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PAGE SIX ÂimongiThree Miles Away Releasing At Right Second Is Bomber's Ticklish Job1 Pianoe nd Missile Part Courses Lo»ng Bef ore Target Reaced -Pre- ciion Essential London, March 26.- When we nid that Nazi and Soviet airmenj have. desta'oyed hospitals and acheolin spite of protective mark- tnpi - and tic newspapers record auch deedis almost dally - the con- Monasumption la that the aet ims dîliberate. It =&y well have been so. Tiee have bien too many procof etGir mm nd Russian bsrbarity Vto en- tt4 eltier nation te the benef iL e! Viiidou¶lt. Yet, In spite o! inteýslve atudy mnd thie perfection o! mechanical devices, precision bombing Li noV thi simple art li is tee often as- * swn.cto be. "'Ibe bomber alrcraf t has been llkmed te a long range gun," asid an aviation expert, diacuasina Vie prkpiplus o! the aerial bombard- mwent et defineci targets. "But tie maogy ianet a close one, since many of Vie f acters dit fer. Ha.ssecond shot "A ahi»l frein a gun, once f ireci, siuistravel on Ita Journey witine 'turther control. And ln long. range uhellUng Vhe resulis may be unseen. ýuVt the bomb remains under hu- m"a control until Vhe alrcraf t là close t te t arget. The e!! ect o! U4s diacharge may _be Immed.lately obsîrvici, and tie bomber cmn per- hape have a 'second siot,' or-if neeci b. - attack an alternative "Tie force of Impact, tee, cari be viei te suit the 'iardneuss' e i t*rgot, bIT releasing Vie bomb froni différent lleights. '*A bomb carrnes a much larger proportion 91 explosive than a shell, fer l hu net Vo be designed te vithatanci tiie f iing charge. Tie 1-i naval sheil for instance, b ontainus saie 260 lbo..ef explosive, 'uichisl equul te tuat ln a 500-lb. bain)> But as long mgo sas1918 bSonbe viredesignici wicaiwigi- ad 3,000 Ibi. andi these centalned f o=utmes us mueh explosive as the »Mwbessoibilitiea of a direct hut mih amih a&bombne>ned noe m- Detall et bomb alghta and me- cdin msuof course, close secrets, noaismen ;et;; new tactics develep- t d eotbeauRoyl Ar Vece u &ré. ix mlt of exomeice i air actions Bti l a pwmtssle te give more iu.a cf th. vaieus types of attack t? whiIcb vi ln Vils oountry are ex- eosed, as vill as the enemy, aiould tevar develop, atset iuthorities *zpect il will, on air invasion Uines. »rçadly speakin, bombing takes cee.6<taihre. forma: Iligh-level 'or Dmeclaon bambins: low-level bomnb- Jus; or dive boenblng. '1bç typ.etfattack selecteci de- pnd on mci f actorasas grotmdc opposition, thi nature of htiarget, the dignee of penetration requlred, --thie veather and the type e! bonib "MHig-level bomblng,"1 sa.ld eur expert, ' nmy be frein any helgit vithla the 'ceiling e! tie aircraf . It'migit be six miles higi, viere anti-aircraf t-guns and balloon bar- rages cease te be a menace. But, in practise, accurs.cy wouhd demaricia lisser helgit. Must Fly Stralght "For tic saniereason a atraight anid level approachi la recessary. The prospect o! hittîng is target la o! Aeniai acrobaties in getting clos., -rPduSed If the-pilot has te circle. or bank, or perforni any etier kind ibe us objectives, "igiters who compel a bomber te docige about te escape their tire limn is chances et a hut. "1Sometimes Lhe attacklng cri! t can Make use o! clouds'Vo hide hls Sppreac; i any case a clear run ta reQulred te achieve accurate ne- Dropped froni a switly nioving_ plane, tie bomb itself la driven fer- Ward. itie sanie direction. IV has, tierefore, to be releaaed nome dis- anice frornitic