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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
November 24, 1939,
The men are McPherson, 21, and Doran, 26. Britain's first war heroes
was
SO
Betty
excited
she put 'D.F.C.' on wire
FLYING OFFICER ANDREW
MCPHERSON, winner of the Distinguished Flying Cross, sat on the arm of .chair in the firelight. In the chair sat Miss Margaret Betty Rowley, twenty years old, curly-haired; they became engaged four weeks ago.
Miss Rowley smiled at her fance, and aid to me "I did not know) until this morning that Drew-that' what I call him-had been decorated. "Daddy rushed upstairs with the paper while I was silti.nelecp.
"He woke me and said: 'Drew's name is in the papers. He's been awarded the D.F.C.
"He showed me the story about Diew's reconnaissance light that led! to the Kiel ralds.
"I was so exclted that I ran down to the post office before breakfast to send him a telegram. "I felt so proud that I put the letters D.F.C, after his nume on the wire.
Did You Get Home?'
"I had arranged to meet Drew the morning war was declared. At the airfield an officer told me I should not be able to see Drew as he was laking somebody up to give him ex- perience,
on a
Just
J
OLD Doran Begs,
BILL
•
Do Keep It
COMES DO AGAIN Dark,
BACK
Mother'
By ́HILDE MARCHANT WE take our heroes plain, not coloured, in England. After endless pictures of German officers getting. medals, we announced the Distinguished Flying Cross for one of our young men who joined in the "Kiel day" raids.
So there was a front page pietura, of a young, Englishman- in a sweater, a sports jacket, a pair of flannels, and his old re gimental tie.....Acting Squad- ron Leader Kenneth Christopher Doran.
His purents, though aglow with pride, see his bravery as just some- thing natural to the young Air Forco officer who, when he was at home, never, talked about his flying.
THE D.F.C.
KENNETH. DORAN
There's really nothing to say an R.A.F. Oficer he flew 1801.
-As a St. Albans Schoot boy. about him," his mother said to me, ahove
"ile never talks about himself.
the mast of a German
"It's the sort of thing we expected "prestert home a successful attack." cruiser nt. Wilhelmshaven and,
of Ken. He wouldn't tell us about it. though.
"When we told him how proud and pleased we were he just re- plied, "Oh, keep it quiet. Keep it dark.
But the floodlight has been turned on our hero, even though he is binking in it, and does not like it.
Steady Bravery
1 did not know he had gone off a reconnaissance Right to Kiel.
"He phoned me that evening to ask if I had driven the car home safely. He did not say a word of where he had been, "When we met n week later hel casually that he had been. on a secret mission. I did not ques- tion him.
"On September 8 he telephoned
"Where Did That One Go?"
This floodlight has picked out a me and said he had been ordered to DO YOU remember “Old -Bift”? Bruce Bairnsfather. the semi-detached, bay-windowed house Weather Forecast and Announce- Intending bidders are advised Landon to see the King.
"When I saw him next day I asked is at work again un a new sorios.."
English Army Officer who made him famous during the Great War, in a tree-lined row called Mill-way, that immediately, after the dispo-what the King said, but he
MIH. HI, N.W. 145 Dvorak-Quartet in A Fasal of the lot the Purchaser (if teased me.
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You will also see Old Bill at the movies. Alexander Korda Major Op. 105, Prague String Quartet.
not the applicant) will be required "He turned up here just before is producing a film of his antics. It will be a riot.
and said he had 2,16 Close Down,
Above is the cartoon that made Old Bill-and his creator- to deposit with an authorised lunch 10-day,
twenty-four hours' leave. Noel Coward in Musical nicer who will be present at the
famous. "And this evening I had to go to 0.83 Closing Local Stock Quota-nale, the sum of two hundred Red Cross Society meetky I Bairnsfather visited Hongkong in 1993 and wrote a book
of dollars, ($200) in cash. This sum missed one last week because
had to go to-night? will be refunded on payment of Drew, so
Flying Oficer McPherson sut and smiled, and didn't say anything.
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HOLLAND PROTESTS AGAINST BLOCKADE
(Continued from Page 1.)
are using their rights to suspend this provision.
Similar measures were taken in the last war.
British Assurances..........
LONDON, Nov. 23 (Reuter).—| With reference to the Dutch Govern- ment's criticisms of the British Con- traband Control, "Reuter" learns that
from en authoritative
source
about his experiences in this part of the world.
