Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
May 30, 1940.
WOUNDED PILOT'S THRILLING ANYBODY SEEN
And She Was RACE AGAINST DEATH
6 Times A Bridesmaid!
"THREE times a bridesmaid, never a bride," say the super- stitious.
But Miss Jennie Wright was six times a bridesinald-and in the same church every time.
Sho stood at the same attar again recently, and despite the super- siltion, this time she was the bride. And on the thirteenth of the month. All her seven skaters were married
nt the church.
Miss Wright aged twenty-alx, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Wright of. Shinwell-cres- cent, Thornley, Co. Durham, wed twenty-five-year-old Mr. John Wil- Jams of Wellfield-road, Wingate.
"Used to It!"
at
Like all her sisters before her, the bride arrived exactly on time, on the arm of her father Bow-street Methodist Church, Thornley. It was Mr. Wright's seventh appearance in this role in twenty-two years.
His wife saw the fulfilment of her dearest wish to see all her daughters married.
But she was not excited. "After all," she told a reporter, "1 am used to weddings now. Two of my daugh→ ters were married on one day.".
1
All the bride's seven married Kiser attended the service, and all their husbands except ono. Sergeant Tom Luke, whin stationed in the South of England. All their children, totalling alleen. were there, too,
GETS GREETING EARLY-Dorothy Lamour, screen and radio star-the one without the Sald the bride later: "We didn't sarong-receives aloha and hula-hula business realise it was the thirteenth of the long before reaching Honolulu. She's about to month when we fixed the date.
Heave San Francisco for Hawaii vacation. we aren't superstitious."
But
Wandered for 20 Years: Mourned
BOY
FIGHT WITH
DESTROYER
BLEEDING from a head wound, the wings and tail of his plane punctured with bullets, and one of his two engines out of action, a Royal Air Force pilot of the Coastal Command, has returned from a 350-mile journey across the North Sea with valuable information.
Another plane, after fighting a Ger- man destroyer and putting out of action a Dornier 18, has reached home after a thrill- ing 200-mile race against a leaking petrol
tank.
Gauntlet of Fire
-The thrilling stories told by these two pilots. were released to the Press in London recently.
Though fired on incessantly by anti-aircraft batteries and repeatedly attacked by Nazi fighters, the first machine carried out a long solo survey of fiords and harbours in south-west Norway.
The pilot set off from a Scottish base and after reaching the Norwegian coast worked south- wards.
He flew up and down every ford because the cliffs were so steep that ships could be seen only from directly overhead.
From the moment that they reached the Norwegian coast they had to run the gauntlet of heavy fire.
SOLD BY
BY GIPSIES FINDS HIS MOTHER
A SOLDIER who was "sold" by gipsies when a boy! walked into the home of his parents, who for years had mourned him as dead.
The soldier is Private Tom horse dealer who made him work O'Donnell, eldest son of Mr. and like a slave from dawn til dusk. Mrs. G. O'Donnell, of North- down-road, Welling, Kent.
He ran away from home 30 years ago, when aged 16.
"When he was 10 he cleared off
to the West of England, and for ten years did casual work.
"lle was now a strappingTMyoung
Although police scoured the coun-man six feet tall. try, not a word was heard of him.
Mr. and Mrs O'Donnell, living that time at Monali-avenue, Eltham, Kent, were heartbroken, but took comfort from their other three sons and four daughters.
Work at Homo
"All the time, he was trying to find but could not, for we had moved away from Eltham. Letters he wrote
Audience Walked Out On Stor Turns
MISSBEATRICE LILLE were returned by the Post Office. the actress, told a thrilling story "After joining the Army, Inst Sep-of her experience during the air tember, he wrote to the Town Clerks raid on Orkney recently when
asking of Woolwich and Bexley
for Service men. them to trace us. In one letter he she was taking part in a concert suld I was the only company not to receive a letter on The-rald warning sounded when Christains Day.
Tommy Trinder was in the middle of an act," said Miss Lille
что
our amazement the entire audience marched
out of the hall with no sign of excitement.
in my one
Then recently Tom walked back Into their lives to tell them how he had been taken away by gipsies who -later-goldhim. ..to. a horse dealer when they had no more use for him.
one "When he saw me at the front door But he has enjoyed only
me instantly, kissed me week's reunion with his parents, for he knew he-la-in-a-regiment due to go over-inn hugged me, and then fell crying seas immediately.
