1940-09-24 — Page 11

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September 24, 1940.

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WHAT NEUTRAL EUROPE THINKS

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1--In the Balkans the pros pect of Hitler's New Europe IN thast the political side, implying German dotamnation. and the diminution of in divifund authority causes givings. On the economi side the idea does not appeal to business men as sub, but is found by professional people and workers in embody the principles of State control arat the repudiation of individual methods

2. by believed that the risks いよい tou Freat

pointed out that German mil. tary policy generally vetous. rinks

The Press regards invaSTOT threats as intended to mask Germany's next

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It is thought that the inten tion is to draw the British out of the Mediterranean, thus securing control of Egypt and Northern Africa

3. In the winter of 1941 (not so much as this winter) it is feared that shortage of food and scarcity of soap will undermine the physical resin- Lance of the population. Epidemics, it is thought, will seize Europe.

1-lt Is believed theme stalemates may lead to a com- promise by which the British Empire will still retain India but lose Gibraltar and Malta, Hitler rotaining his European gains, recovering his colonies and demanding share of con. trol of the Suez Canal with England and Italy.

PORTUGAL

Intelligent Portuguese take no stock of 13her's New Europe which they believe to be mere bluff to tempt other countries to enter into nego tiations with Germany, finally submitting to her domination If Huler really wanted a Now Europe on consimetave lines, they say, he could have got JE by peaceful ongoliation Jong apn. especially Wheb Chamberlain was in power

The fact that Hitler ferredi WILE show aldute domination of Europe in hi la true aim

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2. Many people disbelieve that Hier will attempt the Invasion of Britain and think that the invasion threat only an altempt to scare 11 section of British opinion mater

If the in A preste demand. vasion were attempted, they think it will be resisted muc cessfully after

dence struggle

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3.Portugal is 1 apr hensive for the coming win- fer, as food supplies, especially Argentine wheat, are arriving freely. and owing to the Government's foresight, good organisation and strong Anan- cial position large stocks are in storage here.

4.—The outcome of the war generally considered Loo remote for a forecast at pre- sent, but the Portuguese have great confidence in British power of resistance, believing that it will finally prevail. with American material sup pori.

RUMANIA

1.--The

Rumanian Press

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OUT OF THE FRYING PAN

INTO THE SPITFIRE

AN aluminium frying pan to-day may be flying as part of a Spitfire in six weeks. Why and How?

Why is it needed?' Alu- minium is the earth's com- monest metal-composing one- twelfth of the globe.

Unfortunately it is never found in the.pure state, only in combination with other olementa. The combination called Bauxite Clay is by far the easiest to refine and the chief source of Bauxite is the Baux region of France;

We have temporarily lost that supply, and the frying pana are a "stop-gap" to tide over any possible delay in shipments from the ample re- serves in British and Dutch Gulana, Africa, India, the U.S.A. and other countries.

But why frying pans? What about the masses of aluminium in the car-breakers' yards? Because kitchen utensils are pure aluminium

melt-and-

which can be melted and used at once. Other forms arc mainly alloys which have to be freed of several metals by a long complex process before they can be re-employed. use-again process was impos-

Formerly this

sible. Every aluminium article. rapidly forms a thin, hard outer layer of oxide or "rust." Only recently has a way been found to, remove this "rust" from melted-down aluminium.

The Kitchen-to-Spitfire jour- ney is rapid. Lorries. dis- tribute the puns to selected factories all over Britain. Here gangs of sorters get to work, throwing out any allow or non-aluminium pans, and wrenching off non-aluminium handles, knobs" and "rivats. This is important, for a trace

of "foreign" metal can com- pletely alter the charac. teristics of the aluminium,

The "pure" pans are then bundled into big hydraulic presses with a squeeze of 2,000 pounds to the square

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Special Correspondents in certain neutral countries were asked the following four questions:

What is thought of Hitler's "New Europe" talk

1

2

Is it believed that Germany will at- tempt the invasion of Britain?

Is the coming winter viewed with 3 apprehension from the point of view of

shortage?

4

What is thought to be the probable outcome of the war?

Here are their answers:

SWEDEN

These carving days will dete Pumpes destiny Thus the in- Can of Ri taib a furthcoming o tan Britain's propagansla uncterrating of Geruch Fusive's di Ansam Juri vention WB be inte Russin, at believed, is baking her ow

in Finland and elsewhere

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station, has to IOUIS COB CL- ing the prosperity that the appile- of JRler's so-called New

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bring 10 Europe's

small nation

Il 15 believed that should Get. many succeed in establishing her new order, Europe will have only Tags course-revolt.

the

Turkish circles are united

miton that a German attack o England will and must come this autumn.

