THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 8, 1940
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STRANGE FATE OF BRITAIN'S CIVIL AIR FLEET
GENERAL USES GIANT AIR LINER FOR BATMAN'S TRIP
BRITAIN HAS SWEPT the seas of German ships, but we are in danger of allowing our civil air fleets to be swept from the skies.
Most of the air services are "dead,” and all the great air liners which once carried passengers and mails at home are performing some strange duties.
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"Le Canard Enchaine"
"Run, Gretchen, here comes. Goering!”,
One multi-engined air liner was used to carry a Gen- eral's batman and his luggage to France. The General and his A.D.C. used a light aeroplane. A four-seater machine Organised 1914 Drive could have carried the lot.
BRESTULES EXPRESS-
AMSTERDAMI FLYER
PAXIS
LONDON
EN
gahrkar
"But there must be some way to roach Paris!"
"You might try the Maginot Line."
(From The Toronto Globe & Mail)
Sweden Must Collect
Sweden has sent 500 goods wagons to Germany to get the coal she needs. Germany is ready to deliver the coal,
but has not got the necessary rolling
stock.
£100,000 A Week For
War
Northern Ireland is subscribing to War Savings Certificates and War Defence Bonds at the rate of £100,- 000 a week.
Fairbanks
To Widow
Douglas Fairbanks, senior, who died on December 12, left half his estate to his widow, formerly Lady Sylvid Ash- ley.
He stipulated however that she should not receive more than 1,000,000 dollars (£250,000).
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Sunday Cinemas For
Lövers Only
Sunday cinema shows for lovers only
are to open in Cardiff.
Cupid is to decide what civilians
shall pass the box-office.
Subject to the approval of the City Council and the Home Secretary, the Watch Committee decided that two cinemas in the city centre and two in the suburbs can open on Sunday, but not for the general public
The shows" will be sarved for members of the Forces in ffort, who
can have one companion exch
So Cardiff
they
are escorted by a folder
If they are with one of the W.R.A.
airman And
AT.3.3 or W.
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Paris.
56 Profiteers Sentenced
Lord Waring, who, in the early Fifty-six French merchants and Another a twelve-seater costing stages of the last war organised great tradesmen have been convicted of pro- thousands of pounds-was dispatched factories for the production of planes, Ateering in one week. Sentences from the North to a West Country engines and general war equipment, varied from fines to imprisonment. airport to take an Air Ministry offi- died at his home in Portland-place, cial clsewhere.
In vain he protested by 'phone that a similar air liner was available on the aerodrome with a pilot standing 'by.
Despite this the other machine was sent to him to take him a 100 miles trip.
In yet a third case, a 38-seater air liner was sent to France with a load of goalposts for the Army. This Uner would have earned about £500 for the double journey as a passenger machine.
In some cases air liners-are being used for Army, co-operation work,
ATLANTIC NONOPOLY
A pilot and radio operator take up a twelve-seater to fly on a short ten-
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London, W.
He was seventy-nine.
A Poem Buys
Their Wool
Pensions Limit Removed
The Admiralty announces that in. the Naval War Pensions Régulations issued by the Ministry of Pensions, a limit was placed on the number of children in respect of whom disable- ment pensioners may receive addi-
A poem is helping Glasgow women,tional allowances. knitting woollen comforts for the troops, to get their material free. /.
It was written by a towns-woman, and already 28,000 penny copies of it' have been sold at a profit of 7s. a hundred-£98. With this fund woal is bought.
mile course so that gunners and Ready For Their
searchlight orews may secure experi- ence of ranging on them."
It costs just as much to operate the air liners for such duties ลง If they were filled paying passengers."
Victory Dance
Hitler might as well pack up while with fare the going is as good for him as ever
The new Short flying boats, built it will be for the passenger traffic, have been
The people of Byfield, Northants, commandeered for the R.A.F., which have arranged a victory dance and does not need them.
supper to celebrate the end of the
boats, and are "bagging" all the At- lantic traffic.
war!
Posters have been drawn up with
Meanwhile Pan-American Airways w have built a fleet of passenger flying the date blank-a hall has been en- gaged, a band booked and all other If you want to fly to any neutral arrangements māde. country in Europe from Britain you
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must fly by the Dutch air liners from Gertrud Doesn't Work
a South Coast port.
All the British services to the
Continent, except line to Paris There Any More have been abandoned.
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Internal services should be
Pending decisive action the war It is almost impossible for workers will end with Britain without a sin- in Germany to change their jobs now gle serviceable flying-boat or air lin- the country is at, war.› er, and all our air routes will be lost Gertrud Westphal, of Rostock, to neutral competitors.
North Germany, thought that one good re-way would be to set fire to the fi stored, and where our air liners fly tory where she worked. into danger areas they should be. She did--and left the factory she protected by the R.A.F., just as ships hated so much—for the police station! of the Merchant Navy are protected Gertrud paid for her crime by be- by the Royal Navy.
ing executed.
remember.
when we were enemies?” Those Were tha
This limitation has now been re- respect of all eligible children. moved and allowances will be paid in
Showing Up The Police i
The black-out equipment of Salford (Lancashire) traffic policemen in- cludes an illuminated aluminium de- vice, worn on, the helmet, showing the word "Police."
Pocket batteries supply the current, and for red and green lights held in either hand for the direction of traffic, states the "Police Review."
Nazi Fire-Bug To Die
Heinz
Voellger, has been sentenced to death
A nineteen-year-old youth,
under Germany's severe wartime law for setting fire to the farm buildings" of a neighbour with whom he had had an argument.
The death penalty is based on a law passed five days after war broke out, Damage to the farmer's property, amounted to about £1,000.
Neutrals Think
For Themselves.
Copenhagen's National Tidende takes cial Press and the propaganda service, a firm stand against the German offi- with an article entitled, "More Instruc- tion in Neutrality.”
We small peoples are bold enough to think that we ourselves are in a position to judge what serves our own Intarasts and what does not," says the article. Referring to the question of aid for Finland, the article notes that this is a. problem of vital interest för the Northern States, and that it should not be claimed outside" that it should be subordinated to the purposes of other -Powers.
Prison For Trying
To Knack Hats Oft
Two German boys, under sixteen years of age, have been sentenced to eighteen months and twenty-seven months' imprisonment respectively. "for endangering pedestrians."
They had stretched a string across the street in Erfurt during the blade out to knock of people's hats.