THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 5, 1941.
NEW ZEALAND PILOT AWARDED VICTORIA ....... CROSS
THE VICTORIA CROSS has been confer- red on Sergt. James Allen Ward, New Zea- land Air Force No. 75 Squadron, in recogni- tion of "the most conspicuous bravery.”
On the night of July 7, Ward was second pilot of a Wellington bomber returning from an attack on Muenster. When flying over the Zuider Zee, the aircraft was attacked from beneath by a Messerschmitt. Fire broke out near the starboard engine and, fed by petrof from the split pipe, quickly gained an alarm- ing hold and threatened to spread to the en- fire wing.
The crew forced a bole in the fuselage and made strenuous efforts to reduce the fire with ex- tinguishers and even entfee in their vacuum flasks but without suc - cess.
As a last resort. Ward volunteer- | ed to make an attempt to smother the fire with the engine cover,
With the help of the navigator be climbed through the narrow hatch.
Breaking the fabric to make hand and foot holds where
cending to the wing and pro.
7 HOMES:
NONE LEFT
FOR HER
Mrs. Eliza Dunkley set down her little case on the heap of rubble that had
necessary, and also taking ad vantage of existing holes in the fabric, Ward succeeded in dea. been a ceeding to a position behind the engine, despite the slipstream from the alrscrew which nearly blew him off the wing.
Smothered Fire
Lying in this precarious position. he smothered the Are in the wing fabric. Tired as he was, he was able, with the navigator's help. to make successfully the perilous journey back into the aircraft.
gazed tearfully at the wreckage of her home.
a
SHANGHAI
VIRTUALLY ISOLATED
[SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"]
An official of the Shanghai branch of the J.C.J.L., question- ed regarding a rumour that their liners will no longer be calling ot Shanghai, said yesterday that they were hopeful that the situation would straighten itself out shortly.
Shanghai is still vir- tually isolated, owing to the restrictions placed by the Japan- ese on travel.-Inter- national News Ser- vice.
pavement and CHEUNG
CHAU MEETING
For most of her seventy years that Humberside cottage had been her world. Here she had reared her family of seven children.
Now she came back from a trip to daughter's in the country to find that a Nazi bomb had laid it in ruin. "Never mind," she said to the "Daily Mirror. "I've still got three sons and three daughters here. There was then no danger of They've been good bairns to me. the fire spreading from the They will all be glad to give me petrol pipe as there was
a home." fabric left nearby, and in due duc course it burned itself out.
no
When the aircraft reached home a safe landing was made despite the damage sustained by the aircraft, Although Ward has been in Britain only four months, he has taken part in nearly B dozen raids.
Ex-Schoolmaster
Their Homes Gone, Too
One by one she homes. Each one total wreck or so was not habitable. Her three
and sons daughters had all gone with families into rest shelters.
widowed mother So the
THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE CHEUNG CHAU RESI- DENTS' ASSOCIATION WAS HELD YESTERDAY, IN SPITE OF THE TYPHOON WEATHER, WITH MR. D. O. SILVER, PRE- SIDENT, IN THE CHAIR.
The meeting was opened with' prayer by Rev. J. A. Kemof, and reports were read by Mrs. Lily Franklin, Hon. Secretary
and Treasurer.
"I can tell
WHITE
HORSE
blindfold
Page
it's equal to a fine liqueur”
Sole Agents for South China: JARDINE MATHESON AND COMPANY LTD
M. A. K. M.
CERAMIC & REFRACTORY PRODUCTS
the
CLINKER,
PAVING,
BUILDING
AS there are so few on island at present owing to the .and found their evacuation of both British was either & American residents, it was voted ruined that it and passed that last year's office- bearers carry on for the next year, three namely:-President, Mr. D. O. SI- their ver; Vice-Presidents. Messrs, Har- old Smyth and James Smith; Hon. re-Secretary and Treasurer, Mrs. turned to her own home, rum Lily Franklin. Since joining his present squa-!
the among
It was also decided dron. Ward. to use his own words, collected together the few little Government be approached again has done "two Kiels, one Dussel-cheap trinkets she could find and, for the annual grant of $150 for dorf, one Cologne one Muenster with grimy face and dusty cos- the upkeep of the roads and paths and a Mannheim."
tume, went back to her daughter on the Islands. The meeting then in the country.
terminated and the Householders There was nothing else she and Owners met and decided that could do.
no change be made in the consti- tution for the present.
hoi
Before joining the Royal Alr Force In July last year, was a schoolmaster and WAB trained in New Zealand under the Empire Training Scheme.
This is the seventh Victoria Cross of the war to go to a British airman and the first to be gained by the New Zealanders. ---Reuter.
DAUGHTER OF PEER KILLED
maged
wreckage,
THE DEEDS OF A SPITFIRE
You have heard of the deeds of Spitfire pilots.
fire.
The Hon. June Forbes- Sempill, eighteen-year-old Here is
three Me 109s before It was shot down.
that the
'OLD LADY' CAME FIRST
To his father, Mr.
This is the story of a Spit- George Dove Meyer made a promise that he would In its short career It baggod always look after the old nurse who looked after the log of how the him when he was a baby. daughter of Lord Sempill, Me's fell the airman peer, and No. I. was shot down from At Clerkenwell' police court grand daughter of Sir manding officer, who first flew reason why Mr. Meyer cannot pay John Lavery, was killed the Spitfire in a battle with nine
enemy fighters...
་་་་་ད
within 100 yards of her father's home in a night air raid on London. --
At the time she was on duty with the WAS. IN
14 Her engagement to Pilot Officer Philip. Timey Thornton, RAFVR was announced-six weeke apojk
20,000ft. by the squadron's com-that promise was accepted as a
No. 2 fell into the sea of Dover
when the Spitfire, with the same pilot, led a surprise attack on eight. Me 109s.
his landlord an extra £1 a month
under an order for arrears in rent. "I could only do it by sacri- * floing an honourable under
taking given to my father to pay an annuity of £26 to the dear old lady who nursed. me when I was a baby," he said. The landlord's application was refused, og
T
No. 3 piso plunged into sea after the pilot of the Spitfire (another; airman, with four ear. ¡jor succevaes) had pulled the machine" out of a 20,000ft. At his home in Victoria Road, Mill Hillafter the case, Mr. vertical dives
Mayer told the "Daily Mirror": Nanny looked after me, and It's up to me to look after her now, I am so glad the magistrate lis- tened to me,
When the bomb fell, her stop. Recently the Spitfire was shot mother Lady Sempill told the down in battle, but the pilot "Dolly Mirror" "June" was in saved.
uniform waiting for a call to go "We could do with a few more but with her mobile canteen.” like it, the squadron's C.O. wrote Mias Forbes-Sempill's dance is to the Royal Observer Corps, who in the Middle East with the RAF presented it to the Fighter. Com Intelligence,
mand..
"She is now well over seventy, and I would like to see her as content as possible,;
12
& FIRE
BRICKS.
STONE-
WARE
PIPES A
►
GLAZED
TILES.
Ask for our Illustrated Catalogue-Compare our Prices and Inspect our wide Range of Samples THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION DODWELL CO.,-LTD," Agents, Hong Kong.
for
NACET
BLADES
cuttin
r real shaving contades
fart. You can rely on every Nacet Blade to give you many quick clean, wonde
the
possibla
FOR 3 FEG RAZGER
NACET
FOD, TRADE MARK
MADE IN EN