For in an often repeated phrase "Gorming has lost the war

if he annot conquer England this усчаг."

An awasson likely fron all trom Bergen to Brest as well frum the air. Maybe 11 will be sekavest The attack on Norway dwell Buat titler prefers to take chabers, Hadged unfavourable, their

The delay in attack is belleved to be due valce outweighing their

to Germany's unpre- Brands Cataster-nivasures or

paredness and her realisation of curry pies fenfiy Cautions,

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WZIONE harvest has been the largest in years, luis no fear of famine. Pro- phocles of European famine are true or less regarded as an t- torlan trick to

luusen the British; blockade.

4- The most general View in that Hier, who has so far so well relived the life of Napoleon will continue to do.

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A German victory might enable les to realise a New European either by reducing nun-

states to differently de pendent protectorates, likely. killing un-German state Bulbrity by the imposition of Gelitan-run inter-European pro- Tessional organisations. Elther way would slowly destroy native indus- try by colonising with German un- employed.

TURKEY

1 Istler's "New Order fur Europe" speech is lubelled here Der p poot lernpt to sugar-coat plans for a Germano-Halian die- latrerhip of Europe. Turkey, who has herself suffered foreign ex-

So the ingots go to the melting pot again, where the small percentages of copper. nickel, manganese, silicon or other metals are added.

Scores of different alloys. each with its own virture, exist and the metallurgical chemist con provide The ideal one for any job.

Frying pans-in the form of a slab two feet square and for inches thlek and weighing a measly 50 pounds are now ready for the massive rolling mills which will squeeze them to the right thickness to Spitfireskin.

"Take Cars By Rail To Save Petrol"

A Holiday Suggestion

on

A suggestion that motorists hollday paying visits to evacuce chil- dren raight take their cars or motor- cycles with them by rail to petrol and return by road is made by the Royal Automobile Club.

save

A circular to members points out that the cost of taking cars by train, they are accompanied elther by one drst or two third class passen- gers, is 3d, a mile for o single journey and 4d. for a return, subject to a war increase of 15 per cent.

with it firmly-elther by giving it brine baths or shutting it in a re- frigerator!

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A bath in hot brine, followed by

cold

brine bath temporarily softens the alloy, so that it can be worked or put Into place before hardening. When aluminium cust- ings have to be itept for some time before use they will stoy con- veniently workable only if stored at a temperature far below zero. Se most aircraft works are fitted with outsize refrigeratora.

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YT It has been stated that one ton of aluminium, or over

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inch or more and pressed into solid cakes of metal.

These go straight to the furnaces, some of which can deal with 20. tons (80,000, frying pans to you) ni'n time. A temperature of about 700C soon melts the aluminum Gas bubbles blown through the liquid metal and a chemical dux poured in a layer over its surface absorb all the oxide, and absolute- ly pure aluminium pours into the Ingot-moulds.

But puru metal isn't good enough for the plane makers. They de- mand on alloy, such as duralumin which, though: 95 pez cent. aluminham, is many times stronger than...... the... parent metal and as, tough as- and only one-third the weight of milid 'stonl.

Most of the sheet metal which clothes the wings and body of a plane is only 1-30th, of an inch thick. The 4-inch-thick ingot is reduced by two stages. First is

ond

4,000 frying pans, makes 'one Spitfire. But only about half this ton goes into the plane itself. The rest is temporarily "wasted" in cut-

70,000 separate parts, thousands of them aluminium which have to be cast, forged, cut for every fighter!) This "scrap" is then collected, re- melted and used again.

ordinary when' you consider the

the hot roller. Heated to 450 Cting and casting (not extra- through this giant mangle 20 or fairly soft, the ingot passer 30 times. This reduces lis thick- inch. A second, and ness to cold, roller turns into waterlhin sheeting, which is cut and pressed Into hundreds of standard shapes and curves by other machines (in- cluding 1,000-ton presses) at the,

aircraft works

Aluminium is a temperamental metal. Newly-barn it is compara- tivaly soft and workable, but if left alone it hardens In a few. hours. Plane manufacturer doel

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The reserves of "household alu- unum available in emergency must be Immense," Allow" only three pans per household and you' have enough aluminiumn in the - nation's kitchens to build · 0,000 Spitfires. And a bit over to make Incendiary bombs, explusives, paint and other aluminium products,-

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