THE CHINA MÁIL, SEPTEMBER 17, 1941.
NAZI AIRMAN TELLS HOW IT FEELS TO RAID BRITAIN ---AND BE SHOT DOWN
"I ALWAYS KNEW there were no laurels to be won in England few of the flying personnel escape, they either get shot down or taken prison-
er.".
This admission was made by the wireless opera- tor of a German night bomber who landed by parachute after his 'plane was shot down recently.
After abandoning his machine the operator slept under a tree, and gave himself up to the police in the morning.
"Before we started on this trip I had a pre- sentiment that it would be unlucky,” he said.
"Our pilot was very nervous, He said the whole flight was farce.
"From the start everything
went wrong.
UN
"We were flying at about 19,000) ft, when I saw a shadow behind
I took another look an saw that it was still belund tis. and about 650 yds, way. Switch- ng on the tatereosununication, I shouted Night-bhter astern and to starboard.
There Was A Bang
ATROCITIES
IN SOVIET
VILLAGE
A terrible tale of Ger- man atrocities in a Rus-
The mope was as bright assion village designated by the letter “V” recap-
day, and the night fighter *** closer and closet.
Then there was a big and erada
"It only gave it a few seconds, tured by Soviet troops is In the interaft and its flow all told in a message to the
the place
AGED 101. LEFT 108 DESCENDANTS
WO-
An Australian man who died in O Randwick hospital on July 2, at the age of 101 left 108 direct descendants. She was Mrs. Maria La Greca, a native of Messina, Italy. Mrs. La Greca came to Austro- lia in 1900, and for many years lived at Balmain. She had 11 children, 30 grandchil- dren, 64 great-grand- children, and three great-great-grandchil-
dren.
Tass news agency from CLUB FOR
"The mechanic shouted: 'I'm the theatre of war.
bleeding to death,"
some thing like that, but 1 had 00 time to help him-things moved too fast.
Five wounded Red Army men,
Fat says, were brought to the vil-
INDIAN
"I looked for the night fighter; lage. The Nazis herded the whole TROOPS
marine-gan
I
square, !
and saw him banking away. populat on on to ther swung the
where they cut off the arms, ears round j The the Lieutenant road Dotel fire, and then bayoneted them.
and sent a burst after him.
and I saw flammes
coming
beneath the port engine
"At that 1 Brend
from
As suon Sa the burst hit our
the aircraft pilot hnd put the nose down, and} probably got rid of the bonhs. Then he simply roared down that I had no idea how high wr
were.
New 'Plane
50
did
and noses of the wounded' men
When the Soviel troops recap fured the
a
The "Keren Institute" has been opened at vi lage they released camp occupied by Indian the arrested Soviet citizens who troops in Negri Sembilan. had been threatened with death. Villagers told how, when the Ger. This institute is a recrea- mans occupied the village, the tion room fitted with Nazis at once began plundering wireless set, gramophone, games of various kinds,
food, utensils, crockery and clothes.
In the first few days the Nazis notepaper, etc., by the Sembilan Indian arrested more than 100 persons, Negri
An old m they buried alive. Troops Entertainment
"On that evening we had taken 13 of whom they brutally kiled. over a brand new kareraft with new parachutes, and mine not 1. But I struggled inte opened the lower escape hatch and juned."
it.
ter to the victims
Anybody who gave food or shel- Fund.
Nazla| brutality was able to the death penalty.
The British pilot who shot down this Heitkel was a fight: lieutenant in
night-fighter! it squadron which had already de- struyed over 50 raiders.
Describing the combat,
he
fald that when he first saw the Heinkel it was flying so slowly that he had great difficulty in keeping it within view.
The German nilot continually weaved from side to side and alternately elimbed and dived soj that the British flie- had a long) chase before he could get into position to attack Immediately he opened fire he saw an explosion
aircraft.
V
WORTHY OF THE FATHER
The fund was started by Dr. R. B. Krishnan and a committee of, Indian Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims | and is entirely run by them for the benefit of units of the Indian Army in the State.
given
coni-
The Institute has been the name "Keren" to memorate the fea's of arms by Indian troops at Keren, in Italian Somaliland, recently.
It was formally opened by the Pritish Resident, Mr. J. V. Cow- gill, in the presence of a large ga'hering of Indian troops members of the Indian munity of Negri Sembilan.
Prominent among the company
ous gift of money,
and COM-
collected
Mr. Lyttelton, President were representative Chinese who In the fuselage of the German of the Board of Trade, had been invited in recognition of speaking at a lunch given their action in making a spontane- He was petting into position for a second attack when the raider in London by the British among their nationals, to the com- burst into flames and went down Chamber of Commerce in manding officer of these Indian troops a good, example of inter- Belgium to the Bel-racial goodwill in furtherance of gian Government, said: "I Britain's — or
to crash on land.
GIRL COMMENDED
IN ARMY ORDERS
The_daughter_of
should like to record our
admiration of King Leo-
cause.
pold's steadfast refusal to BANNED
work with Germany and
Malaya's war
the example, worthy of PUBLICATIONS IN
Canadian Major-General, his father, which he has Miss Marjorie Price, of set."
CHINESE LANGUAGE
the A.T.S., has been com- Mr. Lyttelton added that the number of what are officially mended in military or war had brought the three great- described as "Wang Ching-wei and ders for her courage and est colonial empires in the world Communist publications" are resource in the Cafe de to an alliance the Belgian among the list of undesirable pub- Dutch and British. The great lications, the importation of which Paris (London) bombing, resources of the Belgian Congo into the Straits Settlements is
had been directed towards the prohibited. - Miss Price worked for three hours among the more serious common effort. Those services Printed in Shanghai and Nan- casualties, binding-up wounds would not be forgotten.. king, they are in the Chinese with table linen and kitchen M. Pierlot, the Belgian Prime language and include the Central towels.
Minister, struck a warning note China Daily News, New Eastern "Bombing was still going on, about the condition of his coun- Magazine, Bulletin of the Central but Volunteer Price by hor tryk
Press Service. Overscas: Affairs coolness and efficient directions, Referring to the food shortage Quarterly and "It is Natural for quietened the hystorical and in Belgium, he said:
China and Japan to be Friends, nerved others to redouble their I know to defeat the German But Unnatural otherwise. exertions. Her services were of power nothing is too much. I. Other undesirable publications the highest order," states the of- know that the rigours of the include textbook of Chinese His- ficial description of the incident. blockade are necessary. But let tory during the Last, Hundred Miss Price has since returned to me add that we hope there will Yours and New Economies: of
be a way of avoiding the worst." the Modern Knowledge series.
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