GREAT BRITAIN WIDE AWAKE
Its top speed is claimed to be aboat 400 miles an hour, which is about the isame as the latest version of the Mgbtgun Supermarine Spitfire.
The radiator of the He 113 is in the wing, and the armament comprise* a shell-gun firing through "the aireerewhub, and a large-bore machine gun on each eide of the fuselage, firing forward from the wing through the are of the propeller. It is believed that the type has been designed to supersede the Meseerschmitt Me 109, which has proved ineffective against the Royal Air Force's Hawker Hurricanes and Spitfire*.
Britain hae a new fighter coming forward, with greater armament and a more powerful engine than the eislit-gun Spitfire.
The use of twin-engined Meseerschmitt fighters as bonibers in raids over Britain suggests that the Gorman bombers have moved too slow to evude R.A.F. Hurricane*, Spitfires and Soulton and Paul Defiant*.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 178, 29 July 1940, Page 6
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