THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 24, 1941.
TESTING TIME
GERMAN AIRMAN HOME GUARD
CAUGHT ON ELECTRIC PYLON
ONE OF THE EIGHT GERMAN bombers shot down in recent night raids fell on an unoccupied house in a residential area of a south coast town. The house was demolished and the 'plane, which was loaded with incendiaries, burst into flames.
Another Nazi 'plane came down in the west, and two in the northeast. One of the victims of anti-aircraft fire blew up in mid-air near the Tyne. It received a direct hit after it had been illuminated by searchlight for only one minute.
The machine that hit the house had a crew of four. They ba.ed out. Two were found dead in a scrap metal merchant's yard, Another was discovered in a gar- den with a leg wound The fourth. who landed unharmed, gave him- self up to Mr. Frederick Frewin.
a railway shunter.
Given A Cup Of Tea
HE RAN
BAREFOOT IN TUNNEL
Mr. Frewin, who was in a cabin Wood,
a cul lip and seemed dazed.
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In my opinion the day will come when you will have to use what you have learn- ed, and I am confident you will do as well as you have done to- day."
Lieutenant-General Sir Bertram Sergison- Brooke said that when he handed a silver competition cup to o Golders Green Home Guard company.
BRITISH BROADCAST TO NAZIS
The B.B.C. has enlisted
Sergeant Alfred William the aid of well-known Bri- tish Left Wing repre- sentatives to broadcast
to daily
the working
27 years
old,
at the time, said that the Nazi har formerly an engineer, called three of my mates," he add-wins the O.B.E. Medal. ed. "We gave him a cup of tea This is why:
and a cigarette.
"He could speak a little Eng. lish and told me he was 21. He said he had landed on top of a goods van a little way down the He seemed re ieved to be jine. out of it all and repeatedly shook hands with himself." Another man who caught a Ger- man airman was Richard Jenkins, a miner, who on getting up in the morning looked out of his window and saw the airman squatting un- der a hedge.
About a mile away George Ste- vens, who lost an eye in the last war, found a second German air- man, and followed Jenkins to the police-station. A few minutes later a police-sergeant turned up with a third prisoner.
Suspended By Parachute
classes in Germany. The broadcasts are designed to A plane flying off the North-
the political West coast of Ireland came down reawaken
in the sea 500 yards from the consciousness of former
shore.
Social Demo-
An hour each morning is given to news and commentaries, and an hour twice а week in the evening.
Each broadcast is re- peated.
Heavy seas were running and German
was
crats. the captain of the aircraft swept away and drowned.
Dinghies were launched. One of them drifted on to a pile of rocks.
With great difficulty the occu- pants,
Sergeant among them Wood, climbed on the rocks, be- ing cut and bruised in the effort. By this time the second dinghy was in danger of being swept over the rocks.
Sgt. Wood stripped, put on a life jacket and swam ashore to get help.
In bare feet he ran a mile, partly along a railway tunnel. Then he returned with soldiers who improvised a rope of blankets
to rescue the crew,
At one point the rope broke and a member of the crew fell
One of the occupants of a ma- in the North- chine shot down East was found by members of in the sea. the Home Guard at dawn suspend- ed by his parachute harness from a pylon.
in
One burst of machine-gun fire brought down an enemy bomber a West Country rural area. Two of the crew, badly burn. ed, escapad by parachute, but others were burned to
two death,
A squadron leader, who des troyed three Nazi 'planes, was accompanied by an observer who has shared most of his exploits and has been awarded the D.F.M.
Sgt. Wood dived in the water and saved him.
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LAST OF R.A.F. TRIO KILLED IN ACTION
now
The time of the evening broad- casts has been chosen to coincide with the news broadcasts in Ger- many, so that they may be listen- ed to with less risk of the heavy penalties inflicted in such cases by the Nazi authorities.
An endeavour is made to carry thought on political
from the point where it was ended in Germany by Hitler's advent. "The one of the Voice of Labour,"
of the survey Another feature Socialist Press.
Talks is American labour news. are also given on economic .sub- ects and there are discussions on German financial policy.
features.
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Regular broadcasters in this ser- vice, who give their talks in Noel German. are Mr. Philip Baker. M.P., Prof. Harold Laski and Mr. R. H. S. Crossman.
SOLDIER NOT TO DRIVE FOR ARMY
Last of three R.A.F. pilots who jestingly called themselves Pip, Squeak and Wilfred, Acting Flight Lieutenant John Charles Dundas, Private Oliver Frisby, R.A.M.C., Bea- in was fined £3 and costs at believed killed D.F.C.. previously reported miss-consfield for dangerous driving action.
which caused a collision between Aged twenty-five, eldest son of his Army truck and a motor-cycle Streams Of Metal
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Dundas, combination. of Cawthorne. near Barnsley, he He was suspended from driving The leader said that in
a relative of the Marquis for twelve months. The magistrate three fights streams of burning of Zetland and of Viscount Hali- would not even allow him to drive metal flew back at him, some.hit- | fax.
Army vehicles. ting his machine.
all
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"The moonlit up the whole side of the fuselage and rear turret of the second-raider," he added. "The gunner opened fire at me, but my Arst burst silenced him and there was a large orange flash from the fuselage. Y
"Burning bits flew back and one of them dented the nose of my aircraft,There was another flash and the Heinkel went down ver- tically into the ground." poden
"double" recognised his first
ITALIAN DIES FOR BRITAIN'S SAKE
AN ITALIAN WHO DIED for freedom-be
Another pliot who scored a landed with British parachutists in Italy and was victim as a Heinkel. He gave one captured and shot as a traitor by the Fascists burst and immediately there commemorated in a Press announcement. It reads: amavasia terrific explosion,
"Parts of the aircraft flew off
and hit my windscreen, and I had
"Picchi on Palm Sunday, 1941, Fortunate
to pull up." he said. "After that Picchi sacrificed his life for the cause of freedom. A
I had the satisfaction of seeing the
German crash.”
Fighters Raid Enemy
brave man of high ideals. Until the day breaks, dear-F. RIP."
According to a Rome announce allowed to do something for the As well as tackling enemy ment he was recognised when country he had grown to love. bombers over Britain, fighter taken prisoner and denounced as He was no Fascist; he used to suy had been sold to the pilots flew over Northern France an Italian subject... and attacked the Nazis above their Picchi, £1,000-a-year banquet-unsty
try stated. de
own nerodromes, the Air Minis- Ing manager of the Savoy Hotel, had lived in London for more than twenty years.
No Fascist
"He was interned in the lalo of Man, and he accopted that exile because he bellaved the law was right. Whòn his chance camo to do something to help us "win the war, he voluntoored.
One crew spent more than half an hour near a French aerodrome used as a base for raids on Bri tain. During much of that time they were under fire from the At her flat in Sussex- lens, "He need not have done any- gunners on the ground. Twice the Bayswater London, W. Mrs. thing for Britain, but he so ad- pilot attacked enemy aircraft. Florence Lantieri, a white-haired mired us and wisp great was his When another bomber took en widow, told the "Daily Mirror loyalty that I am sure he would the Blenheim sent it down Ir a "I inserted the notice in memory have seized any opportunity stoop diving turn. --
of my dear friend. He died for Picchi was well-known in fash- ionable clubs in the Wont End. His Bill On his way out from Britain the Britain. S
Blenheim found and bombed-anWilfred Picchi, as he was chief was drowned when the anti-aircraft position,
known in his job, pleaded to bo Arandora Star was sunk,
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