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February 23, 1940.
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How the R.A.F. Ended A Dornier Raider's Career
STORY BEHIND AN OFFICIAL
AIR
MINISTRY
BULLETIN
NEUTRAL FLAGS MEAN NOTHING TO THE NAZIS
THE DUTCH motorship Arendskerk, showing the bow clearly painted with the Datel colours. The pleture was taken Just before she left a Dutch port on the fetal trip, in which | she was sunk: Germany's. contempt for the neutrals is exemplified in the torpedoing of this ship.-Domel.
Pigeon-Killing
Days For Britain
are
Nation-wide Shoots to kill að wood-pigeons T Dritain. ptunned,_together, by Whitehall, the farmers and the forestry ex- perts.
The pigeons Boine in thousands from Scandinavia onnually, and are multiplying rapidly. Greedy birds, they will eat almost every- thing a former grows; in a recent test 1,200 seeds of corn found in one bird's crop.
were
Heil! Hier ist Sandy
SANDY the Synthetic Scot is the Intest acquisition of the German
radio.
I understand from an exclusive source that Hamburg station have re- cently engaged a former Swiss actor who toured in vaudeville under the stage name of Jimmle Stuart.
G.B.S. Would Sell Art--
£2
£5
Plain And Coloured
By STUART FLETCHER
BERNARD SHAW wants a notice up in every room at the Royal Academy announcing that any coloured picture there can be bought for £5, and any plain picture
Shaw Film Producer Now British
for £2.
[Enemy aircraft were ac tive off our coasts during the day, attempting to carry out reconnaissances.
Précau. tionary measures were taken and active defences put into operation, including anti- aircraft guns, An enemy aircraft was forced down. It was a Dornier flying-boat. -Official Bulletin.]
And here is the story of the {0ght:-
Two aircraft of the Royal Air Porec Consial Command recently jengaged in battle two big twin- engined German Dornier 18 lying-boats. One enemy machine was destroyed and the second driven off with no, loss to the | British.
Flying in formation on recounais- sance patrol, one of the two British aircraft sighted a German flying-boat. The British aircraft warned its com- panion, and the two formed up for attack. Then in turn they dived on the Dornier, getting in bursts of gun- tre on the enemy's engines and fuse- lage. The Dornker mude a steep turn so as to bring both front and rear guns into nelton, the German gunner succeeding in getting home [] shat on one British attacker, but without vífeel.
The two British aircraft also turn- ed, and climbed into position for further attacks. One dived head on to the enemy, landing a burst of fire into his starboard wing. The other
Nazi ́Terror”
Ultimatum Angers Dutch
WITH brutal swiftness Narl Germany has made good her threat to take "aclive measures" agalut the Dutch if they refusel to knuckle under to demands for a pro-German '"neutrallly."
"Germany, fighting for her existence, does not hesitate to regard the attitude of passive neutrality of certain countries as deliberate assistance to the enemy," said the Nazi spokesman in Berlin.
Shortly afterwards, the 8,000- ton Dutch motor-ship Tajandoen was torpedoed in the Channel and several of her crew of 48 are missing.
A WAVC
horror swept through Holland when the news of the sinking became known. But so far from being Intimidat- ed by the German threats, the Dulch showed more determina- tion than ever to resist them.
Only a low hours after she had rescued 24 survivors of the TaJaudoen, the Belgjan steamer Louis Bheld (6,000 tons) run ashore in a gale near Start Point. Heavy seas battered her as she lay on the eastern end of the brach, Isting heavily and com- pletely at the mercy of the storm. Eight men who were lost when the Washington (200 tons), an Admirally trawler, was mined off the East Coast are thought to be the first vletims of the mines dropped from the air by Nazis carlier in the day.
NO EARLY COLLAPSE
OF HITLER
"I DO not believe in an early followed up with a steep dive from collapse of Germany. It is a behind, Bring continuously until
within a few yards of the Dornier sound maxim to be prepared for and raking it at pointblank range. the worst." Whilst the enemy repeated his strep-
That advice was given by Major-
turn manoeuvre, the first-British-at- tacker climbed above him and dived General Sir Frederick Maurice, pre- sident of the British Legion. In a again from another quarter, getting message to the annual conference of in a burst of fire
fire on The cockpit the Metropolitan Area Women's Sec- before pulling out into a climbing
tion of the Legion in London. - tura.
