NI
ENAM GURY
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1954.
Sopers told him stiply that the court martial had been dropped. Bader, hiding his relíof but
not his plee, satd: "Hard luck, Bogers. Frightfully hard luck!"
♦ Helpiess, humiliated and seething, Wing Com mander Douglas Bader is carried into Germany by hla guarda. They have taken his metal legs away to prevent any further attempts to escape, and only return The unruly them when he is safely in Frankfurt. prisoner keeps up a ruoning campaign buiting his captors. They send him from camp to camp, and cach time he tries to escape. Finally they send him to Here he tries to send a the fortress of Kolditz.
the message home about conduians in Germany, effects of bombing, the passage of troop trains. message is captured by the Kolditz security officer, Hauptmann Eggers, who takes Bader to Leipzig, where an officer interrogates him.
prisoner fur prars, Koldit: wiched in
betwrern
Dr
Q71
Wan
FREEDOM
AT LAST!
There was his wife on the telephone saying ‘Douglas, Douglas' Bader could find nothing
enough?" Ho mado It clear
that it was futile,
They drove him to an airfield where he thumbed a lift with a cheerful young American who put him in the co-pilot's
scut of
Pilot
of his pretty little silver Beechcraft bound for Paris
It caught him off balance.
They landed on an airstrip in the Versailles woods and be found haven in a house where a dozen warm-hearted Ameri- cun officers offered him cham- pagne to drink to his liberty, but undecountably liberty did not seem to call for champagne and he drank Coca-Cola instead. He was sitting, talking, when three and a half the commanding generol topped became sand- his shoulder and said: "Come
artillery duel on, Doug.
ug. I've got your wife on the Americans and the phone.“ the retreating Germans.]
་་་ Bader came deowally up from got to the phuNE
and recol- Le hear tamping Text
Thelma's voice mised sleep
saying: and shouting.
Then lay the courtyard
"Douglust Douglas!" he
fully there was so much to say that Kristaraz
for say it awake and strapped on his legs they could not
Thebinu A te Inter run while. while others less impeded run In the courtyard
yard, said: "When um I going to see thown ahead,
milling, Though
cheering you?” was staggered tv A Aw tegrers, he See American soldiers, and near looking for a Spitfire.
stolid 11 by a le
German
to have a last guards stepping up one by one packs up. to hand over their rifles. It was
God," Thelma They were free. How wndled. "Haven't ILITARY in ton domineering and the Get all over.
and stopped: camtusing and nerveless it was enough yet?" wy formation !
scemed to know You must he No one quite That is Cranagh. the German
ready to K # war court in what to do, or feel. officer said.
Berlin on this matter.
out buoyantly Bader walked Trying
that send message back is espionage, enough but on the way back t and this will have serious Kolditz in the car he was thit consequences for you. You
of the Berin THE can be shot for it."
"M
to
man
stood
Po comüdent.
The thought court markal gnawed
about t
court
Came
the
The
that
an
Bread like cake
10
at
Bill
Oh
I'm
FINAL CHAPTER
REACH FOR
THE
SKY
PAUL By BRICKHILL
and to`say
former Schneider Trophy pilot, who said: "Douglas, I want a man to run the Fighter Leoder School at Tangmere. It's a group captain's job. Would you like it?"
He covered with feeling! "Yes, please."-
Eager for the comfort of har- ness again, he cancelled the rest of his leave and carly in June drove nostalgically to the well- remembered Tangmere. На should have known better. The place looked the same, but that was all that remained of the old were new, days. The tactics
the faces were new; above all, When the atmosphere was new. he was offered command of the North Weald Fighter Sector he took it.
was
was
so many
hin's poison, potent
500 times
NATURE'S POISON PUNCHES
The Snappers
are
By Ivan T. Sanderson
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to
log from a
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that
`any-·
may
and
is
(OME years ago a scient buttons like flowers, or nasty
ist was studying those looking "heads" Just like those
of infinitesimal makes... strangé sea creatures,
All these masses of iny, It brought him control over many kinds of which are so mapping things, although part 12 fighter #quadrons spread over
around our and parcel of the main animal, six airfields, but there was little common all
are popularly act entirely on their own, way- joy in that either because there coasts, that
and grabbing no dynamic purpose any known as sea urchins, seans about ilke worms protrad
a sponge, more: he
or presiding over eggs, sea porcupines. Invididually of locally for their disintegration.
