THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 28, 1940
THYSSEN IN FRANCE
U.S. PLANES FOR ALLIES Policy Explained By Secretary For War TO ENABLE MASS PRODUCTION OF LATEST TYPES
Washington, To-day.
INDIAN
AGITATOR SENTENCED
Chaldassa (Bihar), To-day. Jayprakash Narain, general gress, of the Socialist Party, who' was arrested three weeks ago un- der the Defence of India Act after delivering a speech, was to nine sentenced yesterday months' rigorous imprisonment.— Router.
THE SECRETARY FOR WAR, Mr. Harry Woodring, secretary of the All-India Con-
testified before the House of Representatives, military committee yesterday that the Govern- ment's new policy of permitting the export of the latest American planes was designed to keep the United States air force constantly supplied with modern equipment,
Military secrets would not be disclosed nor would the United
States air expansion be delayed,
Mr. Woodring said the U.S. War Department possessed pos- sibly six types of plane superior to any other in the world.
adjust-
The War Department was
various R.A.F. PILOTS IN FRANCE ing foreign sales policy in
stipulation that ways, including a
IN GRAND SHOW designs owned by the Department, or whom the by manufacturers over Department had control, would be released for manufacture or talled assembly abroad.
now
not de-
Mr. Woodring sald he had work- polley "without ed out thla coercion or pressure from anybody." EXPANSION PROSPECTS
that High Arm officials testified the present expansion of production facilities indicated the United States would be able to manufacture be tween 30,000 and 40,000 planes a year by the end of 1940.
The committee gave direct, ap- proval to the Government's foreign sales policy,
(Continued from Page 5) the rip cord at all: Then it occurred
to me to do this and everything went
hazy.
mass
am
I found myself going through an all and enveloping white filmy remember saying to myself "I in Heaven." Actually it was a three of cloud. thousand. feet thick layer When I came out of it my right strap was hanging off.
It was touch and go whether I landed in France or Germany and
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Zurich, To-day.
Fritz Thyssen, the German steel magnate who left Germany after the Nazi-Soviet rapprochement, left Lo- carno yesterday for France.
His exact destination is unknown.---
Reuter.
ARTILLERY ACTIVITY IN FRANCE
war
Paris, To-day. Last night's French official communique said there was marked activity of artillery on both sides to
Reuter. the west of the Vosges.
CLUE TO COUNT TELEKI'S SUDDEN TRIP TO MUSSOLINI
London, To-day.. COMMENTING ON THE VISIT to Rome of Count Teleki, Hungarian Prime Minister, and his long conversation with Mussolini; a Diplomatic Cor- respondent comments that no one outside the two Governments concerned can know exactly what took place, nor the reasons which prompted Count Teleki to go to Rome so soon after the Brenner Pass meeting.
poured
· Oli
I tried to spill the air out of the parachute to glide it into France. I
of slumped down in the middle ploughed field in No-Man's land.
The parachute pulled me along à
.it Later several plane manufacturers bit and then I lay down for a while. gine of the met Government officials to work out Picking up and wondering whether to plans for expediting foreign orders.—make for a village which proved to be in German territory. I stumbled towards a wood only half a mile from the German lines, and having hid the parachute I started to plod along.
Reuter.
Allied Gain
Washington, To-day. Several hundred reserve. planes now being built for the U.8. Army are expected to be sold for imme. diate-delivery to the...... Allies—
Router.
TRAFFIC SUMMONSES
·
Under Suspicion
en
feet
until his ammunition was exhausted.
from: the
machine enemy slipped from 15,000 to 4,000 feet and appeared to be trying to limp back to Germany. The pilot believed, however, that it failed to do so.
The latter, however, probably gives a clue.
Hungary is vitally interested in the relations existing between Italy and and Germany. Whatever designs Ger- many may have on her or on any other Balkan or Danubian state, her actions must depend on the attitude of the other interested powers-and Italy has made it clear often enough she is one of the first.
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While attacking this Dornier he was the himself attacked by one of
It may well be that Count Teleki the Messerschmidt 110s, a burst of whose wanted to satisfy himself that cannon. peppered his wings, cockpit Brenner Pass meeting between Hitler A French_captain ran towards me and tail with shrapnel and he had to and Mussolini had not upset the ba-
lance of forces on which pointing a revolver. I said "atten-land. The other. Dorniers went on.
Two other Hurricane pilots went up || depends-Reuter. tion" or something like that and soon as he recognised my uniform he immediately afterwards. They suc- ceeded In breaking up the enemy put his gun down and helped
formation, forcing them to alter course along.
towards the frontier.
ns
me
Then both of us were challenged by a group of French soldiers who point-. ed bayonets at us. We had quite a job to convince them we were. this spies.
Major. C. M. Manners was morning summoned before Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at Kowloon for leav- ing his car unattended on the wrong alde of Gascoigne Road. :
On stating that his car had been in twice. stolen from the car park Gascoigne Road and that he parked near the Alling station to enable the man there to keep an eye on it, the case was dismissed with a caution.
For a similar: offence in Saigon Street, Mr. C. Barovsky, of Hankow Road, was cautioned. The prosecu- tion said defendant was a learner driver, and apparently was not fully aware of the regulations.
S. Monaghan, of 70. Nathan Road, was summoned for driving a public taxi without the owner's permission and for driving without a valid driv- ing licence. He did not appear and the case was adjourned for a week.
NORWEGIAN SURVIVORS REACH SAFETY
not
Running Fight
One was tackled by three Messer- The Captain took me to his mess schmidt 110s and there was a running about four miles away and brought fight for five minutes over Germani and the two British me round, bandaging a number of territory. Then the enemy planes holes in my leg caused by cannon disappeared shrapnel. I was finally taken back planes turned and returned home.
The evening battle concerned a fly- to my own squadron and cared for
ing officer who was out
on patrol by our own doctor.
When I went to look at the wreck-with two other machinęs.. age of my machine I found that on the way down the tall had fallen off."
“Cobber's" two fellow pilots dur- ing the afternoon fight, a sgt. pilot and a flying officer, each engaged a Messerschmitt in combat,
The flying officer definitely account. ed for his quarry, seriding it down in flames and smoke after getting a full burst into it from his eight guns. The agt. pilot chased, his machine dis- for a while and it suddenly appeared Into a cloud with pouring from it.
Dornler's Clash
smoke
Going to investigate some anti- aircraft fire they found twelve Messerschmitt 109s with three or four other Messerschmitts flying higher some distance away.
BRITISH REPLY TO NORWAY
Hungary
(SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL")
London, To-day. According to the "Evening News,' the to the recent Norwegian British reply to t
be on the lines that the protest will be Allies are fighting for their existence against an "unscrupulous enemy and- These could not see him as he was that they cannot accept the curious flying from the direction of the sun. Interpretation Norway puts on hor He dived right into the middle of the | neutrality, in which little le... done. formation.
Two of the enemy machines made off home. The flying officer got on the tails of two other machines which started to climb. He attacked - one which turned and crashed down.
He followed the other machine back over Germany and in so doing, was attacked from behind and four bullets made holes in his wings. His pursuer
In the morning battle: at
at 26-years- then disappeared;
about Nazi .. violations but paines taking care is paid to everything, the Allies do or are said to do. The Allies cannot abandon their legitimate rights. -Havas.
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the dying
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