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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 30, 1941.
LONG-NOSE BLENHEIMS
ARRIVE IN MALAYA
THE OFFENSIVE STRENGTH of the Royal Air- Force in the Far East has been further reinforced by the arrival in Singapore of a large number of the latest type long-nose Bristol Blenheim bombers.
For some months it has been the policy to strengthen the Royal Air Force in Malaya by air- craft from the United States. But in recent weeks, apart from the arrival of large numbers of officers and men, there has arrived from British factories maintenace equipment together with complete air- craft.
£8 A WEEK
AT 16
*
A boy, aged 16 put on probation at Bath for appropriating wo- 'men's under-wear, was said to be earning £8 a week. He careful with his money it was stated.
This means that the Royal Air The crew of this aircraft con- Force in the Far East is now be- sists of the pilot, the navigator ing fed in men and material from bomb-aimer and the rear gun- the United Kingdom, the United ner, who mans the upper turret 0000000 States, Australia and New Zea-just aft of the wings. land.
Used Over Germany
The long-nose Blenheim, which
is an improvement on the short- nose Blenheim, has been success-
fully used in large numbers of operations both by the Bomber Command and by the Coastal Command in Great Britain.
——~These-operations have taken the machines well over the in- dustrial heart of Germany as well as the so called "invasion Ports" of France. the Low Countries and Norway.
More than any other type of
British bomber, the Blenheim bore the brunt of the Allied coun-
ter-attack during the days of the Battle of France. Day after day,
continually attacked by the numerically superior opposition, these 'plancs harassed enemy's advance by bomb ing troop columns and chanised units, blowing up bridges and blocking roads.
was
DECREE NISI TO R-N.R. OFFICER IN SINGAPORE
A ROYAL NAVAL Reserve Officer returning home from patrol duty found a letter left by his wife in which she stated that she had decided to go away with another man, it was stated in the Singa- pore High Court before the Chief Justice, Sir Percy McElwaine, during the hearing of a divorce suit.
The parties were A., J. Wilson, the
petitioner, and Katherine George Wilson.* The co-respondent was P. J.-Caleclough.
mer-
his
Wilson, who alleged that wife had lived with Colectough as husband and wife, said that he had made repeated efforts to get his wife to give up the other man.
300 Miles-An Hour
Blenheims also played their part in the historic. four-day de- fence of the "Calais, bitadel by Sir Percy granted a decree nisi dropping water. ammunition and to be made absolute in six months. hand grenades to the beleagueres The sult was undefended. British troops. Despite Intense at the outset Mr. F. G. Vaux anti-aircraft fire, our bombers who had originally been engaged went down to 50 feet to discharge by the respondent, asked
Sir their valuable cargo. Nearly all Percy's permission to leave the the British 'planes were hit. court as, he said, he would be of little assistance to the court. No ther the respondent nor the defente had been filed and net
Co- respondent were present, ht added.
The long-nose ..... Blenheim has two Bristol Mercury XV engines giving a total of 1,840 horse-power for take-off and a top speed of nearly 300 miles an hour at 15,000 feet. Fully loaded it has an en-. durance of at least six hours.
UNWANTED, AIDED US
Pilot Officer Harold Isaac Coriat stepped from an R.A.F. bomber after a raid on Brest to find de- tectives waiting for him.
The Petitioner
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Questioned by Dr. Withers Payne as to what happened to Coleclough, Wilson said that he "chased, him out of the house,"
Wilson went on to say that his wife returned from Shanghai on January 2, this year. He was in hospital, as a patient at the time.
"I saw she had not changed her mind, so I''sent her back to Shanghai in February," added Wilson. "She returned to Singa- pore in May and continued to associate with Coleclough,"
. He said he was still on naval
he
patrols and on returning home after an absence of 12 days found his wife had left the house. She left a letter saying that she had made up her mind and had gone away with Coleclough
up- country.
A Telegram
"I sent her a telegram address-. Dr. C. H. Withers Payne, cour-ed to the Station Hotel at Kuala sel for the petitioner, then called Lumpur,” Wilson said. "After his client to the witness box... receiving a reply by letter I went Alfred John Wilson told. the to Kuala Lumpur to see her and court that he married the respon- try and get her to change her dent in Shanghai in July 1931. In mind August 1939; he said, he was employed as first officer in a ship and in the same month his ship had orders to come to Singa- pore,, arriving here on September 11 with his wife.
Wilson said he failed to get her to come back to Singapore with-him and she told him that
he wanted -proof against her he would find it at the Majestic Hotel, where they had registered
Up to that time, went on Wil-as man and wife. son, he and his wife lived a hap- py, normal life. And t
Continuing, Wilson said he re- turned to Singapore and consult- When his ship was taken over ed his solicitors. He said he had by the Navy he was given a tem-
a nervous breakdown and was porary.commission as First. Lieu- invalided out of the R.N.R... but tenant in the Royal Naval Re- was still with the shipping com- Coriat was described as a man serve. Continuing. Wilson said pany. Wilson added that there who, by false pretences, obtained he and his wife lived with friends was no issue of the marriage. the right to fight for this country for about 'three months, after when he pleaded guilty at
After hearing evidence to the the which he took a flat in Eu Court, effect that the respondent Old Bailey to making a state-later moving to a house in Oxley co-respondent had dccupied the and ment, in an application, för a Road. commission in the R.A.F.V.R., His duties as a RN.R. officer, in June this year, Sir Percy same room in a Singapore hotel having reason to believe it would Wilson continued, took him away found that adultery had been mislead certain persons in the on patról work for several days committed.. discharge of their duties,
at a time, and on returning the
He was bound over for two ship would remain in port for
years.
Born In Morocco
.
some days before going on patrol agalm
Coleclough in December: 1830,
Wilson said that he first met TALK HINT
Mr. L. A. Byrne, prosecuting, and when he went to live in the Bald Corlat, declared he was flat at Eu Court, Coleclough, Ilved Robert Coryat, 34, born at Bide with him and his wife as. a pay- ford, but he was 38, born in ing guest in April 1940. Morocco, of an English mother and French father. Evidence was given of Four convictions. «G
TO TROOPS
in Octoñor the same year," continued the petitioner, my wife told me that she had its fallen in love, with Cofaclough, Ghd abid shio was still fond, of me" but did not want ma.. her husband, ime to dívardó:
Chased Him Out
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The. Army is keeping up
war on careless talk Commanding officers have been told to impreso on..men the vild
ofsliance
about sarankannts, spoke
"It is realised that great hard- ship would be caused if : troops were moved without warning” soya the War Ofice.
Mr. G. D. Roberts; KC4) ¿bald”; hai,únderstood that Corlat was transferred with sans éxi collent character from an offl -Cors, training unit pers
Wing Commander J. A. Powell said that the courage Coriat hud: shown was up to the standard Instead of agreeing to her pro- ||. But it must be remembered of the Royal Air Forco. He posal, Wilson and, he gent her that the country at this time would be a loss to the RAF to her people in Shanghal for crisis cannot afford to loso valu¬ holiday to see if she would changeable lives and ships through her mind about Coleclough, Favoidablo Indiscretions.”
Mr. Byrne said that Coriat had been dismissed,
Couldn't keep my eye.
on the ball to-dây!!
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