hard-shelled thing unwarranted They Now it WES the future that things, covered with sharp happen to unlo
'whole arrangement. Occupied him, like days, dan want path and os Thelma ran out of problen
the drive, walked up the flagged others, but he knew his own spines, and are related
merrys somewhat uncanny from starfish. Their mouths are perhaps. Irrational to us. It the front door, two reporters theirs; it could
their bodies, like suddenly finding each hair be materially underneath from behind a bush
easter If he chose to stay with they can move their spines, on your head behaving on ite epped
the RAF but mentally and phy- aying cheerfully: "Got you at Inst.
the moment was scalls harder whatever he did, and they get about on tens own and wrapping lealt around
He had enjoyed the glory but of thousands of tiny struc- bits of lint, snowflakes, or
tures known as "tube feet." things that may drift by on the
air, or you couldn't live on that.
clinging to the lining of also have several your hat without your per They
Yet this is how the other kinds of extraordinary mission. limbs all over their bodies, sea urchins and their allies are.
their count little
would be
fling before
it
almost
you
had He talked a long time trying spoiled. to make her understand, which was difficult because he did not
know quite
himself. He just winked to be in it again where he knew reassuringly that he belonged.
The
the
And
Next morning he and Theima fled to a private hotel in a little Devon village and suddenly he could
people, think coherently, make any plans, or even read the letters that come pouring in.
not face
After three weeks they went
come visitors.
Was
different
Fly-past
the
yon.
ench designed for a different made, and without dependent
purpose.
they
ON September 1 he found a
The most extri- less
heada, snapping Ainericus newspaper
lotter from Group in his correspondents appeared and
Off to Paris
back to Ascot, where he climbed "In" tray. It said there was to ordinary are tiny little pairs quite unable to get along. For a little said they were going back
surfaces of Army Headquarters With sudden inspiration but there was nothing he could Firm
from out of a window again to avoid be a victory By-paat over Lon- of jaws shaped like parrots" you see, It is the duty of these
creatures cele- beaks, on the end of little heads to protect the,
the limbles Another time he don on September 15 to excepi put on a Nuunberg in a jeep. Would he
and m Bader turned on a smile that do
MAT night he slept THAT keep asking like to come? fuer and
was trapped in the street by a brate peace, and the fifth anni hollow pedestals.
greatest day in the morning they drove him
The scientist had noticed that enemies and to keep them clean he did not quite feel and brazen
and free from parasites and gushed versary of the woman who staange "Well, how's They drove fast and he did to Puris.
Three Eggers tauntingly:
of Britain. the Battle
ree any small animal mapped at by
other rubbish that may fall or goodwill and murod aircraft were to take these little heads died instant- over him with said derisively, "Don't talk
martlai going, not feel like talking, but sut and
ambled over humble Anson
bad taste. absolute nonsense. Ilere ExKOTS?"
He stuck it out 11 hur watched the countryside, trying over the fields that used to be bad
part with 12 survivors of the ly, and he performed some ex-drift upon them.;
which Then
da y am, a British officer, in your
in that he was Bader's hunting ground, but he she twittered: "Now tell me.... par to let it souk
could free. custody, where I've been for Fagers, bracing himself to
not recognise anything. In all the wonderful things you battle in unwelcome tark, told him stuffy
Around dusk they came to Over Channel he began do without legs, what do you Captain Bader was a long time. in uniform all
but half find the most dimcult?" Bluntly the fly-past and lead it. Cloud was drooping the time. .. How can you that the court martial had been Naunberg and a Brush major looking for England,
with too many he answered: "Drying my bot a young liaison officer, greeted as a stranger.
when I have London and down in the grey possibly charge a captured ped (because the charge with "frivolous"). Bader, hiding his
him. They dined on Army tumbling emotions for anything tom after a bath
at the same streets the city gathered in still officer in uniform with relief but not his give,
rutions and he filled himself no
no uncomplicated es simple joy. to sit on a stool wickedly: "Hard Luck Exgers,
1st time," and
walked on, leaving ness, some in tears, watching the and guiltily.
Northoll gloriously
Airfield
cavalcade
sweep of 300 espionge?'
Frightfully hard luck!"
