The Oppressor
IF WE should look under the skirt
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the days of his joys, such alloys
and abatements of his pleasure,
as may serve to represent him
miserable, even in the hour of his
prosperity, and independent of his
final infelicities; and although all
tyrants may not have such accus-
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all tyrants shall die and come to
judgment; and though such a man
may be feared, he is not at all to be
envied.
“Envy thou not the oppressor,
and choose none of his ways." —
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By WILLIAM C. UTLEY
LL Europe has glued its at-
tention to the Far East—to
Shanghai, Tientsin, Nanking
and the other great Chinese me-
tropolises now forming targets
for deadly Japanese bombs.
Europeans are watching the
ruthless attacks upon civilian
populations, and the wanton de-
struction of homes and public
buildings occupied by noncom-
batants in something of the
manner of the football scout
watching this week's game to
perfect the defenses of his own
team for the big game that
looms in the future.
The World war gave Europe, and
particularly England, a glimpse of
what might be expected in a few
years, after aerial bombing had per-
fected the efficiency lacking in its
infancy. Air bombers extend the
theater of war into the civilian pop-
ulations of the great cities, reduce
to a mockery the territorial bound-
aries on a continent peopled by
many small nations and threaten,
when coupled with other agencies of
modern warfare, to wipe out Euro-
pean civilization,
There are few qualified authori-
ties who believe that bombing ex-
peditions on large cities could
bring an entire nation to surrender
by shattering its morale and upset-
ting the structure of government.
The cities of Shanghai and Madrid
still stand, if their heads be bloody,
after months of ruthless, coldly-
planned attacks from the air. But
there is always the possibility that
the next time may be different, and
for this reason the race among Eu-
build air forces
and defenses against air forces of
their enemies has been heightened
of recent days to a fever pitch.
There are perhaps 20,000 military
airplanes owned by the nations of
Europe today, and more thousands
are being turned out every month.
The same nations are pressing
plans of defense to completion
among both military and civilian
branches of the population with a
speed born of genuine fear.
Britons Excel Technically.
England, not soon destined to for-
get the terrifying Zeppelin and Gotha
raids which drove London into a
foremost in building her air defenses
and realizes that the best defense
™ football
line strength
fleet and abroad) numbers
2,000 planes, and her
called the best in Europe, raise the
total to 3,000.
circles. Her first.
(at home,
about
ties in production, but is now build-
pg
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nie LP ;
its gas-bag.
gas masks, now being manufac-
tured at the rate of 300,000 to 400,000
a week.
Booklets issued by the govern-
ment teach citizens to organize
neighborhoods for practice in the
issuance of gas masks and other-
wise reduce the holocaust of whole-
sale air raids. Fire-fighting squads
are being readied to minimize de-
struction by incendiary bombs; oth-
er groups are being organized to
repair damaged public utilities and
clean areas left contaminated after
gas attacks.
Civilians are also being instruct.
room of each house gasproof. Archi-
tects are also being advised to in-
clude gasproof shelters in all new
buildings. The subways were looked
to for shelter in the World war, but
officials today warn that they are
more likely to be traps than shel
ters, being not far enough under-
ground.
Russia Supreme Numerically,
terrible that the plans will not
up, the only alternative is to get
| the population out of London. Rail
roads are now offering plans for rap-
id mass evacuation,
the
first
air force in
about 3,000
| powerful
She owns
er planes, mostly training ships
| cluding 7,000 or 8,000 pilots is well-
organized and effective, but not well
| equipped.
Russia is said to have no
than 400 or 500 first class planes,
planes; the others are obsolescent,
”
cating that perhaps these difficulties
have been straightened out.
nically, her air force is head and
shoulders above the rest of the con-
tinent.
of
any those
nearly 300.
Measures taken to defend
land from air raids exemplify al-
most every precaution known upon
most vulnerable point.
servers to warn in case of air raids
extends out into France and Belgium
and is backed up by naval patrols
London an hour's warning to mobi-
lize her defenses if a raid is com-
of the Thames there
prepare.
based along the coast for purposes
of reconnoissance. These are sup-
plemented by a Volunteer Observ-
ilians equipped with airplane de-
tecting instruments. All file reports
with a central office to chart the
course of invaders.
Nets Hang From Balloons.
The first stationary line of de-
fense is the outer artillery ring of
guns and searchlights. Inside this
is a fighting zone in which squad-
rons leave their airdromes within 90
seconds of receiving an alarm;
searchlights and a few fighting
planes which constantly patrol the
city point their way to the enemy.
