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THE CHINA -MAIL, MAY 17, 1941.
Kent Taylor, Ann Rutherford, and Frank Morgan have teading roles in the tense meledrama with a eparkling back.
ground of life in the capital. "Washington Melodrama,"
TYLER-KENT'S VAIN HUNGER STRIKE
Tyler Kent, the former official at the American Embassy in London, who is serving a sentence of seven years' penol servitude for offences under the defence regulations, recently
went on
hunger strike.
He gave up the at- tempt after Q few days, and is receiving normal prison diet.
REAL R.A.F.
EAST END FIREMEN RAID IN
MOURN
PARSON RAID VICTIM
A GRIZZLED old regular fireman spoke the epitaph for the man they came to know in the East End of London as The Fireman's Parson. "There was no la-di-dah about him," he said. "We were John and Tom and Harry to him, and religion wasn't mentioned unless we spoke of it first.”
Now the vicar-warden with the human touch, the man the brigades adopted as their unofficial chaplain, is died. His ashes are to be buried next to the communal grave of the ten firemen whose funeral service he conducted three months ago.
Like them, the fifty- year-old Rev. W. D. Tar- ling. of St. Matthias Church, Canning Town, E., has fallen victim to enemy action and, like them, he fell at the post of duty.
"Whenever we were out on
I job, we always seemed to run into him." one of the remen said. He got down to the rescue work with the best of them and there
RUTHLESS
BOMBING WANTED
COLOUR
Plans have been com- pleted for what should be the most stirring film ever made-a record, in colour, of the work of the R.A.F., culminating in an actual raid on Germany. Mr. Oscar Deutsch, head of the Odeon circuit, will have charge of the pro- duction and its sequent distribution.
sub-
The idea was put forward by an officer at the Air Ministry and made practicable by the fact that five airmen happened to be ex- perts in colour photography be- fore the War, They and two other airmen have been assigned the task of making pictures.
They will fly a bomber fitted with two special colour cameras, and while taking part in a raid over Germany will be able to photograph its progress.
Barrage Spectacle
For the first time the public Wil ¥yv {u}z]a {; sHt the flerce barrage over places like Breien and Kiel, with the sky made brilliant by shell bursts and "flarning onions." and down below public demand in the target area the flashes of British bombs and the red glare German
towns of res. should be subjected to
The
are plenty of people walking that
about to-day who have to thank him for the Bas
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was always us comforts or to have a yarn."
He
But the raid will be one feature only to the film, which will cover
"We've got particular cause to bombing raids at least as the activities not only of the Bom- ber Command, but of the Training, popping in to bring heavy as those to which Fighter and Coastal Commands. When the Nazi bombers struck towns in Great Britain with only dialogue actually used Without any fictitious touches and
thick of recently Mr. Tarling was in the are being subjected is in-by the airmen, the film will pree
the raid. Bombs were dropping and a number of people sistent.
ran to a shelter.
sent an entirely authentic picture of the R.A.F. at war.
There are only four cameras In the world like those to be install-
"If I Am Killed"
Mr. Tarling saw that there was congestion at the entrance, urged the people to hurry inside-and be more damaging to the enemy's
It is being asked whether, in the past few months, the bombing loaded with film.
600lb. These weigh
areas in general may not in fact of cities and large residential
view of the experience gained over ed. The normal camera weighs
then turned away himself rather than add to the press,
war machine than the bombing
A second of specified military targets.
or su later he had died from blast.
"I think he had a present- The answer must be decided on
ment that he would die in a rald," a church worker told me. "Only a few days ago he said that if he was killed no money
175lb when
FOUGHT FIRES FOR 12 HOURS
three chief points. Cities, with their their narrow streets and thickly complex public services, populated areas, are more vulner-West of England town, a railway During a severe air raid on a was to be wasted on flowers.
"'Let them
able than most buy clothes for targets.
purely military poor people
They Instead,' he said. obvious
goods checker, helped by a shuf- also, are
for and thus his influence will be found and hit. The only question
reasons,
ter and a boy, fought fires con- more readily tinuously for twelve hours. felt after his death. "His flock will sorely miss more difficult to repair.
is whether the damage done is Apart from extinguishing a trail their earthly Good Shepherd."
MODERN YOUTH IS BETTER
"It is a splendid tribute to the n1odern generation that the be- haviour of our young men and women to-day, despite situations of pressing temptation, is incom- parably better than it was in the last war."
So sald the Bishop of Rochester,
of incendiary bombs, which had fdllën" among 'wagons; they defied So far, the firm view of the high explosives to save a load of Air Staff is that the R.A.F. timber from a blazing lorry, help- method is right. It seems to ed to deal with injured men from consist of scattered raids, some- a gasworks, brought a fire in an times of relatively short dura-hotel under control, and cut tion, as opposed to the German woodwork from burning houses concentrated raids of long dura-before extinguishing flames with
a stirrup pump.
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SEAGULLS AS FOOD Norwegians are being driven by
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Cathedral, speaking of the emo- tional disturbances of war;, its monotony, its unnatural conditions and its blinding of the finer iristincts.
The public will accept unhes!- tatingly the considered opinion of those, at the head. But, they would feel happier at the present time if this opinion were put more undoubtedly growing that our bombing policy tends to be piecemeal one, and that it would be improved by: greliter concen tration and ruthlessness,
of the birds are dally being caught.. in traps baited with fish, One tradesman estimated that he was making, £100 a week protit by the sale of seagulls.