1940-08-13 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 13, 1940

SPINSTER FINDS GERMAN ON HER DOORSTEP

THE DOOR BELL of a cottage in East Anglia| rang twice and Miss Gibb, who is seventy, went to. the door and shouted "Who's there?"

"There was no reply," she said,| The gunner's cockpit stuck 20 "so I went into the front room feet up in the branches of a tree. and peeped through the curtains and among the wreckage were and there was a German stand-oxygen cylinders, a partly burn- ing in the path.

led-out parachute, and a collap- sible rubber boat. The bomber's so large that it is likely they were tail was riddled with holes, some

caused by A.A. fire...

"He stared at me," and I stared at him. His arm was bleeding and

he had no boots on."

Miss Gibb called her nephew. Robert, and he let the airman into the house.

escap-ECONOMIC

Their visitor was the only sur- vivor from a Heinkel which crash- ed in East Anglia. He had escap-| ed by parachute, and after laying his revolver on top of the para- chute had walked half a mile to the cottage.

DEVELOPMENT

IN N. CHINA

"He could speak very little Eng- lish," said Mr. Gibb, "but he made signs that he had dropped from the machine soon after one o'clock. He told us this by pointing to a click he carried. He made signs (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") indicating that his three com- panions had been shot as the Aiming at the development and bomber crashed.

improvement of the political ad- "We could not find his boots, Helministrative situation in North probably took them off because he China, Wang Yi-tang, chairman thought he might come down in of

the North China Political the water."

Council, has called a meeting The airman, seriously wounded, trem August 14 to 17. was taken to hospital the same afternoon.

"Abide With Me"

Wang Yin-tai, director of general, industries, has drafted a number

Shell making at a Ministry of supply factory. (Copyright,

Fox).

1917 V.C. BARRED

of important proposals on the de- FROM L.D.V

velopment of industries in North their China and strengthening Sino-

Thirty-seven girls and teachers taking shelter in a cellar Japanese economic

of

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co-operation. Though he is one of dreds of old soldiers who will be twenty-roomed Dr. Bar-The proposals will be submitted only three Jewish holders the regulations. nardo's Home were singing "Abide at the meeting of governors and With Me" when the bomber mayors. Havas. crashed outside in the garden.

Led, by the matron they went on singing while wreckage burn-

ed outside the windows, scorch- ing the paint-work of the house.

LOCAL DOLLAR

The girls, all over fifteen, stayed Kong dollar to-day was 1/2 7/8.

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The

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After crashing into the garden York was quoted at £-U.S.S the Heinkel bounced across the 0250 and the New York/London road and landed in an orchard.

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of the Victoria Cross, awarded for his heroism in Mesopotamia when he was twenty-one, a Man- chester man has had to

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never naturalised.

In 1914, as a youth of eighteen, The threw up a good job in Oslo, Norway, two days after war broke out. He sailed to England and joined up.

ECZEMA,

After many brave deeds he reached the peak of courage.when, in 1917, he defied death at the sores, ringworm, itch, chapped lips hands of the Turks in Mesopo- and hands,, piles and skin com- tamia to save a boat-load of am- plaints generally are best treated

Corporal Jack White, V.C., is ointment.

the delightfully fragrant now forty-five and a prosperous wholesale merchant. He lives in

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he said. "Now this second bitter

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will be to serve again."

a pleasure and your The Bank's Head Office in London commands will have our best Jack was born in Britain and undertakes Executor and rustee bus attention.

made payable to "War Fund-South China

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columns of The S. C. M. Post.

All donations will be acknowledged in the his mother was an Edinburgh girl. ness, and claims recovery of British

...

of the

His elder daughter is married to Income Tax overpald, on terms which a soldier who has come back from may be ascertained at any Norway.

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Manager.

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