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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 21, 1941.
NAZI
ROUGED AIRMEN TAKEN BRITAIN
IN
(By A Special Correspondent)
OFFICERS OF THE GERMAN AIR FORCE IN A PRISONERS-OF-WAR CAMP IN ENGLAND SPEND PART OF THEIR PAY ON FACE CREAMS. Two shot down had waved hair, rouged cheeks, painted lips and enamelled fingernails and toenails. The medical profession has a word for men of this type. It classifies them as moral deviates, a class with curious tendencies, including outbursts of emotional violence admirably suited to the ruth- less tactics of the Luftwaffe.
recently Scotland.
In
been shot down
that people
Sir James Purves-Stewart, ! KC.M.G., C.B., celebrated neuro- logist, who has had active ser- "It is recognised vice in previous wars, discovered of this temperament are specially this abnormal German desire for subject to violent emotional out- face ercam when he was in- bursts. Such out-bursts would with some of the specting what at that time was well accord the only prison camp for German¦e:amples of German air warfare officers in this country.
I we have seen in this country.
I do not know what pro- portions these moral deviates German air In the force, but that they exist In the officer class is obvious.
"These young men, everyone of{ whom was wearing at least one iron
ill-mannered, aggressive and supercilious," he
cross, were
told me.
"They were of good physi- que. Their physical courage could not be denied. But though they were officers, they were certainly not 'officers and
the gentlemen'
accepted sense of the word.
in
Painted Lips
"Had they worn mufti and mixed with a group of our own officers similarly dressed you would have picked out our own men immediately.
"This particular form of per- version happens to flourish most vigorously in Germany, and particularly in Berlin, where it receives open encouragement. It was particularly blatant a genera- ; tion ago, at the time of the Eulenburg scandals at the Im- perial German Court.
assume
"In contrast, prisoners in the camps for German N.C.O.s and men are of a different type. Gen- erally I found them to be decent, well-mannered fellows.
in
our
all "Like
prisoners camps, they are well treated. Those who are wounded receive the best medical attention."
WRECKED
TANK WITH
GRENADES
"SWELL"
SAYS LORD HALIFAX
Viscount Halifax, British Ambassador in the United States, who was making a seven-day tour of the Middle West, saw O Consolidated B-24 bomber, one of the biggest 'planes being manufactured in America, leave Pittsburgh airport en route for England.
"That's swell," he exclaimed, "simply swell."
BLITZ LOVE ISN'T BLISS
Lovers could do their courting outside undis- turbed in the early blitz days when most people
German tanks operat- dashed for shelter as soon "Some time after visiting this ing around Tobruk are as the siren sounded.
an official mis-meeting with many sur-
camp I was on sion in Spain and was given
corroboration of this state of prises from the defenders. affairs by a reliable medical I have just been told by a tall, colleague. During the Spanish blond 31-year-old Australian, who war he had personally seen a used to be a storekeeper at Cum- German officer shot down. Thle manulla, Queensland, how he airman had waved hair, rouged wrecked two tanks with hand- cheoks, painted lips and grenades, states a correspondent. » enamelled finger and toe nails.
Violent Outbursts
"A Scots acquaintance toid me that a German officer with precisely similar make-up had
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"A subaltern and seven of us were walking along about mid- night, separated from the rest of our unit, when we saw
а
light tank advancing slowly towards our lines.
"The turret lid was up and the commander of the tank was look- ing_out.
"The subaltern said to me: 'Pop a hand-grenade in her.'
"I got close to the tank, climb ed on her dropped a hand grenade down the turret along- side the commander, banged down the lid, sat on it for a few seconds, then jumped off.
"The tank burst into flames and the two occupants scrambled out, dazed.
But to-day they never know words are being if their sweet overheard by fire-watchers, roof- spotters and wardens.
"The other night took my girl home during an Alert and kissed her good-night outside her gate," said a young soldier In a north-west town to the "Dally Mirror."
"When we parted a voice from the doorway sald: *Not bad, young man, not bad. It reminds me of when 1 WEB courting.' It was her father, on Tire-watch.
"I suggest that fire-watchers and the like should give a dis- creet cough, or blow their noses every ten minutes, to let people know where they are."
SING-SING'S BAD COUNT
A miscount of the prisoners in Sing Sing led to the sounding of an alarm, for two missing con-
was There
tremendous
"A few minutes later we came victs.
Q. MARTEL COMMANDER OF across another light tank, and police activity before the mistake
ROYAL ARMOURED dealt with it in the same way." was discovered.
THE CORPS. SAID IN LONDON:
"BOMBING
ALONE WILL
NEVER WIN THE WAR: BOMB- ING GERMANY CANNOT SUB- JUGATE
GERMANS ENTIRELY, HOWEVER HARD YOU BOMB THEM.
THE
"The important clash in battles of the future must be between the armoured divisions. We have the advantage that We canı mechanise the British Army to a greater extent than the Germans. We live on the land and we must beat them on the land.
"America' will have to produce more and more tanks, I am very pleased with the type of tank that we are using now-but the experiments go- .on. What we want is the dual-purpose tank with great hitting power and speed."
FOUR MEDALS FOR
NO. 82 SQUADRON
FOUR MEMBERS OF No. 82 Squadron, R.A‚F. have been awarded decorations for gallantry în fly- ing operations against the enemy.
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These are the decorations and the men who won them:-D.S.O. to Acting Wing-Commander Samuel Charles Elworthy, D.F.C., A.F.C. (a New Zealander, educated at Trinity College, Cambridge). Cyril Gayfer, alr He set a tanker on fire with a; Herbert' į". direct hit off Havre, despite heavy gunner (born at Diss, Norfolk,
used to be a hairdresser.) Aluk fire. Returning from an attack near Flushing, he eluded two Messerschmidt 100's, although The Royal National Lifeboat his rear gunner was wounded... Institution has made awards D.F.C. to Flight-Lieutenant amounting to £118 98. 6d. to its Sidney John Monroe (born Fin- crews at Barra Island, in the chley, N., educated University Hebrides, and Wick, Caithness- College, London). He scored direct Leslie Smith (born at Dartmouth;; LTD.shire, who, in ten, days, rescued hits on a 3000 ton ship off the Devon; used to be a local govern-
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SAVED 101 IN 10 DAYS
Although wounded, he want "on" "firing" and forced an enemy fighter to- bebak away after attacking his plane when re- turning from daylight operas tlong in the Flushing violňity. DFM, to Sergeant Robert
Frisian Islands and got his plane ment officer.)
101 lives from shipwreck.
The Barra lifeboat rescued safely back after a shell had. He scored two hits on a tanker eighty-seven lives from a Liver- burst in the cockpit, wounding of Havre, defying nak fire and pool steamer and a London him and killing the observer brought his damaged plade safely. steamer,
SED.F.MA to Sergeant Lealle back.