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November 28, 1939.
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GAS MASKS FOR BABIES
A mother leaving a distributing
centre with one of the gas-bag respirators for babies, that are
now being issuca.
Record cold In East
Tokyo, Nov. 27, A cold wave la sweeping Japan and China. While sharp drops have recorded in temperature
been throughout Japan, a blizzard is re- ported from Echigo Province on the western seaboard proper where train been services are reported to have suspended.
A report from Shanghai says that the thermometer registered twenty- one degrees, a record low in the past
half century.
Holhow; which standa on the northern coast of Hainan Island in
also the sub-tropical zone.
reports unusual experiences in a cold wave, ~~~Domel.
Sixty Five Found Dead
Shanghal, Nov. 27. As a result of the sudden cold wave the Police yesterday picked up 30 dead in the streets and 35 to-day. They and that they had discovered many dead practically naked, in- dicating that begstars were, taking the clothes of those dead to keep themselves alive. Most of the dead were beggara.
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There were some children.
Many homeless persons have been
frostblle-! sant 10 hospital with United Press.
Local Recordings. The sudden drop in average lem- perature of nearly 20 deg, since last week, has started everyone in the Colony wearing winter clothes.
A week ago the minimum tempera ture recorded by the Royal Obser- vatory was 71 deg. but yesterday at six o'clock the temperature, had dropped to 54 deg.
The maximum, last week was 60
KING
Gunners Fight in Clouds at Range of Only Few Yards
R. A.F.
PILOTS
DRIVE
NAZI
RAIDERS FROM THE COAST
DRAMATIC stories of machine-gun duels in which British and German planes, flying at only 200 feet, passed within a few yards of each other, were told in a recent Air Ministry statement.
The fights took place off the east coasts of England and Scotland and off the German coasts.
All the British planes-attached to the coastal com- mand-returned safely. But several of the Germans were hit.
"The fights were mostly brief," said the statement, "because in every case the enemy withdrew,"
"TWO GOOD BURSTS GOT HOME" PILOT No. 1 told how he sighted a Heinkel 115 flying at right angles to the R.A.F. machine's
course.
The German headed south, but was over- taken at a height of 200 feet.
The Nazi rear gunner opened fire with tracer bullets. Ho passed under the British plane. The British gunner replied and reported that "Two good bursts" appeared to get home.
Then the Nuzi pulled up into the clouds, but he was traced and re- ceived another burst of fire at close rnjige.
In the R.A.F. pilot's words: "The eneiny climbed still higher in the clouds, and us he did so we cut in front end under him and let go one more burst at very short range.
"He dived na wè pussed in front of him, and only a few feet separated| us."
The German plane was not sech machine again and the British resumed its patrol. THIS is Pilot No. 2's story of his
night also with a Heinket and also at 2001 because of the heavy clouds.
"The enemy was diving steeply when attacked from the port rear
quarte climbed for the clouds. I
"He
throttled back and attacked from astern. I got in two or three bursts at him with my port gun) and he vanished in the clouds.
"I throttled back again and found him 50ft. above me and about 25 yards whend. I got some rear bursts nt him this time and as he turned away I again brought, my, port gun on him.
"Then, fallowing behind and alightly underneath. I saw him go into another bank of cloud.
"He appeared to wobble and side- slip badly before he was finally lost."
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Rain Saved The Raider
A. F. Pilot No. 3 was disap-)
R. panted.
He followed a Nazi plane for ten minutes-and just when he thought|
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ENNY, three-day-old Shetland pony, Introduced to ar flama when
had its first day'ı outing In thr Children's Corticl of the London Zoo... Penny only 20 Inches high.
War Words (2)
Blighty
Like many another soldfer's word "blighty” had its origin in. India,
It is a contracted form of the Hindustani “bilayati," which means "foreign” and, especially, "European." The Anglo-Indian name for soda-water is "bilaynil pant." There is a similar Arable word, "wilayati." "foreign.”
Thus, "Blighty" came to mean Britain and home.
The word was current among the British troops in France in 1915, and was commonly applied non-fatal wound sui-
to
ciently serious to take a man back to England. Then there was the "lighty bag," the small bag issued at casualty clearing
stations to hold a wounded man's
personal betongings.
"Carry Me Back to Dear Old Blighty" was a popular war-time DONE.
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Shelled Ship's Skipper Scared
Black-Out By
WORSE than being machine-gunned from the air on the bridge of his ship; worse than being a prisoner-of-war aboard the Nazi battleship Admiral Scheer; is...
LONDON'S "BLACK" OUT ....
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to Captain F. C. P. Harris, master of the 5,051-ton British steamer Clement, who arrived in London, recently, his mind alive with memories of the sinking of his ship by shellfire.
He was doubtless calmer on his bullet-riddled bridge than he was as he stepped into London's inky blackness at Waterloo.
"Hey, watch those cars," he roared to his chief engineer, Mr. W. Bryant, who was going off to look for an hotel.
