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Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
MAYBE WE OUGHT TO TAKE A VACATION
DOWN SOUTH, EH?
By Ernie
AND MAYBE. YOU OUGHT TO STOP BLOWING PEPPER IN HERE!
February 15, 1940.
Bushmiller
TSK TSK--- GROWN-UPS MUST BE MIND READERS!
-PRNIE Bustifia
THE LION HAS WINGS-the Epic Film Story of the R.A.F.
WITH a fierce roar the Spitfires swooped to the at- jack, even as the Nazi ob- erver saw their approach nd muttered fiercely to his jilot.
The Spitfires dispersed or the attack and suddenly he skies became alive with he noise of battle.
"Crack. bick.
crack
A rain of
chine-gun bullets shriek- around the Nazi flotilla. Leaden hell snarled around planes as, diving and shoping, Bobby and his m stabbed viciously at
invaders.
like giunt, graceful birds the piires screamed through the never letting up on their re- itless peppering.
The Nazi pilots' lips tight- hed. This was a warmer re- ption than they had expected.. With a groan, one of them let Jo his controls as a bullet bit iciously into his hand. Ile Įragged his glove off with his jeeth and glanced ruefully at his hand.
Hastily the navigator began
lo bind up his pilot's wound, yet They never relaxed their vigi- Jance. They dare not,
The Spitfires were rushing into the! Inttack again.
With a miraculous burst of speed Dopey put his plane into In dive. Down it hurtled like an avenging thunderbolt. A rain of bullets found its mark and the Nazi pilot collapsed, chok- ing, over his controls.
By Ian Dalrymple
RAID OVERS
ENGLAND
The Central Control Room of the R.A.F. Command, where orders are issued
for our fighters.to take off.
LONDON
改
Two of our aircraft Moving steadily nereas the ness of the aerodrome the men of heading east.
forced to land. Should we proceed dark skies came a new flight of the ground staff got busy.
Over to you." Re-fuelling, re-stocking with am- with action?" Nazi bombers, and in that instant
"They've been up half an hour. the anti-aircraft guns and search-munition, hasty repairing of minor lights took up the hunt.
damages. All was done with ns
They must be geiting short of much speed and efficiency as if it
petrol," and someone. had been broad daylight.
Richardson picked up his micro- High above one of the pilots of
was talking into his phone. "Cornflower Blue. Corn-
Discontinue ilower Blue. Flight B. microphone.
and return."
Restlessly the searchlights roved the skies, scouring the blackness for the prey. Into the beam of light
flashed a Nazi plane.
"You've got him, Charlle," soap "Cornflower Blue calling ped one of the men on the search-Cornflower Blue calling. Two ban-
nction
As ho replaced his mike he turned
Unsteadily the bomber lurch-lights. "Old Im, "old 'im, Charlie," dits down. Remaining two have to find Bobby at his elbow. "Any
| entered-clouds-ever-sea-and-arej luck? he inquired.. ed and heeled over, is the he beseeched. navigator grasped the controls
and sought to get the plane
back to control.
The oflicer in charge of the A.-A.} guns rapped out an order.
"No. 1 Gun-Fire" The gun Away swooped Dopey's plane, entried and in rapid succession and into the breach flushed, others boomed out. Striving des Bobby's ship. "Crack-crack-'
perately to escape from the relent-
crnck." With a groan the Gerless searchlight the Nazi bomber man navigator collapsed and the dived and twisted, while gunfire Nazi bomber fell through the air, burst around his tail. like a plummet, smoke spewing from its tail.
Again and again the A.-A. gun spoke and then the Nar! bomber Flames bursting from the burst into flame, lighting the skies| fuselage, the bomber fell into a around. Down, down, down sickening spin and crashed lurching and falling into a ́dive: down, a ball of fiery wreckage. from which there would be no re- Bobby grinned and flashed his turn.
plane round to engage yet an- other of the attackers.
AGILE
The drone of B. Flight could be heard ns it rushed towards the Nazie.
"Better warn the A.-A. people дя quicksilver the before our Fighters cop it from the Spitfires danced round the Nazi guns." ordered the Group con- bombers. Still that stream of troller, accurate shooting continued.
The order was flashed by tele-! Bullet-holes appeared on the phone.. "Cease firel Cease fire!" Nazi Swastika that decorated "They would," cursed an A.-A. the plane. Twenty, thirty bul- gunner to his mate. "Yes." he re- lets plunged into it, Suddenly, plied, "the blinkin' R.A.F. swipes with a tremendous explosion, the all the fun!" .
engine burst. The plane's crew Six Spitro fighters cut across hadn't a chance, and one more the sky. Inside a Nazi bomber the Nazi bomber dropped, flaming, pilot saw three of the planes tear- to the ground,
ing towards him and his eyes nar rowed uneasily. From the other "Cornflower Red calling Sta-aldo flashed two more Spitfires. tion Control," rapped out Bobby.
Like the crack of a whip the "Have brought down two ban-machine-guns spoke. A hurricane of dits. Remainder proceeding East. May I continue action?bulleta spat around the Nazi
One flashed through the cockpit
"Cornflower Red" replied screen and struck, the plint. Ig Richardson. "Good work, carryclapped his hand to his wound and onl" He put down the micro-full, fainting, from his controls. phone. Two, not so dusty," he Out of control, his plane went dizzily into a death-spin, thick remarked.
smoke belching from its tail.
Headed due cast the Cornflower Red planes sot off. Thoy had drlyon back one attack, but there was still work to be done, harry-1
RALPH RICHARDSON ran
ing the Nazi bombers in their his hands wearlly through his
flight -
hair: "The worst part of qur
But another rald had yet to be job is waiting," he remarked.
mat
"Yes," replied his clerk. He "A Flight ". Fight take off. Ralu No. 2.looked at his watch. ordered Richardson. The nervous should be back soon." tendon of the waiting pilots was Down in the flying field the aked like an overcoat. They lunped planos of A. Flight were descend- Into their waiting planen.
ng. In the ghostly shrouded black-
MORPHY-
"No more, sir. The guns an
out," replied Bobby.
"You did very well. craft available and rest."
Get your
"They're working' on them now, xir. We'll be ready in twenty minutes time." He naused, "You'll
end up my fight again, air?"
"I anid rest!" napped Richard- sou. Bobby seemed reluctant to leave. Very well, sir," he said, with a reluctant grimace.
"Cheeky young devil," murmured Richardson as he strode out. But
he said it with a half-grin.
Richardsun turned to his work.
The Nazla were on the run that night, but danger was not yet over." by any means.. The station dare not relax.
13 M
Our BRITAIN is on guard. defences are facing the first real test since the R.A.F. struck a blow at the Kiel Canal which reverberated round the world.
The first warning of pending danger had been given to our Air Defence by Britain's under-
cover men.
From that moment, vigilance had been doubled. Our Obser. vation Corps were alert for the arrival of the invaders.
At
The Commander-in-Chief Fighter Control spoke curtly into the phone. "Southern Group?" A rald is entering your area. Deal with It."
The phone operator at Sontharg Control raised his eyebrows, "Raid? Yen, str. They're coming into the balloon barrage."
He put down the receiver and turned to the man on his right. "It looks ns if there's "oing to be some! excitement," he said, with a smile.
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