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Plans For Invasion

September 26, 1940.

Filipinos Doubt Defence Strength

Jitesh

BY RICHARD C. WILSON (United Press Staff Correspondent)

MANILA, Sept. 26 (UP).—Filipino efforts to make the Philippines safe from military in- vasion by the time the United States grants the islands independence in 1946 have been aban-

· ́doned, informed sources revealed to-day.

Germany's smashing victories U.S. defence programme and will over small nations in Europe has welcome the sending of U. 5. convinced Filipino leaders that Army conscripts to the Philip- they must look to the United pines for training. States for protection from ag-

The mercurial Filipino presi- ! gressor nations.

dent has indicated no change in First steps toward closer co his avowed desire to see the ordination of Philippine Com islands become, completely in- monwealth armed forces and dependent in 1946, although he those of the United States in the has made few remarks publicly Islands were believed to have of late about independence. been taken during recent con-

in announcing emasoulation ferences between Common- wealth President Manuel L. Que- of the MacArthur programme, zon, U. S. High Commissioner Quezon said he no longer be Francis B. Sayre and Maj. Gen. lieved the Commonwealth could George Grunert, commander of make itself impregnable to in- vasion with the limited finances the U.S. Army'a Philippine

available for defence. Under Department.

the MacArthur programme, the Maj. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Commonwealth has been spend- former U.S. Army chief of staff ing

"COME ON, MUGI":"

EGYPTIAN

-MIRAGE

approximately $4,500,000 government could afford the its and for the last five years annually on military prepara- cost of the armaments neces- military adviser to Quezen, did

sary to defend 7,000 islands.

the con- not participate In

* ferences.

manpower

STTAKA DA

AND CARETS

and fighting equipment in the Philipines. Prior to this year, Ilttle new equipment had been sent to U. S. Army posts here on the theory American armed forces.

tions.

General MacArthur's pro- gramme was based on the theals MacArthur's plan for making that the islands could be de- First step in the new pro- would be withdrawn from the' the Philippines safe from ag fended through a mass training gramme of co-operation between islands in 1946. gression after 1946 has been programme in which every man the U. S. Army and the Com- sharply curtailed. Instituted would be a potential fighter. monwealth's armed forces was in 1936, the MacArthur pro- But the anomaly of the situation the announcement that the

gramme was being carried out in-

Working quietly, the U. S. Army substantially increased the number of technicians and aviation personnel. Nichols dependent of American schemes became apparent after the Nazi Philippine Army was for defending the islands prior invasion of the Low countries thening its forces in Mindanao, Field, on the outskirts of Mani- to their independence in 1946. last May.

streng-

large island at the southern ex-

Instead of training 40,000 men Even though the islands tremity of the archipalego and la, has become a beehive of ac- There are those in Great Britain annually, as provided in Mac possessed a huge trained army, less than 100 miles from Dutch tivity with dozens of new army

who belleve, and seemingly with Buine reason, that Germany will at- temp: invasion of the British lalus ai

western

maty pomis simultaneously. The enciny is assembling troops in the

Norway Dords of

and gathering together a great number of small craft, meluding motor boats of the Norwegian flsbuig fleet It is (now estimated that nearly 200,000 German troops nrc In Norway. Similarly, troops are being conven- trated

many points along the Dutch, Belgian and French coasts, | with collections of barges and motor- its and utter types of sencrati.

eventually, there

Invasion,

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on the coNISIS

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the German strategy might well be to attempi it at a number of points of the prius) isies in The hupe Bal one or more foutnuids could

established. From the standpoint of delence, that would inean that the enemy would be dis- sipuling his strengin. Wherever he Attacked he would be met with re- sistance from the sex, the air and the land. Great britain's internal communications are so good that troops in sumicient numbers could be sent specay to any point threat- ened.

Any destruction that Germany con wreak from the air on the British will be valueless as paving the the to invasion, so long as way Royal Navy controls the seas. The enemy's High Command knows this full well. More and more now, DiC bombarament is being concentrated on shipping in the effort to destroy both val and merchant

naval

vessels. The results cannot be encouraging

tonnage have been disproved again

Arthur's plan, the Common- wealth has decided to train but this 20,000 each year.

★

planes arriving each month.. would be helpless unless Borneo.

