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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 4, 1940.
Jeannette MacDonald, the singing atar, is currently teamed with Nelson Eddy in their seventh co-starring musical, Noel Coward's "Bitter Sweet," in which she appears as a Victorian Bile who elopes with her Viennese singing teacher.
CAPTURED NAZI PILOTS ·
WON'T BELIEVE R.A.F. BOMBERS ARE
RAIDING
BERLIN
(From A Special Correspondent)
IN THIS CORNER of the country, one of the great crashing grounds of enemy 'planes, I have talked with several Army Intelligence officers about the captured airmen.
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They have found that German fighter pilots are of a much better type than the bomber crews, who are usually violent young Nazis, often with a wireless operator of about 17.
CHINESE SEAMEN AT EMBASSY
Unexpected turn to a reception at the Chinese Embassy in London was the ap- pearance of 50 Chih- ese seamen, bombed/ out of their East End "homes."
They listened in- tently when the Chin- ese Ambassador, Dr. Quo-Tai-chi, spoke to them in Chinese.
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LOVE TRIP BUT DAD SAID "NO"
A dairy farmer travell- ed 11,500 miles from Aus- tralia to England to mar- ry his twenty-year-old fiancee. When he got there her father said "No."
But she appealed to Watford magistrates and they overruled her father's objection. Soon twenty-nine-year- old Ronald George Simons. of Queens- land, and Miss Eileen Elsie Moore, of Harwoods Road, Watford, will go to Australia as man and wife. Miss Moore told a reporter that they met more than a year ago. She was a friend of Mr. Simons's brother, who lived at Watford.
On holiday at Bognor, she saw her husband-to-be with his bro- ther. Ronald was on holiday from Australia.
They were introduced while bathing.
Trip Cost £400 ·
Afterwards Mr. Simons wrote to her father, asking his cen- sent to their engagement, but he refused to allow it. But they became engaged,
Mr. Simons returned to Aus- tralia, intending to return when
the was twenty-one to marry her.
But, when the war broke out they decided to marry earlier if possi- ble.
Mr. Simons said he went from Watford to Australia when he was
The age of the fighters is about with a bomber crew, spat at the sixteen. 24, though two extreme instan- qfficer who arrested him. ces, both pilots of single-seater Messerschmidts, suggest that no one is too young or old in Hitler's doped generation,
Experienced Fliers
First-Aid Tunnel
The trip to marry Miss Moore would cost him about £400, ne added.
Miss Moore's father did not ap- He wrote to the
Among the
front I came across an advanced letter they said they could see casualty clearing station which no reason why the marriage has been tunnelled underground should not take place, for nearly 200 yards.
many aspects of pear in court. Army life along the Channel magistrates. After reading his
One was a mere stripling who was shot down. over the coast and died of wounds; the other, It was begun in July by a held a staff captain of 51, who flew in ambulance unit of the R.A.M.C., benind large formation and and a kitchen garden now thrives expressed astonishment at run-on the many tons of earth thrown ning into a fighter patrol.
up.
The roof of the station is shor-
A.R.P. MAN DIES
IN FIRE
ed up with timber found on the Following a fire at an A:R.P. floor was laid Post in a factory a watchman spot; a concrete with scrounged materials; and was found dead at the post, there are bays for many stretcher He was William George Lewis, cases, with reserves of provisions aged sixty-five, of Cbombès Road, days should a battle be in pro- ARP. duties to keep them there for several Dagenham, who was engaged on at the factory. which is at Dagenham,
He had relieved another wat- been skilfully chman, and later the post was an emergency seen to be in fiamës.
complete with It is believed that Lewis's
clothes accidentally caught fire.
He was worried, too, about 'the bombing of Berlin, but most pilots flatly refuse to be lleve that Berlin has been bombed at all. for the Festive Season may be obtained from us at the following stricted, and it is a part of Ger-
Home leave
is severely re-
man propaganda withhold
to
gress above them. news from pilots, just as their Not far away, andther under- own losses are concealed by ground site has making up formations with pilots converted into from different squadrons,
dressing station. Most of the captured airmen have plenty of flying experience.
operating theatre. They are usually wearing, with the second-class Iron Cross, the blue four years' service ribbon and the ribbon 01 either the Spanish or Sudeten.campaign.
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The detailed interrogation is left to the 'R.A.F., but it is 'the impression of Army officers that while the N.C.O's are cowed, the
commissioned ranks are cheerful and seem glad to be out of it after over-much flying.
Often they, have”. prepared
handbags Montalbing... linen, and föllet : artièlos. D
Most of them seom 'surprised at the strength of British ro -alstance, and nearly all updak English and smoke English cl „garettes from the abandoned
stores of the ́B.EïF.
At least one of these prisoners had already been taken by the French and handed over after the capitulation. Then there was the case of a fat little Storm Trooper who, having come over
DUTCH ARE GRIM AS ANGER RISES
FOOD IN GERMANY is "terribly rationed," although it is sufficient. This is the impression". gained by Mr. Wilhelm Burdet, a Swiss, and his Canadian wife. They were in Amsterdam at the time of the invasion, recently travelled through Germany and have now arrived in New York by Clippers
They said that when they were themselves
were bombed en
In Berlin they had no ration route from Holland to Germany. cards, so they could not eat until
a friend cared for them,
They had fish, chicken and terrible coffee in an hotel,
They would the Dutch folks”. -Wrath against the Germans is mounting a Britain's endur- manca oantinübəsi
Mr. Burdet added that, when" They told of hearing about German millitary bands play for British 'bombardments of Hól- grim visaged Dutchmen, ftiis like land's fuel supplies, and they watching a snake-charmer play.