THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 12, 1941. MUTT AND JEFF
SAY, HOW COME YOU HAD YOUR PICTURE
TAKEN. WITH. JOAN CRAWFORD?
SHE'S A GOOD
FRIEND OF MINE! OH, BUT THAT'S NOTHIN TAKE A PEEK AT THIS
ONE!
DO YOU KNOW HEDY LAMARR, TOO?
OH, SURE! HEDY AND I ARE OLD PALS! WE
WENT TO SCHOOL TOGETHER!
THIS AFTERNOON I'M HAVING MY PICTURE-
TAKEN WITH
BETTY CABLE, ANOTHER
STAR!
Page Bv BUD FISHER
BUBBLE SOA
OK, SONNY
SNAP IT!
THE SOAP WITH A
I USE BUBBLE SOAP EVERY
DAY
Belly
3.27
Cablain
FIGHTER PILOTS ARE BORN---
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she boasted "will be ours a fort-
R.A.F. HAVOC IN GERMAN BASES
QUEEN'S ALHAMBRA SHOWING TO-DAY
At 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30
THE VEXIEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR!
In the piping days of He shot down five enemy aircraft and severely damaged many
Testimony to the suc- Pilot peace a young
others when Italy launched her Officer stationed at Malta! aerial attack on the island which cess of the British attacks had the dreary task of night after we enter the war." on German naval bases towing a drogue that! "It was good fun in the early has been provided by a
he says. "The Italians' sleeve-like affair on the days"
base was only eighty miles from traveller from Germany end of a cable attached to Malta but they rarely surprised
I can tell you. to the United States. His an aircraft, and used as us on the ground.
though. I had ample opportunity
statements
NEXT were quoted an aerial target by both of learning to be a fighter pilot -- fighter pilots and anti-very little theory but lots of prac-in a letter from New York CHANGE
tical experience," aircraft gunners under This fighter pilot was later sent received by a London training. Suddenly the trim Malta to a squadron which
was to make a name for itself business firm. war arrived in the Medi- in a series epic air battles over the mountains of Albania in the terranean, and
face of almost overwhelming Now a Flight Lieutenant, drogue-towing pilot found odds.
battle of in the great himself,
al he was overnight,
February 28, when we account- fighter pilot.
ed for 27 enemy aircraft definite- ly destroyed, as well as many
is serviceable now for seriously damaged, with no loss
to ourselves.
our
There was no time training, but he had learned much from those pilots who had tried to shoot holes in the drogues he had towed for endless hours.
from Malt"
aerial defended attack to such effect that he was
He
"The R.A.F. destroyed all port facilities and factories in Wil- helmshaven,"
the letter stated. The workers
were evacuated to Bremerhaven but exceedingly done has been severe damage there too, and it is hardly likely that the port
present.
at
His official score is now "seven
The navy docks and port fac- confirmed" and as many "proba- bles",
The "kill" of which he isilities in Kiel have also been cri-
Italian bomber proudest is the
tically damaged, and the success shot down into the sea near awarded the Distinguished Flying Athens, the first to be destroyed in destroying this harbour is only Cross, one of the first to be award-, in that area and seen by thou- ed in the Middle East Command. sands of joyful Athenians,
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"My Informant was in Ham. burg at the end of February. By that time the damage done to Hamburg was severe, but not sufficient vitally to cripple port or the city.
the
have "In Berlin the Germans an ingenious method of conceal- hit Is ing damage. The building torn down so quickly and levell- ed to serve as a parking place that unless very familiar with the neighbourhood, one would hard- ly realise that a day or two be- fore there
apartment house."
was
an
BETTER TANKS FOR BRITAIN
THE
BRITISH
ARMOURED
FIGHTING VEHICLE NOW BE- ING ISSUED TO THE TROOPS ADVANCE ON IS A GREAT EARLIER TYPES. ITS ARMOUR IS HEAVIER, ITS ARMAMENT
AND MORE POWERFUL SPEED GREATER.
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Tank policy which has long been in a state of flux, is now set- tled. Instead of light and medium machines the Government is con- centrating on the heavier type. The light tank is now obsoles- cent, and there is no longer a "medium" machine.
The "opportunity tanie" is the cruiser with the speed of a grey- hound. The fighting qualities of the "I" or infantry, tank have also been improved: Its role is the close support of infantry.“
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