Although two additional bar- arms. equipped with modern

The U.S. Army maintains

were recently built to The Philippine Army possesses only a small force on Mindanao racks

house the enlarged personnel, two at Pettit Barracka, Zamboanga, A "navy" composed of

many non-commissioned officers Coincidental with the revision

must live in nearby Paranaque, Quezon is understood to have 65-foot torpedo boats, a flying

the Commonwealth's mill All available living quarters at informed Washington that the force of about 36 small planes, of Commonwealth government de and

guns. tary programme, the U.S. Army Fort Stotsenburg. BO large coastal

57 miles. frankly doubted

his has substantially strengthened north of Manila, are reported sires to co-operate fully with the Quezon

LEARN TO

BE A SNIPER

First-judge your distance

By George Millar

filled.

Differing from 'MacArthur's- programme of large infantry de- tachments, the US Army's scheme of defence appears to be based

on small, well-trained and highly mobile units, backed by an air force. These unfts... travel in caravans of speedy. trucks which also tow field guns and

Much other weapons. mobile equipment has been re- ceived here in recent months.

What effect the Common- more German victims for wealth government's revision in: shot Command, where selected mean

under its military programme will have officers and men of the British LD.V. riles. Fifty yards

estimation of the range means that Army are given three-week your bullet strikes 44ins, low at 300 on General MacArthur's status Quezon courses. I went to the Sniping yards. Fifty yards over-estimation, as military adviser to School to ask the experts who and it flies 3ins. high. That might has become a subject of confec-- run it what hints they could give easily mean the difference between ture among Manilans.

Boche helmet and the space be- to L.D.V.B.

tween a Nazi's eyes.

MacArthur came to Manila. Fot distances greater than 300 early in 1986 following kis re- yards it is best to use the "appear tirement as U. S. Army chief

Space out men at get your section familiarised with stituted his defence programme

Their answers, collectively,

LIFE-SIZE cardboard man were:-

them of

method."

A knelt under the juniper L.D.V.8 should accept every aleances from 300 to 800 yards and of staff. Shortly after he in- to the Germans. The extravagant tree, his eycless "face" peering opportunity offered claims they make of destruction of

af between two bracken clumps musketry practice on miniature the look of them and other objects for the Commonwealth govern and again. Their aim is not func-out over the brown heath.. Six or open ranges. This part of of more or less standard alzo-kement, Quezon appointed him.. tioning to anything like the extent rifle shots, aix black holes the job can only be learned by the doorways

body outline remains arm, but his Army. cessed, and, so long as it fails, suc-jumped into the yellow face. practice and individual instruc. You will see that at 400 a man's Field Marshal in the Philippine

the tion. It is the most important face is blurred, at 600 his head is cessful invasion recedes as a possi Larks whirled up over

bility.

The

Even their

uf eir defences

the

British are on the offensive

in defence.

Next comes the art of judging

of houses near them.

a dot, his body a post.

THERE are

Iow other proved

greater risk. Before however, Ger- Four of the men had 11/4 inch gets the "look" of 100 yards have a good supe

firmly fixed in his head.

AMERICANS IN ORIENT Evacuation Report Unconfirmed

SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH

WASHINGTON, Sept. (UP).

British Isles have taken the measure heath, otherwise there was no part.. of attacks by bombers, no matter sign of life. how well these are defended by Six young officers, two of distance. Every LD.V. man "olds" you can use to help you set

(1) Halve should be able to judge dis- your sights accurately. They are

tho distance. Judge fighters during their ralds. All German raids are hit and run efforts. them Australians, lay on the fir-

(2) Take the shortest catimate in fighters accompanying ing line, faces clamped down on tances accurately by eye up to the half distance. Multiply by dre the bombers do not abide the issue; checkpads, senses centred on 600 yards. This is how to learn.

Take a central point, stand your section or group of men, then take the longest estimate and take they are invariably driven off, is a telescopic sights, trigger fingers your section on it, and fix flags the mean climate as your range.

gently squeezing. Each

(or anything else easily seen) in They call this "bracketing." All this does not mean that Ger- spat six rounds at the nine-inch several spots exactly 100 yards (3) Get each man to make an ce- man air attacks will not be intensi black square on each target, 100 from the section. Every man tmate, then take the average.

(4) Most accurate of all. If you fled. They will and at all the yards away.

