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AW. PLEASE. AUNT FRITZI--- LET'S GO DOWN SOUTH FOR A
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AGAIN
THIS SEASON!
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IT WON'T BE
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February 13, 1940.
By Ernie Bushmiller
WOW---
I JUST RAN. INTO A SUDDEN SNOW STORM
ON MAIN M
STREET,
A
BUSHMALER
To-day-The Greatest Story of the R. A. F.
The "Hongkong Telegraph” to-day is privileged
to present serially this dramatised version of Alexander Korda's great film, "The Lion
Has Wings."
It is the greatest story yet
told of the Royal Air Force, and is specially written by Ian
Dalrymple, from whose
brilliant idea the film
THE LION HAS WINGS
was evolved.
There was a man with a pos- ter which said: "Time limit for Nazis, but he was not selling papers.
taxi
He stood in a little group who FIVE minutes to eleven seemed uncommunicative, as if on the morning of Septem-they were waiting for some ber the third, five minutes thing. They were. A
stopped, and its driver descend- more of peace
ed and began to look into the sky,
The sun shone quietly over this pleasant isle of ours. The white clouds casti a pattern of shadows over the green and pleasant land. A haycart moved along a road. Two horses plodded in a field,
The woman turned her head (nud spoke to her companion.
"D'you think..." she said.
The other girl looked silently at the clock above the mantel- plece and there. at the waiting wireless set.
She rose slowly and walked over to it and stood for a few moments) drumming on the lid of it with her fingers. Then with แ sudden
movement she switched it on.
From the interminable silence voice of the Prime Minister emerged faintly and swelled into
full volume.
Gulls mewed above the downs, and in a hollow be hind the cliffs minute figures crawled upon the close crop-the ped turf. The small black things they had come in were
There motor cars. were bathers in the sea.
In the villages and towns where British people lived
"Up to the very last it would) have been possible to have arranged a peaceful and honourable settle-) ment
Thoir eyes met in the steady starej of knowledge.
"It is evil things that we shall and worked the autumn be fighting. Bad faith. Injustice.j sunshine flooded down. ItOppression and persecution. Against
then I am certain that Right will, touched the old time faces of prevail." Someone coughed. The barns and buildings into National Anthem broke forth.. new life and smiled on High-
streets and back gardens SUDDENLY the door opened | and car parks and ancient and two men broke in and churches and arterial roads stopped. Both were in Air Force bluc, one Wing Comman- with an impartial geniality.der, the other a Flight Com-
It was good to be a native of mander. Britain' and to be alive on that September morning, except for the relentless passing of those five minutes.
A year ago, the Royal Air Force was rated less than half as effective as the German. But planes now coming off the line at the rate of 1,900 a month lave brought the RAF's first - line fighting force up to 3,000 planes. Among them is the Westland Lysander, an observation ship shown below peeling off" before dropping bombs.
"All right." she whispered.
As the Athenia crossed the
innocent passengers. A voice spati
The 1.0. nodded curtly, "Yes, Bir."
"All right, carry on!"
The Intelligence Oleor turned to one of the wing commandera. "Barran, can I have your pilots and crews here in a quarter of an hour?"
More instructions were flashed into telephones. The machinery began to click over with a fascina- ting efficiency. From lofty hangars emerged the ginnt planes selested for the hazardous job ahead.
Petrol. gallons of alcohol, poured in a never-ending flow into the tanks, guns were loaded with ammunition, bombing ap- paratus was fixed and tested, and bombs were loaded carefully into their allotted places,
Nothing must be left to chance. But it is the way of the Briton that, the more perilous and important the task, the lighter the heart with which he tackles it.
Even at this moment-prelude to an expedition that carried death as the price of failure-there room for a joke.
was
From his pocket an aircraftman) produced piece of chalk, and selecting 11 bomb he carefully printed on it: "ONE FOR ADOLF. and he patted the bomb almost with loving care before it was landed on to his plane!
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stood before a large map. With
complete informality the pilots++++++fn|~|~||~|~||~|~|
and crews lounged around the
vast table, waiting their last in- structions.
"All the people here?"
"Yes, sir," replied the chief pilot,
"How many nireraft?"
"The full six."
"Right." The IO. paused. "Well,
boys, you're in luck.
A VARIETY PROGRAMME
REX
in pro- paganda leaflets this time. It's the 8320-Tangotand. real thing."
"Good" replied one of the men, and excited grina spread across the faces of the rest.....
"Now." continued the intelligence Officer, "We've received information that the German pocket battleships are making towards the mouth of the Kiel Canal.
"By the time you get there they| should be just inside. Your job is to secure direct hits on the battleships.
"Here are six copies of your route and weather forecast,
You cross the coast at Chillingham-fighter command will be informed-change the course to 110 dogroes....."
Ho continued the technical infor- mation which the absorbed carefully.
R.A.F.
8387-Sandy joins the Nudists
ON'S RECORDS.