Most sensational of all London's
defensive measures is its next line,
the mobile balloon barrage. Steel
cables are hung in the air like a
net from a series of blimps,
both a psychological and a physical
obstacle to the invading airman.
The last line of active defense is a
An English army airman in para-
| chute maneuvers above Henlow.
despite their recent successes in
Spain. However, Russia has the
benefit of capable foreign designers,
engineers, foremen, metallurgists
and mechanics, and has shown
marked imitative ability. _ She is
willing to spend money and her la-
{ bor is cheap. She builds foreign
airplane engines under license. And
of recent months her airplane pro-
duction has speeded to the point
where it is the greatest in Europe.
Despite the fact that 9,000 civilian
pilots were trained last year, that
gliding and parachute jumping are
now popular sports, and that Rus-
sians are the most air-minded people
on earth, the program is just get-
ting under way. The Reds expect
to have 150,000 pilots, a produc-
tion of 20,000 planes a year and a
fleet of giant ships. Russia's chief
weakness is that she depends too
much upon foreign assistance, hav-
ing few skilled mechanical people
of her own and as yet having failed
to produce a good engine.
Italy's Air Force Is Flashy.
Russia's soldiers, children and
civilians are being trained in de-
fense against aerial and chemical
warfare with school and factory
drills. Her anti-aircraft guns are
not so numerous or well-developed
as those of her neighbors, but
great flying distances and snow-cov-
ered mountains are a real protee-
her fame, but her air force still
fails to measure up to that of some
of her competitors in quality. She
has failed to develop a good air-
cooled engine,
Shortage of fuel supply has been
a real obstacle to Italian aerial de-
velopment, and has prevented her
fliers from obtaining sufficient fly-
ing time to qualify them. They are
said to have an average of but 70
hours in the air. Lack of raw ma-
terials, as demonstrated when sanc-
tions were applied in the Ethiopian
war, renders her incapable of sus-
high-speed production, al-
though she is now bui
the rate of 200 a month.
For protecting Italian citizens
the larger cities, Il Duce has cho
to depend chiefly upon rapid ev:
tion in the case of air raids, |
necessary to
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to war industry re
only those absolutely
government anc
+ industrial centers of
the Po valley to north
or four years he expects
Rome's first subway to be
pleted; it will be used as an
auxiliary air raid shelter. A royal
decree has made it compulsory that
all new buildings be supplied-—at
the builders’ expense—with a stand-
ard underground shelter which, it
is claimed, adds no more than two
per cent to the cost
the
come
also
mystery
the air
growth,
Germany is the great
Her extremely rapid
No one
can be sure, but it is a good guess
that Germany's first-line planes are
than 2,000 in number. Her
as fast as those of any other na
a-
b-
oO
enough raw materials, and
Like some other countries, she has
not produced a really top-notch mo-
tor.
French Prestige Slips.
Germany's aerial forces are un
der command separate from t
army. Air Minister Wilhelm Geor-
ing has developed his command so
rapidly that, for the time being, it
probably is not well organized, but
some day soon it will be in good
working order. Her air defenses
are under the same command, and
are probably the best co-ordinated
in Europe. Her anti-aircraft artil-
lery line boasts 480 guns and new
ones are being completed at the
rate of one battery a day. Cheap
civilian gas masks are being rapid-
ly distributed among the populace.
Shelters are being constructed. But
the real defense of Berlin, the capi-
tal, is its relatively great distance
from any frontier.
France has slipped from her one-
time position as the leading air
force of Europe. She has now only
about 2,000 front line planes, includ-
ing those within her borders, with
the fleet and abroad, and 1,000 train-
ing and reserve planes. About two-
thirds of all French planes are ob-
solescent. And production of late
has been halted to a virtual stand-
still by internal economic and po-
litical strife. There are plenty of
good pilots, the air force is com-
petent technically, and the French
have produced good motors.
Much of France's aerial defense
is centered in Paris, as might be
expected. This city is particularly
fortunate in that thousands of cel-
lars made famous by “Les Miser-
ables’ have been inspected and pro-
nounced excellent air raid shelters
capable of giving refuge to 1,720,000
persons. Other precautions—search-
lights, guns, civilian drills and edu-
cation—are being undertaken.
Anti-aircraft guns are said to be
eight times as efficient today as
they were in the time of the World
war, and with the wholesale de-
fense measures, both active and
passive, it is hardly probable that
Europe's pext war will be won in
the air. It just means that the
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