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The Generals in salutation. Photograph taken at Queen's Per on the departure of General Norton, who is bidding good-bye to General Graseti.
Two Bombers Shot
Down
During
Thin
Daylight Visit
TWO GERMAN BOMBERS WERE DES- TROYED OVER BRITAIN YESTERDAY, AL- THOUGH ENEMY AIR ACTIVITY WAS BUT SLIGHT THROUGHOUT THE DAY.
One of two German raiders who were at- tempting to bomb a ship at anchor in the north of Scotland had its tail shot off by anti- aircraft guns and crashed in flames.
CRAZED MEN DIED IN HELL AT SEA
Sixteen men in an open boat drifted in an Atian- Man after man tic hell. died. Two friends, as death came on them, rose and clasped each other. Five men went mad.
are
Another German bomb- er was shot down by Bri- tish fighters in the south of England.
A number of German 'planes
south-west approached a
Eng- land town in the morning but were driven off by heavy gun-
fire.
Many people coming from church watched while the battle was in progress.
The destruction of two enemy bombers was confirmed in th Air Ministry communique, which recorded little enemy activity over the country during the day. Single aircraft were reported to have gopped bomba near the Channel coast and at а point in northern Scotland. Little damage and few casual-
were caused--Reuter..
ties
NO NIGHT RAIDS FOR SECOND NIGHT
were
For the second suc- cessive night no enemy raiders reported over Britain after darkness last night.-Reuter.
N.Z. SHARE IN WAR EFORT
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AS A RESULT OF THE DE- LEGATION OF NEW ZEALAND THE REPRESENTATIVES EASTERN;.
CONFER. GROUP ENCE IN NEW DELHI, A SPE- CIALLY SELECTED GROUP OF BRITISH TECHNICIANS HAS EXAMINED THE INDUSTRIAL POSSIBILITIES OF NEW ZEA. LAND, WITH A VIEW TO AS- German radio stated recently | SISTING THE EMPIRE WAR that owners of houses in Germany, large or small, must be responsi- ble for necessary repairs.
NAZIS FEAR HOUSE FAMINE
On the eighteenth day of tor- ment, four still lived. They were rescued by a British ship Starving, frost-bitten, they were landed at a Canadian port. They Should the owners not carry out
survivors of the 5,182-ton such repairs the local county coun freighter Carlton, torpedoed by an cils will enforce it. Italian submarine off Ireland.
And their names are: Chief- Officer George Robinson, of New- castle; Able-Seaman James Pat- terson, Able-Seaman John Morris, of Birmingham, and Ordinary- Seaman John Amos Pearson, former London cab-driver.
From the hospital bed, Pearson told this story to a Canadian cor- respondent:--
"We tried to fight the U-boat with a muchine-gun. Then they sank us in six minutes. Sixteen of the crew of, thirty-four got into one boat, eighteen in another,
"That was. December 20.", "On Christmas Eve, two kids, cabin-boy Arthur Clark and mess- boy Tony George, aged only six- teen, started crying for water.
Hymns Of Death
This decree has been issued to
the announcer, who during prevent a house shortage, added the broadcast avoided relorence
air raids.
to
EFFORT REQUIREMENTS OVERSEA AS WELL AS THE DEFENCE OF THE DOMINION.
These experts are reporting their findings to the British Gov- ernment who, it is expected, will establish a pro- in due course gramme suitable for fulfilment by New Zealand,
Meanwhile every week sees a greater development of New Zea- Christmas. land's war effort. we'süld
to
A number of engineering firms are producing war material various kinds.
of
"Next day was Merry Christmas, each other. "Clark and George were too young for such terrors-they died Government workshops are busy later, Four Lascar firemen drank making, Bren gun carriers and.. sea-water which sent. them crazy, 3-inch mortars. The output of
ammunition will.. "They lay all night chanting Small arms native, hymn weird and creepy shortly. be doubled to meet the hymns. Their voices became requirements of New Zealand's slient. They were dead. "Another, boy, aged sixteen, died while sleeping.
"Sitting at opposite ends of the boat were Third-Officer, Arthur Bedger and a young apprentice.. They were inseparable, friends.
"They both rose, at the same ?, time, tottered, towards, each, other, and died in ough ather's
arms.
armed forces..
War material for the Navy is also in an advanced stage of pro- duction. Minesweepers are being constructed in Auckland to meet the immediate requirements of the Navy, -Reuter.
ATLANTIC PILOT Bernt Balchen,
3 well-known
"Then the cook started cursing the sea, Suddenly he pummelled the boat with his fists, and ther made a dive at blige plugs, and "Death followed death. Last to pulled them out. We grabbed the go was Senman Jerry Murphy, of plugs and replaced them just in Liverpool.
| Norwegion pilot, is one of the men, time.
"The men, just became quiet, engaged in flying the Consolidated. "The cook gave, a mad roar and then expired. Robinson, would rar. Altgraft patrol bombers to Eng jumped overboard. We pulled cite a little prayer, every time, a land, according to the New York him back-dead.
Times.
man went.