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THE BOYS IN

FRONT

"CAN

it:

ROOM

PHILIP JORDAN

one of

THE

she is., At your service, your protector, one of the instru- ments of final victory.

enough to get on with it."

AND a middle-aged man

with a face like a monk

sense And

Upstairs in a sunny, room are. the men who conceived her and translated a set of demands into a mechanical drawing. A mech-. anical drawing. into a three-. AN I Bee your

dimensional reality. "We want,' identity card

snys the Air Ministry, "a new please?" I handed it over to

bomber. It must be able to who has visited a factory where our great new the commissionaire; its par-

carry X tons of bombs for Y bombers are made, tells in this article of some

miles at Z miles per hour at u ticulars were entered in a

of the wonders he saw.

*height, of so.

thousand many book; someone pinned a

feet. (Thousands more than numbered disc on the lapel

into a tubo; or, without YET all the grace and rod

you'd think.) It must be able of my coat, and I was free

precision of a bomber is cracking it, bend a straight tube to take off in so many yards, to go inside one of the achieved with the same case ny until it looks like a snake with land in so many. Now be good largest aircraft factories in you wind your watch. Or, at indigestion.

And all the time you were this country.

least, that is what it seems like Beneath its roofs thou- to the layman who follows the doing it you would be conscious sands of men and women process from one end of the fuc- of these strangely powerful men walking past you work eight-hour shifts to tory to the other. It is a fool- and women 20 SEATER BUSES AVAILABLE turn out the bombing planes proof process to start with, for with huge castings in each

a couple more and a liking for peace, pulls out arms; and his pencils; calls his designers that carry destruction to it is virtually impossible for any hand, may be

incorrectly made part to find its tucked under the German military objectives way into the finished product. cach casting looking as though together and they get on with It is never quiet. For 24 If a part is not absolutely true a derrick were needed to lift it, the job. One day the job be As you move towards the far comes real, built by hand; and. hours a day, seven days a to the blue print from which it

are lucky, week, huge black bombers, comes, it just won't fit into its end of the factory, sense be from that, if they larger than anything ever place; and that's all there is to comes apparent in this hitherto comes the finished article, mass. crazy place, as clean and sweet- produced but with as much care

as a Rolls-Royce engine. known, larger than any-

For that reason it is also vir smelling as a hospital ward.

Parls are no longer single. And they are efficient. There thing ever dreamed of in tually impossible for any part They are bolted together, is no waste, no hold-up so far as the last war, rise out of a to be made other than correctly, riveted, welded. They grow, they can manage it. For 30 welter of machines to take Taking it by and large, hardly Even the layman begins to un- years my host that day has been their place in Britain's front any really skilled labour is em derstand. A skeleton suddenly in his factory. He knows his

ployed in modern aircraft pro- Hongkong Telegraph. line of defence.

duction. Everything is made takes shape, has meaning, exact- workers, admires them, is some- ly as though before your eyes an times amused by them, under- Through never-closed

on jigs. doors at one end of this "It sounds easy. But think of their correct places a

anatomist were to assemble in stands them. They like him,

pile of too, I believe. You can sort ma- it for a moment. About 100,- bones lying on the table before that

of thing. huge factory I saw terials stream in, gleaming 000 parts, very many of them you. Soon you would recognise if you pick the smallest bolt, the like solid sunbeams. From different. For ench

a fool, an ankle, and then a leg, smallest plate from, a machine So it is with the modern and ask him what it does, he used by the "Hongkong Telegraph to open walls at the far end those different parts there must

first be made an indestructible bomber, soon to bristle like a knows. That knowledge brings under the provisions of the Telecommuni the finished bombers roll model, against whose propor- semi-baid porcupine with its the bombers all the faster off bears the indication Url received in out into the day, ready to tions the real thing must be concealed weapons of defence. the line.

