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X71TH the great wave of German invasion moving swiftly nearer, everyone ought to understand the chances of enemy air invasion, and how it will be dealt with.

The Germans have three or four full regiments of para- chutists. The men are carried not in warplanes but in big Junkers transports.

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The parachute trooper is a& picked for physical strength and health, and for high courage. He needs courage, for losses, even in peacetime, maneuvres, aver- aged about 20 per cent, per annum. Yet the Germans are brave me there were never any gaps in recruiting for this branch of service.

Parachute jumping involves considerable danger. Many of the world's most famous para- chutists have been killed- John Tranum is a famous example.

Getting to earth unloaded after a parachute descent in equal to a leap from a 12-foot wall. Loaded as they are, it might equal a jump from L 17-foot wall.

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OTHER risks include delay

in opening the parachute which means hitting the earth and exploding like a bomb of being dragged through trees or coming down in water. A well-trained man, however, by swinging in a certain way as he descends, can direct his descent to some considerable extent to avoid obstacles below.

Before parachutists set out they manoeuvre in country similar to that they mean to attack. They study for many hours perfect models, ac- curately built to scale, of that country, showing woods, towns, villages, rivers and so on. This is exactly what the parachutists see from the air, appearing on about the same scale.

The parachute man's task, on landing, is exactly set out for him..

On the battlefield para- chutists sometimes risk jump-

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ing down to attack strong etiemy posts. The first of the Liege forts to fall was assault- ed in this way. Parachutists drifted down right beneath the walls and lung bombs through the ventilator-shafts crouching and gun-ports, against the outside of the walls, where they were im- mure from the defenders' fire.

WHAT chances would para-

chutists have of operating Well-for once, in Britain?

I would not fancy their pro- apects.

It is one thing to make an you nerial invasion where have troops with tanks and lorries thundering towards you to connect up a solid line, and aircraft holding the skies overhead, as happened in Hol- land and Belgium, where the defence air forces were over- whelmed at the start. In Britain the tale is very dif- ferent.

So long as the British Navy exists we hold the Ditch be- tween the Continent and Eng- land, and communications are impossible for any pari chutists or air invaders who land here. Moreover, I do not believe England has a strong Germun Fifth Column, on whose help skying-invaders are bound to rely.

But if a landing were made --if a few hundred Germans managed to get their feet to English ground-what then?

This-is-not-the-Low-Coun- trics, where a few handfuls of obsolete warplanes smashed down by the Luft- Waffe before parachuting We hold operations began. the English skies, and likely to do so for some time

to come.

were

are

The Germans are reckless of life other people's and their own. So most probably when the time will come aerial invasion of Britain will be attempted. It will not suc- ceed; and every Boche who flouts down towards an Eng- lish meadow will be one man more flung away in the bid for world domination.

By Abner Dean

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ARE YOU SURE?

Answers on this Page.

1. Caporetto, whence the Italians were driven in flight in the battle of 1917. is a

(a) river, (b) town, (c) small mountain, (d) province.

Did the Italians then lose more or fewer guns than the Allies re- cently lost in Belgiumi?

2. The British Empire vccupies nearly.

one-sixteenth, one-eighth,

quarter, one half

one

of the land surface of the earth.

Give figures.

3. What horse won the Derby Inst week? What were second and third!

4. Is an Eskimo's hair naturally straight or curly?

5. In what month of 1588 was

the Spanin Artada scattered?

4. A troglodyte is

(a), kind of freg, (b) surveyor's instrument, (c) cave-dweller,

7. The blagest industry of the United States is the manufacture of (b) machinery, (c) (a) food, textiles, (d) radio,

8. Who are the members of tho War Cabinet? Give the Christian name of each.

9. What is a dan-laying vesself 10, Ants are divided into three,

classes. What are they?

11. Would you use a didie to

(b) wash (a) cut the town, dishes, (c) scrub floors, (d) clear o

ditch, (e) thatch a roof.

12. What is the origin and mean- Ing of the word admiral?

13. What is Portuga] colabrating this year? Who is representing King George? ·

14. How many

16. What Is the colour of the uniform worn by the W.V.8.7

17. Ballistics deal with

(a)

motion of projectiles, (b) an- elent weights, (ë) ballast arrange- ments in ships.

18. Who Squcers?

was Mr: Wackford

19. A selenographs la a (a) weighing machine, (b) range finder, (e) sales chart, (d) map of the moon, (e) chart of the

Decans.

20. Where is Banana Island, and

to whom does it belong?

