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GREAT

OUR WAR SECRET IS OUT!

B

RITAIN'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 the Navy and Army as well means by which we detect with the speed of light.

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

Sent groping into space

At once the approach of

An invisible rampart of best kept secrets of the war. Ether waves are not af 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. 11499, 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

services.

such as a ship or an aircraft land.

Recently, Air Chief Mar- that may be approaching. Thousands of men and

man Britain shal Sir Philip Joubert, women now with radiolocators. Millions now Commander-in-Chief, of pounds have been spent Coastal Command, disclosed the raider is recorded.

24 Hour Watch for the first time the use of on them.

The other waves keep a The name of the man the ether wave in war. who gave it to us is Robert He was one of the men 24-hour watch.. 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, Hongkong Telegraph. chin, Angus.

Six months later Fighter Command during He made his discovery radio pioneers to modern Commander-in-Chief of the

warfare. six years ago, working with

He made his disclosure the Battle of Britain, did ferred to the first detection device in because he was appealing not have to keep standing an old lorry in a country for 10,000 men and more patrols of Spitfires and The staff of the three ser-

CORT109

The

Tuesday, Aug. 26, 1941.

Wyndham St., Hongkong

Telephone; 20015

THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph" road near Daventry,

14 used by the tongkong Telegraph" to Indieate news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommu32f- Cations Ordinance, 1716. Such news as beare the indication "U E Nceived in 1longkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who re either wholly or in part without previous arrangement.”

WELCOME NEWS

the WELCOME Indeed is

news

Invisible Wall

"Radiolocation,"

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WATSON WATT: the man who discovered Radiolocation.

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

Joined Department of Selenittic In January, 1940, was relentifle advlver on tele-communications,

WDS trans- of Ministry Aircraft

and Industrial Research in 1921.

-Production.

runs

" said Sir Scientists are constantly

than 5,000 women to join Hurricanes in the air.

vices employed on radio- He could save his petrol

into thou- location the great organisation in the three services which and the time and energy of sands. From that first experi- maintains the radiolocation his pilots. serve all rights and forbid republications, ment on a March morning system.

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 shores.

bination of our fighters and Royal Observer Corps in keep up with the research Nazi pilots, miles out to radiolocation.

spotting the movements of workers.

But both scientists and aircraft. enemy sea, confidently heading for "The lorry near Daventry

"It has at least doubled manufacturers are short of Britain, did not know that has grown into an organi-

move-sation covering the whole the use of the Observer trained staff to service' the warning of their

Corps."

increasing number of radio

tory," as Sir Philip Joubert As Mr Attlee said in the called it, grew into radio- House of Commons, our without the need for craftsmen is

that Britain and Russia, acting in concert and displaying admirable Initiative, have sent troops into Iran

war

hus

to thwari German fifth column activities in that strategically im- portant country which forms a vital link between India and the theatre in castern Europe. It been made fairly clear for past, despite the cautious tone of official and inspired comment, that Iran was fast becoming a hotbed of German intrigue which, If permitted

weeks

CHIANG'S NEPHEW This "trick of the labora-locators,

FERRIES FOR R.A.F.ng

By A Correspondent

to continue unchecked, would be capable of very seriously compromis- Mr Chang, Will you please go ing the Allied, cause Buthern Russia and India. It seems

:

aware of its existence, increasing, rapidly, and we

After Watson Watt and want more and more of his fellow experimenters had them.

"Calling Mr Chang. Calling the physical tests for the R.A.F. made their old lorry experi-

The leader of the women is ments, a team of brilliant But not only men are vices women can work in vis-a-vis to Operations Room immediate Mias Pauline Gower, who was a scientists and serving of- needed. In all three Ser- ly? You are required for a close friend of the late Misa ficers were got together. the detection posts. During

fatr to assume that the prompt cross-country flight.”

action of the Soviet-and-British. inilitary rommands will succeed in crushing further Nazi machinations In this direction-at least via Iran and Turkey.

Welcome too, is the announcement that General Sir Archibald Wavell is at the head of the British forces now towards the Way pushing their

Persian oil centre. This appointment symbolises the strong intent of the British move: Wavell hus always been a hard hitter as witness his Libyan and Ethioplan campaigns; he is a realist; a lender who acknow- ledges that Britain is opposed to a ruthless enemy and who is himself

Room.

