THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 14, 1940.
EAGLES TRY THEIR WINGS
AMERICANS American Squadron AMERICAN
Warms Up For
IN PEIPING ON MOVE
The United States Navy Department, it is learned officially, has ordered the withdrawal from Peiping of all dependents of the American Embassy Guard.
It is believed that they num- ber approximately forty women and children.
Of the remaining 450 civilians
seventy in Pelping;
have re- quested evacuation at the earliest possible moment, while 100
others want to leave if the situa- tion worsens.
The rest of the civilian re- sidents do not desire to depart
Crack At Hitler
(Merrill Mueller, Internationa! News Correspondent in London,¦ Eagle Squadron of the Royal Air Force on one of its final combat training flights the first foreign newspaperman so honoured. As he flies in an R.A.F. 'plane 5,000 feet above the English countryside, Mueller introduces readers of the "China Mail" in this exclusive cable to the young Americans who have taken up the heroic tra dition of the World War's famous Lafayette Escadrille).
has been accorded the signal honour of leading the new American "NIPPO"
INCIDENT
LEGED TO HAVE ENTERED
NIPPO,"
EAGLES SPREADING WINGS
(From Reuter's Special Corros- pondent Somewhere in England)
The
newly formed American Eagle Squadron TWO EUROPEANS ARE AL-NOW completing its train- (SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL")"
THE PREMISES OF THE "HONG ing in England will be crack JA taking the air as a LOCAL SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND, AMERICAN KONG
PANESE NEWSPAPER, IN CON- ALOFT, PRÉENING THEIR NAUGHT ROAD CENTAL, EAR- Unit against the enemy EAGLES ARE WINGS FOR THE CRACK AT HITLER THAT LY ON SATURDAY MORNING, before the end of the year. THEY ALL WANT SO DESPERATELY AND AND ATTEMPTED TO ASSAULT A detailed report of the incident, WILL SOON GET WHEN THEY TAKE SER-THE CHINESE EMPLOYEES.
THE it is learned, has been forwarded to the Japanese Consulate-Gener- al.
unless a grave crisis is preci- VICE DEFENDING BRITAIN AGAINST
pitated.
Several Embassy families, including Mrs. Nelson T. Johnson, the wife of the Ambassador, and. her two children, are sailing by the President Coolidge from Shanghai on November 7.-Rou- ter.
GAULEITER SYSTEM
FOR VICHY
LOCAL GOVERNMENT BODIES IN THE FRENCH DE- PARTMENTS HAVE BEEN SU- PERSEDED BY A NEW VICHY DECREE.
GERMAN LUFTWAFFE.
DAMAGED ONE OF THE DOORS
The Europeans, one in sailor's
way past the Indian watchman
The pilots come from all walks of life. Many are university stu- dents, some are commercial flyers and others are stunt pilots.
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Group Captain Sweeney, or- States ganiser of the United Volunteers in France in the last war, and who la associated with the
that told me squadron, there is tremendous.competition to get into the squadron. Hundreds of young Americans applying at the recruiting
In three "V's" of three "planes each, nine armed fighter-trainers in full fighting forma- tion at 5,000 feet are going through final combat manoeuvres as a fighting squadron.doors, and attempted to strike cm-station in Montreal.
uniform and the other in civilian clothes, it is alleged, forced their
are They then smashed one of the on duty at 2.40 a.m. on Saturday.
ployees.
dash- the
Later, on the arrive of other of instru- Indian watchmen, the two Europ- on cans left the premises and were
not seen again.
and
of the In front is Through the courtesy
the board with a maze R.A.E
honoured by and quadron, I. am piloting the lead-ments and you are perched ing 'plane while their wiry Eng- your parachute, your nose lish supervisor directs the flights. eyes just clear of the cockpit.
It makes a nicely cushioned and is handy, too, at times!