for exactly cut. And exactly is Around the corner is a regular- By all means let us praise the

the word. It will not

do ly spaced hiss; somewhere the men who conceive and who de- to produce, say, a strut whose electric welder is at work on sign; the boys in the back room. rivet holes are one-fiftieth fuel tanks, on oil tanks, that But remember also the boys and

out of place, know an inch

no rivets, An expert girls in the front room. Their IT is an unreal sight, If they should be so inaccurate can weld a line of joined flanges hands make the finished job. the finished product would, if it almost as quickly as you can Because of their care the bom- ON August 11, 1940 the

for the visitor sup- held together, be immeasurably walk its length. Luftwaffe sent over 400 planes poses that he has come into weakened; for an aeroplane is Out in the even bigger shops · across the Channel to bomb à new world whose men and so exactly planned that the the boys in the front room buc- Portland, Dover and British women are gifted with strains and stresses that it must kle these small skeletons on to "Thank you, sir. Your iden- shipping, constituting the strength and muscles that their weight at certain exact huge frameworks, join them to- tity dise, please."

gether with other skeletons, The commissionaire checked biggest air attack ever launched only. the legendary heroes spots-not half an inch, not them with a gleaming me

cover

out. I was back in of remote antiquity can even the fiftieth against Britain up to that day; ever have possessed. They away from them.

of an inch, skin as lovely and tender as any world of ordinary men.

you

could imagine. sixty of them failed to return to

are gods and goddesses in And the marvel of it all is their bases, being shot down by blue overalls.

that exactitude is not achieved British fighters. On Monday,

by machines as delicate an, say, With ease they lift huge the sound-box of a gramophone.

blue overalls are breath-| the anniversary of that event, girders, many at a time, On the contrary, there are tools

ing life into this new swarms of R.A.F. fighters on and settle them comfort as high as twenty feet that can

now in in- press half-a- giant, stirring

N. Zealand Experiment the offensive flew across the ably on their shoulders with simultaneously

Here One of the most extraordinary dozen different shapes out of dustry's vast matrix. Channel several times and went one hand before striding half-a-dozen pieces of metal at is the nose; here the tail, photographs ever taken

il pressure of nearly 6,000 each complete with its observa- circulated by New Zealand police in hunting for German planes over through the shops to de- occupied France. They did not posit them for the next pro- pounds to the square inch. You tion panels; here the power- the search for a cracksman who

cess they must undergo.

need not test the result for per operated turret crowned with "blew" and robbed a post office safe Taken by an automatic camera But the truth is that fect accuracy; it cannot possi- cannons. It is a frightful thing

that is being-born:-but-beauti- specially set-up-by-Postal officials the these huge girders are hard- bly be wrong.

ful.

photograph shows a man, gloved and If any evidence were neededly heavier than paper, for chines as well, no bigger than There are endless small ma-

So it comes off the frame- torch in hand, near the safe.

The shutter was released by a hid- on its own den "trigger," of the rapidly growing ascend they are spun from a new the sewing machine in the back work and atands

unknown ancy of the Royal Air Force metal, tough as steel, re- parlour. What will they do? low-pressure tyred wheels, that, cracksman, who, working with great over the Luftwaffe these facts | silient and almost able to What would you like? A metal acrobat as it is, it can fold up care, left no other clues that might Sydney detectives cannot recall surely provide it. It is true defy gravity without the rod going in at one end; and into its immense belly when it reveal his identity.

from the other an open mouth flies. Through the bomb doors that a considerable section of aid of wings.

spitting slotted screws quicker that conceal the nest in which any incident even remotely similar. Some city firms in Sydney have the Luftwaffe has been diverted Men and women so easily than you or I could chew up its eggs are stored, men could considered installing such photo-

walk two abreast.

graphic apparatus, but it has always handling such apparent fried potatoes.

Goggled men with air brushes been considered an uneconomic ven- considered masses is no new pheno- menon: it has startled the

come from their paint shops and ture, when the cost is

alongside the chances of it ever being beholder since men first dis-

hide the lovely skin with black "ared."

"It is certainly a million-to-one

Hongkong on the date of publication by make the night terrible

the United Associations, who serve all rights and forbid repúbilentions, either wholly or in part without previous arrangement.

