1940-06-26 — Page 15

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 26, 1940

R.A.F. PILOT STOLE RIDE

On A Nazi Tank

A British pilot, shot down over enemy territory, coolly got unsuspecting Germans to give him a lift back to his own lines.

Before the plane crashed he took to his parachute. Landing near an ad- vancing column of tanks he ran across and jumped on to the nearest one.

Only then did he realise where he was. The tanks were not French- but German!

He decided to keep his grandstand seat, and trust that in his flying kit any Germans seeking him there would not recognise him.

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It worked. He got a free ride at the enemy's expense, staying on tank until he reached a place where he could jump off and strike across country back to the Allied lines,

"This incident is typical of the brav ery and initiative that characterise the pilots of the Royal Air Force," said Captain H. H. Balfour, Under-Se- cretary of State for Air, when he told the story in a broadcast.

MILKED COW MID BULLETS

While German planes zoomed over-

head machine-gunning a Belgian train woman jumped out to milk a cow in a nearby

crammed with refugees, a

field to get milk for three babies.

Bullets spattered round her as she calmly filled several empty beer bottles with milk, then clutching them in her arms, she ran back to the train.

She was Mrs. Renee Thorn, Belgian wife of Mr. Arthur Thorn, retired sea captain of Dovercourt, Essex. After travelling for-a-week without sleep and with practically nothing to eat, she has arrived home.

"Our train took twenty-four hours from Antwerp to Ypres," she told a reporter, "Normally the journey takes an hour. All the time we were ma- | chine-gunned and several people were killed and wounded."

"The babies had to be fed. I sup- pose I was lucky not to have been killed while milking the cow.

A plcture on board a British warship following showing a French poil u Interested in a game of cards play. ed by French and English sailors on deck. (Copyright, Fox).

2,000 POLISH TROOPS STAND OFF GERMAN MECHANISED UNITS

Berne, June 19.

The account of how less than 2,000 Polish soldiers, armed only with bottles of petrol which they set afire, heroically stood off German mechanised units, was told to-day by officers who reached the Swiss border.

The great majority of the daring unit died in position rather than re- treat. The encounter took place before Charquement, small French town close to the Swiss frontier, and the Polish troops' unstinted courage gave a large number of French civilians time to reach the Swiss frontier in safety.

Other reports, coming from obser- vers-along the northern Swiss border, meanwhile stated that whereas violent artillery fire was heard yesterday at 2.30 p.m. north and northwest of Basle, since then there has been silence.

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PLACED UNDER BRITISH

Polish forces serving in France were ordered to-day to place themselves un- der British command. All Polish troops were ordered to make immedi- While she was in Ostend the Ger-ately either for Switzerland or south- mans bombed and sank the boat she ern France. was to have boarded. It was already packed with refugees.

"I saw the boat sinking," she said. "Of the people on board about 350 were killed or injured,

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Athletlo Andy got his lettor from four schools-letters, from. the faculty saying how much they were going to miss him.

'Orders were issued through the B.B.C. by General Wladislaw Sikorski, Polish Commander in Chief. Havas,

HEROIN HABIT IN TAIYUANFU

Taiyuanfu, Shansi.

Four out of every ten people in Tal- yuanfu are now addicted to smoking heroin, it is admitted by a recent in- vestigation by the Japanese-sponsored provincial government here. Whole villages and families are said to be addicted in this area, states the re- port.

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Figures published recently through- out the occupied areas of Nroth China,, by the Japanese-sponsored press, show a steady spread of narcotic consump- tion. Tax returns published by the oplum taxation bureaus increase rather than, decerase,

The narcotic commonly used is the most deadly and vicious in its social effects of all opium derivatives. The umoking of raw oplum in the old Chinese manner is said to be dying out.-Associated Press.

MALTA'S PART

London, To-day. "We are fully determined with God's help to maintain the Inte- grity of this part of the British Empire whatever happens and Whether the time-be short or long we have every confidence In final victory." This is the reply of the garrison and people of Malta to the Prime Minister's message as suring them of his conviction that they would make the defence of their island glorious in British military history.-Reuter.

GERMAN CLAIMS

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-New York, June 21. Columbia Broadcasting System re- ported to-day that Berlin radio had announced that the Germans had cap- tured 400 warplanes “just arrived from the United States" in addition to 2,000 motors "complete with plans for mounting." The announcer did not say where the planes were captured. --Associated Press,

LOCAL SHARES

Following is the list of changes and enquiries in local share quotations to- day:-

BANKS

Hong Kong Bank $1125 sa. PUBLIC UTILITIES China Lights (Old) $6 sa. China Lights (New) $3 sa. LAST DAY'S SALES 20 H.K. Banks @ $1125 300 Lights (Old) @ $6 473 Lights (New) @ $3

MANILA SHARES Atoks Ps. .12 sa. Baguio Gold Ps. 14 sa.

Consol. Mines Ps. .0015 b.

East Mindanao Ps. .061⁄21⁄2 sa.

I.X.L. Ps. .23 sa.

Ipo Gold Ps. .05 b.

Itogons Ps. .15 b.

Mind. Mother Lode. Ps. .08 b. Mine Operation Ps. .051⁄2 b. Suyoc Consol. Ps. .09 sa.

LOCAL DOLLAR

The demand rate on the Hong Kong dollar to-day was 1/2 7/8...

London Silver was quoted at 21-1/8 for spot and 21 for forward.

The cross rate London/New York was quoted at £-U.S.$4.0250 and the New York/London rate at £-U.S.$3.73.

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METAL POLISH GIVES BRILLIANCE

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SPARKLE

TO METALWARE

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