Special to the "N.C.D.N."
(MERICAN built aircraft are taking an increasing share in Britain's air-striking force.
Hudsons of the Coastal Command have done great work right from the beginning of the war and now new types, well-armed and armoured, are in operational use and proving first-class war planes.
Pilots of the R.A.F. speak highly of handling and manceuvrability of the United States ships. Ground crews consider them easy to maintain and in action they have shown themselves more than equal to any the enemy has yet been able to put up.
A Catalina was instrumental in bringing Bismarck to battle and her ultimate destruction, These ships—PHY-5S, in the United States Navy—operate with the Coastal Command of the R.A.F. They are twin-engined high-wing monoplane reconnaissance bomber fying-boats. Carrying a crew of seven they have a range of 4,000 miles. Guns are carried in the nose and in two blisters on top of the hull, aft of the wings.
Of long range and great endurance—flight 27 hours nothing out of the ordinary—they fit extremely well for convoy patrols and submarine hunting, which is a day and night task of the Coastal Command. Glenn-Martins and Tomahawks are in active opera-
(Brewster 339) is one American aircraft now operating from Singapore, It is a well-armed, mid-wing monoplane, single-seater fighter, first built for the United States Navy as deck landing fighter.
Because of its tubby fuselage it has been nicknamed "Peanut Special" and "Flying Barrel" The strength of the RAF, in Malaya steadily increases both for offensive and defensive and aircraft built in Canada, Australia, Britain and the United States are now in service, Reliability Essential In Malaya reliability is essential, because the country is hazardous for flying. Storms are frequent and the An alleged opium-smuggling gang engaged in transporting contraband to interior for sale from this city s been rounded up by the Central Police. who so far have arrested 16 persons and seized more than 100 cans of opium. Five of the arrested persons are Koreans, who have been turned over to the Japanese authorities for trial. while all others have been brought to the First Special District Court.
When the eleven alleged Chinese nambers of the gang faced the court on Saturday. the police asked for a remand of one week to facilitate further investigations and the request was granted by Judge Siao, Among the detained persons there is a girl named Yang Sich-chu, who was arrested in a Swatow Road sing song house.
Tt was alleged in court that the ang had been engaged in secretly sporting opium from this city to interior on many occasions but that the large scope of their activities soon attracted the attention of the Central Police. who made most of the arrests in the Great China Hotel at 200 Vu Ya Ching Road; Arriving at Room 411, the officers found. practi-scene of numerous parties and pic-nies.
An indication of the heat could be noted even in the morning when one had virtually to fight in order to breathe freely. Cases of heat strokes were reported, while it was learned that a foreign lady had fainted from heat while playing tennis in the morning. The heat was particularly cruel to firemen yesterday, who had to cope with nature and fires. A minor blaze of a truck in Hongkew, ough extinguished within some twenty minutes, w the firemen return to the station, dripping wet with perspiration, The maximum temperature yesterday was 914, recording an increase of almost eight degrees as to that recorded on the same day last year. although more than a degree lower than that recorded on Saturday.
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