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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 11, 1939.

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ON IN BAD WEATHER Operations Of Defending Fighters Restricted Aircraft Down In Sea Given

LIFE IN GAOL: BUT HE DOES NOT KNOW

Nicholas Skobline, Tsarist

Gen-

al, was sentenced to life imprison- ment with hard labour by the Seine Assize Court Paris,

But the general was not present, and the court did not know whether th was alive or dead. The sentence

was a legal formality.

ping his chief, General Miller, head

of the "White Army" of Russian re- fugees, in the Paris West End two years ago.

Up As Lost

London, Last Night.

FORGERY FOR PETTY THEFT BY OFFICE BOY

Before Mr. T. J. Houston this morning, Mr. G. E. Huygen, of No. 25, Hillwood Road, appeared

Air exercises suspended during the course of Wed-as complainant against an 18. nesday night were resumed this morning when year-old office oy, Tang Wo, a feature of the operations was the accurate land

charged with forging a cablegram work of the Observer Corps under difficult con- ditions.

Skobline was charged with kidnap-Several bomber formations completed their raids without being seen by fighter patrols, but the bad weather and poor visibility made things difficult for both fighters and bombers alike. The "enemy" were compelled to fly under low clouds where they made good targets for light anti-aircraft defences.

French police inquiries revealed that Miller was smuggled on board a Soviet cargo vessel at Le Havre on the day of his disappearance.

Neither Miller nor Skobline was ever seen again,

“MUSIC KING" MURDERED IN ERROR

Mr. Irving Penn, a 42-year-old executive of Schirmer, Incorporated, one of New York's best-known music publishing houses, was shot dend by; a car-load of gansters a few min- utes after he had left his home in

(Grand Concourse.

The murder is reminiscent of the days when gang rule dominated the city. It is considered by the

po- lice to be the result of mistaken identity.

Mr. Penn, a mild-mannered man, well liked in "Tin Pan Alley," had no, enemies and lived a model life.

The gangland execution which end- ed his life, according to detectives who have investigated it, was ob- viously planned with another victim in mind.

at the, ed.-British Wireless.

The latest information Air Ministry is that the weather is improving now and that there is every hope of night flying in Co- operation with to-night's blackout.

The Air Ministry reports between 1 p.m. and 4.30 p.m. wear that ther conditions were so bad in some places as to restrict the operations of the defending fighters, owing to the necessity of observing safety regulations which would not exist in war-time.

were

near

OFFICIAL ACCOUNT

An official account of the progress of the air exercises states: "Soon after 10

Coast between the Wash and the a.m. Eastland made a series of raids over the East bombers

Thames Estuary, making use of the comparatively fair weather in that

area.

bombers advanced up the Thames A large formation of hostile passed over the Isle of Thanet and then split into sub-formations.

One section flew to Maidstone and the other made for South London.

Both raids were engaged by air

larceny of

-receipt on Monday, and with a 25 cents postage stamp and 15 cents in money.

Det. Sergeant Brooks said defer- an office

dant was employed as

boy. He was given a cable to bo sent to Europe, and forged the

document by erasing three words, and then altered the receipt.

letter which was entrusted to him Concerning the theft of the postage stamp, defendant kept a

a long time ago with a 25 cents stamp. When defendant was searched, the letter was still in his possession, but without a stamp.

Defendant was sentenced to two months' hard labour and a fine of $50 or another six weeks'.

STOPPING FLOODS ON THE EUPHRATES

AERODROMES RAIDED

Arrangements have been

made under which British engineers will Two low-flying attacks

stop the extensive floods of the Eu- delivered on an aerodrome

near Ramadi, Iraq, to conver thou- phrates by construction of works London. Some buildings were defenders. "damaged" by bombs but no "dam- age" was inflicted on personnel anded the coast north of Skegness, nar-areas.

Another raiding formation cross-ged land into valuable agricultural sands of acres of useless water-log- very little on aircraft,

In the early afternoon, a solitaryThe raiders flew over Gainsborough and cost the Iraq Government about rowly escaping a fighter patrol. The work will occupy four years difficulties flew over the aerodrome were driven off by fighters in the the autumn by a London firm. The enemy bomber which appeared in and then laid a course W.N.W. They £900,000. It will be undertaken in and was

"shot down" by three neighbourhood of Finningley, York-scheme is to divert the flood waters Westland fighters.

shire. Throughout the day, the anti- aircraft batteries were heavily en- bombers flying below the clouds. gaged with small formations of coast over Mablethorpe, and went

TURNED BACK

Hostile formations crossed

the

on to Louth. There they encoun- tered fighter patrols and were turned back over Lincoln they were engaged by anti-aircraft where batteries.

COUNTER-ACTION Westland counterbombers were in Action

throughout the day against imaginary bases in "East- land." This in actual practice would coast at Sheringham, making for At 10.30 a.m., raiders crossed the have materially limited the scope Norwich, but were intercepted. A of the offensive.

to a point about 50 miles west of Baghdad and convey them into Lake Airways base. Habbaniyah, which is an Imperial

Two canals will be cut to act as an escape from the lake into a de- will be used and consist mainly of sert depression. British materials

gether £100,000. cement and sluice gates, costing to-

small raid was made near Harwich FULL SALARIES IN

ance of a bomber, believed to be trols and anti-aircraft guns were With reference to the disappear- but was short-lived as fighter pa- Ministry announces with regret "Why missing over the North Sea, the Air active.

Mr. Penn's last words, before he died in hospital, were: should they shoot me? Everyone's

my friend."

BIG SOVIET GRAIN CROP EXPECTED

that as

Towards midday, extensive searches

the weather have again deteriorated. failed to find the aircraft, it must clouds at from 100 to 1,000 feet and There were now be accepted that the five oc-visibility was sometimes as low as cupants lost their lives.-Reuter.

1,000 yards... Rain was continuous, ONLY TWO MISHAPS In very bad weather and conditions Although altogether 1,300 aero- of poor visibility, several bomber planes have been engaged in the formations completed their raids air exercises and conditions for without being seen by fighter pa- flying have been exceptionally bad, trois. there have, so far, been only two mishaps to aircraft, which occur-

the

ACCURATE WORK -

WAR-TIME

The great British chemical com- paying salaries in full to married. bine has announced its intention of employees while serving in His Ma- jesty's forces in war-time, less their army pay, and one-third of their salary to unmarried men under the same conditions,

TI

At the same time membership of the various pension funds would be continued.

would go far towards bringing the measure were to become general it.

If such a fair-minded

salaries of the fighting forces and civilian war workers to the

attacking Rugeley, were engaged level.

Although two hostile bombers, over Grantham, the engagement was inconclusive,

Moscow, Aug. 3. Nearly the entire grain area of Soviet Russia today belongs to col-red on the first night. One bomb- things difficult for fighters and The weather, however, made lective state farms, M. Viacheslav er had to be abandoned by its bombers alike. Molotov, Chairman of the People's crew over Yorkshire but all Commissars Council, revealed in a occupants escaped by parachute. speech at the Agricultural Exhibi- Another bomber disappeared and tion here to-day. "With good or unfortunately five, lives would ap ganisation we have ample ground pear to have been lost as ng trace

As it is, an increasing number of expect that the harvest will of the missing aircraft has been ing's operations has been the ac-two weeks annual training at camps industrial firms nowadays are grant- One of the features of the morning their employees facilities for equal 7,000,000 poods (a pood found in extensive searches and curate work of the Observer Corps equals 38 pounds) grain," M. the Air Ministry announced last under very dimoult conditions.

· Molotov said.

night that hope had been abandon- British Wireless.

and “without time

to