That boy! I'm
not surprised
-SAYS 'MR. Pr MR. F. M. WALKER—the boys at St. Albans School called him “Mr. Pi" until he retired two-years- ago-chuckled when I saw him, and said, "Doran, eh? I wouldn't be a bit surprised at anything Doran did." says a correspondent.
"What was his work like?" "Well, he. worked just enough, and not too hard."
•
"Oh, and lie was a useful sprinter,
Nazis Claim Superiority In The Air.
Fighters Carrying Cannons
It is typical, pler sant English suburban home, with
the name
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPHI Schworthy on a plate over the porch.
BERLIN, Nov. 28-(UP). It is the setting for the rich family life we live in peace-time, Official sources here claim that and for steady, subdued bravery in Germany has demonstrated her
war-time.
The home remains undisturbed by superiority in the air through the fama; because there aro boy's In case with which German war- other houses, in other streets, who planes have carried out recon- will do the same thing in the same naissance flights over Tondon instinctive way.
and other parts of England,
It is their heritage. Doran is a public school boy, and a A communique Issued by the Ger- Arst-class Rugby player. He got his man High Command said that on school colours in the first fifteen, Tuesday, nine. German, planes drove He joined the school O.T.C. and off soven French pursuli planes over liked it-it was a healthy, rugged French soil enabling the Germans.to sort of e. He became a lance carry out successful reconnaisance corporal.
flights. Then he joined the Artists' Rifles. The report said French pursuit planes forced .one German to land Just His Trade
at
Freiburg, There is nothing very exciting or Further it claimed · ́that * Nází distinctive-in-his-personal-history, troops-southwest of Pirmasene-re--- before that day he flew over the pulsed an attack by an enemy com- North Sea.. It is the record of pany "with heavy losses.” thousands of public school boys who have gone into the services because they liked the faste
they got at
German Air Claims:
on
BERLIN, Nov. 23. (UP),—It hús "We don't mind adinitting it after-school.
been officially announced here that the contraband service is working
He brought out old school.
It is his trade; and we are not German warplanes, which are under- with all possible speed.
magazines from the shelven of wards, though."
entirely a nation of shopkeepers. stood to carry rapid firing cannons, Troops," Variety by the NAAFI.Į
The British Government is quite his home in Hillside-road, and
Mr. and Mrs. Doran are a spirited shot down five French planes from Drury Lane.
hard couple, Mrs, Doran is attractive,, Wednesday, 8.05. Studio Comments on Recent of Harlech; Drink to me only: British as anxious as neutrals to avoid de as he fingered the pages a smile
alert; she could always keep up with Grenadiers: The Minstrel Boy: Sirlays, and although the machinery is crinkled the corners of his plea- Events.
Reliable sources here said the Nüzi working quite smoothly, it could be
Her two sons. Mr. Doran is round-Oghters carry саппоп and four 9.15. London Relay-News Bum-Roger de Coverley; Auld Lang Syne.
faced, jovial.
| machine-gun crews: They are cap-- Dixon Hits No. 25 Intro: It's d'loverly; accelerated If shippers would help by sant eyes-a smile prompted by
As a family they have had a lot of able of a speed of 300 miles per hour 0.30 Harry Roy's New Stage Show. There's rain in my eyes; Everyone taking elementary precautions: such memories of a stocky, cheerful, too.
a sweetheart. Waltz as ensuring that manifests arrived jimpudent boy: Kenneth Doran. Harry, Roy and His Orchestra (Re-must have
"Mr. Pl" went on: "Doran was at another magazine page. "I see ho
"Mr. Pi's" finger slipped down fun together; the parents have kept and generally By in wedge formation
to protect the bombing planes. corded at the actual performance et Selection Intro: I'll See You Again; before, the cargoes.
The same source points out that the school for five years. He played won the 100 yards when he was four-they never mentioned the Air Force, When Kenneth Doran wis at home the Holborn Empire. London),
Falling in Love Again; Love will find 9.45 Reginald Dixon at the Organ Heart Dream Lover,
a way; The Desert Song; Deep in my Britain.must of course insist on her scrum half for the first aftcon.
belligerent right and taken all mea-
"He was A fenricas boy. ***He
though he used to bring: with him che picture of their son, taken with "Chorus Gentlemen, Please" Intra:
sures to ensure that goods shall not
would tackle anything.
"But he didn't shine at cricket. several of his friends from the train-two friends on an airfield. Hunting we will go Sally in our
"I believe he would go down to the long field, waiting for a prob-
I can't imagine. Doran standing Ining school...
