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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

August 26, 1941.

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WAR

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BRITAIN'S best-kept

secret of the war is out.

By A. B. AUSTIN

It is Radiolocation the ments was being flashed country, and applying to means by which we detect with the speed of light. the Navy and Army as well chemy aircraft.

This has been one of the as to the R.A.F."

Ether waves are not af-

land.

servicca.

ness.

Sent groping into space.

An invisible rampart of best kept secrets of the war. waves, stretching, far be- In the Services it was only fected by fog, cloud or dark- yond our shores, has given referred to by three letters. warning, since the begin- Few even in the Army, ning of the war, of every Navy and R.A.F. knew these Nazi bomber and fighter letters, and they could not from the detection stations, which flew towards this is-be whispered outside the they strike any solid object such as a ship or an aircraft Thousands of men and Recently, Air Chief Mar- that may be approaching. women now man Britain shal Sir Philip Joubert, with radiolocators. Millions now Commander-in-Chief, of pounds have been spent Coastal Command, disclosed the raider is recorded. on them.

for the first time the use of 24 Hour Watch The name of the man the ether wave in war.

The ether waves keep a He was one of the men 24-hour watch. who gave it to us is Robert Alexander Watson Watt, responsible for the applica-

Thanks to them, Air Chief 49-year-old Scot from Bre-tion of the discoveries of

Watson Watt and other Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, radio pioneers to modern Commander-in-Chief of the warfare.

Fighter Command during

Hongkong Telegraph. chin, Angus.

Tucsday, Aug. 26, 1941.

Wyndham St., Hongkong

Telephone: 20013

THE prefix "special to the Telegraph

is used by the "Hungkang Telegraph" te. Indicate nows which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommutil - entions Ordinance, 1916, Buch newa xa bears the indication "UP" fi received in Ilongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who, res

He made his discovery six years ago, working with the first detection device in an old lorry in a country road near Daventry.

Invisible Wall

At once the approach of

WATSON WATT; the man who discovered Itadlofecailou.

Was icleorologist-in-charge of Royal Aircraft Establishment in the last war.

and industrial Research in 1021.

Jrined Department of Scientific

In January, 1940, was scientlic adviser on tele-communications.

Six months later was trans-

Truduction,

He made his disclosure the Battle of Britain, did terred to Ministry of Alterafi because he was appealing not have to keep standing for 10,000 men and more patrols of Spitfires and than 5,000 women to join Hurricanes in the air.

The staff of the three ser- the great organisation in

vices employed on radio- He could save his petrol location runs into thou- the three services which and the time and

energy of sands. his pilots.

From that first experi- maintains the radiolocation. serve all rights and forbid republications.ment on a March morning system.

either wholly or in part without previove arrangement.

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"Radiolocation," said Sir Scientists are constantly in 1935 there was built up "The Battle of Britain," Philip Joubert, "has been of making improvements, and the invisible wall round our he said, was won by a com- the utmost assistance to the the manufacturers have to

bination of our figliters and-

Royal Observer Corps in keep up with the research Nazi pilots, miles out to radiolocation. sea, confidently heading for "The lorry near Daventry spotting the movements of workers. Britain, did not know that has grown into an organi enemy aircraft.

But both scientists and. warning of their move- sation covering the whole the use of the Observer trained staff to service the "It has at least doubled manufacturers are short of Corps."

increasing number of radio

CHIANG'S NEPHEW This "trick of the labora-locators. FERRIES FOR R.A.F.location without the public need for these craftsmen is

By A Correspondent

"Calling Mr Chang. Calling the physical tests for the R.A.F. Mr Chang, Will you please go The leader of the women is to Operations Room immediate- Miss Pauline Gower, who was a ly? You are required for a close friend of the late Miss cross-country flight."

Amy Johnson, who was also in ossume that the prompt action of the Soviet British Mr Chang-nobody knows "plane when killed."

the A.T.A. and was ferrying a nilitary commands will succeed in him by any other name-roze crushing further Nazi machinations from a deep armchair in the -In-this-direction=at ̄Icast via ̄Irairest room at the aerodrome ̄and

and Turkey.

went off to report to Operations Room.

Welcome too, is the announcement that General Sir Archibald Waveli 19

at the head of the British forces now pushing their

towards way

the

tory," as Sir Philip Joubert called it, grew into radio- House of Commons,› our As Mr Attlee said in the

them.

being aware of its existence, increasing rapidly, and we After Watson Watt and want more and more of his fellow experimenters had made their old lorry experi- ments, a team of brilliant But not only men are scientists and serving of needed. In all three Ser- ficers were got together. vices women can work in In the middle of 1939, a the detection posts. During

the Battle of Britain W.A-

tions-room.

few months before war FIVE ÈXAMINATIONS

broke out, they managed to A.F. girls were sitting at adapt the ether waves to the posts, receiving the The Americans are mostly military uses.

warnings of Nazi raiders ex-airliner pilots. One of them,

Once radiolocation had and sending them to the Charlie Smith, owned several This tall, charming nephew 'planes himself and flew hunters been proved practicable, Fighter Command opera- of Generalissimo Chiang Kai- to all parts of the American scientists, engineers and manufacturers combined to

"It is radio that will de- shek, hend of the Chinese continent. Persian oil centre. This appointment Army, is one of 200 pilots of the

There are five examinations produce the best possible stroy enemy aeroplanes," Air Transport Auxiliary, which which every man must pass, equirment. symbolises the strong intent of the has commandeered this station. He begins with light types and

said Lord Beaverbrook.

