Into Albania, Poland, Finnland, Hol- land and Belglum, textity.

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At Brat it was employed in as. sociation with the observation The abuses, without pre-

balloon, to insure the escape of IN the twenty years or there- cedents, of the parachutes the observer in the basket from about after the War, we saw no As far as I can remember, the together with questions of the burning balloon,

more alarming signs than that so-called "parachute corpa" was the legal status of the para- How often this was resorted to the parachute should servo first used by Italy against poor chutists in this war, make a may be seen from the fact that humanity as a safety device, little Albania, when the latter during the Argonne offensive until the craze of the Soviet country was invaded. Then it. recasting or revision of our

alone, the American observers mass parachute jumping pro- was the turn of Poland to have customary conceptions of made thirty parachute jumps, Jected itself before our oyes, a taste of the German "para- the parachutes and the

It was said that during the War

chute corps," In September, Those years were consecreted parachutists necessary.

760 British offcers and 800 Fronch to the perfection of the parachute 1989. This article is written more

saved themselves from burning to insure the safely of the crew According to the description of with a view to opening the dis- balcon. The balloons were then and passengers of the commer- Polish army officer, who was an eye- cussion, rather than to express- bombs and machine guns.

favourite targets for German cial planes, the cadets or students witness of the Gemman petivities in undergoing a flying courso and ing any final opinion, on such

the air, the German parachutists were

vital topics.

In the last year of the War, the similar peaceful purposes. The dropped behind the Folish lines, where they proceeded to carry out use of parachute was extended to Irvin types of parachute, as it is abotage work, destroy communien- The time is not yet ripe to the aeroplanes to save the lives to-day, is a comfort (because you tions and signal to their own troops, do so. Here I intended only to of the aviatore. Usually when can sit on the "seat-pack") and usually in the disguise of Polish uni- GOMES. - Mrs. FR Gomes

(Menica) died at 6.15 am, on give a brief survey of the ap hostile acroplanes met, one of the beauty, when it is fully opened forms. May 27, 1940, at 2 Hillwood pearance of the parachute and combatants, or possibly both, in the sky. The most extraordin-

In January, this year, Soviet Russia- Road, 1st Floor, Kowloon aged the role played by the para- came down in flames or with their ary performance exacted from the commenced to use her parachute 74 years. Funeral will pass the Monument at 5.30 p.m. to chutists in the past; the employ- planes disabled so that the occu- parachute at this time was the de- troops in her campaign in Finnland.. morrow, May 28 (Shanghai, ment of parachute. in the last pants were killed regardless of signing of one approximately one These parachutists, besides performing Manila and Macau papers please copy), No flowers by re- war; and the novel application whether the pilots themselves had hundred feet in diameter to lower a most of the acts done by the Germans disabled acroplane safely to the in Poland, were, in rome cases, equip- quest. Donations to St. Vincent of this apparatus in more recent been hit by bullets.

ground.

ped with short wave wireless sets for wars which creates new legal The parachute was said to have

As far as training was concerned, the purposes of sending back military problems.

been frst adopted by the German the cadets in both the naval and atvny information. There was no report of: air forcé. Captain Sarrat, a aviation schools have never been disguising in the Finnish war as faz French officer, was the first air taught abnormal use of the parachute. 5 Russians were concerned. man of the Allies to use a para tion, for instance. The students are Take the American courses of instruc- chute for saving himself from a usually given about four hours in- damaged plane In July 1918. struction on the parachutes: one liour

IT is apparent that with During the War it was

also in packing, storing and care; one hour these aggressor nations, the utilized subsidiarily with the in methods of wearing, and of leav- "parachute corps" is fast becom- aeroplanes in connection with ing plane; two hours in practical packing an established institution.. callons Ordinance, 1918, Buch now at An Italian scientist, Leonard what was known as the "airplane ing and adjusting of parachutes. Hong Kong on the date of publication by da Vinci, is credited as the first larg."

There has never been anything in this fuct. Both. Holland and Belgium. It is no use shutting our 'eyes to the Inventor of the parachute. His Major E. A. Powell, of the training to Indicate that hostile use of came in for their full share of the bit- design for this is found in his United States Army, tello-us-what the parachute was ever contemplated. terness and horror it is possible for

this is: "This flare, which But this state of things cannot last combatant parachutists to perpetrate. sketchbook, the Codex Atlan- weighs thirty-five pounds, is con- very long for good or for worse, aviation is progressing by leaps and |ticus (1940), now preserved in tained in a cylindrical case of bounds.

the Ambrosian Library at Milan, sheet-fron-about-four-feet long

and five inches in diameter. The Around the year 1935, the world In making the plans for a fly- flare consists of an illuminating was at first mildly startled on being and the war have been uttered by ing machine and the parachute, charge, capable of giving 32,000 by the Russians in mass parachute toned or treated not simply as "para informed of the enthusiasm displayed From now on, they should be men soldiers and sailor men. Poll he declared: "There shall be candle power for approximately jumping as a sport, in which hundreds chutists," but with qualifying words. ticlans are usually restrained by long wings! If the accomplishment a silk parachute twenty feet in cipated.

ten minutes, which is attached to and thousands of parachutists part such, as "combatant," "Bighter," or habit; fighting men see things as they

"armed" parachutists, when they are are and are not afraid to speak their be-not-for-me,tis-for-some-diameter.The airplane fare".

