TURKS RELIEVED FOR THE INVASION OF EGYPT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2676, 24 January 1916, Page 5

TURKS RELIEVED FOR THE INVASION OF EGYPT

ARMY AT GALLIPOLI REPLACED BY GERMANS i : 4 Bucharest, January 21. Twenty thousand Germans have roplaced the Turks 011 Gallipoli, who are joining the army destined for tho invasion of Egypt. RAILWAY TRAVELLING IN CANAL ZONE RESTRICTED. Cairo, January 21. Sir John Maxwell, Commander of th? Forces in has issued a- proclamation that railway tickets for the locality of the Canal zono ivill bo granted only to holders of special permits. ■ GERMANY'S RECENT AIR SUCCESSES THE FOKKER AEROPLANE LIKE JUDSON'S FLATIRON GUNBOAT By Telegraph—Press Association—OopyrlgUt. London, January 21. Some papers are featuring .the exploits of the German Fokker aeroplanes, suggesting that they are stronger and faster than ours. The papers point out that seventeen of our machines have been brought down since Deoember 16. The Fokker machine carries an' immovable machine-gun and fires straight ahead, and its use is restricted because only a "super-aviator" can pilot, it. MACHINE DESCRIBED BY AN AVIATION EXPERT. London, January 21. Germany's recent air successes continue to excite interest. The "Manchester Guardian," in a detailed article by its aviation expert, states that the Germans hitherto only mentioned army commanders such\as Hihdenburg and. Mackensen in communiques; now they are billing humble lieutenants as star turns thus: "Immelmann shot down a British aeroplane; Bolcke shot down another," Evidently Germany believes she oan inspire the Royal Flying Corps with terror. Fokker is a, young Dutch man, who built a weird non-capsizablo monoplane in 1911. In the new machine, Fokker did not attempt to seduro inherent stability, but designed it to bo absolutely under the' control of the pilot in every position, and thus able to manoeuvre with lightning speed. It closely resembles the Mortne monoplanes, which tho late Gustavo Hamol used. Immelmann'g and Bolcke's aeroplanes have guns on top of tho engine, and firo through propellers, which aro fitted to deflector plates. Only live per cent, of the bullets hit the plates. Garros first tried the deflector dodgo. The Fokker's favourite method of attack is to rise 1500 feet, hang round until the Allies' machine appears below; the Fok ker then stands on its head, dives straight for the victim, the aiming run by steering. Thfe whole aeroplano is like Judson's flatiron gunboat in Kipling's etojjy. ' • "A . A ABLE TO DODGE' LIKE A RABBIT. (Rue, January 23, 5.5 p.m.) ' London, January 21. ine J!okker aeroplane, by making ft descent slightly spiral, a straight stream of bullets becomes a cone of fire, fronv which the victim cannot escape wjichevor way he turns. Tho Fokker comes behind thoeuenry, firing'along the body, so that tho pilot, passenger, tanks, and engine are all in one line of fire. When pursued it is able to dodge like a rabbit, and some vital part is' bound to bo hit. It is quite possible that British manufacturers will produce a faster monoplane equally quick and easy to m nnoeuvre, but they must be given a free hand, unhampered byobpolote offiflial typos. There has been a general impression that British aviators commanded the air in the West, duo to Viscount French's dispatch of October,. 1014. Tho impression was largely duo to the fact that tho biggest Gorman aeroplanes were withdrawn to partake in the big drive in Hussia. Then tho German battle aeroplanes did considerable Udinliße, until tlic, French introduced fnsfc scouts, and sq-called Avittincanons, carrying three-inch quick-firers, instead of machine guns. German aeroplanes were again soarce on the West in October, when the big long-distance machines wore-sent to Serbia, Bulgaria, and Bukowina, to watch tho Rumanian army on the Hungarian frontier.

AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT ON BRITISH AEROPLANES. London, January 21. The Under-Secretary for War (Mr. H. J. Tennant),_in the House of Com* mons, replying to questions on the subj eot, said the main duties of aeroplanes were reconnaissance for artillery work and offensive fighting. If the Germans adopted the offensive and came .behind ojir lines we had machines equal in speed and efficiency to the Fokkers. onr air service had given a good account of itself.