ANSWERS

1. Town. 2,000 more.

2. Nearly one-quarter. The land surface of the earth is 52,500,000 square miles; that of the Empire is 12,000,000.

3. Font l'Evepuc; Lighthouse II

Straight

Turkhan;

July. Sighted off Plymouth on the 20th, Fighting up the Channel lasted till the 30th, when the Spaniards fled north from Nieuport.

6. Cave-dweller.

7. Muchinery.

6. Winston Churchill, Lord Hall- fax (Edward F. L. Wood), Clement Attlee, Arthur Greenwood, Neville Chamberlain.

9. Ship that Inys buoys. 10. Queens, males, workers. 11. Clear a ditch. It is a sharp triangular spade.

12. From the Arabic word Amiral menning Emir (Emperor) of the

13. 800th anniversary of the foundation of the State. Duke of

(a) barrels, (b) gallons in a butt "Kent.· of ale?

15. Who originated the ServEN=" tina Lido which was opened ion : years ago to-day? For whom was the Berpentine first laid out?

14. 3 barrels. 108 gallons.

15. George Lansbury. Caroline, wife of George II.

10, Olive green with embroidered badge.

THE MEN BEHIND THE BREN

By-F. G. H. SALUSBURY IMAGINE yourself crouch- ing in what, was the par- lour of a typically snug French house.

The snout of your Bren gun window-or. pokes through the rather, the gap that was left when a bomb wrenched out the frame, sent it crashing backwards in an explosion of gings and shook the whole house to plecos,

You have piled up as much of Madame's furniture as you can find, and backed the lot with the bedding which descended from the Boor above. It gives only a false sense of security, but it makes a cosy nest and may stop small splinters.

Madame's plano has been toppled against one wall, with its back ripped open. A fantastic fate has flung a porcelain ornament from the mantelplece to the seat of the music stool. There it stands, quite unharmed, a group of fat cupids wreathed with pink roses.

And over all this chaos, which is buoyantly surveyed by a large, coloured photograph of monsieur, madame and their Ove children, there lles a thick grey dust.

*

You and your section are infantry; The limelight has not been thrown on you as much as on the Royal Alt Force. which is doing such magnifi. cent work. But your experiences in the past few days have mode old sollers of you,

Bo you snuggle closer against the stock of your Dren gun, and you gaZO with concentration up the village street. You are as tired as Helland. Hell must be very weary these days.

They have put you here and there, advanced and withdrawn you, 'as the gap in the region about Arras closed and opened and closed again.

You have not the remotest idea of what is happening elsewhere, or how "the general battle is going"" You"only"

now you would give a year's pay for a night's undisturbed steep and a good blow-out of steak and chips. and

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Pror old Happy" is no longer with you to grause about his food. He got his packet near Louvain, A grenade that came lobbing over Just like a cricket ball. Yes, old "Happy" was a good lad.

Your dip is aching again, and

shift slightly.

you

"Wants a blinking cushion, I 'shouldn't wondert" says someone.

looking round from his ride,

"Anyone got any chocolate?" says someone else.

Oh, yes, sir; certainly, sirl" comes a mincing reply from behind madame's best chair. "And what sart would you laske-all Boft centres? By all means, sir.”

* *

A figure stumbles in through the doorway. It is a young subaltern, your platoon commander.

"Everything ali right, sergeant?" he says. 'Bedded down nicely, 1 seo. Good. Well, you'll have to hang on here until you're blown to glory-

"Any issue of wings, sir, when we're angels?" says the section wit

me.

-or until you get the signni from There a picture I dislike par- ticularly in the room where I am. 131 chuck it out of the window if you're to move. Keep an eye on the window Okay?

"Yes, sir.".

"Right you are, then."

As the suballero departs, a cat, deserted by humanity and how com- plotely wild stalks past the window. Its eyes are blazing. It is pure black

"Blimey 1" ejaculates tho wit, That's lucky!"

With his inst word there comes a whine that rises to a howl and cul- minates in an appailing crash. A mushroom of amoke and brick, Cintes up from the end of this street

"They're onl" says the irrepressible wit, and licks his grimy, cracked Hips. Hand me my binoculars, will you Perkins?*

You tighten your finger on the trigger. At the back of your mind you are wondering just what is the picture which your subaltern dislikes so much

Then a piece of metal smacka into the room over, your head, and makes nonsense of monsieur's photographic smiler..

17. Moden of projectiles.

18. The schoolmaster in Dickens's

Nicholas Nickleby.”

19. Map of the moon.

20. Off Sierra Leone. Britain.

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