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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 5, 1941.
MEN SAVED BY BROKEN BIT OF MIRROR
FLASHES FROM a small piece of broken mirror picked up four miles inland in the Arabian desert attracted the attention of a ship and secured the rescue of four British airmen, two of them in- jured.
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The airmen's machine had been wrecked in a forced landing near the Gulf of Oman, a spur of the Persian Gulf. For five days the airmen lived on what little food they had. They found a little water in a crack in the rocks, but they were only able to wet the tips of their fingers and suck them. On the sixth day the flight-ser- geant and the observer--the wire- less operator and the mechanic were injured-walked to a small knoll. They saw a ship which had been sent to search for them, But how could they attract the ship's attention?
Something glittered in the sand, The sergeant picked it up. It was a piece of mirror, less than four inches square, He flashed it re- peatedly towards the ship.
The observer had binoculars.
Excitedly he reported that the
The two uninjured men went
GIRL DID NOT
CARE---SO
HE DIED
Because a girl he had known only a fortnight
ship was hoisting flags in reply. did not wish to be more friendly, Lance-Sergeant
back for their companions, who
had almost to be carried to the
ness had fallen.
twenty
mouth of a creek. By then dark- Mathew William Johns, one - year-old Welsh Guardsman, shot himself dead.
The wireless operator had to be shaken into consciousness to send
a message to the ship by torch.
In slow and faltering morse the torch flashed the message: "We дге four British airmon. We are now on the beach." Then at dawn, through the gal- lantry of the ship's third officer and two Indian seamen, the air men were rescued.
Swim With Line
The story was told by a British officer of the ship which rescued the airmen,
"We anchored three or four mlics off shore and began searching with glasses," said the officer. "When we were think- ing of leaving the captain saw a
tiny flicker of light. "There was no intelligible mes- sage, but it was pretty clear some- one was trying to attract our at- tention. Later that night we got a message from a flashing torch.
"At dawn next day we got a boat as close inshore as we dar ed, and the third officer, Mr. N. C. E. Little, decided to swim in with a line to shore. He called for
two volunteers, and two Indian teamen, Valla Penna and Jairam Narron went with him.
Awarded Medals
At the inquest at Southwark Miss Joyce Constance Bradford, of Amerland Road, Wandsworth, said Johns, was happy as a rule during the fortnight she had known him, but now and again was moody.
They were not very good friends when she last saw him. He wanted to be more friendly with her than she was with him.
"Fit And Happy"
at his London billet.
HE STUCK TO
HIS STORY ABOUT
HIS EARS
wrong
"What's with your ears, lad?" asked the doc- tor, examining a new- ly drafted young man for military service at Ephrata, Pennsyl vania.
"Well, doc.
see
that is
you
部
stammered the em- barrassed youth, "my, ears are so big, I put glue on them so they wouldn't stick out so far."!
The young man was rejected for bad teeth.-Reuter.
DEAD EARL'S DAUGHTER!
MADE HIGH
CONSTABLE
A fifteen year - old become Johns shot himself with his rifle School-girl has
Lord High Constable of Scotland. She also sumes the title Countess of Erroll.
His father, William Thomas
as-
| Johns, of Jubilee Street, Llan
gram telling of the tragedy, his son was fit and happy. In a letter he received the same day as a tele- gram telling of the tragedy his son She is Lady Diana Denyse Hay, said he was coming home.
daughter of the Earl of Erroll, for The coroner, recording a ver-whose alleged murder Sir Delves dict that Johns took his life while Broughton is now on trial at the balance of his mind was dis- Nairobi. turbed, said no blame could be at- tached to the girl.
WHISTLES FIRE
WARNING
Josslyn Victor Hay, the twenty-second Earl, was here- ditary Lord High Constable of Scotland - an office his ances- tors had held for .600 years Once only has the office been held by a woman, from 1718 to. 1758, by Mary Countess of Erroll.
It was conferred on the Lords of Erroll by Robert Bruce in 1315, and its holder according to books of reference is "by birth the first
Air raid wardens in Leicester and certain Leicestershire villages are not to blow their whistles "Somehow the three of them when an Alert is sounded. managed to get ashore with D They will blow them only, as a double line and a couple of life-warning that incendiary bombs subject in Scotland after the Blood buoys, and they found the four nirmen 'all in.'
"For bringing the four men through the surf to the lifeboat, Mr. Little was awarded the! Empire Gallantry Medal and the Lloyd's Bronze Medal.
"Valla Penna and Jairam Nar- ron received the Lloyd's Bronze Medal, a medal which is awarded only for extreme gallantry at sea.”
USED ARMY BISCUIT
FOR COMMUNION
are falling.
Royal."
PROMISE A KISS FOR HEROES
TWO LONDON SHOWGIRLS are searching for their unknown soldier-heroes of the blitz. They want to reward them with "a very heartfelt kiss." COMMUNION SERVICES They have inquired at barracks and have ad- HELD IN A GARAGE BY BRIT-
vertised, but cannot find the men who risked their ISH PRISONERS OF WAR, THE "BREAKING OF
BREAD" lives to see one of the girls safely home through one PERFORMED WITH A TINY
of the heaviest raids on Birmingham. - PIECE OF ARMY, BISCUIT,,
This story of how religious ob.. The girls, blonde Feithlinn Mc- down they flung me into a:corner servance is kept up in German Gurk, eighteen, who sings, and and threw themselves over me. prison camps is told in a letter to his parishioners from the Rev. dark-eyed Joan Alexis, concer- J. R. Bamber, vicar of Wollaston, tina player and dancer, were ap- Stourbridge, who is himself pearing in a revue in Birming prisoner.
ham, and. Feithlinn had been kept late' at the theatre, ::
Mr. Bamber. says that hir camp contains about. 1,400 offi- cers and thiety, chaplains......
The garage has been converted into a church, and the services are "wonderfully well attended:"
£50,000 FOR NATION
After several bequests from his £82,400 ostate, Mr. J. W. Step- hens, merchant, of Lalymer-court, W left more than 250,000 to warda reduction of the National "Debtän
Nightmare Journey
"We were almost buried by fall- ing masonry but the boys cleared a way of escape and we went on our way,
"Although the blitz was on." It was a nightmare Journey. We had to make detours all the Felthlinn said, "I was anxious to ume and when we got to the get back to mother and Joan, who hotel it was to find firemen fight- had already returned, to our hotel Ing incendiaries. Marij
"Things seemed to get worse as "One of the soldiers had been soon as I went into the street: I slightly injured and was:}}rop- was terrified until two Tommiesing, but the other ploked me up asked if they could help
cand ran with me into the hotel. "One of them made me wear his we can never be grateful en
Joan, her great. Zrie added: tin hat and then they hurried me ough to them, wa maade through the blackness
les at local barracks and “Two bombs fell very close and deed; but they have not I when we heard a third whistling Ward 2007-07
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