The second British alreraft of gunfire into both the engines of then attacked again, landing bursts: the German, but recelving in return
e fuselage.
another bullet in the rear part of
End Of A Dornier
He says that if the Red Cross (on With blue smoke streaming from whose behalf the exhibition is being its engines the Dornier, out of control, held) is to make any money out of dived into the sea. One of the British it, prices must be drastically reduced. aircraft then returned to its base to The Academy," in his opinion," investigate any damage due to the "must abandon the tradition that hits it had received. The second artists ... must price their works British aircraft stayed to watch the in tens, hundreds and thousands of end of the enemy, which heeled over and sank after the crew had taken ABRIEL PASCAL, the Hungarian guineas."
Among the artists exhibiting are to their dinghy. who persuaded Bernard Shaw fierald Brockhurst and Augustus to allow him to film "Pygmalion." John, both of whom charge 1,000 At this point a second Dornier was has become a naturalised English-guineas for commissioned portraits. sighted. Again this was below the "tyginalion" had its share in making exhibitors about Shaw's Idea
I told some of their fellow British aircraft, which immediately dived to the attack with the sun British film history.
they said:
7731.
of
It cost less than £80,080-parily be-lesmanship yesterday. This is what
cause Mr. Show was very accom- modaling about his fees.
Can't Ho Add ?
"We have not really begun to feel the pinch yet; but it would be foolish and a useless opilmism to suppose that the pinch will not come," he wrote.
"We have won the first round, have still tremendous resources to put into the field, and can therefore regard the result with complete confidence but not with a confidence that makes us lax or selfish.
"There may be many more rounds; besides the first. All our available effort will be needed,"
Sir Frederick asked women to economise. He declared it had been said with some truth that what an English household wasted would feed a French family.
behind it. Both the British pilot and mecessive diving attacks of its ad- his rear gunner fired bursts, hitting versury, After a number of bursts the enemy's engines and fuselage. of gunfire had been seen to hit the This second Dorulee attempted de- German, both aircraft entered the
In America, so far, it has taken over C. W. it. Nevinson: "What a silly | fensive tacties similar to those of the clouds, where the enemy made good
£300,000. In Britain the relurus old gentleman! Can't he add? A first, turning streply to meet the his escape,
have been £240,000.
frame alone costs £5. What about
When he secured the rights from Mr. paint and canvas?”
He speaks English with an "ersatz" Edinburgh accent, and is believed to be taking the place of the former English speaker, Prince Orloff, # White Russian, who has left Ger- many, fearing the consequences of could the Soviet pact.
Sandy's job, it is thought, will be to try to win over Scots workers un Clydealde and elsewhere with bulle-| ting in synthetic dialect.
Other English speakers-possibly three or four of thêm-will also re- lieve Haw-How In the near future. I understand,
BOWL OF RICE MOVE
Chinese Resident's Plan For "Rellef
At ́yesterday's "meeting of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce the Secretary ariñounred' that resident, Mr. Pung Tre-thon, had': suggested that Hongkong should follow the example of Chinese, In. Americs in organising a Bowl of Rice movement secure funds for the relief of Chinese and British refugees 'In the war zincat RANGS OF A DOZE
Mr. Pang ina also written to the Wah Kiu-Yat Po, outlining his schomo in which he hopen-tà pocurp $2,000,- 600 for relief.
"
Shaw, Pascal confessed frankly Colin Colahan, who has just com- that he had no money. Then he plcted a portrait of Show: "If plc- set about raising funds where he tures came down in price people could be encouraged to buy them as "Major Barbara"
they buy books and records-to look
Now Pascal is at work on another at and hear when they feel like it. Shaw subject. "Major Barbara," "At present they pay so much that Tho great author has written a new they feel they have got to hung a scene in which the treatment of the|pleture on the wall, and have the armamenta question is given a wretched thing staring at them for topical significance,
the rest of their lives, to get their
Wendy lifler, the Eliza of "Pygma- money's worth."
lion," plays the Salvation Army Sir Edwin Lutyens, President of the officer of the title, and Dame Bybll Royal Academy, told me that some Thorndike, who was Major Bar- scheme for a reduction in prices was barn in the 1929 revival, comes into under consideration. Recently he the film as another Salvation Army sold one of his own sketches at a oharacter.
village fate for five shillinpet,
Arms Maker
Robert Morley plays the armaments:
manufacturer. Others in the parts alrendy cast in- clude Maria Lohr, Jean Cadell, Walter Hudd and David Tres.
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