target. Exactly wien lài a subjet o! caret ul calculation. "Dnft," tee, -duete wlnd, has Le b. allowed for. In still weatier, Vie point o! release may be as muci as twO or Viree miles behlnd Vie tir- geV, Yet thc bomb arrives on Vie gunci at about Vie sanie ima as the bomber la directly oveheW,. Pattern Bcmblng "Pattern", bombing la anotier variety o! precisien attack»ýIt con- sista lui ainuing a number o! pro- jectiles ail around Vie centre e! Vie target, ratier 1k. Vhe "spread" e! pelleta trSm a shetgun rhis, ilaa modern developmentoe! igi-level bombing and la very effective witi Certain types o! objectives. Eniai machines admlrably suit- Id for precision bombing are the "Wellngton," Lie "Hamipden" and thbe.MWiiley" bombera. Tiey are fiat Mdi pcwerful. Lcw-level boning, eus expert ex- platned, la a method etfsttack de- ulgned Vo secure accuracy vilat mlnlnulzlng Vie riak froni anti-air- Craftifini. IV has Vie dvantage oe! surprise, mand may be eniployeci under weati- -en conditioni unsulteci fer higi- level bomnbing. lbe f ast,' -medluni-sizeci bomber e! advanced cdesign, whii la snet sulted fer dive bomnbing, la Vie best kind f«rttus sort o! wenk. DM B ooebing- But ft.is dive bombing liaI ives the great thilil to pilot and apec- taLer, and is calculated te strike terrer te the hea.rt o! the mttacked. For It la more accurate tian bomb- ing f rom greM~ altitudes and more dificult for ground de! enses te pre- vent. - It may be o! the "high" or the "10ow" dive variety. In a higi dive tie bomin l generally released be- tween 2,000 and 1,500 f cet above tic target. A low dive, on the other hand. may start at about 2,000 feet and continue to as 10w as 200 before the relesae and pull-eut. This8 klnd of attack imposes heavY strain on tie airorait, boti in the dive itself and ini the pull-eut, and special planes have been developed Wo resist iL. They usualiy, have some form of~ air brake te control the speeci o! thc dive. à Dive bombig was largely used by the Nazis in their initial surprise attacX on Poland, following tactica worked eut ti rehearsal in Spain. Roads, railwaya, moving trains, col- umns o! troops, headqtuartera. air- dromes, elephone exchanges and similar nerve centrer, mile beyond Lhe fightlng area were attack and communications were paralyzed. Bombing suci objectives almost inevltably inflicts casualties on clv- ilians, whether* willed or net; and IV is, doubtiesa hs consideration âlene whlch lia.ý restralned the Al- lies froni dropleing bomba Instead of leaflets in their raids over Gcr- man ciLles. "Once Lhe enemy takes the initia- tive, iowever, and bomnba London and industrial centres itie Eng- lish provinces," Lhe speaker added "we shall have fewer scruples in embarklng on reprisais, for which weare fully prepared; although we shah kecp tW our avowed policy o! attacklng military objectives only. "If, unhappsr, enemy civilians su!! er tee, our conscience will be clear., It wlIl be the unscrupulous leaders wl4o have 'asked for it'." B16 AND LARME FARTBQUAKES IN'IPEDItTABLE Can Be Foretold Not Closer' Than Two Weeks i The andi OcYMiles &#4 Ottawa,-!t's juat "guesswork" predictlng eartiquakes any dloser Vian wIIil two wecks o! Vieir occurrence and within 500 miles e! ticir location accordlng te Ernest A. Hodgsen, Dominion seismologlat. Mr. Hodgson was commenting pa-rticularly on a prédiction made hi' Edgar C. Thrupp, e! Vancouver, Who foreat tiat 1940 will brlng Lhe meust destructive cartiquakes e! the 20ti century. Tirupp sald that July 20 