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1943
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5°° FLIGHT MAY 13TH, 1943 Behind the Line* Service and Industrial News from the Inside of Axis and Enemy-occupied Countries Jap Parachutists QUOTING a Chungking report, aGerman broadcast states that Japanese parachute troops were em-ployed during the fighting in the Tai Hang Shan mountains in the South-Westof China. It will be recalled that about a. year ago an announcement from Tokyomentioned for the first time the forma- tion of paratroops, which by the end of1O42 were said to number 12,000. Another report stated that parachutesmade from paper had been invented by a Japanese scientist and perfected forthe use of the army. Production Methods IN an article on the methods employedby the German industry, the Nazional-SoziaUstische Partei Korre-spondenz states that the efforts to reduce man-hours in the different in-dustrial processes have met with con- siderable success. It is said that as aresult of large-scale mechanisation it has been found possible to place one man incharge of four or five machines, and thus to increase the speed of production. As an illustration of these achieve-ments, the report claims that to-day only 18 major operations are required to pro-duce a tank. In the aircraft industry as well, the conveyor-belt principle has beenreplaced by the " work tempo," which allows the worker to apply the necessarycare to his work in an independent and unhurried manner. The Frankfurter Zeitung states thatthe concentration and simplification of the aircraft and automobile piston in-dustry and the introduction of new labour methods have resulted in a con-siderable increase of output. Without the employment of additional machinesor man-power, 730,000 more pistons were produced during the past yearthan in the previous one. The saving in material amounted to several hundred tons of aluminium and over 1,000,000 kW. of electric power. Italy's Loss FOR the first time since the beginningof the war, an official communique from Rome gives the figure of missingand killed generals and admirals. Six- teen generals of the army and of theRegia are said to have lost their lives on different fronts. In the fighting inthe Mediterranean area, three generals and two admirals are reported missing.Among the fallen generals are the names of the well-known Italian commanders,Malletti, Tellera, Volpini and Bal- dassarre. Jap Rubber ACCORDING to Press reports, the-^*- Japanese Military Administration of Malaya does not intend to limit therubber production of that country. It is, in fact, expected in Tokyo that the pro-duction of Malaya and Sumatra, which has gone down considerably since theJapanese occupation, will soon reach its pre-war level. Since the supply will thenbe in excess of the Japanese require- ments, the Military Administration ofMalaya is to employ Tubber for the manufacture of fuel substitutes. It is stated that a simple chemicalprocess will be used to convert Malayan raw rubber into fuel for army motorvehicles. Migration TWO more German firms have followedthe general policy of strategic re- treat. The well-known machine makers, Schwerin Maschinbau, is reported to have established new works at Grodno, in north-eastern Poland. In Kiev, in the Ukraine, a mechanical industry is to be established by the newly created United Steel Works Company, Vereinigte Stahlwerke rind Stahlbau Ukraine. A German report also states that a new government-controlled company has been formed for the exploitation of thepeat resources of the Ukraine, and the conversion of this material for fuel underthe name of T or fge sells chaft Ukraine, with headquarters at Rowno. Finally, the well-known motor vehicleand engine makers, Kloeckner-Humboldt- Dutz A.G., have registered a subsidiarycompany at Agram, Croatia, presumably with the object of starting productionin that city. Friends of England—Join Uj>! A QUISLING paper in Belgium carriesthe following moving recruiting appeal for the " Walloon Legion " whichthe Germans have formed for " export " to the Russian front: "You like theEnglish? All right. But the enemy we must crush first of all is Bolshevism.Join the struggle—enrol in the Walloon Legion at one of the following recruitingbureaux (addresses given)." Poison Gas ? A7Y DAG reports that chemical f«c-•* tories in France which had hitherto produced germicides were ordered tocancel their production and go over to poison gas. A simultaneous trickadopted by German propaganda may also be of significance. Within differentGerman detachments stationed in France, a rumour was spread that theGerman retreat on the Eastern Front was caused by the Russians' use of gas.Perhaps such rumours are designed to prepare the right mentality for theemployment 01 gas on the front. Air Transport IT is officially announced fromBucharest that Rumanian air services which were temporarily suspended resumed their operations on May 3rd. Apart from the domestic airlines, the revival applies also to the Bucharest- Budapest-Vienna-Berlin service. AFLOAT : A pneumatic dinghy used by Luftwaffe bombers. The equipment is composed of a sail, two oars, a compass, a rope-ladder and a small compressed- air cylinder. The dinghy can also be pumped up by means of a simple bellows. Expansion A FURTHER illustra-'tion of the German policy to develop produc- tion in the strategic rear is provided by a report from Poland. It is announced that a new company has been established in Kra- kow under the name of h'rakauer Gummiwerke A.G. According to the entry in the commercial register, the, object of the company is to manufac- ture different products from rubber, plastics and Mmilar materials. In Posen the local oranch of the well-known German company, C. H. Knorr, reports a tenfold increase of its capital, an indication of the extension of the company's activi- ties.
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