THE “CHINA MAIL, MARCH 31, 1941.
MUTT AND JEFF
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200 A.R.P. IN NIGHTFLAP'
RESCUE FIGHT
AIDED BY two big cranes, two hundred men struggled to free survivors from the wreckage of a men's hostel struck by a heavy bomb during a night raid on London. The hostel was full. Reinforce- ments of soldiers and A.R.P. workers were drafted there to relieve those who had been working for hours by moonlight and in the glare of car head- lights.
I can't hear."
As the crane, lifted large pieces¦ of masonry and drills hored pas-
ages through the wreckage, more After eight hours they could and more men wounded or dead still hear tappings deep anal 321" were brought out to the waiting the wreckage and he w helf! doctors and nurses.
out for the lives of ander men.
Said an A.R.P official. This is one of th enest rescue jobs } have ever seen."
When the rescuers forced a way to one man they found that hei had a bucket wedged round his irect.
Tapped With Head
He had been unable to get it off. and had guided A.lt P. workers by krocking the bucket against con-
conte
wes: this
The first thing he said "For heaven's sake get ruddy bucket from off my ears.
Among the first people on the scenc was a
fourteen-year vid messenger boy, who had almost reached one trapped man whon the rescue squad arrived.
One of the rescued. arty, said he was The cash At the ou bea was lifted that
"It landed safely. still there under the said. "but the Tan! floors above were priet of mine with the men still n
"The rescuers had
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aside
8 Landed estate
11 Deep dish 13 Character 14 Part of
"to be". 15 Prescribed
rula,
17 European
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18 Сурку
20 The hostrils
21 Former -
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ffoer
22 Godilesa of
discord
24 Scarlet
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20 Obstruction
20 Implement
of WAT
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32. Transaction
33 Predicament
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30 Vast ago
40 Protecting
influence
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actinlum
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tight
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thoroughly
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VERTICAL
1. To look
fixedly
2 Whalins
3 City In
Chalden
4 The commen
catnip
5 Gull-like
bird
6 Charls
7 Siamese coin
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company
19 Blenderl
21 Acknow
ledgement of --no offence 23 Moro high,
priest
25 Violent
rainstorm
27 Two-wheeled
vchlele
29 Roman
bronza
31 Treatises
33 Writing
implement
34 To throw 34 Parts
37 Sluges
39 Acrie
41 Tasic |TI“ mistakit”
44 Expensive 47 Colloquial:
energy 40: Pair 01 Six
03 Symbol for
fantatura...
The even if crowded tenor of life at a Flying Training Station of the Royal Air Force is some- times disturbed by a "flap" when something unusual hap-
pens.
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Night flying practice AT230-5-15-7-20-9-30 TEL.31453 + AT230-520-720-9-30 TEL.56856 was in full swing, out un- der the stars;
4 faintly seen between scudding clouds a flickering line of naptha flares marked the runway. At a signal from the control officer pupils were taking off into the inky darkness, doing their flights and landing again down the flare-path, their¦ landing lights stabbing the darkness like an an- gry luminous eye. A dozen or more aircraft were up, there somewhere in the dark sky or lying out on the flying field, engines ticking over, their ex- hausts giving out licking tongues of fire.
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Suddenly. the flap arose. lorry rumbled up to the Control lcer. A sergeant jumped down and passed over a message. By the light of the torch slung round his neck on £1 lanyard there things are apt to get lost the
icer hastily read the message The word was passed round: "All ying to cease, uncover the flares.
From nowhere, running figures appeared, the line of flares sprun; nto greater brilliance as the d tom each was uncovered. The aiting machines were སུ་པནྟིཏྟཾརྗེ*g!
und and taxied to the edge The field, coloured rockets soared
nto the sky.
"There's two fighters from X ying to get down--think they may be landing here" said the control officer. Then a momen laster "What's that light, is that star? I believe it's one of the Hurricanes."
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Sure enough the "star" rapidly assumed the appearance of meteor flying straight towards Then another navigation light could be seen. It was a fighter. coming down to land. A few moments later it had "touched down" and was being taxied out of harm's way. "Well, that's one
any way-I wonder where the uther man is?
Over in the
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Nissen hut, the sketchy night quarters for the pupils and instructors on night flying, there was subdued excite- ment. At the field-telephone, duty pilot was busy. Messages were passed to the parent fighter station, Observer Corps and the police. For miles around the countryside was on the watch for the missing. fighter. Pupils and instructors sat round the crude fire chatting about this and that, the trivial small talk of fighting men In action. Half-an-hour passed. "Any news of the Hur- ricane?" somebody asked. At that moment the chief “flying instruc- tór came in. ‚“O.K.” he said ""Re- sume flying.".
The fighter had come down safely a few miles away.' Night flying practice resumed its normal routine the "flap" was over,
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