Each aircraft carries two cameras designed to work in the worst circumstances. During reconnaissance flights, British aircraft avoid contact with the enemy for they seek information which is more useful to the Allies than the possible destruction of a German aeroplane. They fly in a straight level course over their objectives, using a vertical camera at a height of 2,000 feet and an oblique camera or close-ups from 1,000 feet or less, when necessary. Within three hours, the aircrafts return, and the photographs are being examined by experts to whom stere-escapes and magnifiers reveal much which was unseen even by trained aerial observers—Reuter.
Heavy German Troop Movements Amsterdam, Jan. 22.
The effect of the British blockade on German exports has become surprisingly apparent at Dutch frontier stations, according to reports from the Dutch-German border, For the greater part of the day, these reports state, great stillness reigns at stations through which, a short time ago, long goods trains passed en route to Amsterdam and Rotterdam with heavy loads of German products for America and elsewhere.
The precautions taken on the German side to prevent passengers looking out of windows between Bentheim and Osnabrueck are presumed to be due to troop movements in the past week. Numerous troop trains passed through the junction at Loohze, in Westphalia, headed for the southwest, and many troops have been taken from north-western Germany to points further south.—Reuter.
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