Any bread looked snow-white outside London, the RAF gave her standing
From Paris he learned with thunderously over the roof-tops. Bader was
Over tasted sweet,
while the Great like cake. him per- and
sanctuary
Hecques and Bader hardly saw them. suaded by his friends to give Feeling
him in again, joy better. he asked the Machine sucked
[who had helped him the city, he remembered the 15 the tea of escaping from major "Any
Spitfires round looking down his throat, plant- Lucille
moment, hospital in battle and for Kolditz.
him, giving to escape stethoscope ing stethoscu on gave his parole here?" He the Germans
to All in, France had been found alive in nostalgically wanted to fight it him clothes
on to
again. allowed out
questions to answer and fending Germany and were now in
THE END Allied hospital, recovering. The of the clamouring reporters. thore
had led him On the third morning, with young man
street was dark
COPYRIGHT RESERVED leave for two months, he drove through the down to Ascot and Thelms, free
"Reach for the Sky," by Paul first
tline at last and for the
He pulled Info Commodore Dick Atcherley, the Brickhill, is published by Colline lasting it fully.
Brazen face
THE point did not seem to have un- io the
ho certain,
occurred to the German and
jookid momentarily
then returned
the
Last
and walks, for
he Occasions
wa
On tratted
attack. "Nevertheless, you tried garettes for food with which
The
No, the major suid, they were all up north with the Britian forces.
"Con I get to them?" Bader asked. "I'd like to grab one and "i would try," Bader said. "So
get another couple of trips in would
Before this show folds up." But doesn't anyone.
man," said the “Give it a miss
to
get information back."
AL
forms
Just
that the
from
who
In the RAF Club he met Air
he helped to keep up the morale
the prisoners, of
missing. He refused to be repatriated with the rick. The invasion of
"Good god, Europe was now moving quickly to a climaa shocked major. They argued about Il for some
Bader had been a and go home, time until the prismer became and, after
make me a spy."
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Now, the most incredible, thing to organise demonstrated that the heads"
contained very powerful poison about these lowly creatures Is over glands. The scientist arranged that they are doubly poisonous,
larger them to bite
and though the degree of their for larger animals, and all of these virulence is extremely wide and never .DA as is known. died. Finally, he tired a full- grown frog, and it died instant fatal to man except secondarily ly.
The little, snapping heada dre, as we have sein, more deadly for their size than any other Computing the strength of the living things, a single bite from
was so amazed to find that it long, causes the heart of a full- was needed to cause this, he one, less than a fifth of an inch was no less than 500 times more
boating mop: grown than
that potent rattlesnake, "that he gave up the
combined The
polsoning experiments!
power of all the biting heads on single sea urchin-and they science as the "prickly-skinned ought theoretically to be suffi class of sea animals known to amount to: many thousands ones,” from the Greek name cient to kill-a-man.'. However, ochinos which was applied to a because of their minute size, this little spiny animal found in thickness of our skin, and the Europe. They are lowly animals, fact that the animal is like a all arranged on a radial basis; ball so that comparatively few that is to say, they forms stars of the poison heads point any with five limbs. They constat
one way at any time, there is of the starfish, sea lilies, ses never the slightest danger to te urchins and certain other more from these animals.
However,
HONGKONG PEOPLE BUY
A LOT OF NEWSPAPERS
RITONS rend more books and New Zealand 368.
Bund
from
of.
སྨད་
a year.
Hongkong caully
to
the
of a immediately to
Sea urchins belong to a large a
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any.
A
abstruse animals called brittle stars and sea cucumbest cxtra-
they can cause very great pain in another
way. These animals
U you
tread on anything
that In the only the figure is 48 percent,
Hves, at least by our is covered with hard, stony (excluding rompers, and go United States and Japan there Singapore
population)
54,rds. Their
middle of undersides, spines, with needle-sharp points, It is naturally painful. Many to the cinema more often the scale in Ethiopia (popula- Malta, 40 and Cyprus, 30.
Bolivia, with 80 percent of and they move along not by kinds of sea urchins are covered
or their "Imbs," If they have any than any other nation in the lion, 10,150,000), where the one
daily newspaper has a circula- the people unable to read world.
write, has the largest
often very numerous on our num- but by means of tens of thou with such spines and they are South sands of uny tubes with sucker bathing beaches, and marty Over 311 million books are tion of 400 copies.