Describing the rinking of his ship, Captain Harris said that on Septem-
maiting for battleship British. A scoplane
Relic of the Last Warn maths ng which he
Is an Old French Fort
SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE.
Even in these days of ferocious artillery fire there is still
he had him flerce rainstorm defensive value in a fort. blatted out the raider and he escuped.
were exchanges of machine gun fire in another meeting. This time, Plot No. 4, using the clouds as cover, surprised the enemy or he circled over a cargo ship.
"He turned as if to meet the at tack," said the plot, "but climbed into the clouds and made off."
Gorman Fires--And Missos
But the fort of modern warfare is very different from the towering mass of masonry, with cliff-like walls of stone, that the word still connotes for most of us.
took off from her.
"The plane circled over us, and then without any warning, spattered the bridge with machine-gun bullets. "Three times the plane circled
round, sending bullets into the bridge' at each turn. I don't know how I escaped being killed. The only one: hit was my chief officer, who was slightly wounded in the hand.
"Believing that we should be
myself
I vialled one yesterday, and found In the last war the place was in shelled, I ordered my crew of 50 10 when a pleket boat from the battle- myself driving towards an irregular. German hands, and for. some time the boats, and was in one grassy mound that seemed to squat British prisoners were kept there. down
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az close as possible to the level They scribbled "on the white thip came alongside. Reids around it, says a correspondent washed walls of their prison, and the My car wound its way through writing is still there, clear as over. muddy lanes, rising almost imper- Two of the men signed their names ceptibly, and suddenly we turned a-Private L, Greenhalgh and Private myself to get into the picket boat corner and found ourselves in the J. Turner, both of A Company, First and allowed our boats to go. Then
took bomb from the they Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
Urider their named is written: "We boat aboard the Clement. are getting very little to cat.
A NAZI flying-boat was seen at fort itself,
200 feel by Pilot No. 3, then Not then did one realise that: The British machine dived with earth were barracks capable of house
Spotrolling at about 800 feet. inside this big heap of grass-grown are English prisoners. and we
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without doing any damage.
EARLIER German planes tried to is those innocent-looking slopes of
inscription suggests that their tough Lancashire spirit of defiance was not alarved out of them).
Postcard R
1 Racket
pickel
"We were taken aboard the battle- chip and I recognised her at once as the Admiral Scheer. She's a beauty. "For some reason the bombs aboard the Clement failed to explode, so the Admiral Scheer sanke the ship by shell are from about a mile off.
"We had only been five hours on board the Admiral Scheer when she overtook the Greek vessel Papale mous and we were transferred to
Escapo Apparatus On U-Boat's Doad
guns blazing. The Nazi roplieding several thousand men, strong The terseness of the rest of the points, observation posts and gun For five minutes they fought posts, stererbois, electric-light plant,
of then the German took advantage of wells, all the apparatus a strong- dense cloud to escape.
hold liable to stand a alege..
The chief protection of the pince
over, the Shetlands but were grass covering a depth of carth brisk anti-aircraft Bre, which could bbsorb endless artillery benton off by
Two more attempts to break Scbt-fire, just as a man could protect him- Hitler's most famous. postcard Inher land's defences further south were self against the hardest punches of Storm Trooper's uniform and receiv reported, but in each case the raiders Joe Louis by covering himself with ing a bouquet of flowers from a smil- turned tail as soon as they sighted the
Tanks could climb those Ing child, is agaió' 'on sale, in Ger- pillows. slopes, no doubt, but no tanks yet many. It is wise to buy from girls A boy of about 17 was one of five British fighters. .....
mnde could drive into the fort it-on duty at practically every street German sailors whose bodies, with And The Navy Win, Too aclf. The moat which kept gulcorner.
"ubmarine-escape apparatus on the CEVERAL Naz bombers attacked mediaeval bealegers has come into in point of fact, the pleture was heads, were washed ashore on the
British, warships in the southern its own again' to-day as an impassable carefully pased in a Berlin commer-coast of Kent,
barrier to tanks, and this forthcom to buy the picture and post it from a U-boat sunk by on
clal-art-studio. Furchasers are sup half of the North Sea.
It is not known whether they come remost efficient mont
Allled An Admiralty communique
The mixed garrison includes a con- to the Fuchter..
warship or from a submarina which vealed that two Polish destroyera were with the British ships and join-tingent from a North Country real Hillers never receives them. Post met with a sea-bed accident,
ment in which are tinny men from Offices have orders to burn them in
Another body was washed up at ́ed in "the battle, 4-
In one of the batches to save the dxpense of de-Dymchurch), a third at Dungeness and "No damage was done to any North Lancashire.
The Reich has notted two others near Ryc. ship," -ELYS the communique, rooms of the fort, they have found very.
£300,000 a day on sales and stamps.
Each men wore an identity dulc. "Enemy casualties are not known."
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