fe) er’s Rocket Blitz ‘ill Fail, Too Robot planes, the last despairing Nazi assault on the British people, cannot halt the developing invasion of Europe, says this former British Columbia youth leader. By Cpl. Jack Phillips FAVORITE topic of conversation in En _ the ‘pilotiess plane” or “bomb with wings ” bug.” You can call it what you like, but the ve use is an indication of their des three fronts. Despite all the fantastic has not halted or even hampe across the English Channel. Neither has it sto across the Cherbourg Peninsula. military victory in France. I am not trying to give the impression that the Far from it. passed off with a smile. gland just now is Hitler’s new secret weapon, Of, as it is popularly referred to, the ‘‘doodle- ry fact the Nazis have had to resort to its peration now that they are being forced to fight on propaganda stories emanating from Berlin, the new weapon ted the flow of men, weapons, munitions and equipment pped the Allied armies from cutting right And this is the Nazis’ need if they are to retrieve “pilotiess plane’’ is a weapon to be This infernal gadget, launched mainly against London and cities and towns on the southeast coast, is causing destruction to property and inflicting casualties upon the civilian population. The Nazi of course have long made a specialty of this type of Wartare. Haced with defeat and inevitable retribution, they are seeking to accomplish all the de- Struction, the murder of help- less men, women and children, of which their twisted minds and perverted science are capable. The robots come over the coast low and singly every few minutes. Damage is sometimes extensive. One of the most re- cent reports credited a flying bomb with haying wiped out four houses. : At the same time, German radio commentators try to bol- ster the shrinking morale of their German listeners by let- ting their imagination run wild in describing reports of con- sternation caused in England. One Berlin. broadcast declared that a Stockholm dispatch re- ported the British government had ordered the evacuation of London. (pate German robot plane is a scientific development of a radio-controlled glider bomb which has been used against Allied shipping since last July. Although it has been a danger- ous weapon, the defensive mea- sures taken by the Allies have been able to keep it under con- trol and shipping losses have been steadily reduced. _Liberal-Labor Coalition versus Tory Reaction ‘by TIM BUCK MArine 5836 NOW AT 420 WEST PENDER STREET Vancouver, B.C. _ he “dynamite meteors,” hurtling through daylight and Starlight skies of southern Hng- land, have caused less havoc than the old-fashioned blitz. of 1940, and the British are tack- ling the problem of countering: it with far more confidence than they had when they set about the job of finding an answer to the night bombing threat of four years ago. The best service and scientific brains in the country are work. ing day and night to curb the menace. Suitable ack-ack guns have been rushed to new posi- tions and our bombers have taken over where they left off after eight months of Saturation bombing of the Pas de Calais coast. Just the other day they dropped 15,000 tons of bombs in this area, which is supposed to be the main lair of the P-Planes —another of the Names the press has given the new weapon. I just heard rapid bursts of machine-sun fire. then the heavy drone of a P-Plane. ] ran outside, but all T could see. was the P-Plane, a small speck in the distance, and a British fighter, trailing smoke from its exhaust, banking and wheeling about to continue the chase. Last night we saw a Spitfire blow one to pieces in midflicht. A moment later the Sky was alight with the wine and tail lights of converging planes. The fastest fighters in the world, a wonderful system of interlocking and mobile ack-ack and seareh light batteries, bal- loon barrages placed at stra- tegie positions—with all these and the bombing of their points of origin by the Allied air forges, there isn’t much hope for the Nazis that this device will have much of a run for the money, research and effort necessary to develop it to its present stage. A ‘winged bomb’ begins its dive over a town on U3 east coast of England. Meanwhile, while these de- veloped and tested instruments and weapons are used, our scien- tists are working on new methods of defeating the P- Planes which, for all their shortcomings, do tie up trained manpower on anti-aircraft pa- trols. E robot, ef course, has its weaknesses. Once it crosses our coast We can chart its course accurately, since it flies low and straight. It cannot be used for precision bombing. The general direction of its flight is deter- mined by those who launch it but it is not, as many believe, flown on a radio beam. Its range is governed by a timing device which regulates its fuel consumption. But cross- Winds can send it erashing to earth miles in advance of its objective. When it hits any- thing of military importance it is by mere chance. And Germany’s chances of building its new toys In any mass scale is limited by the fact that each missile carries within it @ percision instrument that requires many hours of skilled labor in its construction. Nevertheless, to take the minds of the German people off less pleasant news, the Nazi press reports that “londoners Sit in their cellars for 16 hours - factories and restaurants are closed .. . the people are in panie .. .” Ale how are the British peo- ~ ple taking it? As usual, they don’t talk very much, and as usual, they refuse to let Jerry e make them lose much sleep it. This menace is small pared to the menace of ¢ bombers coming over in dr almost upopposed, as they during the blitz. A nation which stood t that, which after Dunidirk duced a new army and 4 airforce and greatly strez ened their navy, and which” lied behind its leaders to x victory from defeat—suc : nation is not going to be — icked by a propaganda we: These despicable tactics + the British people all the - : determined to support ~ | boys in France and Ttaly, | cause they know the farthe Germans are pushed back, | less chance there is of their ploying such contrap: against British cities. qe= Nazi press and radic | ! tinue to be jubilant. ‘ umns of smoke from London be seen from a distance of miles; cities, towns and port | Stallations on the south c are a mass of ruins.” I wonder if the German : ple, picking their way am the ruins of their own ei believe this nonsense? Tf ¥ der if the German soldiers, w | ing in their pillboxes around coasts of Europe, believe it if they try to reconcile the tion with the fact of Allied: cesses in France, Italy, Fin) and Poland. : The other day I saw am ber of German prisoners be driven through the streets London on their way to pr camps.. They looked bewilde London was still there, 2 battered from the big: blitz, with no apparent damage of cent origin. London still sta - - but can the same be : of Berlin ?