THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1938.
Bruno Mussolini's Dramatic Single-Handed Air Fight
Bruno Mussolini
CHALLENGED BY U. S. FLYING
ACE IN SPAIN
Captain Derek Dickinson Tells Story Of Scrap
CAPTAIN DEREK DICKINSON, FREE LANCE AMERICAN PILOT FIGHTING FOR THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT, CHALLENGED MUS- SOLINI'S SON BRUNO TO A DUEL IN THE AIR. BRUNO MUSSOLINI ACCEPTED.
The two clashed in a machine-gun duel 5,000 feet over Spain, and all Spain waited, the war forgotten, while the two crack pilots fought out thoir battle. Bullets tore through Dickinson's Mussolini was outflying and outfighting him,
Then Dickinson tried one fast dosporate stunt he tricked death by seconds, and he was on top. Mussolini's machine was in line with his gun sights, Mussolini was at his mercy...
THREAT TO machine.
DOWNS Fight To Save Valley
UNLESS the efforts of the villagers surrounding Epsom Downs are success- ful, one of the loveliest stretches of Surrey country. side will disappear under a welter of bricks and mortar.
It is proposed to build a new town- ship of over 800 houses at the foot of
the Downs, filling the whole valley between Tattenham Corner and Headley
Already plans have been passed by the Banstead Urban District Counell. Six villages have formed a joint pre- servation society to petition the Minister of Health to prevent them from being carried out.
Known as Woottons Fields, the dis trict it is proposed to "develop" consists of 115 acres of woodiand meadow, divided from the Downs common land by a low hedge.
At
there is an unbroken present view from Tattenham Corner to the opposite hill, where Headley Church
eeps through its bower of trees, All this will be wiped out, if the plans mature, by streets of houses, with byroads to Epsom Lane every 150 yards.
Epsom, Epsom Downs, Ewell, Hendley, Tadworth and Kingswood, have each appointed two delegates to the Epsom and Wallon Downs Pre- servation Society, formed to combat the scheme,
PETITION
Objections to the Banatead U.D.C. scheme have already been sent to the Minister of Health by the society,
Later this year the Ministry is to hold an inquiry into the scheme as a whole, and nearly 5,000 people have nlready signed a petition drawn un by the society for presentation at the Inquiry.
Signatures of realdents, passing motorists. London lovera of the Downs, and people from all parts of the country are coming in fast.
Eventually the society Intends to ask the L.C.C. and the Surrey Coun- try Council to acquire the land as part of the Green Belt.
Mr. Stanley Woollen, owner of the land, is prepared to sell it for that purpose if he can get his price.
Thirstiest Day In
London
The longest and hottest day of the year (June 21) was also the thirstiest ever so far as Lon- don was concerned.
Here Captain Dickinson tells for the first time the full story of that fantastic fight, the most dramatic single-handed air battle since the Great War.
By Captain Derek Dickinson
I WAS lying wounded in a hospital bed when Franco unleashed flight after Hight of bombers to bomb and kill civilians.
UFS
Jimmy Cagney, tough guy of the movies, congratulates his sister. Jeanne Carolyn Cagney, at her graduation from Hunter College, New York City. Miss Cagney is 10. She was voted the most popular member of the class.
THE MAN AND GIRL
NOBODY WANTS
These are the stories of two of the world's unhappiest
Those bombers were Italian. They were led by Bruno Mussolini, who in a broadcast boasted that he would do a better job in Spain than he had done in massacring the Ethiopians of people:- Abyssinia. He shouted:
"I WANT THE WORLD TO KNOW THAT I AM THE COMMANDER IN Holloway Gaol, London, is a HENDRIK BAALKE, a Ger- OF THE BOMBING SQUADRONS THAT HAVE HAD SUCH SPORT
girl who is providing a pro- : man refugee, who lesped MEET ANY FIVE OF YOUR PURSUIT PILOTS WHO THINK THEY Governments. OVER YOUR CITIES AND TOWNS. FURTHER, I DO NOT FEAR TO blem for the British and French overboard from CAN BRING ME DOWN."
