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BY GIRL OF 16
BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
· PICKING A PATH through the blazing wreck- age of a block of bombed houses in West London, a sixteen-year-old girl calmly led a party of survivors to safety. "Everything's all right. - Don't worry,” she called to them as they streamed behind her.
A few hours later, when dawn broke, the girl, Dorothy Herbert, started to retrieve valuables and belongings from the shattered homes. Dorothy and her sister-in-law, Mrs. Olive Herbert, had visited à relation, Mrs. M. Kain. As they were about to leave the sirens sounded. They decided to stay the night in the basement shelter.
Others joined them, Mrs, Jack- son nursed her baby, there
was
| fourteen-year-old Alfred Jones
DYING, HE
and his mother and a man aged ASKED OF
seventy-six.
Bomb Stops Card Game FIGHT
Soon the drone of Nazi 'planes · could be beard, then the whistlej as bombs dropped.
Dorothy laughed "Let's forget
them. Who plays nap?”
For several hours the shelterers
played cards. Eventually Dorothy and Alfred were left to fight it
out-there was 1s, 3d, in the "kit- ty."
Suddenly the shelter shuddered. Above them a terrific explosion was followed by the roar of. crumbling masonry.
It was then that Dorothy took command.
She climbed the steps, pushed
aside 'wreckage which had al-:| ready started to blaze, called to the others to follow, and led them from the danger. Several houses and a restaurant had been razed to the ground by a direct hit and fires had started.
"She's A Heroine"
Dorothy was having "lunch" from a tin of pineapple she had retrieved when a reporter saw her. "It was, a rough night, but every-one was cool," was all she would say.
Somewhere on the Ita- lian East African front, troops of the Sudan De- fence Force are still talk-
BOMB DAMAGES UNITY MITFORD'S COTTAGE
When a German high explosive bomb dropped in a ̈ Mid: lands village during the night it consider- ably damaged the cottage of Miss Unity Mitford, "Hitler's girl friend," a church and a number of other houses.
Miss Mitford's cot- tage was empty, but the following day, ac- companied by her mother and sister, she arrived to inspect the damage. 10000000000000.
HIT IN
EYES BUT
ing with awe of the cour- LANDED
age of a young R.A.F.
man,
Aircraftman W. J. Davidson, although fatally injured, thought more of his pilot and the bombing raid on which they had been than of his own condition.
From their fort on the Sudanese frontier troops had watched R.A.F. aircraft bombing a nearby enemy
fort. As the machines reassem-
An RAF officer who brought his plane down safely though wuuuca in both. eyes, is award- ed the D.F.C.
He Is Flying Officer. Gordon Neil Spencer Cleaver, Auxiliary Air Force. Last August he led his flight against 'planes (bomb- Ing his base,
After destroying one 'plane he he was severely wounded in both bled to leave, one aircraft sudden-eyes, but refused to abandon his ly left the formation and attempt plane and landed safely.
Flight Lieutenant Archibald ed a forced landing, only to crash
a few hundred yards in front of Ashmore McKellar, of the Auxil- the fort.
iary Air Force, also gets the The enemy immediately opened DF.C. He led his flight against At least four fire with every available machine-ninety Heinkels. gun on the aircraft petrol tank were destroyed. He bagged three. Acting Flight-Lieutenant Peter and it exploded.
Malan Brothers, another D.FIC led his flight against 100 enemy aircraft, but was himself attacked by several Messerschmidt 110s..
What Sort of Show? A major of the Sudan Defence Corps went at once to the spot, where he found Davidson, con- scious although mortally injured.
Turning to meet them, he otalled, but spun out of it, then shot down a Dornier,
The aircraftman's first thought Altogether he has destroyed was for his plot and what had seven -enemy 'planes. happened to him. Then he ask- Acting Flight-Lieutenant Sid- ed, "What sort of a show didney Robert Gibbs (DF.C.) we make of it?".
the hero of the long flight to
But Mrs. Olive Herbert said: "Dorothy was a real · brick-a heroine. She act a wonderful example to the others, and all; day long since dawn she has worked like a Trojan to --those-people's homes."-
After helping Alfred to his best suit from the debris, The pilot, Pilot Officer C. G. Dorothy propped a camp bed Bush, and Aircraftman W. J. against a half-collapsed wall and Davidson were buried with full dozed off to sleep,
was
He added that he had jumped Tromso in bad conditions. He save from the 'plane and as he hit the located eight Heinkel 115, flat "ground he followed down the slope planes. Three were destroyed- drag as far as possible.
and the remainder seriously dam- aged.
580244 Sergeant Ronald Fair- fax Hamlyn, who gets the D.F.M., military honours, on the following destroyed five enemy planes in
one day,
Before her eyes shut, she wear- day. ily remarked, “You know, Alf, if that bomb had been a couple of minutes later, I'd have won that 'kitty'."
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"The Norwegian people are still hostile to Ger- many and are incredibly stubborn in their belief in and hopes of a British vic- tory," says a report in the leading Nazi paper in Po- merania, the "Pommer- sche Zeitung."
"We must recognise that Ger- mans are unpopular in Norway: and one reason, among others, is that the Norwegians are lazy. They hate to see the industrious Germans working day and night; on aerodromes, roads, etc.," says the paper.
It complains that Norwegians, refuse to clean the shoes of Ger man guests in the hotels and con- cludes: "Norwegians are für be hind the Germans mentally and they are unable to understand the German idea of a new order in Europe. Thoir. chief worry is that Germany will plunder the whole of Norway and all endeav- ours to convince them otherwise aro futile. Exchango,...
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