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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
December 18, 1939.
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The face of the earth
Louisville Times." U.S.A..
Parcel Post to Reich Stopped
LONELY AIR VIGIL
From A Spectal · Correspondent ON THE WESTERN FRONT Nearly every day, since the beginning of the war bombers of the Royal Air Force have been flying high over Germany.
Their task is reconnaissance. From the immense heights to which they climb thoy can see below them the white villages standing out sharply ugainst the green fields of Western Germany, the steeply escarped slopes which drop into the grent rivers and their tributaries. and the grey industrial agglo- merations which work day and night to strengthen the sinews of the German Army.
Below the path of the bomber is o net-work of enemy anti-aircraft batteries and fighter airtelds, while high in the clouds above the great cities is the balloon barrage,
JACK PAYNE'S
DIVORCE
"JACK PAYNE, the dance band leader, is petitioning for
divorca.
His wife, Mrs. D. A. Payno, it defending the quit.
They were secretly married 1924 aftor only a few wecks' courtship.
in
Mr. Payne mot his wife, daughter of Col. H. H. Pon- greo, at Folkestone, where he was playing for the summer
Boason.
After the wedding she went back to live with her parents until the season ended, and then came to London with hor husband..
Ho had not thon achieved the fame which was later to bo his as the first band to broadcast.
over
The in-
The flfers, hundreds of miles from friendly territory, are constantly on the watch against anti-aircraft fire- and enemy fighters.
All nirmen speak of the sense of Junreality which overcomes them on
the burnt of anti-aircraft shells.
Smoke puffs appear in the air be- side them, but the noise of engines Is such that the explosions are in- ||nudible.
The immediate reaction is surprise, mingled with anger at the Imper- İtinence of the guiners below.
Sometimes surprise and anger are snuffed out for ever. The German anti-aircraft gun can bu necurate.
On the whole the enemy's fighters given little trouble. British have
airmen are not given to exaggerate the powers of the legendary Messer- schmitt.
The test in not yet complete be cause engagements have been rare, but the general impression seeing to be that the Messerschmitt is difcult to handle and too heavy to bear com- parison with the latest Brilish type, Particularly at high altitudes.
This is attributed not so much to faulty material as to inferiority of design.
Ex-Kaiser "Banned
Gas Bombs'
The orders of the day to the bem- ber are to avoid contact with the themy so far as possible, and when attacked to make its esenpe as best gagement
Germany. Orders it can.
were given to "bail out," The Runner Scans the heavens ner escaped through a trap in the censelessly for signs of enemy air-bottom, but the observer's parachute craft. Above and around him is a apparatus became momentarily en- strang celluloid dome which gives tangled. We a clear vision for 'leagues.
The pilot lost several precious The observer is concerned with seconds straightening out the knots navigation and with the handling of and kicking the observer overboard the photographle_apparatus.'
to safely. By then he was too late The shutter clicks and the Alm to save himself and he fell amid the
the secrets of the enemy ruins of his machine. WASHINGTON.-Parcel post ser¡ recently because of the lack of ade-records
The interpretation of aerial photo-
GAS bombs were not dropped vice from the United States to Ger- quate transport facilities. Parcet post ny thousands of feet below.
The camera is a relatively simple
task requiring much skili graphs is designation
formerly includes to the area which
was device ond of entirely British con- and many-whleh
experience. Sometimes it is on London in the last war be- dimeutt to establish exactly where cause the. Kaiser forbade it at Dunzig and Czechoslovakia-was sus-Poland has been suspended some 10struction.
According to British experis, the the photographs were taken. pended by the Post Ofce Department days previously.
results which it has given are able Faulty navigation, which is wholly the last moment-so says Mr. Parcel post to all other countries to challenge comparison with those pardonable under adverse weather Edward J. Bing, journalist, sol-
claborate and henvy
sometimes results in dier and traveller, In his auto- conditions, continues, though subject to delays of the more
being taken of areas blography "Of the Meck and the caused by the warthne disruption of mechanisms evolved by the Germans, photographs
Even when the photographs are quite different from those which the Mighty." transport.
taken from immense helghts they pilot had intended.
Upset Stomach
Sometimes these errors mean a
Quickly Put Right it appeared that the question of show with astonishing clarity every
of the land below. Trucks pure waste of time; at others they
lend
to
serious
rule,
may be seen ln railway sidings, while
In Berlin, after the war, a former Zeppelin commander told him the Germans had perfected a deadly gas bomb.
"And why was it never used?" asked Mr. Bing.
"Well," said the commander, "my
with was provided course and few straight over one of Zeppelin the most vital military districts in bombs immediately the invention Germany, returning home with a was completed, and I had orders to
the value of drop them on London. series of photographs
Just in Time which may never be surpassed in this
Stomach disturbances such as digestive sending contraband through the mails detail
Although all pilots are instructed pain. gastritis, wind, heart-bum,
and did not figure in the decision. for the constant movement of tugs and Prove to be of utmost value. feeling of revolt, are invariably the result package containing food which the barges on the greater rivers is faith to avoid the best defended areas and
farmnikon" which, an Wels World and Worse and may ultimately, British consider to be conditional fully recorded, their direction being to take unexpected routes, one nero- which Selven by the faint smudge of trey plane not long ago was blown off lis ulcers. By counter Contraband, and money acung excess acid and proventing its absolute contraband on the British which shows the wash. formation, BISMAG (Burated Map list, have been going through to Ger-
puts right an upset Beta) quickly
many since the outbreak of war. The
A Pilot's Heroism stomach, pain disappears Instantly, mentation and wind are banished and Post Office sought by rerouting ils Booling relief supersedes uncomfortable parcels through Italian ports to avold
Thousands have disturbance.
inded stomach trouble with BISMAG "Burrat starch by the British Navy, which
d Stagnastal-you can to the samet Dccurred in a few isolated cases. Ask for 'DISMAG' powder är tableta to- day, and alway every pack
fer-
ve the aval sign
од
Any parcelu already mulled will be returned to the senders.
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The pilot handles the inachine and is the last to leave in case of mis- adventure. Many instances of indi-war.
"We were all set to take off, and vidual heroism are told. On one oc-
Norve-Racking Task
the gondola easion a machine was forced down It is a nerve-racking task, this I was just going into
when a phone call came through for somewhere in France after. on en-1 lonely, reconnaissance.
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“G.H.Q.. this end. That Cup- tain O. Clnd I got you in time. You are on no account to tadre those as bombs with you. S.M. (for Seine Majestat, His Majesty, meaning the Kaiser) wishes them to be left behind.
The commander suid he was also ordered to use the bombu nu Verdun. and again the Kaiser, said "No" at the lust moment.
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Once the oflleer was just off tu] ***** -immu-i-house-three-miles-behind-the French lines in which it was known King George V., Marshal Joffre, and Mr. Lloyd George or Mr. Asquith were staying, when he was told the command had been cancelled.
Once more it was "5, M.'s orders." Fleason given by the German oficer: The Kaiser is deeply re ligious."
NO VALID PASSPORT
Dr. Andre Sporer, 30, Hungarian, was charted before Mr. Edwards at Central Magistrney on Saturday with entering the Colony without a valid passport on December 15.
Sub-Inspector Fowlle said defen- dant come from Macao. His visa expired after the outbreak of the war. Defendant was guaranteed by the Bishop of Hongkong, and Inspectur Fowlie asked that the case be with- drawn.
The application was granted.
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