THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 7, 1941.
R.A.F. FINDS HENRY LUCE SEES
WORK FOR GERMAN
THE LIGHT
An insight into the
MR. RANDOLPH HEARST is not the only havoc wrought by the R.A.F. in attacks on Nazi-American newspaper magnate to change his heart
towards Britain.
occupied aerodromes in Northern France and Bel- gium is afforded by a re- cent article in the "Ham- burger Fremdenblatt."
Describing the work of the German
Corps in co- Labour
operation with the Luftwaffe" the C.O. of one aerodrome
Coust
as
writer quotes the Channel saying.
"We should be lost without the Labour Service.
first took "When the German
aerodrome was totally over the inadequate. In addition, it had been bombed by the R.A.F.
"The men of the Labour Service set to work, often with the most primitive tools. They were tire less, and undeterred by icy cold or heavy rain.
Lorry loads of stones came up unceasingly and were laid as the foundation of a new runway. Gangs of labour- ers made bundles of compresset straw to build walls to protect the hangars from bomb splinters."
There was a battle agalust sub sol water at another aerodrome. "A
comprehensive drainage scheme had
A to be installed. peculiar difficulty of the work lay in the fact that at high tide the sen water flowed back until large tracts of
the aerodrome became quite swampy..
WEED WELSH
Mr. Henry Luce, the millionaire proprietor of Time, Life, and Fortune, has also come to the peni- tent's bench. In the current issue of Life he affirms (i) that the United States are already "in" this war; (ii) that the only way to get "out" of it satisfactorily is to put every ounce behind he campaign to aid Britain.
Reproaching Mr. Roosevelt with NINETY
being himself an offending Isola- tionist for many years Mr. Luce now declares that America must not only decide the battle a the tyrants, Dul Jind up the wounds of their victims. "America must become the Good Samaritan of the whole world."
President
Wilson tried that, and did not succeed, says the re- pentant Press lord. "Nevertheless, with the help of us all, Roose- velt must succeed where Wilson .ailed."
The Women
While Mr. Luce is for uniting
mankind, Mrs. Luce, better known
in her own right as Miss Clare Boothe, is dividing womankind.
New Yorkers are still sitting in at the ringside for the contest be- tween Miss Boothe and Mrs. Dorothy Parker.
This famous long-distance bout upened with some smart pre- liminary footwork by Mrs. Park- er, according to a New York re- port.
GENERALS IN NAZI FORTRESS
The captured French generals, Prioux, Giraud
ACCORDING TO TIME- TABLE!
ONE NIGHT RECENTLY THE PILOT OF A HAMPDEN BOM. BER DROPPED A BOMB ON A RAILWAY JUNCTION AT HIL. DESHEIM. HE REPORTED THAT A SMALL FIRE FOLLOWED. THE TIME WAS 02.50 HOURS HALF PAST TWO IN THE MORNING.