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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 26, 1941.
HEAVY R.A.F. DAY
AND NIGHT ATTACKS
MALEMI
ON
THE R.A.F. CONTINUED to deliver heavy attacks on German positions and air- craft in Crete on Saturday, says an R.A.F. communique in Cairo, adding that during the night of May 23 heavy bombers attacked the aerodrome at Malemi, destroying one large aircraft and starting a number of big fires.
During a daylight raid on the same aero- drome British bombers destroyed at least one German aircraft and damaged others.
R.A.F Bghters also attacked German transport aircraft land- ing troops in the Malemi area. One British fighter was lost in an engagement with escorting Messerschmidts.
In Syria, British bombers at- tacked German aircraft at Aleppo aerodrome, destroying one and damaging others, while a direct hit on a hangar caused a number of explosions,
NEW FORM
OF MENTAL DISORDER
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
A military court has been called into ses- sion in Rome to try Mihailoff, the Greek whose bullets narrow- ly missed the King of Italy in Tirana.
Mihailoff is offi- cially termed "a mad- man suffering from In- ternational News Ser- vice.
DEBUNKING poetic mania.
GERMAN
STORIES
Every evening through Punch
out the week listeners in North America to the British Broadcasting Cor-
In Iraq, British aircraft bomb ed the insurgents at Gurmeˆa'i, scoring direct hits on trenches.
Rebri motor transport in the Habbaniyah area wils at's at- lacked. while Habbaniyah an- poration programmes on tolument was machine-gunned on the short waves can hear
two occasions on Saturday
by
enemy planes, but only negligible damage was caused.
In Abyssinia
at 7.45 p.m. a five minute talk on the objectives of
Of A Spitfire
current Nazi radio propa- The tremendous power
In Abyssinia, Free French air-ganda. This little feature of British fighter aero- craft bombed Italian troops and is known as "Listening planes' guns was describ-
the fort at Goang, In the Gondar
area.
South African bombers and Agblers successfully bombed and machine-gunned Italian positions and transport at various points, scoring direct hits on Italian A.A.
was
the
batteries on the River Omo,
In all these operations the only British machine lost Aghter already mentioned uver Crete. -- Reuter.
lost
THREW BAG
OF JEWELS
IN RIVER
Post."
In Britain "listening posts" are
45 the
ed from pilots' reports by the Air Ministry news service on Saturday.
scattered all over the country to listen for and give warning of raiding enemy planes. But even
Years of experimenting, months more important is the "listening of training and perhaps weeks of post" known
B. B. C's waiting have been spent in pre- Monitoring Service. This organi-paration for the moment when the sation employs well over 100 ex-
pilot presses the button on
the pert listeners who, with head
control column which fires the phones plugged in to high-class multiple guns or cannon mounted selective radio sets, lis'en to over in his aircraft. a million words daily from all over The world. These are translated when necessary, trans- cribed, and sent off to various Government departments. This means that over 230
news bul-
Often when it comes even the pilot himself is astonished at the results which follow.
Here are a few of the things letins are heard daily, even those that did happen when a pilot in such uncominon languages uspressed his button, The descrip- Berber and Albanian. "Listening tions are from reports of combats Pest" gives what may be described | wh ch took place in the last two
or three weeks. Ps the compressed pith extracted
The muss of
When Albert Edward Clarke from all these. (17), a soldier, was charged at
reading matter, Bromley, Kent, with breaking when boiled down, not only pro- into the Royal Arsenal Co-opera- vides news for the public, but tive Society's branch stores at also gives full data for the experts Westhorne Avenue, Woolwich, and who analyse propaganda. Lis- stealing tins of food valued at 11s. teners to the nightly talk hear 10d., he admitted that he was a what the Germans are saying and deserter from the Army.
"I WAS DAZZLED BY THE MY OF MY FIRE, EFFECT SPINNER, LEADING EDGES OF FUSELAGE AND WIND- THE "CREEN WERE SOUSED WITH OIL. GREAT PIECES OF THE BLAZING HE.111 FILLED THE the truth about their assertions is AIR AND IT DIVED VERTICAL- A detective sa'd that about 40 given. Recently, for instance, LY THROUGH THE CLOUD." other charges would be brought Germany tried to drive a wedge against Clarke.
between Britain and the United told the Bench that States by inferring that the for- while he was away from his unit mer had sacrificed a good block he stole about 25 bicycles, which of her colonial empire for "fifty he sold to a dealer, who asked no ancient tubs described as destro- enemy until he crashed into the questions. He lived mostly in air-yers." The same crude methods | sea."
were employed
"He dived down in a in the early He went to the West End with months of the war to divide Brit-of sparks which turned into
streak of flame." a friend, and near Trafalgar ain from her French ally. Square in the black-out he stole Most of the German and Italian fire and a piece flew off and hit "The enemy immediately caught
C'arke
raid shelters.
a case of jewellery from a car, propaganda destined for Europe but as no pawnbroker would take is transmitted on the medium it they threw it in the river Charlton next day.
SEVERE 'QUAKE SHOCKS IN TURKEY
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
"The starboard wing broke off near the engine and threw back. I narrowly missing my aircraft. followed what was left of the
us."
shower
a
"The enemy aircraft promptly at waves and cannot be heard in few straight Into the ground.'"
America. "Listening Post" is a Bri ish Wireless.
An Ankara despatch received in London states that 19 earth- quake shocks of severe intensity rocked the Smyrna regionon Friday night, and early Saturday.
of
Two were killed and seven in- jured in the Anatolian town Mougla by rocks crashing down the mountains'de. It is fenre there are many other casualties. -International News Service.
-The Croatian Vice-Premiör de- clared in Jerusalem that Croatians would seek, the first, opportunity, to reunite Dalmatia with the motherland-Reuter.
useful corrective to the frequently distorted outlook which is sent out for American consumption on the short wave
bands by the enemy countries.
N.E.I. Militia
Service
BLENHEIM PALACE FIRE
The Duchess of Marlborough wa'ched firemen at work when the Oxford City and Woodstock brigades were called to a fire at Blenheim Palace, home of the ** Dukes of Marlborough,
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") Simultaneously with the pre- sentation of a Code calling for out was used as an office. The The room where the fire broke restricted militia service in the blaze was not discovered until it N.E.I., informed quarters in had obtained a good hold. Batavia predicted that the Japan-N.E.I. negotiations would the residen'lal parts of the Pal- To prevent it from spreading to be broken off within a week.
ace. a hole had to be knocked in All reports indicate the Japan-a false roof. It was some time ese delegation intends to return to before the fire was got under con Tokyo within the next few days. trol. All the office furniture was",
-International News Service. destroyed.