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· THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 5, 1941.
ONE SHOT TWO BANGS
By a strange freak of war the Italians and the British were engaged des- troying a village at the same moment we, be- -cause we were evacuating it, and the Italians, be- cause they were about to enter it.
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Graziani's gunners had a spot; ting plane over Sollum to direct their fire but the spotter must have been amazed to see that every time¦ an Italian shell burst a house in nother part of the town went up. He sent off frantic signals to his gunners asking them to correct
the fire.
HE LOST FAITH--- AND---DIED
AN OFFICER in charge of a bomb disposal squad who had been praised for his work shot him- self because he had an inferiority complex.
This is the letter left by Second-Lieutenant Leonard Arthur Jeffery Dyke, thirty-three, of the Royal Engineers:-
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"If I should die, it was because, but I seemed to be driven by some I was ashamed of my weak and inexorable fate to a doom which puny efforts beside those of my involves everyone I love." gailänt comrades in the Army The letter was rend by Mr. T who, under most difficult and try- | B. Bishop, the deputy county ing circumstances, performed guroner, at the inquest at Chal- miracles.
liam.
The remainder of the letter, said "I tried too hard, worried, and
the coroner. was devoted to ex- then completely lost confidence in myself, but not in the cause
pressions of love of
by Lieutenant freedom for which I volunteered Dyke for his wife and children.
The coroner returned a verdict to light.
of Suicide while the balance his mind was disturbed.
Finally the spotter wheeled off in disgust as it dawned on hibi
Because of my lack of con- group of British tidence. I found that a ginning
it impossible to rappers were squatting round attace my comrades, although I tried the end of their electric fuse-w.res ¦ despritely hard to win through.
distane", blowing upi Safe houses they had previously mined Each time the Italian, fired a shelt The kalpapers exploded another
at t
house.
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