Friday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
June 13, 1941.
DONALD DUCK
GOOD TALKER, PAL!
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"LOOK, I'LL GUARANTEE HE'LL TALK WHEN YUH GET.
HIM HOME... HE'S BASHFUL OUTDOORS!
YEAH? LET'S HAVE
THAT IN WRITING!
HERE'S YOUR GUARANTEE! BUT IF HE TALKS,
YUR GOTTA KEEP HIM!
OKAY. BUDDY, THAT'S FAIR!
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CONTRACT How to Play
BRIDGE
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How to Win
- By JOSEPHINE CULBERTSON-
Match-Point Technique
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been the best way of securing # good correct play would have match-point score is to battle against overtake the queen ami return the ten. Thus, with the hope, that the overtricks.
Take to-day's hand for example. heart ace lay in Enst's hand, de- East's first play would have been clarer held up his spade net,
24, per- wrong at rubber bridge, since it cut mitting East's king to win. When a down his team's chance to defeat third spade lead failed to material- ashiking sensa- the contract. But East shrewdly ize, declarer hud calculated that that chance was vir- tion that he had been bamboozled, tually nil, anyway, bence one but it was too late now. Declarer
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might otherwise be lost,
South dealer.
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To-morrow's Hand
South dealer.
Both sides vulnerable.
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They Call Us Ancient
"WELCOME to an
Ancient and By Tattered Airman," shouted, one of the
RAF men as the new trainer plane touched down on the airfield.
The pilot smiled, bulky and shapeless in flying suit, with helmet and parachute. Out on the ground he came in for a lot of hearty slaps on the back and a good rowdy RAF welcome.
At last, in desperation, and to the confusion of the unofficial reception com- mittee, the pilot pulled off his helmet.
The "Ancient and Tat- tered Airman" was a wo- man-and very far from being either ancient or tattered.
I should know, because she is one of my collea-
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Airmen "
fighter, for no matter how
A Woman long you've been a pilot, there
Ferry Pilot
And as to adventure- well, our job is to keep out of it.
When you are delivering a brand new plane worth thousands of several pounds, you don't dawdle about in the sky on the look-out for a Messersch-
mitt.
You've got to get to your destination on time and leave the scraps with the enemy to the RAF.
On the other hand, fly- ing in wartime is a very different proposition from peacetime aviation.
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To-day the "Tele- graph" presents the first of an occasional series of articles entitled
is no thrill in the world like flying faster than you have. ever done before.
We report for duty every morning at nine. By that time Pauline Gower, chief of the women's unit, is already receiving instructions for the day's work from Central Con- trol.
Planes are waiting to be picked up from a factory in
the north of Scotland, from another in the west of Eng- land, They have to ba de- livered to, say, the Midlands or the South Coast. The Ferry Officer is busy working out the routes.
NIGHTMARE
Within a few minutes we are piling into one of the "ferry taxis"-a big plane that sets off every morning with a dozen or more pilots squatting on the floor and delivers them one by one to the factories where they are to collect.
Having delivered
your plane to the R.A.F. station and got your delivery chit
gues, one of the first wo- Women. Ing signed by the officer who re-
men members of Air Tran- sport Auxiliary, recruited just over a year ago to help the men in this big job of ferrying-new-air--. craft from factories to RAF stations.
OTHERWISE A.T.A.
Don't blame the RAF for the title, "Ancient and Tattered Airmen." The men pilots of A.T.A. them- selves decided that this is what A.T.A. stands for.
The reason is that they are all, airmen debarred from service with the RAF for reasons of health or age.
And the way to recog- nise a ferry pilot's sex has become an important part of the RAF's unofficial training.
I gather there is one infallible rule-wait till .... the pilot takes off his hel- met, and if it's a woman -even with a closely crop ped head-she will shake her hair loose!
Although we are the only, women in Britain whose war work takes them up into the air (even W.A.A.F. are still the earth-bound), we do not regard ourselves as heroi- nes and our lives are not one great adventure.
ADVENTURE?-NO!
Flying may sound very exciting, but long before the war most of us were earning a living in civil aviation, with the result that piloting a warplane is no more unusual to us than driving a car
Wartime
written by women, but -not necessarily for women. The articles will show the currents of thought and feeling of British women during this great war.
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We have none of the us- ual aids to navigation to help us. We can't pore over meteorological ports and postpone a flight for a day or two if we don't fancy the weather.
Although the A.T.A. is still a purely civilian service, the R.A.F. needs the new planes that are pouring out just as quickly as it can get get them.
