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Aeroplanes

MEDITERRANEAN NEWS MAP

FRANCE

BUDAPEST GERMANY

RUNGARY RUMANIA

BUCHAREST

-U.S.S.R

BATUM

PORTUGAL

MADRID

SPAIN

TOULON

TRIESTE BELGRADE *

YUGOSLAVIA

BULGARIA

SALONIKA

ANKARA

FURKEY

TUAKISH BLOCKADE

GIBRALTAR

BIZERTA

ALGIERS

ALGERIA

Pontellaria

Crete

TUNISIA

Malta

MOROCCO

TRIPOLI

MILES

100 200 300 400 500

HERE is a map of what may possibly be the next big theatre of war-the Mediterranean Sea.

Now that Italy has come into the war with Ger- many what is she likely to gain and what to lose? in the first place her profit will depend on Germany. Italy is the junior partner of the Axis. But certain propaganda maps which were published at the time of the Munich crisis clearly showed that Italy was to be rewarded with a large Mediterranean of influence, including Southern France, Greece, Spain, and the chole North African littoral. But she was significantly not to be

his Hitler was to keep that as

Yugo-Stavia. can call,

More precisely Italy demands Tunisia in North Africa, the district round Nice on the French Riviera, where there Le considerable Italian-speaking minority, the controlling voice on the Suez Canal board and Corsica.

To achieve this her participation in the war

be cape might

be expected to take several forms.

is attacking Southern France on land, but more effectively in the air.

(2) From Albania ahe might taunch attacks into Yugo-Slavia and south-east into Greece.

(3) Through Switzerland she might co-operate with Germany.

ATHENS

SYRIA \(French)

"Dodecanese.le

OTRANS

JORDAN

ALEXANDRIA

EGYPT

(4) From her air and naval basen she is attack, ing. Malta and, from the Dodecanese Islands, the British and French forces in the Middle East and Cyprus.

On the other hand, Italy instantly lost: (1) All her tea borne trade with the outside world by the closing of the Mediterranean at Gibral- tar and Suez.

(2) Her Abysstulan Empire.

(3) Her North African province of Libya. This will be attacked both by the French from Tunisia and the British from Egipt,

Italy's participation in the war may yet bring Turkey simultaneously in on the Allied side. This would effect the blockade of the Dardanelles against enemy ships and would be a counterweight to any Italian adventure in the Balkans.

The British and French navies are confident that they can deal with any Italian naval threat in spite of the fortifici Dodecanese bases, the Island of Pan- tellaria and the possible use of the Balearics by Britain and France have between enemy warships. them siz naval bases in the Mediterranean; France has Bizerta, Toulon; Britain has Gibraltar, Malta, Alexandria and Cyprus.

TABYSSINIA 1000 MILES

STRATEGY

TEST No. 9

1. What were Britain's chief

Imports from Holland?

2. How close la the Duich coast

to the English coast?

3. Which English porta direct-

ly face the Dutch coast?

4. Name the chief Dutch naval and air bases which could be used against Britala.

6. Where was the Dutch's last

fight in Holland?

Britain is getting these types

of Planes in U.S.A.

Every incident in the swaying fortunes of the war since the German blitzkrieg started in the Lowlands and swept through France has shown the enormous importance of the air arm in modern warfare. The German troops would have been unablo

THE question of what to establish and extend their hold but for their unquestion- types of planes we are get- ting from America has to be able supremacy in the air. answered without the bene- They have been able to utilise a fit of the official guidance of |-great-force-of bombers and the Allied-Purchasing Com--

în the United pursuit planes and only the mission superior fighting qualities of

States.

both British men and machines

and French factories no longer producing planes, inequality must persist for some monthe to

We have been told that con- tracts for so much have been

"I ask Congress not to take any action which would in any way hamper or delay delivery of Ameri- can planes to those foreign nations who have ordered them or seek their purchase."

In these words President Roosevelt recently referred to the Allied purchase of planes. ROBERT WAITHMAN writes about the types of planes we are getting from America.

type they sold us before the war be gan may have been improved and reproduced for us since..

year.

Without much fuss in July last Consolidated few the 28-6 neross the Atlantic from Botwood, Newfoundland, to Felixstowe in a few minutes over 141⁄2 hours. This: week, for the first time, appears the- name of Bocing, who make huge: "Flying Fortress"-bombers-(tho latest of which has a wingspan of 105ft., weighs over 26 tons and has a rango a long way over 3,000 miles) and also are famous for the great: Pin-American Clippers, presently aro

flying the Atlantic. What wo

Another firm On our Ilst 进

dive-

hus prevented the Allies from signed with such and such com the P40, so that machines we seem to be coming from the Douglas

Aclently established, but it is doubted. being entirely swamped. This panies, but no information has shall be getting from Curtiss plant out in California, where the buying from Boeing is not yet suf inequality in the air is un- been given in any official state- will be very new, very fast and Payroll has now been expanded to whether we are interested in Fl

