1939-03-25 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 25, 1989

PLAY CHESS WHEN THEY COME TO EARTH

Pilots, radio operators, and hos-1 tesses in the giant air liners that dash across Europe at three miles a minute, were my hosts at Croy- don Aerodrome, writes a reporter.

Their room; to outward appear .ance, seemed the peaceful-lounge of a sedate private hotel. In a mur- mur of conversation groups of men played chess and bridge, or sat, absorbed in books, round a coal fire. Here and there a pretty young woman bent over her knitting or sowing and outside the gale blew.

This was scenes,

The sight of these calm men and women of many nationalities Dutch,

Czech, Belgian, Swiss, French, and German-killed, the legend that airmen are reckless young men inclined to foolish deeds in their hours off duty.

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It created a finer legend of the solid type of flying men and wo- men who look on their strange life just as any other job.

"Not many years ago airmen-were inclined to be a little 'artistique"," Croydon behind the a Czech pilot said as he waved his

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hand across the room. "They look- ed on life as adventurous, and were inclined to make whoopee. Now they are just like men in any other pro- fession carrying out their job." -

As he spoke, a dark-haired girl sat in a chair near me and began work on a scarf. From hør. appear- ance, she might have come down from her room, but 15 minutes be- fore she was flying to London from

She was Fraulein Erna Nikles,

DR. ADOLF HALFELD ONCE" MORE DEVOTES AN EXTEN- Zurich-500 miles away. SIVE LEADING ARTICLE IN THE "HAMBURGER FREMDEN-star hostess of the Swissair Line. BLATT" TO AN ATTACK · ON THE METHODS OF THE B. B, C.

"IT RAINS SO MUCH” He declares that the short-waveing the last three years so I am "I have flown 880,000 miles dur- transmissions in English of the used to it," she said. “As soon as I powerful German station at Zee- sen, which have been proceeding

am on the ground, I forget all about since 1934, are intended "exclusive-

flying.

ly to enlighten persons of German blood and extraction abroad on events in the Reich.

fer to sit and sew. It rains so much "I never go up to London. I pre-

that I don't want to go out." "No propaganda effect on Eng-Walter Borner, and radio operator Across her table her pilot, Capt. lish listeners is intended, and the Werner Wegmann.began a game of latter would certainly prefer, the new broadcast. by, the British sys-plicated with

chess. "Piloting is becoming so còm- tem."

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directional signals and mechani- cal devices that it is getting. like chess," Capt. Borner told me..

It was particularly necessary that the Jewish problem should be dis- cussed in these broadcasts, "since the treatment abroad. of this point

"I find the game a rest after a in particular makes it understand-flight," Pilot Stocke, of the Belgian able for reasons of objectivity that (S.A.B.EN.A.) Air Line, said as he Germany wishes to make her point played chess with Steward Van der Straaten while his radio, operator, Douraye, looked on.

of view heard."

HERR HITLER'S SPEECH

If Zeesen did not broadcast-in English Germans abroad, he ar- gues, would be exposed exclusively to the "constant and certainly not entirely unbisassed barrage of the British shortwave stations."...

The British broadcasts in Ger- man, which Dr. Halfeld, describes as "longwave radiations, which have been sent out punctually every even-

In front of the fire ruddy-cheek- Dutch K.L.M. Line leading pilots, ed Commander, Fillevus, one of the

at his watch, put a mark in the was reading. Suddenly he glanced. book, and rose quietly to his feet. Ten

minutes later his machine roared overhead through the storm on its way to Amsterdam.

ing for the last 10 days," are, he had occasion to complain of the claims, in a quite different category.activities of the, Luxembourg sta-

They represented a new departure tion.

in international radio practice, and INTERNATIONAL COURTESY it was for this reason that the Fuehrer had mentioned them in his Reichstag speech.

Only Moscow, at present, used the same taction since the French, ata- tion at Strasbourg could claim that it sent out news in German because 'many of its subjects used German as their native language.

the Arabic broadcasts from Bari Britain had been very sensitive to

had been arrived at in this respect and a satisfactory arrangement within the framework of the Anglo- Ifalian pact signed last April. Gér- many had never broadcast in Eng lish on the long or middle waves, Both Britain and Germany had portant speeches of Herr Hitler had

except on a few occasions when in

been transmitted in English trans- lations.

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In view of the international cour- tesy hitherto observed, the English broadcasts in German might be des- escribed as illegitimate. It was not cor-

rect that they consisted only of ob jective and irreproachable surveys of world news.

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