British move; Wavell has

He was broadcasting to always They have relieved R.A.F. pilots

Taken Four Years

America an appeal to men been a hard hitter ng witness his of the task of transporting goes on to single-engine train-

It had taken four years of technical skill to help in Libyan and Ethiopian campaigns; he planes from manufacturera to as Spitfires. When through of continuous experiment to the repair and maintenance ing and operational types, such is a realist; a leader who acknow- R.A.F. stations. This means ledges that Britain Is apposed to a

do the job. two flights, with this aerodrome these he is a junior officer.

of our wireless devices, From there to the big stuff- ruthless enemy and who is himself as the intermediate stage.

Now radiolocation has "It is the radio," he said, vialla, trumpet, saxophone-to your S. Moutrie & Co., Ltd. prepared to be equally ruthless to Planes come from the factories light twins, such as Ansons and been extended from the "that finds the enemy in defeat that enemy, in plain words, without armaments and other Oxfords, heavy twins-Welling. R.A.F. to the Navy and the the darkness, that seeks him

necessary fittings. Here they ton and Whitley bombers-and are fitted and flown on to finally, the biggest and largest Army.

out through the clouds." accept the situation ar take

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GRIN AND BEAR IT prime importance, and-this is war.

A day among these pilots, can fly all, ho is made a senior The Iranian. authorities have been such as I spent, is equal to a officer. given the fullest and most comfort round-the-world trip. There are

I was taken on a tour of the ing assurances by the Allies; this Americans, an Indian and a by one of the pilots, Dr M,

Poles, Czechs, Frenchmen,

school, 'drome and flying field no attempt to usurp an established Spaniard, as well as English Whitehurst, who was Medical. Government while that Government men and women. Is amenable to reason and willing to

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It means that the Iranions will either

the

ake

acknowledge that its own strength is ONE HAND, ONE EYE

insumulent to deal with the Internal

Our first call was at the

disorganisation created by German I chatted over a cup of ten

columnists. Iran will remain with one of the Poles, He was Operations Room, where pilots Iran for the Iranians and

the formerly one of several pilots of receive their orders for the first guarantee of that is the very presence Lockheed: airliners operating flights of the day. "Mr Smith,

of British and Allied forces within from Warsaw. With two others, drive to factory X and pick up the country; without their presence he decided to leave for Britain a Spitfire," or "Senor Silvario, Iran might well have become an- uther Norway overnight.

when it became apparent that take a Magister (a training air-

craft) to nerodrome Y." Farly reports suggest that Turkey the fall of Poland was inevitable. has not taken kindly to the Allied Each took one of the airliners Each pilot nodded and went inove, but this inmediate reaction is and without maps or other off to the maps and signals probably caused by luck of apprecia- guides, except compasses, flew room. Spread out on the table

on of the motive underlying the Invasion; when this is fully under-

across Germany and France to was a large secret map of

stocd Turkey will have good grounds Britain. "One of my com- Britain. The station is allowed. for welcoming it. If nothing else it panions has been killed since in only this one copy, showing the provides her with friendly and well-

wishing neighbours on three sides—

ella flying accident," he told me.

channels of flight across Britnin which these ferry pilots must

L

from Syria, Iraq and Itan and wville the Russian fleet dominates the Black

Many of the Englishmen were uso.. Aerodromes, balloon bar- Sea, the Turies can afford to sleep pilots in the Royal Flying Corps rages and A.A, batteries aro more peacefully in their beds. The during the last war. One of marked as danger spots to be presence of well established Allied them, Capt. Keith, Jopp, is the avoided, for if venturing near a forces around the entire innd frontler only man with a complete dis- pilot is likely to be taken for of Turkey must act on a strong ability pension from the last hostile aircrafts and fired on. deterrent to Axis designs on Turkey -designs, Incidentally, which have war who is still flying," With This, I was assured, does not ong been obvious. "It will be gener-only one hand and one eye, he happen often, but one man told ally

and sincerely hoped that the transports anything from a me of an occasion "when he antons will accept the position and will retrain from opposition which Spitfire to a Wellington bomber. went, only slightly off his course can serve only to bring unnecessary There are others; much over the sea and was given n distress and bloodshed to the country younger, with the necessary hot few minutes by que, of our with whom the Allies have no flying qualifications for the battleships. "Which only shows quarrel, nor do they acclc one, The ATA60 hours and an "A" how smart our Navy::18, was Allied, move, is not acquisitive, but pilot's licence who cannot pass his commont. 'strategical, EN

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