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NAZIS FLEW TOO HIGH
TO BE
HURT
By DAN CAMPBELL
(United Press Staff Correspóndent)
in this Alght, flying at the comparatively low altitude of 13,000 feet.
The lieutenant gave the range and the guns thundered. I held. on tight while bursts of smoke
"Heinkel
DOVER, Aug. 31 (UP).—I witnessed to-day one of the heaviest blastings of the broke up the formation. war against this vital port area. Nazi Germany threw fleet after fleet of warplanes Somebody called, across the channel in an obvious effort to destroy British port and airdrome facilities, crashing at two point 50" which about. Alve miles, Veterans on the gun-site which gave this part of the coast the name of "hell-fire Through the glassca wo picked corner" said they had never seen so many German planes coming over in such a short him up as he drove off from the period of time.
The gun-site is really a corner
guns slowly swinging about as
finder barked out Instructions.
means
formation, side-slipping and Amoking.
There was a tremendous back- wash of air beating hot around our pants-legs and flapping our
One after another, the altitude, whining toward coats.
of the coast jutting out towards the lieutenant at the range
Almost at the same time, a France. Far up the channel, a
Dornicr came In at a low convoy could be seen by using We stood around for an hour
the SCI. Guns glasses, and was also receiving while the gunners cursed be- 7's beat the air, sometimes in
quickly swung succession with the ominous attention of a Ger- cause "Jerry is flying too high." "wift
con around until they were firing cussions that rocked us back and almost at the coast-line. man reconnaissance plane. Some
After 30 minutes one lieuten- forth on our heels. miles in the other direction, the ant stated that "you may smoke learned to listen for the firing channel and was almost certain We scon was smoking as he crossed the Germans had already sent over outside your gun-pit," and the command and then hold on to our set to reach the French coastline a few shells to calibrate their
gunners walked out in disgust. Kuns
But a minute later they were on
along the them droning over us.
The gull- child's 11
The commands came sharps
at the
cars.
He
- plainly visible that trains
GUNFIRE WAS CONTINUOUS
1 arrived at the gun-site in the alert again. The range was There were expressions of dia. and docks at Calais stood out mid-afternoon Just as sirens in 23,000 feet and we could hear RUS! as the German planes float- clearly on the horizon. the town below and
ed far overhead through the roast began to wail.
harrage and things died down site looks! like
Thirty minutes later ngain. Christmas toy with in-hatted and fast, and the guns began to
other waves began to fly over. One gunner off duty, standing and range-finders Swing all around the compass. Kunners gathered inside the gun-pit and The Beutenant
runge I counted 24 bombers in one beside me, said. "we are going to The thin murderous noses of 3.7 under, which looks like a double. Might alone. I could hear the s up some ammunition to- nused cannon and swings around lieutenant fixing the altitude at
day,"
The like a merry-go-round, called: 18,400 feet-still a bit high for
skica within £1 Lew "Range. 148; angle, nine," and accurate firing. hut "hell-fire minutes were filled with German their bellies flashing the guns swung. leaving their corner" followed them across the planes, noses almost directly into the sky with a series of shell bursts brilliantly in the sunshine. Gun- fire WELS Almost continuous. whipping at their tails.
Eight Heinkels flashed across the channel and a neighbouring
hand. battery took a
They cheered us when shells burst among the German formation,
The German planes were
'New Order' for Europe
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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
Tuesday, September 10, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong
Telephone: 20015
Report credits Hitler with a
desire to carve
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heavens.
ON THE TARGET
Then came the order. "Um the Target!" and one clutches for
the first saluto 25
AN
THEY MADE A
MISTAKE
A few minutes inter at least more bombers-Dorniers—
R INS Mati ders" Holland. Bei-sand-bugs gium and ronred upward. Ten feet of protected by waves of Messer- coming so fast that it was almost
impossible to keep count, North-Eastern dames spouted from the muzzle schmitis roared above us. There guns swung around and around.
must have been 40 or 50 planes loosing salvo after salvo.
France. was left of the frat two world
What
of the nearest gun.
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"new order ' According to lisa almost certainly be destined as propaganda he is the predestined "protectorates" of the Gernan "liberator" of a Europe that has Reich, and the same fate would Kroated for centuries under no doubt await Denmark, Noc- British "tyranny" and for 20 way and the rump of Poland. yours under Versailles "sease. As for Prance. the Nazi Press lessness, Now that he holds has hinted at revival of
Burgundy: Aluee sway from the Vistula to the mediaval Bay of Biscay and from the Lorraine, on which Hitler had North Cape tu the Mediter. Many times proclaimed that be ranean, what is there to prevent had no designs, has already, it him from conferring on Europe seems, been unobstrusively re- the Greater some of those bendits for which incorporated in she is supposed to have been Reich; and the Nazi radio has waiting so long? Yet, as the just announced the creation of weeks pass by the only benefits an independent Brittany, Hitler conferred on the "liberated" having here apparently dis- peoples are fresh plunderings of covered an unwonted solicitude their fields and warehouses, for the rights of self-determina- more Gestapo forays, and the tion of small nations. prospect of an indefinite future Although Hitler ix clearly of humiliation and servitude. reluctant to show his hand, no Only in vague hints rather one can doubt for JE moment than in overt acts or avowals do what he would do in Europe to- we gain faint glimpses of the morrow if Britain were out of Mort of direction in which the way. He would subject the Hitler's mind is working. It whole Continent to one form or seems that countries like Hol another of political and econo land, Denmark
France mic thraldom. To save Europe and would be required to de-indus- und herself and other Continents trialise themselves, restrlet as well from that fate is the AB themselves almost exclusively meaning of Britain's fight, to agriculture and become pre- non-Axis European countries, dominantly dependent on Ger- however the free expression of many for their markets. Any opinion may for the time be such scheme would, of course, gagged, are looking to Britain to involve for all of them a tremen- restore their liberties and to dous fall in their standard of enable them to play each their living and the denial of any part in determining with us ani pretence of economic freedom. with one another what sort of As to their political status, no a Europe they shall live in. information is vouchsafed, a Their faith in us will not be dis- fact in itself sufficiently ominous, appointed.
