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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 12, 1940.

TERRIFIC SLAUGHTER IF ENEMY TRIED TO LAND

1

SECRET WEAPON GUARDS ENGLISH BEACHES

S

£3 A DAY

A SECRET WEAPON is waiting on the beachesBY TRICK

at hundreds of points round the British coast. If German invaders attempt to land the slaughter

amongst them will be terrific.

The Germans may suspect the nature of this weapon. But the way it works will come as a stag- gering surprise to them.

Britain is now ready to mezt

invasion. the nast

ON P. 0.

Scotland Yard have been asked by the Post Office Special Investigation Branch to assist in catch- ing a crook who is robbing

nry Waden During review MRS DORAN stones by a trick

the work of 10 departments vital

to the nation's defence.

He is satisfied that the prepar-

ations. are complete,

Here is the position in the dif- ferent departments:—

~ ARMY, Well over 2,500,000 men are under arins.

Guns are

in position along the const.

*Ân elaborate, system of forti- Alcations has been prepared, not only round the coast but inland.

out,

Minefields.

NAVY.-The Navy is stronger ihan it was on the day war broke Redispositions of our fleet have chabled us to concentrate on this

island a much bigger force than at the outbreak of war.

Minefields have been laid that I will cause havoc among any Názl

ships that try to pass them.

AIR The Air Force has al-

ready shown what it can do with raiders. Our daily output of 'planes is now bigger than the Nazis'. In addition, we have re- gular reinforcements coming from the U.S.A. and Canada:

Our Spitfires, Hurricanes and Defiants are supreme in the air, but we have something even better than them ready if Hitler should suddenly produce a se- cret plane superior to those that he has been sending over.

Arrangements for putting up an anti-aircraft barrage round the coast can only be described in one word--terrific.

SEES THE PICTURE

"WHERE'S HIS NEW

SUIT?"

which brings him in at least £3 a day...

Already the man is believed to be living in grand style on the proceeds-travelling from one end of the cótintry "fo, (another, robbing at will,

By some means he got an offi- cial Post Office stamp.

Fake Entries

has

His method-which he

times twice daily for weeks-is

Bank déposit book.

Mrs. M. M. Doran, mother of 26 - years - old Squadron. Leader K. C. been operating daily and some- Doran, first D.F.C. of the to go to a number of Post Offices, war, has just seen the first and, usually with a deposit of picture of her son since he 105, secure a Post Office Savings became a prisoner of war After making fictitious deposit in Germany last April.

entries in the books he stamps them with the date stamp bear- The picture reached "The Dailying the official impression of the Mail" by a

· roundabout route Post Office. dron Leader Doran, with plaster from Germany. It shows Squa~

on his chin, sitting next to German.

'a'

I took it to, his parents' home, in Millway,. Mill Hill, N.W. writes a reporter...

By this means he is able to draw any amount up to £3 a day from any Post Office at a moment's notice.

¿

He is believed now to have a . large number of deposit books, thus being able to roh, an equal fed up!" number of Post Offices in what-

ever area he is..

"Doesn't he look were Mrs... Doran's first words, But he certainly looks well longing to get back to the fight- enough, though I can see, he is

ing.

Odd Trousers

"But, look at those clothes he's wearing those odd trousers. Where is the uniform I sent him in June? He, should have it by now.

"I have had. two messages from him since "The Daily Mail' told me he was a prisoner — a

FOOD.-Regional food officers are ready to take over immediate- ly the organisation of food sup plies. Reserves of food now in the country are several times big-postcard and a letter. Each time ger than they were when -broke out.---

War

he asked for his R.A.F. uniform.

"I sent it through the Red- If parts, of the country should Cross, but I have had no ac- be cut off from the Government, knowledgment; no word from 13 "emergency governments," each him at all for ten weeks. I must under a Regional Commissioner, send him another parcel soon, are ready to carry on all services; but we are not allowed to send Each Regional Commissioner | more than one every three has at his headquarters. a senior months." civil servant from each of the Squadron Leader Doran re- important Whitehall Departments.ceived the first bar as well as

the first D.F.C. of the war To Other Ports his gallant performance in

raid on Kiel soon after PORTS-If certain ports bewar began. He crashed come unuseable, traffle will be di- Stavanger in April. verted to other ports.

of

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for

the the off

False Names:

Already he has been active in various parts of London, and as far away as Lancashire, Cheshire and North Wales.

Attempts to catch him... are made more difficult by the fact that the crook uses a fictitious name on each occasion. he acts,

So far no accurate description of him has been available.

EVACUATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE

It is announced that a public session of the Evacuation Advisory Committee will be held on Tues- day, at 9.00 am. in the Council Chamber, Colonial Secretariat. :

Only the cases of women who have applied to the Committee for a hearing in person and have been Under the Zoo's adoption scheme. 350 menagerie inmates have "god-quested to attend the meeting

will be considered. parents, which means a saving of £3,000 on this year's food

RAILWAYS--In an emergency, Sir John Reith, the Minister Transport, will take command. A committee of four, representing the big railway companies, will carry out his orders. *INFORMATION.—Regional In- bill. formation Committees, with Lo

ZOO SAVES

CONTROL

cal Information, Committees for KENYA COFFEE each town and village, will see that the population is kept in- formed about what is happening, so that there shall be no confusion and no panic.

The Government has taken over control of the Kenya coffee in- dustry....

BILLETING - Arrangements have been made to evacuate. people if desirable, and, to billet them in other parts of the coun try, Special officers of the As sistance Board will give financial | F aid to any civilians who may have. had to leave their home towns at short notice.

AIRMEN CAPTURED BY MILKMAN

ITALIAN SHIPS AS PRIZES.

Sir Boyd Merriman, in the Prize Court, condemned as lawful prize 10. Italian ships seized in British ports since Italy's, de- claration of war.

ESCAPED GERMAN AIDED

BY WOMAN AND RADIO

DISCOVERY IN a Northern Ontario prisoners of war camp of a radio set capable of receiving mes- sages from Germany and of transmitting fifty to a hundred miles has spurred soldiers and police to redouble their efforts to capture Lieutenant Werner Koche of the German Navy.

A. milkman armed with a shot. gun was helped by a farmer's 14- year old daughter to ensure the capture of two German · airmen Koche, a prisoner of war, aged Police, believe that a woman on the South-East Coast after their twenty-eight, was transferred may have aided the prisoner's machine, a twin-engined fighter, from England two months ago and escape. A woman yas seen acting had been shot down. When the escaped from the camp through a suspiciously near the prison camp. pinne Innded the milkman, fol- tunnel dug by prisoners. The Koche certainly, had outside lowed by the girl, ran from a polico believe a mass escape was help. His brown shirt, and blue dairy, and the airmen, 'an officer | planned

shorts, the regular camp wear,

and a sergeant, surrendered. After Soldiers patrolled the bush all were found on the roadside a hun being taken to a railway station day and night and tourists report dred yards from the sentry box.- by the RAF personnel the cap-ed being stopped over, wide area. The tunnel was said to be three tured officer shook hands with it is thought that the radio | feet high and between seventy- and saluted the member of the may have been used to com- five and a hundred feat long. It WRAF who drove him away,municato with Fifth Columnjata. was shored up by boards,