te Aug. 5 would bc the first Period e! greatest risk and tic seci- ond would be Oct. 20 te Nov. 10.' The Dominion seismologist noted definite dated quakes that have been Predicted at varlous imes by tic Vanicouver mari aride! similar prédictions by otier unofficial "eartiquake prognosticators."l "PFrom 20 te 30 eartiquakes occur everY Year wiici are suftlciently severe te terni Vie bauis fer an 'I teld you se' ahould one occur ori the dates mentioned in the forecast," says the Dominion officiai. "Tic prediction "o! earthqua.kes for thc werld in général, as attempted by Tirupp, la, at leat yet, an impea- slbility."- Hocigacr explained Viat a tabula- tien e! ahi major eartiquakes o! tic world suci as has been carnled eut byr seismologlsts fer the pust 40 years or se gives some Idea o! the number and geegraphical distribu- tion whici may be expecteci, but IL dees net permit a systeni e! pre- diction, yet. "Tinupp's.predictions," reniarked Lhe selameloglat, "are sald te b. based on is assuniptiori Liat carth- quakes axc tie result o! gravita- tional forces betwccn tic varieus planets. Fîe-War Propaganda By Hitler Revealed Ottawa: Every case o! German gooda entering Canada during Lie hast few years befone tic war con- tained Nazi prepaganda o!feme de- scription or otier, according Vo J. S. Roc, Wartime Examiner e! Pub- lications and Director o! Publiclty, Customis Division, Departrnent o! National Revenue. Cases o! German Nevelties, for instance, reveahcd, upon inspection, camouflaged layera o! lia! lets extolling the Nazi creed anid the Hitler Credo. Phonographic records o! the Fuehrer's vltriolic speeches werc of teri !ound among aiipment.s. A virtual f lood o! prop- aganda was stemmed at Canada's frontiers by Custorns Inspectera. INCREASING THE R.C.A.F. Ottawa - The war establishment o! tic Royal Canadiane Air Forcc Ihas been lncreased by nearly 14,000 according te figures !urnished by theclDepartment o! National De- fnce. ic total personnel fer whici provision has been made Is new 30,400, o!, whoni 2,400 arc off icers and 28,000 are airmen. lh 1936 there were 190 efficers and 1,115 uirmel n theVI.R.C.A.F. THE WH!TRY GAZETTE AND CHRONÎCLF, WEDNESDAY, MARCH. 27,- 1940 YOUTII REMISTER5 OPINION ON FOUR NATIONAL ISSUES O)pposed -ta ýConscription, War Measures Act-M'any Questionnaires File d Young people - i Canada are strongly epposed te conscription in any forin and to De! ence e! Cana- da Regulations which restrict free- dom o! speech, press, radio and assembly, a "sampling" iAbulation e! replies madle te Lie riation-wide quiestlonafre distributed tr, the Can- aian Youth Congress indicates. 0r the 1,500 replies tabulateci to date, 82.75 per cent., OPPOSed con- scrtption- in any f ormn. conscription for overseais service was tfovored -bv only 4.1 per cent.; for militarY ser- vice i Canada 8.6 per cent.: for civillan labor service 7.4 Per cent, These replies represent every part of the Dominion, witl' the excep- tion of F'rench-Canadaîn youth of Quebec, where early indications show a-n overwhelming Opposition to conscription. The replies also re- present a broad cross-section of youth interest, Including chur~ch grotups, t'rade unions, students, f or- eign ' language groups, political groups, various national youth or- ganizations, such as the L.