THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 26, 1941
George Banders (left), Joan
Bennett and Walter Pidgeon In
the now 20th Century Fox thriller, "Man Hunt," which starts at the King's Theatre to-day.
ON
HELL CAMP EDGE OF SAHARA
A FOLKESTONE SAILOR has arrived home to tell of a hell prison camp on the edge of the Sahara where the Vichy authorities have imprisoned officers of the Fleet Air Arm who dive-bombed the French battleship Richelieu at Dakar.
The sailor, Charles Crawford, 20, whose home is at Wood-avenue, Folkestone, was one of the crew of a Yugoslav steamer chartered to a British firm.
When the ship called at Dakar and nine last July, Crawford others of the crew were tricked ashore by the Yugoslav captain, a man of pro-Axis sympathies, and thrown into prison by the Vichy authorities.
"Twice 1 tried to escape, orice through the jungle," Crawford told "but I was the "Daily Mirror,"
December 1 caught. Last
was sent to a prison camp thousands of miles from elvilisation.
"Thore met officers of the Fleet Air Arm and British mor- chantmen,
"Food was beans full of bugs, rice which was unfit for pigs, and guat's meat.
"Two weeks after an attempt to escape a number of us were released through representations by the British Government."
INDIAN LOST ARM BUT KEPT IN FIGHT
off
His left arm blown above the elbow during a bayonet charge, an In- dian boy, little more than 18, gave his officer his rifle and ammunition and carried on throughout the action with a bayonet which he picked up in his remaining hand.
The story is told in the announcement of the award of the, Indian .. Distinguished
Service
Medal to Sowar Abhe Ram, Indian Army (Cavalry), for his gallantry at Mechili.
When his arm was blown off The did not hesitate, but went up to his squadron commander and gave him his rific, bayonet. and ammunition, remarking, You take these now, I can't Use them.
“Sowar Abhe Ram continuca on in the attack with dash and de- -termination and picked up ta bayonet to use in his remaining hand, it is stated.
V
SITSON MA RECITAL
The first of Professor.Sitson Ma's violin recitals is to be given this evening at the Rose Room, Peninsula Hotel. The programme, opens with Beethoven's Violin Concerto in Do Major and ends with the performer's "Suiyuania". suite.
ONE EYE MAN STILL IN A.A.
WAR EFFORT BY BLIND
Hundreds of blind people, working in forty institutions, are producing war goods for the Government.
They have completed an order for 19,400 pairs of hospital stock- ings; will make a fur- ther 24,000 pairs, and have orders for 6,000 door mats, 7,000 bas- kets, 3,000 motting covers for gas cylinders and 28,050 brushes.
GERMANS SHOT HIM AS A SPY
A second lieutenant of the Dutch Navy landed secretly in Holland, lived there under an assumed name, and sent valuable military information Britain.
to
Eventually, the Nazis caught him. He was shot,
"Vrij Nederland," the Free Dutch newspaper published in London, discloses details of the heroic exploit.
The officer's activities have been admitted by the Nazis, who have issued this account of
vonture:-
"A former
the
Dutch officer who returned to the Netherlands in a secret way has been shot.
"During his stay in Holland he fused an assumed name. He col- An A.A. gunner who was born lected military information, which without fingers on his left hand, he transmitted to the is blind in one eye, is deaf and abroad. mentally backward, has been in
the Army for ten months.
"He has not, so far as I am sald a aware, been discharged," Ministry of Labour spokesman in the Commons.
"This man was examined in
Grade 11." the usual, way and was placed in
enciny
"This man was detected, and appeared before a German mili- tary tribunal charged with
Sentence espionage.
of death was passed. A firing squad haé carried out the sentence." No
information was further
inquiry in official available on Dutch circles in London.
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