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U. S. Air Chiefs Are Confident Of Superiority of Warplanes Arnold and Echols Cite Performance In Combat to Substantiate Claims BT the Associated Press. Army confidence in the per formance and continuing devel opment of American aircraft was reported to Congress today with the message that the Nation now is getting both quality and quan tity plane production and need not “apologize to any one in the world.” Combat performances of Ameri can-built planes pitted against Ger man Messerschmitts and Japanese fighters—in many cases against heavy odds—were cited by Lt. Gen. H. H. Arnold, deputy chief of stall for air, to back up that statement before the House Appropriations Committee. In a transcript of that testimony made public by the committee, Gen. Arnold was quoted as saying that In plane research and development worn this country was “equal to most nations and ahead of a lot of them.” Brig. Gen. O. P. Echols, in charge of procurement, added: “I think, from the best informa tion we have, that I can say, with out hesitation, we are up to the Germans, and I think, in certain respects, we are ahead of them. I think the new pursuit planes are the best airplanes In the world, and I think in our heavy bombers that we are ahead of them.” Gen. Arnold quoted the British as Baying the P-40-D (Kittyh&wk) pursuit was superior to all the other Royal Air Force planes in the Mid dle East, and said that one squad ron of that type, “up against a su perior number.” had “knocked down 13 hostile planes, Including two Messerchmitts 109-F. We lost only one plane.” "During the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7,” Gen. Arnold continued, “Lt. Taylor and Lt. Welch, both flying airplanes similar to the British Tomahawk, attacked a formation of Japanese planes and each shot down two planes. "A short time later, Lt. Welch en gaged two Japanese planes and shot down both of them. Other air planes of the same type engaged in victorious battle with the Japa nese on that day. Every time they went up in combat, they acquitted themselves In excellent manner.” Chinese Records Cited. The Army air chief quoted Chi nese sources as saying that Ameri can volunteer aviators defending the Burma road and Rangoon, “many of whom use airplanes of the P-40 series, have bagged from 90 to 100 planes. That has been done since December 7, and it was done with the loss of only three planes.” “On the Russian front,” he added, "early this month, four Tomahawks are reported in the news dispatches as having shot down eight Messer schmltts which were there in sup port of the German driven on Leningrad.” On another occasion, he said, aviators in P-40s, outnumbered eight to one, destroyed 60 per cent of a German flight. He told the committee that the P-40s were op erating in North Africa “when the Spitfires and the Hurricanes could not.” I j Malaya (Continued From First Page.) the British positions appeared relatively unchanged, with the heaviest fighting under way in the Batu Pahat sector.) Based on the official British re port today, the front ranging from 60 to 70 or more miles above Singa pore, shaped up roughly as follows: From the western anchor around , Batu Pahat eastward to the Chaah area in the center, about 70 miles north of Singapore and some 25 miles northwest of Kluang; thence northeastward to the Mersing area on the eastern coast, 65 miles north of Singapore. Artillery Harasses Japs, The Far East command said Brit ish artillery has been "actively har assing” the Japanese in the Mersing area. Australians have studied every bit of the ground In the area be tween Mersing and Endau, 25 miles to the north of Mersing, and the Japanese push down the coast brought those forces into play. To the west of Mersing lies a dense jungle through which correspondents at the front said the enemy would be forced to hack his way every step if he attempted a flanking move ment on the east coast. On the central front in the Chaah area, forward elements were In contact with the Japanese and fighting was in progress. The Japanese were said to have stepped up their activity in the Batu Pahat section—and there the main battle was joined. Anssies Heavily Engaged. The Australians were especially heavily engaged in close quarter fighting above Batu Pahat, which Maj. Gen. Henry Gordon Bennett, commander of the AustraUan Army in Malaya, described as "very con fused.” (The Melbourne radio, heard by N. B. C. in New York, said Maj. Gen. Bennett In a message to Australia reported the situa tion in Malaya was, if anything. more serious than It was a few days ago.) The Japanese were reported to have brought up additional troops on the Muar River front on the west coast and had turned an in filtration movement into an assault on the Allied flank. The British were helping the Australians in that Muar River sector. British Defense Collapse Impending, Japs Claim SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 23 <VP>.— “Total collapse” of the British de fense system in Johore state, in Ma laya, “is Impending,” the Tokio radio broadcast last night, claiming the naval base at Singapore is “doomed.” Randolph-Macon Courses ASHLAND, Va., Jan. 23 (JP).~ Randolph-Macon College will ac TONIGHT... 10:00 O'CLOCK STATION WMAL Look out for a COLD QARQLK ¥ USTERINE—OUlCIfl l This prompt Liaterine gargle may help Mother N ature to head off a cold before it gets serious. Drafts, like wet feet and fa tigue, may weaken body resistance. That makes it easier for germs associated with eolda to invade the tissue and aggravate those miserable cold symptom*. 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