POSITIONS REVERSED

see one and not one German plane flew over Britain.

to the eastern front where they have met with heavy punish. ment from the Russian air

our enemies.

of

bear are calculated to throw

GRADUALLY the gods in

bers fly.

the

Photo As Clue ·

To Crime

recently.

is being

Lo

force; but this serves only to covered the uses of pumice; OR perhaps you would like paint, so rough that it will ab-

to drill a dozen exactly sorb and not reflect the light. chonce,” said a Šydney detective,

emphasise the emptiness of and to this day you can, placed needle-sized holes in a The engined-wings, with the Nazl boast that the presumably, sit outside the dozen plates before you could shining power-units resting in Luftwaffe was capable of re- town of Naples (over which say "Jack Robinson."

The

maining invincible no matter what the opposition. actual position to-day is that the Nazi air force, owing firstly to the grand work of the RAF and secondly through the de- mands made upon it elsewhere, has been virtually swept out of the skies in the west.

the

Or ma- them, float out to join the body. Predicted Own these girders sometimes fly) be you'd like to turn a real steel Nose and tail meet; and there and watch peasants coming, down the side of Mount!

Vesuvius with what appear GRIN AND BEAR IT to be great rocks balanced on their heads. As this new metal is to steel, so lava is to rock.

Yesterday the R.A.F. con- Have you ever seen a tinued to rub it into the Nazis modern bomber? Some- with one of the biggest offen- thing like 100,000 different aives yet directed against northern France and Ger parts are interlocked to many, while simultaneously the make it. Each tiny screw Russians continue. to give the (some so light that you do lic direct to the extra-not even know there is one -vagant German claims of resting in your palm) has a having eliminated the Soviet part to play as important as air force, by directing heavy raids against Berlin and other the engine itself, whose German cities. The cumulative mounting is almost the only effect of these combined opera- individual part of an aero- tions against the Reich are plane that a child of four bound to be considerable, both could not lift easily from from the point of view of

the ground. material damage and in lower- ing the morale of the Gorman people who have so long been' the Allled raids are becoming fed with the boastful propa- more and more powerful and

that! ganda of Goebbels and Goering devastating, indicating that. Germany would always remain invulnerable to enemy air attacks.

The fact is now gradually being forced upon the German people that there is no such a place as a "safe" area. In the Reich or in any of the occupied territory in the west. Equally terrifying is the knowledge that

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ultimately the aerial attacks on Germany will be even more ferocious and effective than the worst of the Luftwaffe raids on Britain of last autumn. In short, the eventual triumph of the RAF. and Allied air forces is merely a question of time-a sobering thought for the most optimistic Nazi.

Death

By Lichty Harrogate astrological conference

SUMMER SVARBIN

IM

"Have you an appointment?—I'm busy!

Mr Tom Mawby Cole who told the that the stars indicated that "eventa just staggering" would happen was

from m

- Yously

predicting his

own

Nazi bomb which all- many casualties at an night session of the Group for Sacrifice and Service, whose meetings take place on the night of the full moen.

The meeting was planned to run from 1 a.m. to 5.15 nm. and he had foretold that a "staggering arrange- ment of the planets would occur at 10 seconds past 5.15, very near to the tline when he died.

Many people tried to read into this a prophecy of Rudolf Hess's arrival in the country a few hours before Mr Cole's death

Belgians Help

Britons

The existence of a secret organisa-. tion in Belgium. formed to aid British soldiers was revealed when Mr A, F. Aveling, British Churgo d'Affaires in Belgium, called on M. Pierlot, Bel- Klan Prime Minister, p express the thanks of the Britis Government for the gallant action of 14 Belgians is sheltering British subjects for seven months,'

Two of the

Belgians,

ans, Edgard Lefebre and Marie Guerin, were con demned to death by a German court. martial in April, and 'eight women nnd four men were guofed as accer- sories.

The Britons hid in the woods and the Belginns shared their meagra rations with: them,;/