-in-the-uniforms of their country; and The surprise was soon turned Into as "spics," when they are found in other. The spirit cannot lie; is used particularly for night and man, who shall know all and bombing raids, the aviators thus uneasiness, when it was next told that disguise.

in one being enabled to Illuminate

the military manoeuvres of I have no doubt that a more Atting: shall have wings, shall indeed be objectives so that they could machine-guna had dropped within a effectives, enabling us to call a spade the Soviet Army, 2,500, men with name will soon be found for these air accurately drop as a god."

bombs. given area, followed by 3,000 more, a spade.

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"That Hyena"

Some of the frankest and most vigorous things said about the Nazis

our

minds.

Major-General Sir Ernest Swinton is one of those plain speakers. He

THE parachute was invented primarily as a safety device for air travellers, as such it may be regarded as the lifebuoy or life belt of the alr.

Little did Vinci imagined 450

sald that to those who had been writing to him in advocacy of an im- mediate peace his answer Was, "What! With that byenn Hitler? 1 mean it. He is a hyena and a hyena years ago that man, instead of is a very nasty animal." As to gp-being raised to the height of a preaching the German people, ad

added the General, "It is the whole German "god," has descended from the race we are up against man, woman, nir as 4 monstrous spectre, cat, and dog, and rat. The sooner through abusing the child of his

we realise that in a matter like this war there are no 'good' Germans the | quicker we shall end the war in the only possible way-an Allled vic- tory,"

inventive brain.

We hear very little about the parachute until the coming of As for the military situation as it has now developed, Sir Ernest quoted the balloons towards the end of the incident told of that shrewd old the 18th century. The first re- Boer, Oom Paul Kruger, after the corded successful parachute des- Jameson Rald. Asked why he did cents were made by Lenormand not act when he know of what was from a tower in 1788 and by brewing, he replied, "When you want to cut the head off a tortoise you wait Blanchard from a balloon in till he puts his head out of the shell." 1787. Hitler. sold Sir Ernest, had been forced by events in Germany to

The

put

In the same year another

his head out, and in doing so he had Frenchman, Andre Garniren des- committed a strategical error.

General

cended near París from a height used yet another creature of the animal world to cx of 1 mile. In 1802 he re- press his views. He said that the peated the experiment in Eng- example of Norway might encourage land, entertaining a big London other small neutrals, who had so far crowd on the Volunteers' Ground been cowering like rabbits in front near Grosvenor Square by drop- of boa-constrictor. Italian Threats

ping 8,000 feet.

The change in

Professional entertainers wore the tone of the Italian Press since the Nazi invasion not slow. in utilizing the para- of the Lowlands is rather hard to chute to draw public attention understand. The only thing on and enriching themselves by their which commentators agree is that it acrobatic exhibitions, after it had should not be taken at its face value, been demonstrated beyond doubt This assumes that the Duce is no that it was anfe to descend from moro eager than he was some months

a parachute. ago to abandon the advantages-of

their

CARTOON

VENING

the

ITS A LOVELY

STANDARD

JA BRITISH THDRAWAL

non-belligerency." As for the Considering how rare was air Italian people, their dread of war travel in the last century it was leaves no room for doubt,

Churchill's то

natural that the function of the The lesson of recent naval events, parachute as coupled with

a safety devico minder to all whom it may concern, should have been usurped by that that the Allies are well able to safe of public entortalamonts. guard their position in the Mediter ranears besides the North Sea, cannot have been lost on Rome.

The "lady parachute jumpors wore a popular attraction at the It is contrary to Italy's interest, as county fairs. Thus it seemed to that of everyone else, that Hitler cloar that up to the ond of last should go step by step to European century the parachute was prin- mastery. Yet the Nizia. Invasions cipally used for the purposes of have been made the occasion for entertainments and sports. Instructions to the Fasciat Press to Throughout this period the para- take a strenger lite against the chuto had preserved its "cultural" We are asked to bellove that the "Kultur, however,) in the broad-

Hint character, using "cultural" (not| on-bolligerent may come off his perchi. If be intended to do so, the est condo of the word. For I ikelihood is that the change of status, havo..come across practically" no would have been accompanied by the cons where it was used in con- utmost-secrecy,

"noction"with"WANT.

DAY-

KEEPING HIS BALANCE

These service men have, through the abuse of the parachute, forfeited "the rights" hitherto enjoyed by avia-

tors.

By Strube

ITSA BAD

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