It was suggested that I should challenge the braggort who had in furlated Government Spain by his merciless bombing raids,
On August 20 I reported for duty again to the Minister of Air Defence, and a few days later the Government radio station broadcast my accep- tance of Mussolini's deflance.
Mussolini Called "Yellow"
My message was wirelessed lo Seville. There was no unswer THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT RADIO STATION TAUNTED THE NATIONALISTS, CALLED MUSSOLINI YELLOW.
Suddenly on September 25 Bruno Mussolini accepted. He radiocd: "I will meet the American, Captain Dickinson, exactly half way between my base at Palma and the Captain's base at Castellon de la Plane at 12 o'clock noon, September 28. We each have two observa- tion planes as escort, who will not under any circumstance enter into the fula. I shall fly a pursuit plane, and in recognition I request that we shall cach circle and make a complete Immelman. On completion of this manoeuvre it shall be cach man for himself with this stipula- tion: If I lose or consider myself unable to continue the fight I will take my gauntlet and fasten my scarf to t and throw it out over the side as a signal acknowledging defeat, shall expect the American
captain to do the same
I landed in Castellon de in Plena at 11-35,checked my gas and oil, and was dressed out in full kit and parachute.
The Fight Is On
It is 11-48. 1 um off equipped with every Instrument possible. Four 50-calibre Vickers machine-guns are synchronised through the motor. carry on my wings four 39-calibre machine-guns.
I BEGIN TO THINK, "WHY DIDN'T KISS MY WIFE GOOD-BYE. OR AT LEAST TELL HER WHERE I WAS GOING. MAYBE I WON'T COME BACK."
But what the hell! If an American pilot lan't as good us anything Italy has to offer then he doesn't deserve a wife. So here goes.
It is 12.01. 1 sight the four escort pinnes circling in what we call "round and round the rosey." I see a fast Httle pursuit plane. That
must be Benito's favourite son. Yes, that's the boy. I see the Fascist emblem.
He's
He is pulling up into an Immelman. Here I go, too.
I pick him up and manoeuvre around to get on his tall. No luck.
getting an mine instead. Not so good.. His bullets are going through my wings like pins through silk, There ¡ goes my windshield. Cracked.
He is certainly chopping up this instrument board-hardly anything | left of it. I hope to God he doesn't gel my gas tonics.
This goes on for about ten minutes, I try every trick I know. None seems to work. Guess I should ball out-anything to get away from this stream of bullets. If one of them
gets me in the throat or head, I'm
done for.
That boy can really fly. We are up about 5,000 feet. Below me 1.can uce the Blue Mediterranean. Wonder
If there are any sharks in those
London consumed 382,000,000 gallons in the 24 hours. The waters.... previous record for a day was 374,000,000 gallons.
This information was given to the British Water Works Association at. Plymouth by Sir
He's got me in his direct Ino of fire.. How the kell to cel ́out of this I remember * Anal trick one that cost me a £100 fine from the U.S. Department of Commerce.
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Hears With His Hand
System Of Lip-Reading By Touch
DLIND and deat since he was four
years old. Winthrop C. Chop- mon sailed from a Southampton for South Africa in the Union Castle
finer Capetown Castle, recently as an apostle of a system of lip-reading
I open my motor wide; hold it so William Prescott, chairman of for three seconds. Now I snap the the Metropolitan Water Board. stick back as far as it will go and by touch.
[The Board servés a popula-kick hard on the right rudder. What Chapman, now 23, is the son of a tion of 8,000,000, so that an sensation. average of 48 gallons per person stall. I am out of it now, but a doctor in Redfield, South Dakota,
was used. Normal consumption upaide down.
in most towns is not much more than half this figure-about 27 gallons.]
Luck Holds In Mishap
Cleveland,
She's in whip
But I've got him.
For sever
seven years he has been tralo- He is coming directly into my line ed by Miss Inez Hall, head of the of aights. My fingers are closing on Blind Deat Department nt Perkins the triggers. In a moment I shall Institution, Massachusetts, to under give him a worse death shower than stand what is said to him by holding fingers of one hand on the lips Something flutters from his cock- and lower part of the speaiter's face. pit. His scarf weighted with his Now at the request of medical au- gauntlet.
thorities in South Afries, he, his mo- ther and Miss Hall are to make a lecture tour of the dominion.
he gave me.
