1939-12-15 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 15, 1939

News Snack Bar

H.M. the Queen recently listened to the Tudor Singers at the 16. lunch-hour concert in the Nation- al Gallery. Photo shows a study of Her Majesty interested in the pro- gramme. (Copyright, Fox).

Jack Doyle

Guardsman

Jack Doyle-boxer,

singer, play-

boy has re-enlisted in the Irish Guards.

In a month, he told the press at Birmingham sometime ago, he will begin work as a physical training in- structor. Movita, his film actress wife, will keep house for him in the married quarters at the barracks.

Doyle is a machine-gunner and a good shot.

STEW FOR A STIFF

John O'Meara, restaurant ex- pert,

8# Chicago, has objected to the slang, used by American walters. Milk toast, he says, hào become "staw for a stiff,” frank- furters and sauerkraut la “dogs in grass," while the walters them;; Delves are "soup Jockeys.”

He has also warned waitresses not to wear engagement rings at work,

PLANES 'PINNED VOLCANO MAKES

NAZI TO GROUND'

"We have got the German planes pinned to the ground," a young French flying officer told a war corres- pondent at the headquarters of the famous squadron, Es- cadrille Lafayette.

This squadron has lost only one pilot in seven weeks' fighting. One other has been injured.

Just as I was leaving, however, I learned that a French plane flying low over the German lines that morning had been hit in the rear of the wing and the observer, who was in the rear cockpit, was injured.

was a

The pilot brought his plane home When Hermann Goering safely, without difficulty. Within slim young officer in. Baron von ten minutes of the observer being Richthofen's famous "flying circus" wounded he was in hospital.

during the last war he lived for a "Well," said the young flying offi- time in a farmhouse on the Western cer, "the Bosche should be getting Front. proficient by now. He gets good anti-aircraft practice. We make eight to ten reconnaissance flights a day."

The Escadrille Lafayette was founded by and made up of American pilota before the United States entered the last war.

Each night he and. Von Richthofen used to drink coffee from cups of fine porcelain, which bore the black cross of the Kaiser's Germany and the cocksure motto: "We Germans Fear Only God in All the World." I have just left that farmhouse, having spent a pleasant hour with the French officers who hold it, and had the satisfaction of drinking ex- cellent cognac out of Hermann

In a small room I saw the original flag of the squadron, photos of the old biplanes of those early days and the insignia of the squadron, a fierce Goering's cup. Red Indian in headdress of feathers.

NINE AGAINST FIFTEEN It was always painted on the machines of the squadron, and just as twenty-five years ago the sight of it was sufficient to make German pllots turn and run, Nazi pilots of 1939 Messerschmitt

*#*

Eirst Time

*

→

In 109 Years

I

For the first time in 109 years, Lord Mayor's Day in London included no Show, but some of the money that would have been spent on it will go to the Red Cross.

The Lord

planes have on several occasions avoided combat with men of the Lafayette aquadron,

Mayor, Sir William Beneath the original flag of 1914 is Coxen, went by car, instead of state a bottle of whisky. No one may coach, to the Law Courts to make his drink from it unless he has brought statutory declaration of office. down a German plane, and he may only have one drink for each plane destroyed.

Proudest day in the history of this group was that of a few weeks ago, when nine French planes engaged fifteen Messerschmitts. -

The official "bill" reads: "Five p.m., two Messerschmitts destroy. ed; 5.5 p.m., twò others shot down. In addition another plane was seen to descend in flames behind the German lines."

THANKS GOERING!

saw

All the pomp of the Lord Mayor's Show, famous since 1253, was absent owing to the war, but the high offi- cials of the Corporation, including the sword and mace bearers, gave a splash of colour to the procession.

On the footway opposite the en- trance to the market, the Lord Mayor was met by Sir Harry Bird and the Billingsgate members of the Corpora- tlon.

He was handed an address of wel- come and a cheque for £1,250 for the Red Cross Fund.

#

**

*

HOT BATH OF

THE SEA

The volcano of St. Georges, an the island of Santorin, In the southern Aegean Sea, has been active.

Thick smoke is Issuing from the crater and the temperature of the sea is 136 degrees Fahr.

Rumblinga and underground explosions have been heard and the right mole of St. Nicholas Creek is sinking.

Ten days ago a volcanic Island near Santorin suddenly disap- peared under the water. It had been in existence since 1928, when it appeared above the sur- face of the sea during an eruption

Tenants Miss

Their Free Meal

Many Warwickshire villagers will have to rise early to-morrow so that before sunrise the Duke of Buccleuch may be the richer by sums ranging from 1d to 2s 31⁄2d.

For to-morrow the annual collec- tion of Wroth Silver takes place on Knightlow Hill, between Coventry and Rugby.

As the Duke's representative calls the roll, men from different parishes will step forward and place money due in the hollow of the stump of Knightlow Cross.

3

For every penny not forthcom- ing the parish is liable to forfeit pound or, which would be much more difficult, a wild white bull with red nose and ears.

The ceremony is very ancient, It originally to the Lord of the Hundred is supposed that the money was paid in return for protection of tenants" * cattle rights.

Usually as compensation for the early rising those taking part in the ceremony are served with breakfast at an inn, where the health of the Duke is drunk In rum and milk and clay pipes are smoked.

regretted, but there will not be the 'But this year a notice says: "It usual breakfast."

*

*

- A questionnaire issued by the Aus- trian Centre in England calls for particulars of special qualifications and previous military service. Aus- trians thereby may be able to offer

In the intelligence section I the fruits of French reconnaissance Board of trade order No. 1103 ex- over the German lines-photographs pressly forbids making the-purchase revealing every trench, blockhouse of one article of food conditional upon and all the advance posts of the the buying of others. Many grocers assistance to the British Defence in- Siegfried Line.

are trying to flout the ban.

tereats.

Mayoress. At 16

For the next twelve months a six-. teen-year-old schoolgirl will be Mayoress of Aylesbury, Bucks last month, when Mrs. Olive Paterson, a member of the Borough Council, was elected. Mayor, her daughter Jure was granted special leave from Priors Field School. Godalming, Surrey, to attend the ceremony and be nomi- nated as Mayoress,

"I shall put in as much civic work as possible during school holidays," said June yesterday.

"But she won't be able to take the handsome gilt enamel-crested chain of office to school. For, while she continues her studies last year's Mayoress Mrs. French, will deputise for her.

*

Nine Arabs were killed, several cap-. tured, and arms and ammunition seized when men of the Worcester- shire Regiment encountered a large rebel band near Hebron, Palestine.

缨 *

The Cistercian monastery of Stams in the Austrian Tyrol has been seized

on the grounds of the alleged political

activity of the monks, who have been summarily evicted.

The sinking of the Terukuni Maru.

British rescuers walt as ifeboats pull away Ing a heavy list. (Copyright, Fox).

Iner, now.