· THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 10, 1941.
FLEET NOW
R.A.F. AIRMEN BET SOLD AIR
ON LIFE OR DEATH IN GALE
FOUR MEN of a 'plane's crew spent eight hours clinging to an upturned dinghy in a howling gale. The story has just been told in London. The 'plane had to alight in the sea at night, when, with its radio out of action, it had lost its course.
The rear gunner and three others of the crew threw out the dinghy, but the waves snapped the rope which tied it to the aircraft, and it drifted away upside down. The rear gunner swam to it, and the other three jumped into the sea too. One of them got stuck in the doorway. The man behind him had to push him out of the aircraft with his foot
When the captain's turn came the dinghy was too far away and he stayed and went down with his plane.
The rea gumber pulled the others on to the dinghy, one of them after a struggle for a quar ter of an hour,
The dinghy WAIN stul de down, and there AL nity i thing to di The form mum sat round the edge tat and thust The feet down in the north to Ittake well
HAW HAW
SPY PLAN
BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT]
A network of traitors throughout Britain The
was enough to keep the dinghy to collapsing
There wa IT! eighty inden
hour gale and the dinghy wa being los etf about by the wayan The men nud to bale out con- tinuously with their Caps
Drank Rain
were
When they
lifted by a Wave They scatined the horizon for a ship When they fell into a trough they baled furiously. Their actions became mechanical saw right legs in the well we had made in the boat," the rear | gunter sand, "but we duin't feel we knew which were our own legs and which else's"
Were
There was
nothing to drink. and the salt spray increased their thirst, When there was a shower they leant their heads back and opened their mouths to the rain.
was
planned by William Joyce, Traitor No. 1, be- | fore he left the country to become the German radio mouth-piece known as "Haw Haw."
His plan falled. But the story of this man's ambition to see his own nation under the shadow of the swastika is told now by a twenty-five-year-old actress, Mary Russeli Tavernan, who is writing a book, in collaboration with Berta Ruck, the novelist, about the plot.
Miss Tavernan, bombed out of her London home, is living with her mother in it North Wales
village.
She knew Joyce, and other trai. tors in this country, well But be- fore they had time to draw her into their web she broke her friendship with them,
Misa Tavernan tells of
a
secret room at a London meeting
place where spying was serious. ly taught to youngsters. The department was known as
Towards dawn they saw a Hud. son airera't. but when it new away withart having seen them, they went on baling, numbed by cold. Then a German plane came over, and they even waved to the" and those let into its closely- pilot of that.
guarded secrets never went by their own names. They had vode names.
At last a Blenheim passed. The rear-gunner tried to fire a very light, but his fingers were so numb that he could not manage it until the Blenheim was out of sight.
But they had been seen, The Blenheim came back, flying
Behind locked doors, ciphers, cross codes and all the tricks of modern spying were taught.
WAR PILOT
Safe arrival ot hundreds of Canadian anti-aircraft, Army Service Corps and other units at a British port within the last few days from Canada keeps up the Navy's perfect record in transporting troops across the Atlantic.
So far not a single Canadian soldier has lost his life from eremy action during the ocean crossing.
The big troops convoy which recently arrived included
graduates of the Empire air training scheme.
all
Three Americans, sergeants, have join the
come to
famous American
Eagle Squadron.
One of them Pappy to his collea- gues,
sold his own fleet of air lines in Texas and went north at his own expense to enlist in the Royal Canadian Air Force
JULIUS
CAESAR
GOES TO
WAR AGAIN
"Name, please," said the clerk at the medical ex- amination board. "Julius Caesar," replied the can- didate before him.
The clerk dropped his pen and fixed the youth with a Will Hay glare.
Then an indulgent smile spread over his face. At first I thought: you said Julius Caesar, he apologised as he poised pen again.
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"So I did," said the youth. A worried frown replaced the clerk's smile. "And 1 suppose Brutus is going up with you", he countered.
With Joyce, and probably others in Germany, in possession of the ciphers for the many codes which round and round In narrowing i had been carefully circulated to
enemies in Britain, it would have "Don't know, sir. All I know been simple to give vital informa-is
that I was christened Julius tion through radio, writing, music Caesar, and was told to report and many other means.
circles. and away on the hori zon the exhausted men saw a tiny speck. It was a trawler coming in answer to the signal of the Blenheim,
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The dinghy was gradually losing the air in it. and the men were making bets--would the trawler get there before the dinghy sank? One bet was that the trawler would take three hours, but she arrived within an hour.
When she came alongside, the
men made an effort to grasp the ladder which the trawler's crew
NETHERLAND
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To-day is the anniversary of the
had throwI down to them, but cowardly Nazi attack on the they were too weak. With the Netherlands. help of the crew, three managed to toil un the ladder, but the fourth had to be roped and hoisted
up.
Following the example set by their compatriots in the Nether- lands Indies, the members of the Netherland community In Hong Whisky was poured down their Kong have decided throats, vigarettes nui between day's income their lips, and they were set by a Relief Fund. fire.
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Twenty-year-old Julius Caesar, sheet metal worker, of Wolverton, Bucks, passed his medical exam- ina'ion.
He reported for training at an R.A.F. centre in the north, and the fun started all over again,
But Julius doesn't mind. "I've been having my leg pulled for twenty years now and I've got used to it," he told the "Dally Mirror."
N.B. Mind you're never taken prisoner, Julius. The Germuns have no sense of humour.
VILLAGE OF PATRIOTS
Tunley (Somerset), six miles to the Netherland | from Bath, claims to be one of the most patriotic villages in the country.
The Hong Kong Committee of It has a total adult population this fund will remit the proceeds of 100, and apart from those who to the Prince Bernhard Fund in have joined the Forces, twenty- London
in for purchasing military five are
the Home Guard, aircraft for the Royal Air Force twenty-three are A.R.P. wardens, London Transport has almost and the
Royal Netherland Air and forty fire-fighters. completed the Introduction of Force, thinner and shorter bus, tram, *trolleybus and coach tickets.
The Netherlanders all over the All tickets have been reduced world outside. enemy occupied by 004 inches in thickness. This territory already pay 5% to 10% microscopic saving, when multi- voluntary income tax to the Royal plied by 1,885 million tickets Netherland, Government in Lon- which are sold in a year, will don. Locally they also contribute amount to between 450 and 480 to the Netherland Relief Fund and tons of paper pulp.
I the Borüber Fund.
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