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128 FLIGHT FEBRUARY 4TH, 1943 Behind the Lines Service and Industrial News from the Inside of Axis and Enemy-occupied Countries Industrial Dictatorship TOWARDS the end of December, theJapanese Cabinet approved a draft legislation for the "Wartime administra-tion of special cases." Apparently all is not well with the Japanese industry,for the new law is to enable the Govern- ment to improve production capacityand to intervene directly in the produc- tion process without reference to existinginstitutions or Government Departments. While gradually the control of the in-dustry is shifting from the big families to the Government, the legislation is alsodesigned to give dictatorial powers to the Tenno. Since the reading of the draft inthe Chamber of Deputies is, in Japan, merely a formality, it can be alreadyassumed that in future the entire direc- tion of the industry will be controlled bytheir Prime Minister. It is significant that the new legislationrefers specially to measures designed to increase the production of steel, iron andlight metals for the shipping and the air- craft industries. A 'Stuka Tale T'HE screen put up around the GermanJ- people to make them believe that everything is "according to plan" in-cludes fragments of reports of Luftwaffe activities on the Eastern front. In placeof the customary references of air sup- port given to ground forces, the GermanPress publishes dramatic descriptions of such operations. Here is a sample: —"At 4 a.m. comes the call 'Flying personnel ready ! ' Twenty-three aircrafttake off. The Stukas reach the front. 'Luftwaffe reconnaissance units operating in battle of Stalingrad were equipped withthe Focke-Wulf FWI89. The aircraft, powered with two Argus As 410 engines of 450 h.p. each and driving two-bladed Argus automatic c.p. airscrews, develops aspeed of 221 m.p.h at 8,530ft. It climbs to 6,560ft. in 4 min. and has a service ceiling of 27,550ft. Suddenly, A.A. fire everywhere. Visi-bility is bad over the target area. We keep circling one behind another.Finally, we reach a forest in German hands. The Russians are already begin-ning their attacks, and this is what we A close-up view of the modified gun position of the Fw 189 : the single machine-gunin the nacelle tail-cone has been replaced by twin guns The armament of the Fw 189 includes also two fixed machine-guns under the nose of the nacelle, a flexiblegun mounted in a cupola on top of the nacelle and four small-calibre bombs underneath wings. have been sent there for. A Stukaattacks from 2,000 m. Order: 'Tiger I to all Tigers: drop your bombs singly!Then two gunning raids. Look out for German infantry! ' " Diving, to me, is just the same astaking off or landing—quite mechani- cal," says the Stuka pilot. " Even at80 deg. I do not look at the altimeter or the warning signal lamp at all—I rely onmy feelings, not only instruments. While diving, I look at the enemy tank which istrying to escape at full speed, also at the aircraft before me, which I must notovertake. I pull the machine up, and it rapidly gains height again. Thetank has been destroyed. Yet another dive. The bomb drops into a groupof Soviet riflemen. Terrible effect. It is all to the good that the noise ofthe engine is louder than anything else. "Tiger IV to Tiger I: ' Gustav shotdown by A.A. fire.' That means that Hans and Paul have been'killed." Raw Material ACCORDING to reports from Ger-•**• many, researches carried'out in that country for the extraction of cellulosefrom wood of poplar trees have been successfully concluded. The amount ofcellulose extracted from this wood is said to be higher than yields obtained fromany other tree growing in Germany. Vichy Lubricated IN December, 1940, a collection of sal-vaged lubricants was instituted throughout Vichy France. It is now re-ported that, by a process of refining, 8,300 tons of useful lubricant have beenreclaimed up to date.
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