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WHEN ITS AUTOMATIC PILOT JAMMED DURING A FLIGHT ACROSS THE ATLANTIC, AN R.A.F. 15-TON CATALINA 'FLYING BOAT SPUN FROM 18,500FT. TO ONLY 800FT. IN A SPIRAL DIVE
AND SMASHED OFF BOTH ITS AILERONS.
Regaining control by a terrific effort, the two pilots, though six hours out from Britain, brought their giant craft home.
When they sent out a radio signal, “Both it ailerons gone," no one at the base believed it seemed impossible that a 15-ton 'plane could still be flying without lateral control.
The story is one of the epics of flight.
Fight-Lieutenant J. G. Flem- ing. D.F., and Flying Officer J J. Meikle, two R.A.F. Canadians, 2001 were bringing the Catalina from
Bermuda. She carried a crew of six.
Preparations are being made in the Isle of Man for the reception of 1,000 British Fascists.
It was announced in Parliament recently that they are to bel interned there.
A reshuffling of the internment camps is being made to provide
accommodation for them.
One camp has been cleared of its alien internees, who have been rent to other internment camps
on the island.
They will, it is believed, be cubjected to the came kind of Internment as the aliens, except that their military guard will! be stronger.
It is likely that they will be called on to perform 'some kind of service.
They will not come into col- tact with the alien internees, whe are doing land work on the island.
It is not yet known whether Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of British Fascists, will be sent with nis followers to the Isle of Man.
No special arrangements have been made for any individual ternees.
REFUGEES TORTURED BY FRENCH
When the automatic control jammed the right aileron was full Emphasising that the Vichy down and the machine, in its dive, Government İK responsible for caused the ailerons to flutter.
the treatment of these unhappy During this staggering plunge men and women, the to within 800 feet of the sea the states that many
report thousands are pilots did their utmost to regain now in foreign labour companies stability.
scattered throughout Morocco and
Pressure on the ailerons, how-Algeria, ever, was so great that one broke "Life in these labour battalions" away. This was the worst moment of all. Then the second aileron was torn off. It helped to restore the balance of the ship.
Daren't Move Hands
is similar to life in prison. The men work on rail road construc- tion under a burning sun with a temperature that in the summer often reaches 69 degrees centi- grade.
When the Butler began the
Tied To Horses radio operator sent out an S O S. It was never received-the fixed
"They are given a task that wireless aerial had been carried must be finished; if they fall, they away with the ailerons.
are put in penal battalions, guard- Just as they believed they musted by armed native soldiers and hit the water, the pilots recovered subjected to all kinds of mistreat- control.
Fleming and
Melkie were compelled to alt side by side exerting all their strength on the control to keep the machine in the air.
ment.
"They are Insulted and beaten mercilessly for the slightest in- fractions of the rules, even for stopping work a second when exhausted by the heat and the killing pace.
They dared not remove their hands to look at a map. For- "Punishments are unworthy of tunately, Fleming had memoris. a civilised nation. One of them ed his course, and, with Meikle's consists of tying the prisoner's ald, managed to tura the hands together with a rope, the machine very
gently until it other end of which attached to a was on its correct course again. horse's tail. The horse is then As they approached the British made to run with increasing speed landed in harbour. coast they flew into a storm, yet until the wretched prisoner falls and is drugged through the burn- ing sand.
5 THREW
A DART
Five Scots. Canadians
"Another 'remedy' for dis- obedience consists in forcing a prisoner into a barrel, which is then rolled down hill.
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"In the 'punishment of the THE FASCISTS WILL LIVE stationed in the south of tomb,' the most ferocious of all, IN BOARDING-HOUSES, SUR-
the man under discipline is forced ROUNDED BY BARBED-WIRE England got nine days' to dig a grave. He is then made leave and free travelling to lie motionless in the grave warrants to anywhere in heat of the sun and the cold of for several days, exposed to the
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THE KING SENT A MESSAGE OF CONGRATULATION TO SIR EMSLEY CARR, EDITOR-IN- CHIEF OF THE "NEWS OF THE AT A LUNCHEON IN LONDON ΤΟ MARK THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF SIR EMSLEY'S APPOINTMENT AS EDITOR.
Major J. J. Astor was in the chair. Several members of the Cabinet, headed by the Premier, and most of the notable figures in the newspaper world attended.
Mr. Churchill sald: "I have always been proud of my con- neotion with journalism, to which the people and the Parliament, turned for one whom they sup- posed might give them some, chance of emerging from their! embarrassment.".
QUESTION STOPS A TRIAL
With their Scottish blood run- ning high, they pinned a map of Scotland on the wall and threw darts to see where they should spend their leave.
the night, under the constant vigilance of an armed native; and not allowed to alter his position in the slightest, even for the de- mands of nature."
Copies of the report have been One of the five twice threw sent to President Roosevelt and his dart into the Atlantic, but Mr. Cordell Hull, U.S. Secretary finally landed in the Hobrides. of State. It was arranged that each one of the party should end his leave in the district where his dart pierced the map, and they: were to return to their quarters with definite proof that they had; fulfilled their undertaking.
The soldier who failed was to stand all the drinks in a local hotel for an entire evening.
KING FIRES
TOMMY GUN
The first of the five to arrive The King recently fired back at the billet is Private A. Armstrong, with his pay-book a Tommy-gun for the autographed by the Town Clerk first time and "peppered of Dumfries.
the enemy."
SHELLED - SHOW WENT ON
A variety show at a Dover. theatre went on after German long-range guns fired two salvós. into the area, No further shells. were fired, and there werd no casualties or damage.
NO RICE AT. WEDDINGS
With his frst four shots, fired from the shoulder, he found the "heart" of the enemy soldier silhouetted on the target.
Then, lowering the gun and shooting from the waist, tho Kingirad iseventeen, môro shots and again registered many,
The Queen stood behind him and applauded.
Holding that a question put to a witness by the prosecuting coun- sel was likely seriously, to pre- Judice the interests of the prison- <r," "Judge Beazley stopped a Use of rice at weddings is an the King commented on the ex-.
case at the Old Bailey and ordered a re-trial..
This happened during a Royal visit to a īstation somewhere?" in the south of England. Afterwards
offence, states the Parliamentary | cellence of the Tommy gun ba a Secretary to the Ministry of Food, weapon,