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THE MIDDLE

COMMAND

The greatest British air force ever mobilised outside Britain itself is deployed in the Middle East.

The aerial theatre of war. in which it has to operate extends miles from Gibraltar castwards to Palestine, 3,000 miles from Palestine south- wards over East Africa, 1,500 miles from Alexandria to Aden, and 1,000 miles from the western Sudan to the Red Sen.

These vast distances are the first thing to visualise if we are to get any clear picture in our minds of what mir war in the Middle East may be like.

The Middle East Commund of the R.A.F. covers a greater area than any other, and touches many countries of the Empire. And, appropriately, it is an Empire 'Force.

It Commander-in-Chief, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore, is an Australian, though he has bad many years distinguished service in Britain.

Its personnel, the most cos- mopolitan in the world, in- cludes men from the British Isles, Australians, New Zen- landers, Anglo-Indians and In- dians, South Africans, Pales- tinian Jews and Arabs, Sudanese. And in addition to these Empire Citizens, Czechs, Poles, Frenchmen und Egyp- tians are serving in. the Com- mand. Some of its squadrons belong not to the R.A.F., but to Dominion Air Forces,

The Command's equipment, munitions and other supplies are drawn from many coun tries.

How the Czech contingent, now serving in Egypt's West- ern Desert, came to be there, is in itself a romance of what free men will do to fight for Frecilom..

These mcn, pilots and ground personnel, escaped from Czechoslovakia after the German occupation in March 1939, reached Poland, joined the Polish Air Force as volun- icers, fought the Nazis there.

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JOHN CASHEL

When Warsaw fell they found sanctuary in Rumania, and then began months of ad- venturous travelling through thousands of miles of enemy and neutral countries till at long last they reached Egypt.

The wife and four-year-old daughter of one of the party accompanied them through- out, sharing their hazards.

"Nothing matters to us," they said on presenting them- selves for service, "except that the R.A.F. should give us a chance to fight somewhere.”

Young Palestinians, Jews and Arabs, are not only cager to defend Palestine, but eager to fight anywhere else where the R.A.F. ensign flies,

The Jews among them know only too well what Nazi do- mination menus. Most of them experienced its tortures in Germany and Austria.

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A number of these Pales- tinians served with the French Foreign Legion in Syria and escaped to Palestine when France capitulated.

Those who don't speak Eng- lish-and few of them do are being trained with the aid of interpreters, mostly for service with the technical branches of the R.A.F.

The Middle East Command is well-equipped and well- armed.

For months past, Hurri- Canes and Spitfires have been pouring into the Middle East, as well as modern bombing planes.

Against auch a force, the Axis Powers will not be able to repeat the blitzkrieg tactics used in Abyssinia and in Poland.

Nor will it be the same sort of air warfare as that now waged over Britain. The deserts provide innumerable landing fields, and an aero- drome there can be freely and frequently moved,

Middle East Command, R.A.F., has a mobile-minded Chief in Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore. It has another, and fortunately equally an air-minded one, in the Commander-in-Chief of all our forces in the Middle Eust, General Sir Archibald Wavell,

It was Wavell who years before the war said: "No sol- dier should hold a rank of high command without having had at least six months' close association with the R.A.F.”

THE POLITE POLE

The Poles are noted for their politeness. Their greeting is always accom- panied by a bow. It is quite impossible to induce one of them to precedo you through a door.

At a certain bomber station there were a num- ber of Poles who certainly no leas polite than their

compatriots.

were

The climax came one day when a section of the British pilots were setting off on a mission that was generally known to be ex- ceptionally hazardous.

As they left the mess they found the Poles at the door.

⚫ drawn up

Their spokesman had in. his hand an English dic tionary. He stepped for- ward.

"God pickle you, gentle. men", he said.

The English language is full of pitfalls, and per- haps not the least of them concerns the words "pickle" and "preserve",

Nazis Thought Scots Spoke Russian

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February 13, 1941.; By Walt Disney

WALT DISNE

Scene at Exchange Building this morning where hun- dreds of people cagerly purchased "Through" tickets and Rooty-Hill Derby cash sweep numbers for the annual race mecting which starts on Saturday.. At the present time over 800,000. tickets have been sold in the dollar Derby sweep.-

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Britain's War

War

Aims:

New Commons Debate

LONDON, Feb. 12 (Reuter).-Efforts to induce the Govern- ment to make a formal statement on its peace alms wero renewed in the House of Commons to-day.

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Mr John Martin, (Lab.) asked whether consultations peace aims and reconstruction had taken place with the Govern- ment of the United States.

Mr. Clement Attice, relicrated that

Mr. Churchill replied that here would be a declaration at the right time, but the Government must there was such a thorough com- be the judge of the right me.

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prehension in the United States

jald.

of what we were fighting for and that we are fighting for a new world stood for that, "I cannot recall not only for Britain but for Europe any occasion when those ques-and the whole civilised world," he tured by the Germans near Abbeville Itions were mentioned by the Politics and Economy Inst June and were released because American representatives whom they pretended to be Russians hava I have acon, or by correspond- been Awarded the Military Medal,

Corporal oral James Wilson and

Allstair Macdonald,

lents."

"Statements on British policy will

"There is a growing realisation of the close linking of our political and economic almi. There is a growing appreciation of the Importance of linking peace, aims for the world try. But when a statement is made. we want a statement that will make for unity at home, unity with the The matter was raised again on Dominions, unity with the United adjournment in the form of a debate States and all civilised peoples in which brought another short Govern-trouble with us. ment declaration.

Private William Kemp, all from be made by Ministers on occasions as outside and pence aime for this coun- Ballachulish (Argyllshire), and zervcem agreeable to public interests," Ing. in the Argril and Sutherlands, the Prime Minister added. wore saved because they spoke Gaelic, Eight interpreters were tried. None understood them,

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