One of the instructors at the Snip- many launches an attack from the

"perfect" Next walk your section up to some ing School aald to me, "The ride she must achieve far greater groups officially LONDON, Sept. 25 (Reuter)-Six thousand New Zeasea

enormous. The

men that he was unable to confirm landers will be chosen by-ballot from the new Territorial Force.uccesses in the air than any so far shooting and the instructor selected object, say, a tree, telling power possibilities of the L.D.V. are Mr. Cordell Hull said, to-day

evident. If she contemplates an in- told me that earlier in the morn- every man to stop and stand when he absolutely They will be chosen out of 10,000 men who are liable to milltary vasion through the medium of small ing there had been a half-inch believes he is exactly 100 yards from themselves know it. Last Saturday newspaper reports that Admiral the tree. Then measure the dis- I heard 2,000 of them turned up at Hart, Commander-in-Chief of ........................................................................es craft, thousands of these would have

tance out with a surveyor's tape. a certain range. Now this is

the U.S. Asiatic Fleet had been to be employed, and therefore, the group.

You will and that some men have I would organise their rifle power, I WATCHED those things at

ON cach LD.V. seator I would discussing with US Consular plied. Such a programme would be the Sniping School of the Alder stopped too far away, some too near,

some (perhaps) exactly on the spot. pick a number of firing points, cover authorites the question of aventure of despair, and one show-

Measure from the nearest man to ing if possible the whole sector. In evacuating Americans ♬ from ing absolute disregard for loss of

each firing point I would fix boards e. There is no doubt that Herr could only be a plecemeal venture the furthest

This distance, when I did it at the with range cards set on them mark Japan, China and Manchukuo, Im Hitler is astute enough to recognise which could be met and defeated in

Sniping School, was about thirty ing ranges of trees, houses, walls, the event of an emergency." that any unsuccessful attempt at in a piecemeal manner. vasion on a large scale which auf- It is significant, even now, at a yards, a big margin of error in a roads, bridges.

at 100 yards. Practise and "The firing points would not need He declared that he had no fered drastic defeat would severely time when Germany still possesses guess Injure his prestige, and put heart of numerical superiority in the air, that practise until your section's margin to be occupied. But when the alarm official confirmation of

came, the commander would order grace In the peopler he has con- it is the Royal Air Force that shows of error is small.

THEN messure out longer dis- his men to whichever points covered reported Germ a n-Japanese quered. He may have some novel the greater initiative, daring and

men would got to alliance and added that on ac- methods to employ, but they are not skill, and is indieting for more dam-tances up to 300 yards. Make each the area. The apparent, and, in any case, the only agd on Germany's military and naval man in the section estimate these their station, sight the enemy, know count of the rapid development method that could succeed would establishments than is being done by distances (in afty-yard units like the his exact range. Money for jam. be the landing of sufficient troops the enemy in reprisal. Great Bri-sighting of his rille). They must use "There is a tendency now to meer in all parts of the world and mechanical equipment in the lain more and more hiding the their knowledge of what 100 yards at the rifle. Your sub-machine-gun stories have been constantly British Isles to gain a victory. What offensive in the air with the weapon looks like, spliting up the distance is useless except at short ranges, appearing from various points that would mean in the way of which Germany has claimed will into so many hundred yards, with Six or more men with rides, Bring which require time and shipping or in serial transport can lead to the downfall of the Brush perhaps half a hundred yards over at ranges even greater than 1,000

Thorough practice in this will yards will get results! MIS be readily envisaged. Moreover, it Empire

Other forces will be started in the

Rome way for duty overseas. By the CHINESE SUPPORTargets they offer would be multi-

end of the year, New Zealand will have sent 1,465 pilots, observers and air gunners to England and Canada, Airendy, there are 1,000 New Zea landers in the RAF. and 10,000 more have volunteered as pilots or technl- Mz Peter Fraser, the New Zealand Premier, says that when the Empire

WAR FUND.

Two generous donations to the War Fund have been received through the Chinese Chamber of Commerce."

Air Training Scheme, reaches its They are Chinese Medical peak, New Zealand will be supplying Dealers Association $1,000, 900 fully-trained pilots and

and - 800 technicians every

and The Fish Dealers Guild, $200. LONDON, Sept 25 (Reuter) The These bring the total to Sydney, raid reports that other batch of South Australians has been the time of going to press to

South Frogliana

called up inder the Ehpire). Training $1,347,433.84

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