THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 28, 1940..
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YOU DRIVE RELAXED AND RESTED WITH
STUDEBAKER
CHAMPION
FAR OUT IN FRONT IN SURE FOOTED COMFORT HANDLING EASE, SAFETY
MORE HURRICANES ARRIVE IN WESTERN DESERT
(By Reuter's Special Correspondent in the Western Desert).
THE R.A.F. BOMBING mentioned in yes- terday's Cairo communique is typical of the methodical and intensive work being carried out by the Bomber Command in the Middle East.
For four nights I have been camping in a tent half buried in the sand on the edge of a bomber aerodrome in the Western Desert and have had opportunities to see personally the planning devoted to our raids.
The particular squadron where
1 camped has a Squadron Leader aged only 25, yet though the squadron has carried cut over 100 raids it has hitherto lost not a single machine.or, alunan.
Each night as the moon is rising, I am wakened by the drone of bomber engines warming up. I stood outside the tent watching the bombers take off, switching off their lights as they reached a few hundred feet and disappearing
wards Libya.
USED 'PLANE
AS BULLET
Finding his Spitfire on fire, the pilot used the disabled machine to add to his bag.
He had split up formation of Dorniers, sending some of them crashing, when he found smoke ing from his tail.
com-
Putting down the nose of his machine he set it direet at a Dornier.
Just before the colli-
BLACK BREAD sion, he jumped and
FOR THE BLACKSHIRTS
As proof of changes
in the starry desert night to- which Fascism brought to Almost with the regularity of Italy propagandists often an express train the bombers re- turn on time as dawn is break- Said that for 17 years
trains have run on time.
ing.
But Italy has gone back to pre Fascist days, so far as the time-
table is concerned.
The Press now asks prospec- while train services tive travellers to stay at home, have been halved.
Single Wheel Landing
Only recent mishap has been a case when, one wheel of the under-carriage failing to descend, the pilot made an extremely neat landing on a single wheel, doing
and Troop movements
coal no more damage to his, machine than grazing a wing tip.
supplies from Germany have so Directly the machines land disorganised traffic that few trains they are handed over to the are left for the civilian. efficient ground staff, whose The war took on a new shape judge from painstaking maintenance despite from October 5, to difficulties created by desert sand the Italian papers, because new storms, which have unlimited po- restrictions have been wer of penetrating any machinery, from that date. has been responsible for the smooth carrying out of these raids.
Although this aerodrome has been bombed in the past by the Italians no damage has
enforced
New War Loaf
Elaborate regulations on how and when to get fat rations form a feature of the Press. Simul- are made
been done to men or machines. taneously, complaints
It now has a strong anti-air- by readers about the impossi- craft guard provided, partly by bility of getting any fats at all.
the R.A.F. and partly by New Zealanders, while the latest ar- rivals of Hurricanes in the Wes- tern Desert have naturally been universally welcomed-Reuter.
MUST RESPECT HOME GUARD
But the greatest surprise is the "now war loaf" plain black bread without rolls or white bread.
"Popolo di Roma," Count Volri's sheet, tries to cheer up Its readers by reminding them that Britain is "a huge fire from Lon- don to Edinburgh."...
landed safely in street of a South- East town.
NAVAL MAN'S HEAVY LOSS
In a report to the police to-day,
a naval seaman, J. Jackson, stat-
ed that he lost or had stolen from travelling between King's Road his pocket, a sum of $360 whilst and the Central District at 4 a.m. this morning.
Mr. J. Reid, employed at the Naval Dockyard, reported that his wallet; containing $224, was lost between the Naval Dockyard and the Seamen's Institute yesterday.
THAMES SHIP BAGS BOMBER
The British steamer Fort Auck- land, while in the Thames during a raid shot down an enemy bom- bed which crashed in flames..on. the bank of the river.
A shell from the Port Auck‹ land's guns burst close under- neath the German bomber, which caught fire and crashed In flames. One of the bomber's crew was seen to bale' out.
The Port Auckland (8,799 tons) is a London registered m •rchant- vessel belonging to the Port Line,, Ltd.
BITTEN BY DOG
An employee of the Peak Store, Saying that "everybody's bread Miss Chiu Chau-heung, was bit- has changed for the worse, even ten by a dog belonging to Mr. that of the English," the puper A. H. Veltman, of No. 264, The Miss Chiu was adds: "Bread will be 85 per cent. Peak, yesterday. pure and will have a high ash treated at the Queen Mary Hos- pital and the dog was sent to and cellulose content, so neces
It ought Kennedy Town for observation. The chairman of the Birming-sary for public health, ham Bench has warned those who to be tasty, if the bakters make interfered with Home Guards that it properly.";
they would be severely dealt What the 15 per cent, will con- with.
tain is a matter for speculation.
Before the..Bench were two
young men,,Sidney. Reeves, aged
19, a motor mechanic, and Wal- MONKS FIGHT
ter James Brown; aged 31,
metal caster, both of Holly Road ABBEY FIRE
Handsworth, Birmingham..
They were charged with 05-
saulting two Home Guards and
interfering with them while in Monks fought a fire at the Cis-
the execution of their duties,"
tercian Monastery. 'ort
Caldey
They were each fined £3. Island, opposite) Tenby, South Mr. M. P. Pugh. prosecuting, Wales, with buckets,
But the blaze was still spread-
Tenby
Fire Brigade
said that two' Home Guards, Private Nolan, the youngest mem-ing when ber of his company, and Private reached the island by boat, with Gwilliam were on sentry duty at a pump. The fire was then soon- the headquarters of the company got under control. when Brown asked what they. The bells in the church tower were doing, Nolan asked him crashed and the library of the for his identity card, whereupon Abbey Church and the dormitory Brown assaulted Private Nolan were damaged.
and Reeves assaulted Private The Monastery is occupied by Gwilliam. Brown was found to French Cistercians. have ́a knuckleduster. -
KENNEDY TERRACE
ROBBERY
Money and jewellery to the value of $308 were stolen from the residence of Mr. F. F. LI, No. 6, Kennedy Terrace between-3 a.m. and Ga.m. yesterday."
NEW COMMODORE TAKES OVER
Rear Admiral·A· F. Peters, D.S.C., was relieved as: Commo- dora-in-Charge, Hong Kong, yes- terday by Commodore A, C, Col- Hinson;:
Rear-Admiral and Mrs. Peters will proceed to the United King Ofdom, as
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