None of the three is in uniform... Alley: John Peel; Oh Dear what can
stop a train if necessary. He just lemaueai catch once
Mrs. Doran said: "They hate to The Dorans have never seen their - the matter be; Londonderry Air;; Now.
didn't care.
every fifteen talk about their job off duty,"
son in uniform. There'ssa. Tavern in the Town; Meri':
She and her husband have only
10.00 An hour of Dance Music,
11.00 London Relay "In England reach Germany,
11.15 Close Down.
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Regarding the statement that Hol- land may consider stopping exports to this country, it is stated that this will probably hurt Germany more than Great Britain.
icer:
"I might have known he'd be in overs.
this raid business."
"He was a day boy, and he used "Mr. Pi" pointed to a paragraph to come to Schoolhouse, where the
If Dutch supplies to this country in one of the magazines, and read boarders lived, to rent his mid-day are stopped, measures would be from a report of a Rugby match: dinner.
to obtain goods from her "Doran is slow in getting the ball "I always knew when Doran was
token sources.
Pointed Speech Recalled
out."
"Not Too Hard" Ho winked. "Don't take any LONDON, Nov. 23 (Reuter),With notice of that. It doesn't do to tell reference. to the retaliatory action on a boy ho's too good at anything. German experts, it is worth recalling
The sentence from Mr. Winston
Churchill's speech at the world crisis similar measures and is whole-heart- about a similar measure in the lastedly favouring the polley.
war.
It was as follows:
Surprised
It is commented with surprise ht
there by the noise coming from the end of the table."
Daring Boy
The school physical training in- ciruelo, Sergl-Major C. E. Argent.
members Doran too.
"A regular Imp he was." he said, "I don't believe he had a bit of fear In him.
"I knew him at once when I saw
out among
"It is for neutral nations to authoritative direles in London that his photograph in the paper this recognise that 11 is not practically the Dutch Government has made morning. possible nor in the neutrals interests representations against the British "Ife hasn't changed . bil, except to cinim the maintenance of a situation move to bar German overseas exports for the moustache. which would deprive naval strength while remaining allent in the face of "It seems he still has that school- | of all rights, while permitting naval German measure calculated to inflet boy doring. He stood weakness to indulge in every abuse." far greater damage to neutral abip- the batch of boys who came into the
Conditions Apply Again ping: and in their wanton course to school in 1924. These conditions apply with him at neutral vessels' regardless of hdditionni force to-day because the destination and origin of goods, neutral trade has already suffered as whereas the British move is confined the result of the German campaign, to purely cargoes of German origin, 10 which the British action is ine reply.
elgium Finds
"I remember he was useful with the boxing gloves, too.",
*Dangarous!
"This bombing rald is just the sort of thing he'd like doing- something really dangerous. That
·was his idee of excitement.”.“ The headmaster, LicuteComman-
Major W. J. Baumgartner, com- SPECIAL TO THE
manding ofleer of the school O.T.C., The more extensively Germany is
BRUSSELS, Nov. 23 (Reuter), who was a contemporary of Doran's. able to carry on the war, the greater Commenting on the British decision said: "Well, he had guts if any one Ins is likely to neutral ships and to stop Germany's oversen exports, had. crews; by retaliation, the Allies are the Liberal and Socialist press justl- shortening the. terra of Germany's fles it as counter-measure to Ger-. ability to mennee the trade of the many's method of naval warfare, but world.
the Catholic press is more reserved. The British Government has shown
The "Vooruit," a Socialist Flemish considerable forbearance in the in- newspaper, says: "Protests from neu- der W. T. Marah, has sent a telegram tereat of neutrals in not taking this tens to the British Government are of congratulation to Acting Squad- action earlier as it must have been certain to come, but proteste should ron Leader Doran. The school are fully expected by the German Gov-also be made against Gorman celebrating his decoration with ernment. 4. The speed with jubleh thơ'elaborate,
methods.
Italf-holidny scheme is now being put into.opera-body doubted that the, war would be hall a summary of his school career.
The Socialist "Peuple" says: "No, On the notice board In
In the school tion as the result of utmost provoca Inconvenient for neutrals, but the has been posted aft tion illustrates the British ability to British Navy does not olok neutral On the platform where the hend- take decisive and forceful motors.
A
It also worth emphasising that ships and deliver, their passengers master, leads prayers, Doron's Treks the French Government is taking
and crow to the Hazards of the men," Ibullings, aro displayed, skins AGGAR
young
That is a British hero..!
GRIN AND BEAR IT
SENATOR LEMUELA, MIDDLE
RIVATE:
The Senator:
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