The Head
IN a room of the Paluce of St. James, where not long ago splendid uniforms glowed in the proud ceremonial of a Royal Levee, works the Chatelaine of Heartbreak House,
DISABLED-BUT YOU
CAN'T KEEP
KEEP A
GOOD FLYER DOWN
leg. DOUGLAS BADER, the
less Flying Offerr who blasted a Dornier out of the sky. on a list of pilots set the seal whose passion for Aying above grave disabilities.
By J. D. S. ALAN Air Correspondent
rose because of his wooden leg
They laughed at Carlin when he
Eighl years ago I learned
that tried to join the R A.F, so he learned
Bader had started a special flying to By privately, ihen bullied md
Here was no due story I saw worried his way into the service
No 74 Squadron in France
Course
it went a headline such as
The
13.
Nieuport sebut The legs was
putated, but be returned to the front
io y an SE3
He was killed in a crash after his
mai bine caught fire
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WILLY Coppena, the Belgian ure (now a Chevalier), lost a leg towards The end of his brilliant war career, in was which tus sucresses Included destruc-
"Rugby Hero Flying With very sud on the day his little SE5 ton of 25 German balloona.
Two Artificial Legs.”
I consulted the Air Ministry and Was told
kd not come home.
He started flying with an ideal A few days luter I German pri- leg, and in the first two years, in sonce was brought in. He asked it which he was Ale Attache to London they had an officer with a wooden leg. and Parks, made 52 cross-Chonnel He said that a machine crashed be- trips in als small private machine.
"It is true, and we rannal ask you
Bader must behind the German lines. An officer Majur Monnock, V.C., greatest of to stop the story.
If you print the with a wooden leit tried to make his all fighting pilots, wangled his way invulded out soon. story questions will be asked, and way from the wreckage through the into the Air Force with a defective
German front line. He would not eye. stop till they cracked him over the hend with a rifle and took
he will not be allowed in finish his course "
We agreed to forget
nut
come. In until it to do Bader any hurm
The story did prisoner. was too late
Salute to Bader and those unnamed R.A.F. and Air Ministry oficials who turned the blind eye.
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The Indiun, Wiley Post, and the Imperial Airways pilot, Captain Hin- chillle, did excellent work after they "That's Carlin!" said the relieved each had lost an eye. British pilots.
☆
WAY back in 1917 Lieutenant Mor-
Karjus, nce in the Richthofen aquadron, had only one hand.
And Guynemer, most deshing of gan, M.C., of No. 40 Squadron, had all French aces, was so delicate that une leg practically severed by a shell no branch of the French infantry A VIGOROUS air Aghter in 19180,000 feet while he was flying a would accept him, was "Timbertoes" Carlin, so called
of Heartbreak House
To Heartbreak House, every day, they are sent on to the countries con- jeome long lines of people.
Each day thousands of inquiries flutter through the letter-box.
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cerned.
M M
AND who is the Chatelaine of Heartbreak House?
She would not be at all unscious for
Miss S. J.
THERE was a Foreign Office do you to know. Middle-aged, with For 12 hours every day, and often partment in the British Red Cross kind, twinkling eyes, seven days a week, she sits at her (Suciety before the war. It was only Warner does not court publicity. She desk, while through her heating when Hitler unrolled his winding-just carries on with her job, fingers run, in n ceaseless stream, the sheet over Europe that families were That is why she has just been
war's most poignant letters.
For she is the head of the "Foreign Office" of the British Red Cross So-
separated on a scale never known be- awarded the O.BE. fore.
And the Chatelaine of Heartbreak Luxury Tax Expected
and
clety and it is her job to provide House, with a few friends, decided to a link between thousands of anxious help in the task of soothing the men-
New Budget Plans people in this country and their re-tal anguish of their relatives
Sir Kingsley Wood, Chancellor of latives lost in Poland, Norway, friends.
the Exchequer, may make an an- Czecho-Slovakia, Franca, Italy, Bel- To-day, 65 people work with her.nouncement In the House of Com- glum, Denmark, Holland, and the All; save the shorthand-typists, work mons on the future of the Purchase Channel Isles.
unpaid...!!
Tax Bill.
It Is expected at. Westminster that They send all addresses and part!- the bill will be dropped and that the culars to the Red Cross headquarters tax itself, will figure in 'n modilled in Genova, where, after being filed, form in the Budget as a luxury tax.
She works to give hope to thou sends who without it would have only despair.
ZEL.
ONWARD HEATHEN SOLDIERS!