"We had given him up for dead
until he walked in," his mother said.
at my Tect asking to be forgiver.."
"I could scarcely believe my eyes HOLLAND'S GOVERNOR when the Town Clerk of Bexley
wrote that he had a letter from a
soldier who was looking for his Seyss-Inquart Takes Post
parents and
our
that the description appiled to us.
sent In kope and fear we photographs, and the next thing we knew there was Tom at the door in Adventure Stories
uniform,
caravans.
In Ceremony
It was the fist uns in our ex perience that an entire audienco had walked out on us,
Warning Again
"Hastily I changed from my stage dress into a jumper and slacks, but Just as we were making for the alr rald shelter. we heard the 'all clear.' Amsterdam, May 29. "Soon the concert was in progress The radio announces that Dr. again, but after only a few turns Seyss-Inquart will oficially assume the warning was repeated. Again 1 civil Government authority in Ger had to put off my stage dress for men-occupied Netherlands to-day.jumper and slacks and take shelter. "This happened three times dur-
The pilot had just completed his "beat" and was about to return to his base when hidden machine-gun pusts opened tremendous fire from one alde of the last Bord, wounding the plot in the head.
At that moment the starboard en- gino falled.
Any Blue-Pencil TROOPS!
A BRIGADIER arrived at a north-west army depot to inspect a battalion of troops,
There was no guard, so like any humble man the Brigadier knocked on the gate for some minutes.
A watchmara appeared and told the Brigadier that there were no men to in-. spect. There was only the depot cat. The Brigadier sald
The question now arises "Who gave the gallant Brigadier, the wrong, ad- dress?" Or, "Is. It the right address and the Bat- fallon has been mislaid?"
'CONCHIE
NOW AN OFFICER
A YOUNG man who register- ed as a conscieritious objector
and was directed by a tribunal to take up non-combatant duties is now serving as a second licu-
tenant.
He is not, however, in the present fighting zones. He is in the Middle East.
The ofleer's father, Mr. W. J. Hayley, a business man in Cater- ham, Surrey, explained his son's position. He pointed out that his Jast son, Leslie Hayley, was 22 November, and had worked for four years as a clerk in the printing and stationery department at the Wur
OM.co.
Is seemed very used there," sald bir. Hayley. "Last July, about three months before the war, he was told that his department was making certain arrangements over- seas, and he was given to under- stand that he might be placed there,
war
With only one engine and with "I suppose they thought he was a
job. Then bullet holes in wings and tailplane, good man for the the wounded pilot successfully com- broke out and he had to register. He conscientious pleted a sea crossing of 350 miles to stated that he had a his base.
objection to fighting, and told the tribunal that he was willing to serve. in the RA.M.C.that he would the sooner go into No Man's Land and the save a life than shoot somebody. So they registered him as a non-com- batant
Race for Homo)
The second plane, a long-range reconnaissance aircraft of Coastal Conimand patrolling North Sea, ran into a snowstorm,
The pilot dived through the storm
"Later he was offered s job over- to-attaci a German destroyer, and
·seas-with-a-corramission, and after. at 1,500 feet ppened fire. He swept
talking over the matter with me the decks of the vessel until within!
he accepted. 500 feet of his torget.
"He a really doing his old work, Then a Domler flying boat upand Banncially peared.
there can be very The
British plot did not little difference." give the German time to attack, but got on its trail at once.
The
A Girl On Crew A Poster Is. "Dressed"
Domier, riddled with bullets! away, losing height, with both en-
on fire and little or no chance: Kincs and severely damaged, finally got
British of reaching land.
At this point the found that a shot hind pierced their Fuel tank,
escaping petrol rapidly and with half the North Sea to cross, they began a race home against the leaking tank.
Was
In poor visibility, but with nc- curate navigation and careful nurs ing of petrol consumption, the plane. returned safely.
BRITISH IN NARVIK Germans Admit Fall Of Norwegian Port
-Result: -Everybody.
Quite Satisfied!
BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT POSTER ADVERTISING A REVUE CALLED "SOIK. DE PARIS" AT WAS EMFILE THE CHATHAM OBJECTIONABLE, CLERGYMEN OF THE MEDWAY TOWNS OF CHATHAM. ROCHESTER AND GILLINGHAM SENT A LETTER OF PROTEST TO THE MANAGE-
OF PRO
"He told us that after he ran away The ceremony will take place in the
The poster showed a girl, lightly clad, holding a glass of wine in her he went 'hopping in Kent, eating Hall of Knights at The Hague in the Ing the concert, which, however, we
finish in great style.