The United States, however, ber of illiterates__in
with on their erids that sprout from borrowed every year
consumption of America, and Portugal,
effect county and municipal libraries leads in the
It uses nearly five 24 newsprint.
percent in Europe. The pores all over the surface of ple tread on them with little
Union (excluding their hard, story bodies. in the United Kingdom. In the
and a half million tons, or over Soviet
With these they gilde along t United States, which has over 35 kilos per inhabitant. Canada, Western Ukraine and Western
However, in the wormer sets. three times Britain's population,
has 19 percent; in and climb over and under any the figure is 349 million; in which producer than Byelorussia) has negligible, obstacle simply by progressively of the tropics, there are certain
hundreds Canaa and
of exquisitely lovely species with. attaching some Czechoslovakia, 20
CINEMA ADDICTS
minute so-called “tube enormously long spines, often million; in Denmark, 18 million, 320,500 tons for its own pur-
Britons arc the greatest and in Japan and Sweden, 16 poses, or 28 kilos per head. The
average Briton has only light- cinema-addicts in
world. feet" in front, and releasing coloured a doep purple, which the million.
weight papers to contend with. On average they "go
the them behind so that the whole positively swans about coral Britain also publishes the and browses through 11.9 kilos pictures once a fortnight, while body rides forward. Actually reefs. The spines are porous
for and there is no forward or back
and they are most books-18,000 a year,
leads the pericans only go 15 times them: all directions are equal exceólingly sharp and ́ ́ barbesi'
and very brittle which 13,160 are new titles. Japan comes next with 17,308, field in Asia with 5.3 kilos per second with 18 visits. Other and they can travel any way, as well. If you tread on one of
figures States inhabitant a year, while Japan Acond
of average yearly at at any angle, or over and over, these sea urchins, the spines, allo Into your flesh like needles into has only 18, Singapore and
Aandances
are: Conada,
butter, and Invariably snap oft Malaya 1 kg and India, 0.2
Australia, 16; Honglong, 15;
These tube feet may be seen dush with the surface of Fyour FACTS AND FIGURES
Illiteracy "la highest in
Japan, 8. Prolectorale These details aro given in Somaliland
Alaska has the distinction of with the naked eye, but it skin.
The pain" (s almost more than : certain Unesco's latest
possession publication, the
where only one having the largest number of requires a lens to Ree "Basic Facts and Figures," touch-
scris in use-757 per other more extraordinary things the bravest man, can bear, and radio
The that also sprout from all over there is almost nothing to be can thousand inhabitants. ing the state of people's minds percent of the population and education throughout the read and write,
United States has 701, Britain the surfaces of their bodies. done about it because, the spinem technical cannot be drawn out, and gra In the Solomon Islands,
95 250, world.
New Zealand, 241, Tivemo have - sundry
and are of a variety of strong irritant slowly seeps from
be their Thirty-one million copies of percent of the population
Australia, 219, Canada 162, and edible shapes. .... (native the Soviet Union, 64, Nyasaland dolly newspapers are printed filterate,
Basically, they are tiny paire 93 percent: Indo-
There are over 25 million in the United Kingdom, or Gil population),
sels in the United of jaws on stalks. Some kinds set the pain and the hottiele for every thousand inhabitants nesta, 95; Haiti, 80: Pakistan, television
supplied
with emailive passible compresses are the only Britain has about 3% Are nearly twice as many as in 86; Portuguese India, 81, India, States,
everi then USA. The Swedes follow with 80 percent. Egypt has 78 per millions, Canada, 300,000, and buttons which what stimulated remedies,292 nd,
automatically cause the hinged secondary infections may gain 490 coples per thousand people; cont literates, Guatemala, 72, Soviet Rumin, 100,000.
jaws to close, while other end footing and" "ghasily - wöunch Luxembourg has 447, Australia Turkey, 70, and Korea 69, In 410, Norway 380, Belgium 383 Hongkong (Chinese population
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
Western Germany produces 13,013 and the United 11,840.
THE PROJECTED PICTURE OF THE 'GHOST SKIER' SIGNALS OUR MAN IN THE VALLEY--*
Mozambique
-TELLING HIM DAN--THE REAL
SKIER-IS COMING. I TURN OFF THE PROJECTOR, THE "GHOST
·SKIER VANISHES.
the and of
your. New Zealanders
Come
17:
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pairs interiors,
W. Taylor in three prongs, little; lobed result.
By Lee Falk and Phil- Davis
SEEM-COMPLICATED? PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN GHOSTS AVOID THIS SLOPE. THOSE WHO DON'T THINK THIS--THEY'RE SEEING TO DELIVER THINGS, BUT WWATCH, DAN'S JEWELST OFF
ALL
porcelain-like
pottles 'to: counter
ABOUT
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