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A., and f arm youth. The questionnaire distributedi by LITTLE ANNIE ROONEY HOMNE5iZErO - I GUE65 I'M THE LUCKIE3T KIIM-THE WI-IOLE W/ORPLD- LA5T WEEK I RAD LOTSA FUN VI'-lTIWf AT MR5. BLACK'5 UOUJ6E - AN' NCO4 IM BACI< 1E 1IMNGO TOSCIAOC>1. AGAII THAT'5 LOT5A FUN,TOO the Yeutll Cengress asked for youth opinion on conscription, civil Llb- erties, profiteering and economic conditions of youth. The sampling return shows 82.8 pér -cent., are op- posed to regulatiofla under the War Measures Act, restricting !reedom, exceptinh matters of milltary in- formation. There are 2 per cent., o! replies favoring more rigid enforce- ment o! the Regculatiofla. A total o! 350,000 Individual copies of the questionnaire were distributed and circulation in news- papers totalled more than 150,000, bringing to haîf a million the num- ber of copies circulated. Prominent national youth organizatioris co- operated through the Youth Cbn- oress in distributing the question- naire, inclu.dir±g the United Church Young People's Union, the Student Christian Movement, the Youth Committee of the Y.W.C.A., farm organizations in ail provinces, Trades and Labor Coundils, etic. The officiais of the Youth Can- gress state that distribution reach- ccl a maximum about a week ago and returns are coming in now, from ail parts of the country. Young people answering. the questionnaire cornàe , frein a wide variety of occupations: frein busi- ness and, profeissional groups 29.5 per cent., froin general industrial pursuits, 23.4 per cent., students 13.9 per cent., f arm groups 11.7 per cent., unemployed 13 per cent., housewives 7.4 per cent., Their ages range from 16 to 40: in the 116-19 I groups 27.2 per cent., £rc.m 20-24 years 37 per cent., f rom 25-29 years 24.1 per cent., and 30-40 years 11.5 per cent. Resident of Foxboro James Eliâott Dies ~Belleville' Mardi 26---Af ter an ill- ness o! two weeks, James Elllott, well known resident of FoxboSO village for many yeara, died at the home o! has niece, Mr&. E. R. Watt, 4th Concession of Ameliasburg Township, Sunday. He -was 91 years of age, and one o! the best known residents O! Fexboro.' He was a. son o! the late Mr. and Mrs. Francis Elliott, and was a member of the United Church. He had also been active' ln the work o! the Loyal Orange Lodge -at Fox- boro. Surviving are four niephews, C F. Elllott, o! Tweed: . . ,Elllott, o! Napanee; W. H. Elliott, o! Thomasburg: and T. M. Elliott. o! New York State, and a niece. Mrs. Watt, ef Ameliasburg Township. Sheep Attacks Woman Twists Her Kneecajp Belleville, March 26.--Suffering a painful injury to lierlgrsFo-- sic Stacey was, ruehed te BellVevi General Hospital on Saturday iLfter belng *attaeked by, a she2p. -Mr&. Stacey, whose hushand la a drover near Wooler, north of Trenton, had- been 'walking alongside a herd of sheep when one of, the animnas,'.. apparently crazed- with fright, charged at her unexpectedly fromn the aide. Unable to avoid the onrush Mrs. Stacey -was struck--at the kneecaLp, and it Was at first feàrt~d ler leg-,- was fractured. Dr.- G. M. Stoble attended her, and it was learlied she had sustained a misplaced kneecap. By Brandon..Walsh HONZ5T EMMA - 1 DONT KNOW WHY 7HEY DO~ 1 GuE55 ITIS %CAUSE TME WE471ýEQl5 BUT M05T PLACE5 THEY -rALK'ýBOUT -rHE WEATHER ALWAYS DIFFERENT EVERY DAY., OLrr ALL7HE MME _71 HEY5AY-'LOOK5 LIKE RAIN"-" HEIZE 1-r5 ALWAY5 7HE 5AME- EVERY KIWDA C00L16ý4 -MIDAV*-*LOOW5 UkE AM EAPLY DAY M3 ME AWHOT- 50 7PEý j 5Pr,>IWG *_ C*4, ALL 5_50QT5 OF -rHIWGS SOUMOS AIVT MO USE -rALkINI"13OLrr 1-r 5ILLY MO ME IlPl - e-l% e\., VOU kNOw THE %WATER 19 WI A DOffl UKDER -TRE DESEPT 5ANO.. 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