Evening star. [volume], November 18, 1939, Page A-5, Image 5

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Nazis Did Britain
Favor by Boasting
Of Air Strength
Warnings of Power Gave
England Enough Time
To Prepare Defense
By COL. FREDERICK PALMER.
Not only has the escape of two
German pocket battleships through
the British blockade stirred naval
consideration of the importance of
warships of fast cruiser speed,
armed with powerful guns, but the
information available suggests we
may have to revise our ideas about
aerial warfare—and this In a way
w-hich will affect our own future
sir program In national defense.
Of course, the Germans may have
flashed their air ‘'blitzkrieg” out of
the thunder cloud of their threats
before this is published. If not, why
the delay of the blasts from the sky
which were to demolish British bat
tleships, naval bases, munition
plants and railroad centers and de
moralize urban populations?
Every week that passes with so
little action by bombers makes the
lact the more significant. In spite
of all the stentorian talk that the
first bombing raid on Britain by a
single w-ave was only a prelude to
w-ave after wave of hundreds oT
bombers, nothing of the sort has
been attempted up to this writing.
Without hastening to conclusions,
•t appears so far that the Germans
did the British a favor by overad
vertisement of their air power be
fore the war. Secrecy would have
been better, in conformity with the
policy of the German staffs in the
pre-Storm Trooper era. They pre
ferred concealment of the magnitude ;
and character of the forces they [
w'i>re massing, to make the most of
them in surprise.
■'main naa lime to Prepare.
Thp Storm Trooper method was to
continue shouting about the crush
ing surprise Britain was in for if
she dared to make war on Ger
mane. Where, in 1914. the thunder- I
holt, flashed out of the blue after
Serajevo. this time Britain foresaw
war as inevitable and had time to
prepare her air defense, and the
means and conduct of it when we
have them in detail may have writ
ten a most valuable chapter in mili
tary history.
We do know, as tne Germans know.
♦ hat patrol ships out at sea give
warning of the approach of an air
raid, which is instantly passed on
to the anti-aircraft batteries and
the airdromes and to the sirens to
sound their alarms. Back of the
patrol ships are patrol planes, also
on watch to learn the objective of
the raid. Swift fighting planes and
swift planes of the interceptor type
rise to the attack.
Not only London, but other vital !
points are ringed with all the forms
of protection that could be devised.
The bomber goes against this ring.
She is the battleship of the air.
The battleship of the sea, which
has the ultimate, decisive command
of the sea, is guarded from torpe
does and bombs by cruisers, destroy
ers and aircraft carriers. But the
bomber flies alone or in company
NEW YORK.—FIRST AID—This tabby perched for three hours
atop a pole over a Brooklyn street before Tony Ambrose came
along and, using perfect cat-lifting technique, rescued the
animal. —A. P. Wirephoto.
with other bombers. She has no
fighting planes to protect her. They
cannot, accompany her the distance
to Britain from Germany because
of their shorter flying radius, which
is about half that of a bomber in
all the world's air forces.
And so far. incidentally, the bomb
er's achievement has hardly been
up to promotive anticipation in its
attacks on merchant ship convoys,
which keep the British bread-basket
equal to ration allowances. Accord
ing to British reports, which Ger
man Communiques seem to confirm,
bombers have not sunk a single ship
or seriously damaged one. Mean
while. the British say that their
planes have been making enemy
submarines very uncomfortable, if
not destroying them.
Command of Air Is Relative.
Bombers in formation are sup
posed to have protection in the
spread of the zone of their owm ma
chine-gun fire; but. once the anti
aircraft guns have taken their toll
and scattered the bombers, they are
easier prey for the faster, more ma
neuverable fighting planes. How
ever. just as the battleship of the
sea commands the sea and the in
fantry soldier takes and holds the
land, so the bomber has the relative
air command over the space of land
or sea under its bombs.
We mav learn that new types of
planes are needed for her escort;
and learn thp scope of further de
velopment of fighting interceptor
planes to check any raids on our
oversea bases as the outer rim of
our own defense.
At present the German subma
rines also seem to be accomplishing
little. Possibly, they and the Ger
man planes are being held for eom
mon action In a staggering surprise
of that promised 'Blitzkreig." Held
too. may be that new. magical ex
plosive of revolutionary destructive
power. It. is known that there are
more powerful explosives than TNT.
but they are far more perishable
and more delicate to handle.
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Newspoper Alliance Inc.)
Nebraska Officials
Split on Thanksgiving
By the Associated Press.
LINCOLN, Nebr.. Nov. 1R This
turkey day business has Nebraska
somewhat in a whirl.
Yesterday the State attorney gen
eral's office ruled both November 23
and November 30 must be recognized
i as legal holidays, but Gov. R. L.
Cochran declared "as far as Slate
employes are concerned there will
be only one Thanksgiving day—
November 30."
"I hope." the Governor added,
“public employes generally won't,
take advantage of this technicality"!
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