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GAVE COAT TO HER BROTHER
GIRL OF 12 HEROINE QUEENS & ALHAMBRA OF TORPEDOED LINER
TWELVE-YEAR-OLD Ann Meryl Reid was one of six schoolchildren being privately evacuated to America when their ship, a 5,000-ton freighter, was torpedoed without warning' in the Atlantic:
But Ann refused to be scared. She showed such courage and resource that the crew are going to recommend, her for a medal.
Fast Cars, New-Type Machine-Guns Americans In London Arm To Aid Britain
The six children were saved. They were among 21 survivors landed in Northern Ireland.
Sailor's Praise
"Ann wax Httle heroine," said one of the crew, "She gave a coat to her little brother and put another coat around some orphan children." Meryl and her brother Nigel, aged 11, nro the chilesen of Mr. Andrew, |Reid, an ophthalmic surgeon of
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Lifeboats Missing
LIEUT:-GENERAL Sir Bertram Sergison-Brooke, Shirley. Surrey; and Cecil Fatrow General Officer Commanding the London Area, recently (15), n.pubile schoolboy, of Ealing. inspected equipment which Mr. A. P. Buquor has had shipped from the United States for the American Mobile Defence units which he has organised among American business men in London,
Nazi Radio Knows How To Take A Hint
Intensity of the R.A.F. raids on Germany seems likely to force all German radio stations to close down nightly at 10 o'clock.
Thees units are immediately under Sir Bertram's control and are to form a special mobile re- serve, which can be rushed, if
Two Hreboats containing 3i mem-
be of the crew are missing. Seven torpedo exploded.
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The Higbont with the survivors drifted away from the two others, and was picked up by a Yugo-Slavian steamer after several hours,
Children On Deck Children were playing on
plane bombed
fence system Immediately round near the Irish Coast,
deck and
need be, to any point in the de-machine-gunned a G.W.H. Steamer London.
They were rushed to safety by an airman going home on leave.
Two Irishmen were killed in the
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So impressed was the general with! the latest type of machine gun which ship, which was taking passengers Mr. Buquor hos purchased for the from a South Walea port.
An Irish nurse who attended the units that he proposes to form special machine-gun squads so that these injured men tore off her weapons can be used to the best clothing to use as bandagen. The public bus now learned that advantage. Geiman radio silence mcana the These machine-guns, which the bombers of the R.A.F. are busy over general saw taken from the high- enemy territory
powered cars of the unit and assem- Radio stations make excellent novi- bled on the ground within 20 seconds, gation aids for the bombers are quite are caly part of the armament of ready to use German stations if the these American units. enemy is kind enough to keep brond. |
custing.
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of the German stations on one night (vers, each have a crew of four, and can now be told,
how in addition to the machine-guns are jumpy the enemy must be,
Sir Archibald Sinclair, the Minister, was speaking in Parliament. in one sentence he said: ". there wil the strong arm of the R.A.F. reach out, and is reaching out this very night, and there we shall bycok the fetters with which Hitler reeks to bind the peoples of Europe"
armed with automatic rites, revol. Ahrvers, and grenades.
The Minister's words were sent out on the news tapes. A few minutes liter all German radio stations sud- denly closed down
The war of nerves Feems lo he vreolling on the Nazis.
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OAKLAND, Cal., Aug. 28.- Lloyd M. Taylor, designer of an he says In each car there is a receiving airplane motor which wireless set, and staff cara are equip-can be made us fast as tin cans ped with transmitters working on a are made, said to-day that he special wave-length alloited by the had given exclusive manufac War Office and Air Ministry.
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KOWLOON PREPARES AMBULANCE WORKERS' LARGE SCALE EXERCISE All Kowloon divisions of the St. John Ambulance Brigade numbering about 400 men and 150 nurses took part in large senle exercises yester day morning.
New Metal Process First aid posts were manned and Every one of the thirty-two in the BELLINGHAM, Wash., Aug. 20- something. Lord Charles C. Berg, 81-year-old engineer "casualties" were reported and clear- exchange gave ed to the following stations, the Pre- Beaverbrook acknowledged. The gift and metallurgist, claimed to-day to cious Blood Hospital, Maryknoll Con- by letter personally.
have found a new formula to produce vent School, Heep Yunn School and "Miss Rawle is so proud of it that] beryllium alloys in the past con- the Out-patients Department, Kow-I think she is going to have lonn Hospital.
She will frame, the thanks and can develop 1250 horsepower,
Miss F. R. Rawie, day supervinor
Taylor, a young mechanle in an at Winchester telephone exchange, Ouidland truck factory, said he and was the telephone operator who col- another mechank, George A. Selig. lected thirty-eight shillings from the who is employed in an airplane fac- staff for Spitfire screws, which Lord tory at Burbank had worked on the Beaverbrook acknowledged in his idea four years. broadcast.
framed," guld a friend.
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Beryllium copper is of great im- portaree to the aviation industry.
Berg said he had produced his metal ut a very low cost and had used it in'actual practice for bearings, Bushings and diamond drills.
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Daring Attack By Japanese
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Produced by GOMERUTH LAROY.
B.W.O.F. Workers
Women are reminded that the Sewing Centre at Government House meets every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, from '@'aan, until 12.30 p.m. Helpers are urgently required, to meet the demand for hospital sup- plies
For the information of B.W.OF. knitters, the Kolting: Contra at the Helena May Institute will be closed on Thursday next, the "Double 10th,“ feld, Chinese-anti-parachutist troops and flics, but their aim was, erratic opened, fre with light machine-guns
Japonese Base, Oct. 5.... For the second time since the war Japanese airmen landed on a Chinese serodrome to set fire to grounded as they were too much surprised by Chinese planes on Friday. the boldness of the. Japanese. Suc
nini cessfully setting fire to six aircraft; Raiding the Tapingssu aerodrome the Japanese aviators broke into the near Chenglu, capital of Szechuan, airdeid headquarters, which they also four Japanese naval fighters out of act on fire. They then turned their a large fighter formation with four attention, to gasoline tanks. hon-commissioned naval fliers under The Biers, then returned to their the command of Lieutenant Tamotsu machines inserthed and took off Yokoyamo, Senior Grade, landed an amid the burning Chinese machines the aerodrome after shooting down and buildings to return to their baso five Soviet-bullt 1-15 fighters and one safely madha në ja Sovici-bullt SB bomber. The day's bas consisted of
The landing was with a view to Chiese aeroplanes The Japanese setting fire to six grounded Chinese raiders appeared over Changtu at planes which were damaged by 2.30 o'clock in the afternoon w machine-gunning which previously Tt will be recalled that on July set fire to 10 other grounded at Nanchang Chinese grounded ma machines.
chinty and hangars at the Nanchang aerodrome were set alite ing by Japanese nával d the mand of Lieutenant Koyama, Junto
With a box of matches in one hand and pistol In the other commissioned oficers Jum the cockpits and sped
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