Amy Johnson, who was also in

In the middle of 1939, a

the A.T.A. and was ferrying a few months before war the Battle of Britain W.A.- Mr Chang-nobody knows plane when killed.”

broke out, they managed to A.F. girls were sitting at him by any other name-rose

the posts, receiving the FIVE EXAMINATIONS ladapt the ether waves to from a deep armchair in the

warnings of Nazi raiders The Americans are mostly military uses.. rest room at the aerodrome and went off to report to Operations ex-airliner pilots. One of them,

Once radiolocation had and sending them to the Charlie Smith, owned several been proved practicable, Fighter Command opera-

tions-room. This tali, charming nephew 'planes himself and flew hunters

"It is radio that will de- of Generalissimo Chiang Kai- to all parts of the American scientists, engineers and manufacturers combined to shek, head of the Chinese continent.

said Lord Beaverbrook. There are five examinations produce the best possible stroy enemy aeroplanes," He was broadcasting to Army, is one of 200 pilots of the Air Transport Auxiliary, which

Taken Four Years has commandeered this station which every man must pass, equinment.

America an appeal to men They have relieved R.A.F. pilots He begins with light types and

It had taken four years of technical skill to help in of the task of transporting goes on to single-engine train-

na Spitfires. When through of continuous experiment to the repair and maintenance planes from manufacturers to ing and operational types, such

This meant these he is a junior officer.

do the job.

of our wireless devices. R.A.F. stations. two flights, with this aerodrome

Now radiolocation, has "It is the radio," he said, From there to the big stuff- the intermediate stage..

in

as

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

to be ruthless to

It means that the Iranians will either

are

the R.A.F.

the accept the situation or take

The isques confequences.

are ni prime importance, and-this is war. The Iranian authorities have been given the fullest and most comfort-

to

finally, the biggest and largest on fitted and flown necessary fittings. Here they ton and Whitley bombers-and bombers Halifaxe, Manches- ters and Stirlings. When he A day among these pilots, can fly all, he is made a senior such as I spent, is equal to a officer. round-the-world trip. There are I was taken on a tour of the Frenchmen, school, 'drome and flying field ing assurances by the Allies; this is Americans, an Indian and a by one of the pilots, Dr M. no attempt to usurp an established Spaniard, as well as English Whitehurst, who was Medical Government while that Government men and women,

Officer at Brooklamis race track

Poles,

Czechs,

is. amenable to reason and willing to ONE HAND, ONE EYE before the war.

ucknowledge that its own strength is

Insumelent to deal with the internal I chatted over a cup of tea disorganisation created by German

Our first call was at the

Afth 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 fights of the day. "Mr Smith, of British and Ailted forces within from Warsaw. With two others, drive to factory X and pick up Irun might well have become an he decided to leave for Britain & Spitfire," or "Senor Silvario, other Norway -overnight;:

when it became apparent that take a Magister (a training nir

the country; without their presence

Early reports suggest that Turkey the fall of Poland was inevitable, craft) to aerodrome Y." has not taken kindly to the Allled Each took one of the airliners Each pilot nodded and went move, but this immediate reaction is and without maps or other off to the maps and signals probably caused by lack of apprecia- guides, except compasses, flew room. Spread out on the tabic a large pecret map of on of the molive underlying the

across Germany and France to was

Britain. The station is allowed invasion; when this is fully under-

com- "One of my stood Turkey will have good grounds Britain. for welcoming it. If nothing else it panlons has been killed since in only this one copy, showing the provides her with friendly and well- wishing neighbours on three sides- from Syria, Iraq' and Iran and while

a flying accident," he told me.

channels of flight across Britain which these ferry pilots must Many of the Englishmen were use. Aerodromes, balloon bar- the Russian fleet dominates the Black pilots in the Royal Flying Corps rages and A.A. batteries aro Sea, the Turks can afford to sleep

One of marked as danger spots to be

more peacefully in their beds. The during the last war.

uresence of well established Allied them, Capt. Keith Jopp, is the avoided, for if venturing near a forces around the entire land frontier only man with a complete dis- pilot is likely to be taken for of Turkey must act as a strong ability pension from the last hostile aircrafts and fired on. deterrent to Axis designs on Turkey

wer who is still flying. With This, I was assured, does not designo, Incidentally, which have

been obvious. It will be gener- only one hand and ong, eye, he happen often, but one man told and sincerely hoped that the transports anything from a me of an occasion when he anlans will accept the position and will refrain from opposition which Spitfire to a Wellington bomber, want only slightly off his course

There aro

others, much over the sea and was given a can serve only to bring unnecessary distress and bloodshed to the country younger, with the necessary hot few minutes by one of our with whom the Allies have no flying qualifications for the battleships. "Which only shows quarrel, nor do they seek one The ATA 60 hours and an "A" how smart our Navy is," was Allled move is not acquisitive, but

pilot's licence who cannot pass his comment. strategical

Army.

out through the clouds."

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

"Elwyn's a darling, mamma-wo, had our first quarrel this.

morning and be's no goo