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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 28, 1940.
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
I camped has a Squadron Leader aged only 25, yet though the squadron has carried out over 100 raids it has hitherto lost not a single machine or airman.
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
USED 'PLANE
AS BULLET
Finding his Spitfire on fire, the pilot used. the disabled machine to add to his bag.
He had split up. a formation of Dorniers, sending some of them crashing, when he found smoke com- ing from his tail.
: Putting down the nose of his machine he set it direct at .0 Dornier.
Just before the colli-
landed safely in a street of a South- East town.
BLACK BREADsion, he jumped and
FOR THE BLACKSHIRTS
As proof of changes
hundred feet and disappearing which Fascism brought to
in the starry desert night wards Libya.
to-
Italy propagandists often Almost with the regularity of said that for 17 years a
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000 NAVAL MAN'S HEAVY LOSS
In a report to the police to-day, naval seaman, J. Jackson, stat- an express train the bombers re-trains have run on time: éd that he lost or had stolen from turn on time as dawn is break- ing,
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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 no more damage to his machine than grazing a wing tip.
Directly the
his pocket, a sum of $360 whilst But Italy has gone back to pre- Fascist days, so far as the time-travelling between King's Road and the Central District at 4 a.m. table is concerned.
this morning.
The Press. now asks prospec- tive travellers to stay at home, while train services
have been halved.
and Troop movements
coal supplies from Germany have so disorganised traffic that few trains are left for the civilian,
The war took on a new shape machines land from October 5, to judge from they are handed over to the the Italian papers, because new efficient ground staff, whose restrictions have been
painstaking maintenance despite from that date.
difficulties created by desert sand storms, which have unlimited po- wer of penetrating any machinery,"
enforced
New War Loaf
has been responsible for the Elaborate regulations on how smooth carrying out of these and when to get fat rations form raids.
a feature of the Press.
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Although this aerodrome has been bombed in the past the Italians no 'damage has been done to men or machines.
Simul-
taneously, complaints are made the impossi- by readers about by bility of getting any fats at all.
But the greatest surprise is the "new
loaf" -
plain black bread' without rolls or white bread.
war
It now has a strong anti-air- craft guard provided partly by "Popolo di Roma," Count Volri's the R.A.F. and partly by New sheet, tries to cheer up its Zealanders, while the latest ar-readers by reminding them that rivals of Hurricanes in the Wes-Britain is "a huge fire from Lon- tern Desert have naturally been don to: Edinburgh." universally.. welcomed-Reuter.
NEW TAX BURDEN IN AUSTRALIA
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 Port 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 Part Auck land's guna 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 merchant vessel belonging to the Fort 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 paper A. H. Veltman, of No. 264, The adds: "Bread will be 85 per cent. Peak, yesterday, Miss Chiu was pure and will have a high ash treated at the Queen Mary. Hos- and cellulose content, so neces pital and the dog was sent sary for public health. It ought Kennedy Town for observation. to be tasty, if the bakers make it properly.".
What the 15 per cent, will con- tain is a matter for speculation.
An increase in income MONKS FIGHT
and property taxes was
announced by Mr. A. W. ABBEY FIRE
Fadden, Australian Trea-
Monks fought a fire at the CIS-
surer, in the House of Re- tercian Monastery on Caldey presentatives at Canberra Island, opposite Tenby,
yesterday.
South
Wales, with buckets.
But the blaze, was still spread- Statutory exemption from in- ing when Tenby Fire Brigade come tax is reduced from £250 to reached the island. by boat, with £150.
dky a pump. The fire was then soon The increases include 1/- in the got under control. Pound on an average rate on tüx-| able incomes up to £300,
Property taxes are 25 per cent. higher than on earned income up to £1,200. Over, this figure flat
· rates of 10/= In the Pound will be levied. Reuter.
KENNEDY TERRACE
ROBBERY
The bells in the church tower crashed and the library of the Abbey Church and the dormitory: were damaged.
The Monastery is occupied by French Cistercians.
NEW COMMODORE TAKES OVER
Rear Admiral... AF. Peters, D.S.C., was relieved as Commo- dore-In-Charge, Hong Kong, yes- Money and jewellery to the terday by Commodore A, C, Col- "value" of::$368, were 'stolen · from | linson;
the residence of Mr. F. F. LI, No. Rear-Admiral and Mrs, Peters. 6, Kennedy Terrace between 3 will proceed to the United King- ¤.m. and 6-a.m: yesterday,
domi
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