We were "delivering the goods" right through the winter of 1939-40. And that was one of the severest win- ters for fifty years.
We have to keep an eye out for prohibited areas, balloon barrages and other devices, and it is advisable to make
quite sure before touching down that we have been re- cognised and are expected!
R.A.F. stations have their own kind of welcome waiting for un-recognised planes in wartime.
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DAY'S ROUTINE
So far the women's unit of tho A.T.A., which is attached to an aerodromo 'quite near London, ferries only trainer planes.
Spitfires and Hurricanes, heavy bombers, and all the new planes now in production “are still delivered by the men, though we have hopes of pro- motion..
Eve Every one of us is just longing to get at the controls of a big bomber, or new
ceives it, you may have to get yourself on to another fac- tory by train or car or you may be picked up later by the ferry taxi on ita return jour- ney
Do not imagine because we have all been flying for years that we did not need any training when we joined the A.T.A.
Every member goes through a course, for the bigger the machine the more complicated are the controls.
When you first come across the panel of an Anson or a Magister aftor the simple dashboard of a Puas Moth, you think you've walked. straight into a nightmare.
Yet in a day or two you find you know all the knobs and and handica, the wheels and clocks and gauges more or less by heart.
There is nothing spectacular about an A.T.A. pilot's life. The women do the same work as the men except that the planes they fly are smaller and easier to handle and the women's unit is just a small part of one big organisation. "WE GET AROUND"
We certainly get around a bit-only the other day one of my colleagues found herself flying over her own home in the country.
To her annoyance she noticed that the people to whom she had lot the house had left the garage door open. When she got back she tele phoned them about it-they are still wondering how on earth she found out!'
There is one thing of which we are justly proud. It is not the excitement and the glani- our but the simple fact that we have delivered hundreds of now planes to the RAF in the last fifteen months de.. livored thom safely and on time.
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PEACEFUL LONDON—It's nows to find a street in London that isn't ripped to piocos by bombs. This is scono in Rogent Street Quadrant as it appeared on May 7. It's unmarked by air raidors.
British Buying Agents Storming
Washington
There is a sly saying in Washington these days that more British people are storming the United States capital now than on August 24, 1814, when Major-General Ross 4000 redcoats took over the town.
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It is a friendly observation, however, but one not entirely without merit, considering the numbers of Canadians, Britons and Australians coming and going on various missions to hasten food and munitions shipments to the United Kingdom under the $7,000,000,000 lend-lease law.
The boss of this business, 1 He commonly is called a "super- called the "British Council of salesman in reverse." since he is Supply in North America, 1s buying-Ile-gives-orders-to-a-for.
midable array of knights and briga- Arthur B. Purvis, who was born diers with a brisk good humour and in England 60 years ago, but for relaxation files to his home and who has been a business man in family in Montreal. Canada for the last 20.
U.S.
Government officials Buy Purvis, a short, thin and bright-eyed human dynamo, is just about the braintest business man they over en- countered.
Purvis is using Canadians contact men because they speak American" and obviate the neces Ally of winning this country to the mannerisms of the Oxford- Recent British officer and civil ser- vant.
Staff Of 1600
His leadoff contact men are Leslio They like him and he likes them. G. Chance, Ottawa civil servant, and mutual friends say, personally firat, C, T. Baliintyne, Montreal lawyer. then professionally to the tune of The bulk of the staff are Canadians, $2,700,000,000 of cash-and-carry war- although it includes many decorated planes, guns, tanks, ammunition and Brilish war veterans, most of whom other supplies be has purchased dur-serve as guards. ing the last 15 months.
the British staff in
Actually, Washington approximates 1500, with
York. another 500 in New
British and American officials say the amount of supplies going to Britain and Allies will be almost doubled during 1041-42 under the lend-lease programme.
NOEL COWARD
Working For Country
"I have felt very unhappy about the things that have been said about Purvis will head it all up as chair-me," Mr Noel Coward stated shortly man of the British council of nine after his arrival in England after men. His only superior in America 18 months in several parts of the is Lord Halifax, the Ambassador, world on various missions. member of the War Cabinet.
"I have no official copacity" ho sold. "If you want to describe my The council Includes Morris W- position just call me an Englishman son, deputy chairman, who is a per- at large. I have been working for sonal representative of Lord Beaver- this country since the first day of the brook. Wilson is president of the war, and I intend to go on working Royal Bank of Canada at Montreal. for it till the last day, or beyond."
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