THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 13, 1940
SPINSTER FINDS GERMAN ON HER DOORSTEP
THE DOOR BELL of a cottage in East Anglia| rang twice and Miss Gibb, who is seventy, went to. the door and shouted "Who's there?"
"There was no reply," she said,| The gunner's cockpit stuck 20 "so I went into the front room feet up in the branches of a tree. and peeped through the curtains and among the wreckage were and there was a German stand-oxygen cylinders, a partly burn- ing in the path.
led-out parachute, and a collap- sible rubber boat. The bomber's so large that it is likely they were tail was riddled with holes, some
caused by A.A. fire...
"He stared at me," and I stared at him. His arm was bleeding and
he had no boots on."
Miss Gibb called her nephew. Robert, and he let the airman into the house.
escap-ECONOMIC
Their visitor was the only sur- vivor from a Heinkel which crash- ed in East Anglia. He had escap-| ed by parachute, and after laying his revolver on top of the para- chute had walked half a mile to the cottage.
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"He could speak very little Eng- lish," said Mr. Gibb, "but he made signs that he had dropped from the machine soon after one o'clock. He told us this by pointing to a click he carried. He made signs (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") indicating that his three com- panions had been shot as the Aiming at the development and bomber crashed.
improvement of the political ad- "We could not find his boots, Helministrative situation in North probably took them off because he China, Wang Yi-tang, chairman thought he might come down in of
the North China Political the water."
Council, has called a meeting The airman, seriously wounded, trem August 14 to 17. was taken to hospital the same afternoon.
"Abide With Me"
Wang Yin-tai, director of general, industries, has drafted a number
Shell making at a Ministry of supply factory. (Copyright,
Fox).
1917 V.C. BARRED
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Thirty-seven girls and teachers taking shelter in a cellar Japanese economic
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After crashing into the garden York was quoted at £-U.S.S the Heinkel bounced across the 0250 and the New York/London road and landed in an orchard.
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