Intro, Tonight. Rosita. Oli Donna Clara. Cafe in Vienna. Beside my caravan. Primo Scalas accordeon band. ..Sandy Powell and company. ....doe Petersen,
9688—We'll meet again ********* I'm sending a letter to Santa Claus.... With Organ, accompaniment. D668-Ridin' home
..Billy Cotton and his band.
A Mollier's prayer at twilight. D673-How ashamed I was...Sandy Powell.
Oh Ain't it grand to be in the Navy. I'll remember.
9070—Till the lights of London ·
shine again
Lonely sweetheart. 0660-Moon love
Begono. 9671--An apple for the teacher.
A man and his dream. 9685-Wings over the Navy
Lords of the air.
Billy Cotton and his band, Oscar Robin & his Romany band,
Roy Smeek and bis Hawaiian Serenaders.
Oscar Rabin & his Romany band.
..Billy Cotton and his band.
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"I want cameras taken, of course. Exact data of what we achieve is [important. Anything else?"
"Well, there's just one thing. I take it there's no balloon-barrage there ?"
The 1.0. shook his head. "Not
"Good," replied the chief pilät.
He kissed her suddenly, taking Atlantic death was stalking it if you stick to your route." her in his arma. The girl ut the mantelpiece "When you come back," she wheeled round, crossed to her hus-gested in a whisper. band in surprise, and took him by
"You mean... married 7"
the arm.
She nodded.
"Are we at war, then ?" he asked. She nodded slowly. "Mr. Cham- his arm.
Perhaps it was only the im- aginative who thought they sawberlain's just spoken, Bob." an ominous dulling of the aun- shine, as if a shadow crept over the earth,
There was an uncanny silence
Ralph Richardson was tagging God bless you, my dear, "Good-bye." "Good-bye, Ralph. Take care yourself."
"What was it he said yesterday?" bye." the Wing Commander asked. “To satisfy one man's vain, senseless ambition..
The Flight Commander hndi
"Good-bye '. good-bye
of
,
They had not long to wait.
"Good luck," "Thanks."
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Without any more fuss the men atjof warfare. -
started to move out of the room. The resonant drone of Britain's geod-Air Force deepened as it moved naked one of the crew to another. "What about our party to-night?"
into its stride. Battleships of the air stood ready and waiting,
"What are you doing to-morrow? SHANGHAI, JAPAN, HONOLULU, SAN FRAN- was the reply.
"O.K. So did the young aviators, direct
Make it to-morrow," CISCO, LOS ANGELES for one thing. The sky held no cressed to the other girl, and ink- good-bye."
descendants of Britain's past heroes grinned the other, and he patted his KEELUN G. SHANGHAI, acroplanes, and wherever people ing her hand in his.
of sen and fold. The atrocity of the friend cheerfully on the alioulder.
JAPAN - The two women ran to the win-sinking of the Athenia was some- And so the adventure began. congregate, there they congre- "He did his best to stop it, June." dow and leaned out. They saw two thing that must be revenged with Propellers whirred. engines gated in little knots.
Morlo spoke again. "Ralph-are airmen, any two airmen, got into deadly swiftness.
leapt to life like giants awaking Was there an ochreous film we ready 7".
from a brief slumber, and slowly, cab and drive away. Gently a over the farmiliar scenes and the "You mean, are we prepared?" Merlo waved, har hand fluttering)
one after the other, the six planes accustomed places as if the
She nodded and the little move-in the light like a dancer's scurt.
moved slowly across the ground.
Kiel Canal! forces of destruction warred ment spoke to all Britain.
And at that moment the sound
First stop.. SHORT, staccato orders were somewhere overhead but out of
"Novor better," he answered broke over London, the wild wall-barked into a telephone and car- grimly.
Ing of the mechanical banshee, the ried from the Chief of Air Staff night?
you doing, maniacal ululations of the air-raid down to the Station Comman- "Ralph, what are horo?"
signal. "Now station...-we've only got
So war came to England, hurriedly der. A certain plan was tran- a second."
at frat and without overmuch of amitted. __-"Oh, Ralph!" She clung to drama. him. He kissed her. Bob took Richardson, and Bobby reached June's hand and led her into the their unit, well-trained cogs in an tiny hall. He jerked his hand immense and powerful machine. inctfully to the drawing-room of Britain's Air Force, a new and the litle flat.
deadly enemy to Nazi Germany, on She amlied. "Good luck," he its toes, alert and eagor.
A few short days passed and the Ho swallowed and looked at her Nazi undorsoas pirates began their in a dumb sort of way.
work.
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There was that feeling about London. There was a woman who stood in a window looking down upon the street. She felt it strongly, a slowing down, of momentum, as if the buses and the traffic and the people moved without intention, as if all tho happy racket and business, and all the things she knew and used | nak!. to take for granted would gradually stop.
J
"Zoro hour nineteen hundred From mouth to mouth the instructions. were passed,
The first blow against the enemy was to be struck.
The Station Commander turned briefly to his Intelligence Officer,
"You've got all the necessary In- 'formation ??"
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