16,000 employees. There is not much ing Fortresses." ment on either the numbers or very deadly. They will be all reliable news of the new purchases doubtedly responsible, more than types of planes ordered. metal, one place monoplanes, here, but there is good reason for believing we are getting an improved any other factor, for the debacle

with fully retractable landing version of the DB7 high-speed attack in France and it is evident that,

gear and electrically controlled bomber, which has already done Vought-Sikorsky. who make and with the French air force But not everything omitted variable pitch propellers which, gently in France. We are said

be buying bombers also

equipped Scout partially crushed or immobilised from the official statement is an in the Hawk 75, have a 900 h.p. Glenn L. Martin Company the have already sold to the French the

at Balti-

but fully

And there is North Amerl- new and un- direction of the Allied aeroplane them and in the Hawk 81 (ex- The F4, which we are rumoured to be. aghters and combat trained as with official secret, and the general Wright Cyclone engine behind more. There is publicised Martin

make attack, bombers, W con. They twin bomber called buying can be discerned. For port version of P40) employ discussing. What we are said to several hundred of the machines in

to now they have supplied us a start, we appear to be buying 1,000 h.p. Allison engines. have already ordered is the 167F at- which our new pilots are learning Curtiss pursuit planes in con-

There is a fascinating story monoplane weighing 8 tons.

Lack bomber, which is a three-man their job. Allied faith in North siderable numbers. They are

American trainers is fairly well Upon the Royal Air Force now being made for us in two large, in the electric propellers. Early

known by the fact that the Royal Canadian Air Force has now cón- devolves the herculean task of closely-guarded and recently ex- this year French air experts at protecting Britain from mass air panded plants at Buffalo, New Buffalo opened their eyes wido

It is stated In U.S.A. that we have bultd Harvard trainers under manu

tracted with the Montreal plant to- York, at the Canadian border. when they observed 575 miles placed some important orders with facturing rights bought from the raids. It is evident that the The type we started on was the an hour recorded on the instru- Consolidated. They are builders of North American company. threat of retallation on Berlin Hawk 76, which was an export ments as the terminal velocity some of the best-known types of and other great German cities version of the type the United of a test dive, and inter this year military flylag-boats and the 20-5 will not stop the Germans from States Army calls the P36. In other Allied experts watched the raids on London. Hitler has no the Curtiss machines important now machine leap from the compunction about sacrificing improvements have been evolved ground and climb at over a mile and are now being incorporated 4 minute at an angle which, Germans to attain his ends and in the still mysterious model during part of the test, actually the lives and limbs of women called P46, which is believed to reached the vertical.

come.

and children will not be allowed be emerging from the plant The special virtue of the new to stand on the path to victory about now.

if, by sacrificing them, the goal

can be achieved or even brought within sight of achievement..

☆

We have been given authority by the United States Govern-

Events of the past week-even ment to buy next to latest type,

propeller is that it enables the diving plane to reach n fantastic speed without over-racing and injuring the engine.

of the past 48 hours-have

We aro apparently buying Lock- clearly indicated that production a monetary war on a total scale.heeds also in considerable numbers of planes and equipment must Like grains of band, the offer-both the P38 twin-engined inter- be speeded up throughout the inga of every little corner of the ceptor and the B14 Judson long-

rango reconnaissance bomber. CAT when Empiro, and every penny the Empire

pooled

The Interceptor in a wicked look- Empire can spare must be sent together, build a mountain. Leting job with two 1,000 hp, engines," to the United States to buy the our 'dollars represent the grains tricycle landing gear, split rudder

and with a speed of over 100 miles. output of her factories. Hong-of and which Hongkong will an hour. Of the Hudson bomber kong, unhappily, has not the contribute towards that cause: Lootheed say we've ordered "quan- titles." Another pursuit plane in resources of an India, a Canada, let us realise, too, that the more which we are understebil to be inter- an Australia or a South Africh, we contribute the greater will lie asted is the P30, or Bell Aircobra, which also is tremendously fast and all of whom can equip their own the total colonial effort to win which has a single Allison engine ale forcob. But this Colony,“ en tho-war-Singapore has got the equipped with a heated, cabin and join Singapore in giving a lead load. Hongkong follow and, we oxygen apparatus for very high to all other Colonies throughout hopo, will set an example to the It is stated in USA, that some the Empire to make our wantara bther colonica in the Empire.

altitudes.

of our most important purchases

STRATEGY

gar

ROBERT WAITHMAN

TEST: Answers

Normigh

Groningen

haver

SEAL

Ipswich

Onsbruck

The Hague Ute the Arrhen

Rotterdam

0.

W

STRALI

1. Butler, Margarine, cheese, nu-

2. 00 miles at its nearest point. 3. Yarmouth, Harwich, Chatham, 4. Naval bases: Flushing, Ans- terdam, Helder. Alr bases: Amsterdam (Schipol), Rotier- dam (Waalkaven), The Hague. Flushing. Eolde, Twents, and Kindhoven,

GERMANY

STALE IN MILET

The preservation of the inde- pendence of the Low Countries has been a barle principle of . British strategy for over 300 ucars. From the Dutch naval and air bases Hitler could inten sify he attacks upon British shipping, haraze our communica~~* tians with France, add one more

circle he is drawing round the East Coast of Britaini

5. In the area of the ZeelandInk to the vast. offensive semli

Islands (shaded black on the map).