I AM TEMPTED TO CLOSE MY HAND AND FINISI HIM. NO
THIS IS A DUEL~~ AN AFFAIR OF HONOUR.
the
that Bruno had a bullet of mine In Fortunately I have no bullets of Bruno's. How I lived through his hall of fire I don't know.
Chester Michalski's parents bellove that he is alive becauso. his cont caught on the handle of an automobile
I pull away in my crippled ship.his leg. after he had run from behind street My nerves are so light I feel like a car into the automobile's side. He trussed chicken. My leather flying was dragged 15 yards before the car suit is wet with perspiration. Well, stopped. He suffered shoulder con- I won 1. guces.
tusions and a possible fractured skull. I returned to Valencia. We heard
I counted the bullets in my plane when I got back. There were 320.
the previous day, the girl, 24-years- Under a deportation order made old Maria Shurk, an Austrian Jewess, was taken to Newhayen and put on
a boat for France,
the British steamer Nyanza four miles from land, is still without a country. Dover intending to swim to Eng-
in the Channel he was picked up by After swimming for several hours the Greek steamer Aghios Nicolaos, bound for Flushing.
But the authorities at Dieppe
The Dutch police refused to allow him to land there, but pro- refused to allow her to enter the
vided him with dry clothing. country. So she reappeared at
FEARED ARREST Newhaven.
Later he was told that he would be, allowed to go to Antwerp, but it is After the
part poller had tele- not known whether the Belgian phoned the Home Ofee,
authorities will allow him to remain. she was handed over to a Scotland Yard de-many, Baalke was hoping that his
Terrified of returning to Nazi Ger tective, who took her to Holloway. ship, the Nyanza, which he joined in
Maria is an orphan. On the death Antwerp, would call at a British
port of her parents she left Austria and where he hoped to take refuge. went to Malta where she was en- ployed as a dancing mistress.
IN TEARS
When the Nyanza left Quebec be thought she was bound for England, and was horrified when told that she was bound for Bremen.
mouth Police Court on a summons he feared arrest if he
Recently she appeared ut Ports-
As a political refugee, he said that under the Aliens Act.
returned to
Germany,
Despite her tears and plea to be Baalke, who claims that he is not a allowed to remain-the fears to re-Jew, left Germany three years ago, turn to Austria-an order was made) and has been travelling from country for her deportation within 48 hours. to country ever since.
Church Storm Over
Reunion
NENSATIONAL EVIDENCE ABOUT THE ACTIVITIES OF CHURCH OF ENGLAND CLERGYMEN WHO ARE PRAYING WITH THEIR PARISHIONERS TO BRING ABOUT A REUNION OF THE CHURCHES OF ENGLAND AND ROME UNDER THE DOMINATION OF THE POPE WILL, IT IS UNDERSTOOD, BE HEARD IN THE CHURCH ASSEMBLY.
The Archbishop of Canterbury is expected to take part in the debate on the motion of Mr. W. Poynter Adams, a lay representative of the Dioceso of Truro, on the subject.
Mr. Adams in his speech will refer to statements that 3,000 clergymen, an eighth of the Anglican clergy, are sympathetic with the movement.
Mr. Adams's resolution has been brought forward in the Assembly business by the direction of the Standing Committee.
The matter was to have been brought up at the Febru- nry meeting of the Assembly, but was not reached owing to pressure of other business.
THE
COLLAR
BAR
THE only thing that a woman cannot do to-day is to wear a collar the other way round, declared the Rev. C. B. Canning, headmaster of Canford School, Dorset,
Mr. Canning, who was speaking at the annual prize-giving of Talbot Heath Girls' School, Bournemouth, had referred to the monstrous regiment of women who were taking away the privileges and positions of men one after the other.
But, he added, the really exciting thing for the younger generation of girls to realise was that there was yet to arise on the scene from among their ranks a Shakespeare, a Rembrandt or a Bach, a Plato or a Wilberforce,
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