1939-10-09 — Page 5

MAIL,

THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 9, 1939

R-A-F. AIRMAN'S STORY OF MYSTERY SPOTS

ALONG THE SIEGFRIED LINE

(From "Eye-Witness" with the Royal Air Force

somewhere in France)

London, To-day.

EUROPEANS INVOLVED IN

FROM A SLIM YOUNG Flight-Lieutenant who par- INCIDENT

ticipated in an amazing survey of the Siegfried Line in the course of which planes seldom flew over 100 feet but were only once fired upon, learned some strange things encountered be- hind the enemy defences.

In the course of the reconnaissance the airmen took a wonderful series of photographs of the German defence works.

It is absurdly easy to identify because the grass had not had grow over the scarred

time to

Three Europeans were ar- rested at 7.30 p.m. on Satur- day outside the Hong Kong

Hotel in Pedder Street.

The men, alleged to have been un- der the influence of liquor, were

Douglas Thompson, 30, engineer of the s.s. Mau Sang;

P. H. Keys, 40, architect, residing at the Hong Kong Hotel; and

J. R. McPherson, engineer residing at the European Y.M.C.A., Kowloon.

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Capt. Durrance (Ralph Richard- Bon) blinded by the desert sun, is saved by a brother officer (John Clements) diogulsed as a native. This is one of the many thrilling Incidents in Alexander Korda's technicolour adventure, "The Four Feathers," at the King's Theatre.

The congratulations of their friends will be extended to Mr. J. L. Stephens, Assistant Junk Inspector, and Mrs. Stephens, on the birth of a daughter (Barbara Anne) at noon yesterday.

Too Old At Fifty!

"The thing that impressed me most," streets were the Flight-Lieutenant told me "was sometimes soldiers were strolling about each and were to appear before Mr. R.

quite deserted, though

They were released on bail of $25 the obviously unfinished "state of the looking up at us."

Edwards, at the Central Magistracy Siegfried Line.

Not once was an anti-aircraft. gun this morning to answer a charge of fired at them. No single. German disorderly conduct.

This is a young man's age and it is plane appeared to molest them. The Inspector A. E. Kirby, in charge of passed his zenith by the time he is popularly supposed that a man has British airmen can offer no explana-the case, sald that second defendant fifty. Whether this is true, however, tion of this strange reluctance on the was in hospital undergoing an opera-depends entirely upon the Individual, part of the Germens to protect the tion as a result of the incident.

and health is a governing factor. Wire- Warrants were issued by the Magis-

Premature ageing is frequently the trate for the arrest of first and third result of impoverished blood. The "We passed many villages but did defendants who failed to appear.

heart, the lungs, the digestive organs, not see a single civilian inhabitant in

Their bail was estreated and

indeed every cell and: tissue of the the streets which were nearly al-Edwards directed that when re-arrest-Ishment, and, if the blood is weak and Mr.body depend upon the blood for nour- ways deserted."

ed, ball should be fixed at $40 each.

earth.

"In many places were saw mounds of freshly dug earth but nowhere saw secrets of their line.-British anyone actually at work on the for-less. tifications.

CAMOUFLAGING

"In one place we flew over a huge gun which a group of

men were

saw

camouflaging and I distinctly them gaping at us, paint-pots in hand, apparently unable to move.

Only when we were right past them did they seem to recover from their Then some of them waved their hands and others went

astonishment.

racing back to nearby huts. It was just after this that we were fired on by a machinegun.

OVER CAMP

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In another place, we flew over camp. The men came crowding out of their huts and here, too, it looked as though they were waving at us, though of course they might have been shaking their fists. We passed many villages but I did not see a single ci- vilian inhabitant. Nearly always the

The officer, who was unable to account for the fact that the only fire directed at them was from a solitary ordinary machine-gun, cannot offer an explanation for the strange reluctance of the Ger- mans to protect secrets behind the lines.

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STRANGE SIGNS

NAZI TRADE DELEGATION

Berlin, To-day.

The German trade delegation to Russia has arrived at Moscow, an- nounees. the Agency.

German. Official News

The things which mystified him were a series of curious unidentifi- able mounds and pits in the fields and The delegation, is headed by Dr. woods, strangely large barns of unl-Schurre of the Economics Department form pattern on the outskirts of many of the Foreign Ministry and is expect- villages, suspicious-looking new build-ed to stay in Moscow a fortnight. ings and concrete turrets on the out- Reuter. skirts of villages, curious experiments in camouflage and, sometimes, may have been dummy villages. Reuter.

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