THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 15, 1941.
PILOT GETS HOME ON ONE ENGINE AND HALF A RUDDER
HOW THE SKILL of a pilot and the toughness of an aircraft won a victory against a German night fighter and brought crew and bomber safely home on one engine and with half the rudder gone, is told by the Air Ministry news service.
On the way back from an attack on a German town a Messerschmidt intercepted the bomber and at the beginning of the en counter put one of its engines out of action.
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w the
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on to .: A Trea the e
but
too blefly and the tip of his wang smashes!
the benter's rud.
der, halt the rudde; came away but the entary oby jen k had the word Pie collisiO6 He died sleeply say and apponly out
of contr
But tot the boor be flie pilot had to use all in. Kall
The baber seemed to be hol- bling along and on the way back over Germany and Holland
PILOT'S
THRILLING
ESCAPE
Chased by the Germans after making forced landing in No-Man's Land
could not be Aut abce 700 feet between the Nazi and Al-
Towns and villages looked un comfortable close and by the tume it reached the Duten wils down to 500 feet
Chanced The Sea
it
The plot thought it would be
lied lines in Greece, an R.A.F. Hurricane pilot sprinted three miles over rough ground before be- ing rescued by an Austra
better to chance the sec rather lian patrol.
than Band เรา
Holland atırl
be taken prisoner To lighten the aretatt they thre thing el
every-
Then they thi:eemed that heavy bob was will underneath thet Rapnel from A A gum must have deorganised the release apparite when they were over the target As soon as the bomb was clear the pilot was able to! I J 1 1000 feet though The zurcraft was alll difficult to steer | But be managed to keep it
After an exchange of shots, the Germans withdress.
His escape, first recorded Joom the new Balises Win told by the Air Ministry sery ice yesterday
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Returning to hig squadron. the pilot sald he was just about dead beat when he was picked up.
CORDELL HULL DENOUNCES DICTATORS
[SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL"}
US
Secretary of
State Cordell Hull, in a formal message on the eve of Pan-Amer
an Day, denounced the Dictators' "brutal disregard of murality" and urged the 21 American Republics to rededicate their energies to defence of the common frontiers and the preservation of freedom
Mr. Hull proclaim ed the keystone of in- ter-American rela tions was the "soncti ty of the pledged word," which binds the Americas together against European ag gression." Interna- tional News Service.
MASS RAID
ON MALTA
A LARGE NUMBER OF GER- MAN AIRCRAFT DROPPED MANY BOMBS WHEN FLYING OVER MALTA IN WAVES DUR.
To an Intelligence (Nam TING SUNDAY NIGHT. the come and safely roossed the reported to have said We
IN one area a few civilian North S. and landed with and been ground-strafing Geranan huures were demolished but there i Murter. hap Britch Wieless (motorised columns and but done; were no casualties. In other areas
ja druce of a lot of duyurgy. Fire] there was slight damage.
from the grond is pretty
An enemy offensive reconnais- I tense and lucky ot stoppvil'sance was made yesterday but nu my engine," Heute:
bombs were dropped. Reuter.
ALIENS TO GET BADGE
Frenul aliens workag in Brit-
in a 1 be given odbicial bedigen
a bu
TOU th ser and a brooch 1. He women The badges design be a mt forging a
Thus
Mas antictattend
by the Ministry of Labour. sch has sel-up a Central Agency to be responsible for making use of the
services of these aliens
There is
Britan at total foreign population of about quarter of a million
British Aliens
a
It is an essential feature in the placing of foreigners in war work here that they shall have the same wages and conditions
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SHANGHAI
COUNCIL ELECTION
PROBLEMS
WITH THE SPECIAL MEETING of ratepayers, at which the names and composition of the Provi- sional Shanghai Municipal Council will be officially authorised by foreign ratepayers, only two days away, it was reported in reliable Chinese circles, al- though not officially confirmed, that Mr. Pan An- sun, manager of the Central Reserve Bank, and Mr. Jabin Hsu, head of the trust department of the same institution, would be named as two of the four Chin- ese councillors.
The two other Chinese coun-with the new situation arising as
as British subjects, the Ministry cillors to be nominated will be a result of negotiations between
states.
Mr. L. T. Yuan and Mr. Yu Lin- the consuls-general for Britain, Chinese members Japan and the United States, by Allied nationals will come under hisi, only two the unemployment
who at which a provisional council com- present Council and national of the health Insurance systems, and present are in Shanghai,
posed of 16 members is likely to have all the advantages of the The other three members, be created, for which the Chinese Social welfare Acts open to the Messrs. Yu Ya-ching, V. Gockson will only get four members, the normal citizens of Britain after and T. C. Shen, left Shanghai Chinese Ratepayers Association. -they have qualified.
some time ago.
was called upon to make a new, The difficulty experienced In announcement. nominating Chinese members to With Chungking not having the new Council is first due to the given its approval of the plan consuls- A special section for women has fact that a large number of proposed by the three been set up, and the training cen-executive members of the Chin general; and with the majority of. tres will shortly be open to them.ese Ratepayers Association are members of the Chinese Ratepay-
Arrangements are being made to not in Shanghai at present, open several special exchanges in the London area for certain na- tionalities, to be run no co-opera-
A good number will probably be drafted to the Government's train- ing centres.
tive lines, with the help of the Allied authoritles.
Chungking Silent
ers Association not In Shanghai,
no move was made by the Chinese,'
The appointment of four Five men were finally nomin-Chinese is likely officially to be ated by the Association. However, announced to-day.—Reuter,”