London, May 29.
hand. anything the gipsies gave him, and presence of the leading German and brought to
The British War Office and Minis- "I cannot say I was frightened,
All Satisfied! sleeping in the hedges or under the Dutch authorities-United Press.
Dr. Seyss-Inquar! was appointed although it was my first experience try of Information announce that the
have taken Narvik. Two But the management saw nothing! of Austria after the of an air raid. In fact, I enjoyed Allies
Forzneset, wrong in the hamlets, Fagernes and "But when work became scarce the Governor
picture which they every minute of it."
refused to withdraw. ipales 'sold*
him to a travelling orschluss.
are also in Allied bands.
The Germans also admit the loss Rather than appear discourteous of Narvik which has been continous to the Ministers, however, they
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ly attack by Allled forces and R.AF.visited all the advertising sites and be bombera.
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Now only her head and shoulders
of the revue The Germans had held Narvik and the name since April 8, the day when they in showing. vaded Norway-Reuter Bulletin.
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Former Hongkong
Taipan Dies At Jersey -
Young Welshman Arrives
From New Guinea
After throwing up his job es plan- Eldest son of a family which came tation overseer in New Guinea, a to Hongkong in 1802, Mr. William young Welshman, Mr. O. L. Jones, died at Jersey, Channel arrived in Hongkong on Tucɑday Adamson
night by British liner to try and Islands, on May 20.
The late Mr. Adamson was born enlist for service overseas in the in Singapore in 1800 and was the Army. eldest son of the late Mr. William Adamson, then of the Borneo Com-
"I was holated on Kaba Island and
HOW wounded seamen of H.M.S. Gurkha were pany and who later was a partner in did not know until two months later a Director of the P. and O. Company, been sent from Rabaul to join the lashed to tables and chairs and thrown overboard to be Adomson, Gallen and Company and that a party of 50 volunteers bad- saved was described by survivors who reached home re-The family came to Hongkong in Australian Imperial Forces. It was 1662 and lived at Blue Bungalow, off not until a copra salp arrived that found out that I had missed my Peak Rood, which was one of the cently.
Mr. Jones said that many men hack One of the survivors, James Cooke, of Lovely-lane, Warringarst houses built above the Botanical chance," he said.
Adamson was volunteered for service overseas int ton, arrived at his home in a beflagged street just before midnight, Cordens.
lato Mr. to be told that his sister was seriously ill in hospital.
educated at the Dollar Academy in New Guinea, but they had to pass a Ho hurried there, arriving a few ship the better. We are all dying Scotland and later went to Rangoon strict medical examination and many
to get our revenge on the Germans for Mesars. Steel Brothers, after had been rejected momenta before she died,"
"I was in the water a quarter of for
Tho
on-account of which he was in Sandakan, in British fover. He has been two years in father is ex-Police-ser-North Borneo, and the Straits Settle New Guinch. an hour before being pleked up." Cooke told, the Dolly Sketch. "geant Cooko whose three sons are ments. He eventually returned to never wanted to leam to swim, but all serving, with the Forces, Ralph, London where he started his own in 1920. Among other Companies, I thank my lucky stars that..did so. (16) is training for the Navy, whlic firm of Adamson, Watson and Com- he was a director of the South Chinn
Waller, who is married is in the pany, who were eventually appointed Morning Post, Ltd.
London agents of Shewan Tomes andThe late Mr. Adamson was a first "PETTY-OFFICER RADFORD
Ardy,
class golfer and was Captain of Wes FOUND ONE MAN SERIOUSLY
Five. Oldham men were serving on Company, INJURED, HE STRAFTED KIM
the destroyer and one of them, Ablo In 1903, Shewan Tomes and Com-Herts Golf Club. The Adamson Cup WITTORI: JIE TO
A TABLE
Séaman Clifford Heywood, of Lee-pany acquired the London business which he presented, is still competed THREW OVERBOARD AND
street, has retumed toma on 14 and the late Mr. Adamson became the for nt Happy Valley. lie had a very PTISHED ALONG
day leave. He was in the water London Manager. He returned to wide circle of friends in the Colony about three minutes before being Hongkong in July 1916 and eventually and since 1937 hu has been residing
up.
***became a partner in the firm, retiring at Jersey, Channel Islands. eked
IN WATER UNTIL THEY WERE RESCUED.
The sooner I get back to another