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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 14, 1941.
SPITFIRE PILOT'S DRAMATIC CLASH
OFF
ESSEX
COAST
A GERMAN BOMBER SHOT DOWN IN
THE THAMES ESTUARY OFF THE ESSEX FACTORY COAST YESTERDAY AFTERNOON WAS SO GOES
BADLY DAMAGED BY FIRE FROM A CAN-
| NON - EQUIPPED SPITFIRE THAT FLYING PIECES OF WRECKAGE COMPLETELY BLINDED THE SPITFIRE'S PILOT WHO HAD
UNDER
TO DIVE CLEAR OF THE DEBRIS IN ORDER GROUND
TO ENSURE HIS OWN SAFETY,
The raider was a twin-engined Heinkel. It was sighted at 3,000 feet by the Spitfire pilot who was flying 1,000 feet below.
up and
The Spitfire climbed crept to within 50 yards of the Geiman plane and the pilot open- cd fre "The result was amaz-
17.
"I hadn't given
sad
hmm more than a two-second burst when pieces of the bomber flew off like chips from a log and so Elinded me that I had to stop fir- ing and dedige out of the way.
"When I could ree again the down bomber was on the way
and two of the crew had baled
JAPANESE
LOSSES
IN HONAN
The Japanese troops
in
out. I had a good look as it Southern Honan have suf
fered serious losses.
was going down and the fusel. age had some terrific holes it."
in
The raider's cath ma the sea was collmed by 1e leer Sp thres another section of the vicinity.
114
He also saw two members the crew bale out and fill in the
Sea
"All To Pieces"
As 200 beat-the-blitz
girls went to work in a London factory, Miss Eva Butlin, thirty-six-year-old charge-hand, said: "Night work has solved their raids' problems; they are glad to be here instead of crouching in shelters,"
The secret is that the factory has gone underground and is it- self practically an air-raid shel- ter.
The girls believe it to be the Arst of its kind because it has been built only since their ort- ginal factory was bombed some Peiping-Hankow | weeks ago.
The central column attacking Siping on the Railway have been subjected heavy bounding and their casual- ties number thousands.
The Japanese column pushing| north from Shangtsai have suf- fered many surprise assaults and were reported to be fleeing south yesterday.
•
Severe fighting raged for five In the excitement of ecmbat the days at Sianghokwan and Shang- The Chinese captured more Spitfire pilot left the adio trans-tien.
and than 100 heavy and light machine- mutter in the "on po-tuan.”
iumy heard guns, 1,200 rifles and 300 planky Isteners at DIVC
horses. exclamations
Thousands of casualties were inflicted. triumph as "Got ha.. ̈
such
shouted
of
followed by a pause, cnd then "Heil':. bells, Heuer, be's all gone to picQAL
KING'S MESSAGE TO GREECE
THE FOLLOWING
MESSAGE
LEARNT
HAS BEEN SENT FROM KING GEORGE TO THE KING OF THE HELLENES: "I HAVE WITH DEEP DISTRESS OF THE DEATH OF TAXAS.
GENERAL
ME-
Greece has lost one of her great-
west-
The Japanese pushing ward from Paganyi to Fancheng have been routed, and the Chin ese have re-occupied Fanchens.
and Cha Pananyi, Tushuchen chukang.
When they saw the old two- in ruins they storey building thought their Jobs were gone. But the £15.000 air-raid shot. ter in the old building had saved the lives of the men night werkers, and that
the gave managing director an idea.
Installed Plant
He put the men on to clearing the site and salvaging what they could from the debris, and set the girls to work in the air-raid shel-
The ter.
girls helped to instal While the men helped to build a new factory.
plant. }
This was made like the air-raid shelter, mostly underground and Shangtengho, north of Wuyang, in sections. Each unit is self-con- Chinese fained measures 50ft, by 4ft., with was recaptured by the last night. Chinese troops are the highest point 14ft. from the now closing in on Wuyang.-Cen-ground. The ceiling is one foot of reinforced concrete, and there are tral News.
interior safety walls of fifteen- inch brick.
LANGUAGE MAKES THE KING LAUGH
10
The building is guaranteed stand a direct hit from a bomb up to 250 lb., and the design ensures that few would be hurt even by a direct hit from the heaviest Production could con- bomb. tinue if any unit were destroyed. When the girls saw the idea to work at once asked. nights. Three hundred men Soon now work the day turn. all the 800 on the old pay-roll will be back at work.
the An Australian private in est sons who will be muurned in Eastern Command was assembling
they blindfold in the in a machine-gun my country as sincerely as Greece. I offer you heartfelt sym-open with a piercing wind blow- pathy in the cruel blow which has ing. fallen so suddenly on the Greek people."
un-
"It's too blank cold to feel any- thing," said he as he fumbled for "I don't like
The girls have music to drown A reply received from the King the various parts.
the noise of the barrage, and of the Hellenes read: "Your sym-this blank weather at all.”
Behind him an officer stood their rest periods total two hours. have pathy on the great loss 1 suffered touches me very deeply. Laughing at the Australian's frank Air conditioning eliminates It was a cruel blow which has comments. It was the King mak-derground fug.. fallen so suddenly on my people ing a tour of an Australian con- in the Eastern tingent stationed and myself. The sincere participa- Command, and for several min- tion of your country in our dis-utes his Majesty and other high tress encourages us in our deter-officers enjoyed the joke, mination to carry on
When the private had success- within same spirit. until the victorious fully assembled the gun conclusion of the war."-British the five minutes: allotted he push- Wireless.
with the
CANTON QUARANTINE
Reports that the Japanese au- thoritios in Cariton have lifted cholera quarantine restrictions as from the beginning of this month. are unfounded the "China Mail" was authoritatively informed this morning,
Reports published to this effect were described as premature.
The "China Mail" is. however,
informed that the restrictions may
be lifted at any moment.
DEATH OF
MAHMOUD FASHA
*
Miss Butlin says: "They finish work, have time for a sleep, and still have the afternoons to them- selves. They've beaten the blitz."
The forthcoming wedding is an-
ed up the bandage from his eye: nounced of Mr. Tse Chiu. Hung, merchant of No. 634 Nathan Road and saw the King.
"Well, blank," he began, and to Miss: Ho Sui Mul, of No, 545, "then stiffened to silent attention, Nathan Road.
MURDER BY PANCAKE:
EX-CHEF
HUNTED
PITTSBURG POLICE, investigating the mass killing of 12 men by poisoned pancakes, are seeking a 6ft former chef at the Salvation Army centre where 60 destitutes sat down to a deadly breakfast,
Hà... was disr
| centre-throu
of insect
Condolences ntthe British ed to get even.
Preliminary inv Government, on the death-nf Mohammed Mahmoud Pasha, od that 101 which robbed, Egypt of one of her mixed in the four from which the Wisest and most enlightened pancake hatter was made,
The dismissed chef was statemen, have been conveyed to
the Egyption Government, says 'a sten in Philadelphia. "Als succes- British Wireless message from sor, who made the pancakes, is himself among those "poisoned, but London.
akfast.
g In
died soon after the
rived; two more, u' little ind a further six were dead