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MAILS TAIL-END CHARLIE

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for letters will be effective as frden ist February, 1941:-

PLACES IN THE COLONY

5 cents for each ounce or part of

an ounce.

BRITISH POSSESSIONS, PRO. TECTORATES & MANDATED TERRITORIES

20 cents for the first ounce and 10

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or part of an ounce.

CHINA & MACAO

8 cents for each ounce or part of

an ounce.

ALL COUNTRIES NOT SPECIFIED ABOVE

30 cents for the first ounce and 16 cents for each additional Dunca

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INWARD MAILS

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FRIDAY

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1:00 pm 2.43 pm 330 pm

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G.P.O. & K.P.O.

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Air Mail by Air to Hangoon to connect

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SATURDAY

Airways,"

TAKES TO THE BOATS

(By "AIR GUNNER")

“SOLDIER AND SAILOR TOO,” is what they call the Marines, and there are times when Tail-End Charlie with the rest of his bomber's crew have to turn hastily from airmen into real sailors. Since their aircraft cannot be relied on to stay afloat for. long the transformation has to be made pretty quickly.

The bomber has dropped its load somewhere not a hundred miles from the Rhine, and is cruising comfortably home. It's a dark autumn night, and, although they have had some trouble with Flak back there, the crew have the easy feeling of tourists half-way from a pleasant charabanc ride.

The

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"What's our E.T.A.?" the cap-] machine-guns and shining fess tan asks. ETA.

Mort for toons of linked cartridges. Space estimated time of arrival. and flares, instruments, parachute, all go sailing to the water. At last everything that can be detached has gone over

'plane plodding along, just skimming the surface, its petrol almost exhaust- ed. Tail-End Charlie squats per- spiring and panting close to a big blue package near the fuselage doorway.

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means a lot to homegoers.

**0440. We ought to pick up the Dutch coast any time noW

"Searchlights

Starboard bow! announces somebody.

"That'll be---”. says the cap. tain. "Old Gooney Gubbins caught a packet there only last week. Steer + point

| north."

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An eye, malevolent, red, glares suddenly from the ground at the| passing plane. Two frigid blue beams, one either side of it, shoot up to fasten on Tail-End Charlie's glass home.

"Searchlights on our tail!" he sings out and feels the kite' roll and dip as its pilot cakes avoiding

action.

Gun Rattles

"What height are we?" he asks as the bunch of inquisitive searchlights arc Increased by five or six more.

"Three thousand," answers the pilot. At once Tail-End Charlie's gun rattles. One of those prying rays dies suddenly and Tail-End Charlie, exultantly pours & burst down the glittering beam of an- other. He announces some Flak. which flies heavenwards past him, The aircraft is dipping and diving, and his eyes are engrossed on his sight. Suddenly, WHOOF! heavy shell explodes close. Some- thing goes crash. The great bomber lurches.

Terrific Jar

Suddenly, "Get ready to Tak the water!" the captain's voice

warns

His second pilot signals the crew to lie down. They disperse themselves on the floor, prepar ed for the shock when the bomber comes down in the sea. A terrific jar, which shoots each of them backwards, a splash like the splash of a whale-and the aircraft is floating at rest on the dark heaving water.

Tail-End Charlie has sprung t his feet. Grabbing his odd dumpy bundle, he flings it out through: the doorway. At the same time the captain and wireless operator have climbed through the for- into the sea, followed by Ave wards escape hatch.

Tail-End Charlie's bundle falls into the water and sinks like a stone, but it is suddenly brought up short by a length of cord which connects it to the rapidly filling aircraft. Then a miracle happens The bundle unfolds, blossoms lik a huge water-lily, and rises to the surface, a round yellow boat. The "Gee, that was near!" Tail-End crew jump aboard, Tail-End Charlie hears the pilot exclaim, Charlie among them. a clasp - Then--"Hullo, our port engine's knife gripped in his hand to cut jiggered!"

loose the painter.

Now the rear gunner can feel the aircraft sinking and sinking. He wonders just what has hap- pened.

"Get at those marine flares", the captain orders. "Someone ought to be on their way."

Suddenly two more stars ap- The port engine has gone out pear in the sky-one white and of business, and the petrol S one coloured. streaming away from a jagged

"Hurrah, they've found us! the hole in the port tank. The cap-captain cheers them, "They'll soo0 tain is holding his aircraft up as have a boat along". So they sit 4.00 p.m. well as he can as he sees the on, occasionally sending up signals 4.30 p.m. Dutch coast pass below them and whenever the 'plane's fading en- knows that some two hundred | gine denotes that its pilot has lost miles of cold, tossing sea must be them. Dawn breaks. They begin 7.00 p.m. crossed before he gets home, to feel cold and a tot of rum is With all the work on one engine passed round. They discern the he struggles hard to keep the 'nlane now-a Blenheim circling bomber flying a thousand feet up, above them, keeping watch while while his wireless operator sents it signals to shore.

4.00 p.m. 4.30 p.m.

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Letters.

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East and South Africa via Cape Town

10.00 a.m.

out constant signals of their posi- They are too low down on the tion and plight. Meanwhile Tail-surface to see the rescuing des- End Charlie and the rest of the troyer until it is almost upon crew are not idle. Taking turn them. She heaves to, and a boat 10.30 am. with an axe they hack off the door is lowered. The little voyage is

of the bomber and through the ended without further event. doorway goes burtling anything "Refreshments downstairs", sug- heavy and movable, The expen- gésts.a cheerful lieutenant

10.30a.m. 11.30 a.m.

5.30 p.m. sive bomb-sight goes splashing They answer: the call,

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12.30 p.m. Variety.

1.03 p.m.-Reginald Foort at the Orgán. 1.13 p.m.--Dance Music by Jack Hylton

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1.30 p.m.-Reuter and Rugby Press, Weather Forecast and Announce mentsTM

1.46. p.m.-Mozart-Concerto in E Flat

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[2.15 p.m.-Close down,

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7.00. p.m.-London Relay-The Nawa. 7.18 pim-London Relay-'Questions of

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8.30 p.m.Half, an hour of Light Opera

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9.00 p.m.-London Relay-The News &

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