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126 FLIGHT JULY 29.TH/1943 Behind the Lines Teutonic Migration R.A.F. raids over Germany do notonly pulverise the industries, but also sow seeds of chaos and moral dis-ruption on the German home front, and these side-effects of air war attract moreand more the attention of the German Press. A bitter tone permeates an accountpublished in the Essener National Zei- tung of present conditions in Essen; andit is clear from this description that the havoc and chaos reigning in the citybegin to tell on German nerves. "A refuge (says the paper) is not a home;the desire for one's own hearth grows with the lapse of time since the catas-trophe. Then one was glad enough to save one's bare life ..." Requisition-ing of houses and fiats has reached its maximum limit. The only other way toprovide housing is the rapair of damage, but this depends on the quantity andspeed of labour and material supplies. But both are difficult to procure: underthe influence of weather the damage in- creases because neither the employedlabour nor the material are adequate to repair even the most necessary with therequired speed. '' Only a further increase of theReich's assistance can help here" cries the paper. But the third Reich hasmany calls on its labour reserves. There is the Russian front and Italy, theFortress of Europe to guard, and the industry and the Tepair of plants in theRuhr. The demands of the civil popula- tion thus recede to some insignificantplace. To cope with the situation, theGovernment announced some time ago that it would meet the expenses of eachfamily leaving Essen. And the Teutons are not shy of migrating: "Under theinfluence of events the willingness to leave Essen is growing'' says the Essenpaper modestly. But here again there Service and Industrial News from the Inside of Axis and Enemy* occupied Countries is a bottleneck: labour and transportfor removal are scarce. "As always, when something gets short, the man withbetter connections gets the advantage to bring his chattels under a roof, whilethe quiet and modest ones wait." The municipality had to take over alltransport firms, and the applications for removal to other cities are so numerousthat in the beginning of May the Essener National Zeitung estimated that alltransport facilities were booked five months ahead and remarked: "Inreality the desire to leave Essen is even considerably greater than expressed infigures, as many citizens do not have the light connections to find accommoda-tion elsewhere in the Reich." Again help is wanted from the Reich:"We repeat, therefore," says the Essener National Zeitung, "our urgentrequest that auxiliary labour, especially packers, porters, etc., should be placedat the disposal of our city from outside the town." Grounded Icarus '"THE fate of France's world-famousJ- airmen has been as sad as that of their country. Some of them have beenkilled in action, some of them resigned themselves to commonplace occupations;to others Vichy was an acceptable escape, a continuation of their worldsymbolised by the aperitif and the sport- ing elegance, and for which they tookup arms even against their old com- rades from Flanders. Jean Dagnau, of the Air FranceAfrican services, the famous one - leggedskipper—the other leg he left behind at Verdun—was shot down in Flanders on May 17th,1940. A month later the same fate overtookMaurice Amaux, several times winner of theCoupe Deutsch de la Meurthe. Henri Guillaumet, con-sidered after Mermoz as France's most success-ful South Atlantic pioneer, was a victim ofan accident to a Farman machine which he flew tobring Chiappe to Syria. Jean Assolant, whowas the first Frenchman to cross the Atlantic in1929, is reported to have ALTITUDE STUDY: Apressure chamber used by Luftwaffe researchmen for self-experiments with the effects of rapidpressure reduction at which climbing speedsand altitudes were simu- lated. been shot down by a Spitfire in May,1942, in an air combat over Diego Suarez, Codos, the "inseparable" of Rossi,was in Algiers during the Allied inva- sion and was previously engaged inblockade running with Air France mail aircraft from Marseilles over the Mediter-ranean and Sudan to Jibuti. Commo- dore Rossi himself, who in 1933 estab-lished the world's long-distance record, New York-Beyruth, stayed behind inParis and in his flat in Champs Elysees schemes future air developments. Michel Detroyat, the "grand Michel,"the, aerobatic master, reduced his speed to the performance of a hansom. Afterthe armistice he established a horse cab taxi firm in Paris. Recently he becamePetain's and Laval's pilot and on July 21st Paris Radio reported that he hadbeen injured in a crash. After flying over the Himalayas andCordilleras Dieudonne1 Coste, previously of the Hispano-Suiza of Paris, settleddown in the Mont-Dore Valley, in tEA heart of France, where he has kcharge of a small funicular leading up to the Pic de Sancy, the highest peak inMassif Central. The previous Ghief pilot of theDtwoitine aircraft firm, Marcel Doret seeks oblivion in -a small county estate inthe Haute-Garonne, to which he retired "i with " Whisky," his mascot dog. i Finally, the feminine Icarus is ground-bound, too: Maryse Bastie is reported to ,> be a hospital nurse in Paris, and MaryseHilz became a milliner in Aix-ea- Provence. » Suggestion A GERMAN worker, from Dortmund,named Heigeborn, has been sen- .' tenced to three years' penal servitude fc \ suggesting publicly that a monumeatNdfii -• honour of Goering should be erected in ; the Ruhr district. j Gunii Pitypang— \ THE Hungarian Government is re ;ported to be cultivating the rubber- .; yielding dandelion (Kok-sagys) on 800 : allotments. The cultivation of this plant, which has been renamed Gunii Pitypang, is to be extended to 15,000 allotments to provide for the entire needs of the coun- try. —And in Roumania A SPECIAL service has been estab-lished in Bessarabia supplying tech- nical advice, machinery and seeds for prospective cultivators of kok-sagys. Jap Chief LT. GEN. PRINCE GIN LI has been :appointed Commander-in Chief of the Japanese Army Air Force. He suc- ceeds Lt. Gen. Kumaichi Teremoto. ;« From Germany THE Berlin correspondent of the Dags-posten says that it is no longer necessary to ask where is the Luftwaffe. An ipdircct answer is provided by a Ber- lin commentator who said that air fight- ing over Sicily and the eastern front absorbs the major part of the Luftwaffe. In itself, this statement from German circles is an indication of the reserves of the German Air Force.
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