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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 3, 1940.

GIRL, 15, AIDS IN WED 61 GAOL FOR

CAPTURING NAZIS

BETTY BROWN, fifteen-year-old daughter of a farmer on the south-east coast, helped to capture two German airmen an officer and a sergeant -- when their 'plane crashed near her home.

She heard her mother cry for help and, racing downstairs wearing bedroom slippers, ran out to- wards the 'plane, which had come down about 100 yards away.

Then she saw that the airmen

were not British, as she had CAR STOLEN

thought, but German. They had .managed to escape from the

*plane.

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But she ran on.

At that moment a milkman and the foreman of the farm, who had a shotgun, appeared, and together they approached the airmen and

disarried them.

-FINE OWNER

YEARS AFTER

It was a silly little quarrel, no more than a love tiff, but Mary was a proud one, and "William wasn't going to say he was in the wrong.

So they parted.

Way back in 1870' when Willis

am was twenty-three and Mary,

was nineteen.

passed each other with heads

BOOSTING

NAZI RADIO