MODERN BOMBER
MENACE TO SOUTH AFRICA EMPHASISED BY GENERAL SMUTS. ON RETURN FROM NORTHERN TOUR. On his return from his tour of East Africa, the 8.8. C. stages. General Smuts has said that there is no doubt about the extent to which South Africa is menaced 'by the modern bomber. It was because that danger was fully realised, he said, that Union forces had been sent north. General Smuts stated that the Lockheed bomber in which he travelled had. a speed of 300 miles an hour. An accompanying Martin bomber was even faster. One of these latter machines ■could leave Kenya in the morning with a full load of bombs and drop them on Pretoria after lunch.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 November 1940, Page 5
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