To-day we are going through MINISTER'S APPEAL
important training.
and final
combat
more
the
to
REJECTED
The supervisor must remain censors ask anonymous. The
are But on his breast that. the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Distinguished Service There is not much Order and on his scoresheet come. To-morrow or day (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL");
some week,
time The Lyon Court of Appeal. has are Messer-schmitts galore. after, next
introduction for soon, it will be in dead earnest rejected the appeal of M. Jean it is an odd you at better than 200 miles an with Messerschmidts, Heinkels, Zay, former Minister of Education, in the against the judgment of the focal
military tribunal condemning him. In future, they will be controlled hour, with huge motors roaring Dorniers and Junkers by Prefects, assisted by adminis-and cight bobbing fighter planes fight..
to deportation and degradation for geometric symmetry
desertion in war-time. - Havas. trative commissions whose func-aligned in tions will be purely consultative. on each side of you and behind
The meeting of these bodies, it is pointed out, might be the occa- sion for political agitation.
Reuter.
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“BRITISH PLAN" FOR REVOLT IN GERMANY
A “BRITISH PLAN" to defeat Germany by bombing and starving her into a revolution, is des- cribed by the London correspondent of the "New York Times."
German-controlled Europe, he says, is not self- sufficient. Her imports must include 4,000,000 tons of wheat and rye, over 5,000,000 tons of oats, barley and maize, over 1,000,000 tons of fats and 327,000 tons of sugar.
This year's harvest was not good.
The real and ultimately the de- cisive effect of the blockade, he describes as "the gradual infection of the most obedient, people of Europe with a blind, contagious anger against constituted author- ity"
The correspondent adds that experts do not believe that the present German rationing stan- dards can ·be maintained and
that the bread ration must be reduced by ten per cent. be- fore winter. — Reuter.
Asking Too Much ́ ́
IT IS ASKING TOO MUCH OF BRITAIN, IN HER HOUR OF DEEP DISTRESS, TO ASK HER TO LIFT, THE BLOCKADE AND THUS ASSIST THE TOTALI- TARIAN NATIONS, SAYS A TELEGRAM FROM MR. WIL- LIAM GREEN, PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOUR, TO MA. HERBERT HOOVER;
The telegram continues: -
There is no shortage of men. They are now reaching Britain at the rate of 20 a week, and these have been selected from many
Reuter, applicants.
NAZI VESSEL BOMBED OFF NORWAY
Blenheim bombers of Command the Coastal bombed and set on fire a. German supply ship near Trondheim on Saturday.
Patrolling along the coast Norway, the pilots saw two sup- ply ships of between 2,000-3,000 tons which bore. Swastika mark- irigs and had crates piled on their decks.
of
The Blenheims, taking one ship each, dived low and bombed and machine-gunned the vessels.
An hour later, on their re- again turn journey, the pilots
- A cloud of the ships. dense gray smoke was issuing from one of them.
saw
The Blenheims found a third supply ship near the Norwegian
coast, but as they had no bombs left, one pilot machine-gunned the vessel, which made for shore at full speed. Reuter.
ANOTHER APOLOGIA FROM VICHY
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
AN ARTICLE BY THE well-known French Royalist writer, Jacques Delebecque, published in "Action Francaise," refutes suggestions that the French Navy, and air force are at the mercy of the Italians and Germans.
Delebecque asserts that the Government coun- cils immediately preceding the armistice decided that the Navy could not be surrendered to the en- emy, and the French negotiators at Compiegne were instructed accordingly.
"Discussions with the Germans "They agreed to other hard, sa- this crifices, but were intransigent on were especially hard
On
"I am opposed to extending aid point," says Delebecque," and the this point,--Havas. to Hitler and Mussolini and creat-French Cabinet was determined
to scuttle the fleet rather
than
ing a situation which might enable them
to secure, food for their deliver it, should the French armies. — Reuter.
negotiators not, win this point."
He continues!—
ANOTHER PLANE FOULS, BALLOON
It is now known that an enemy heavy bomber: fouled a balloon cable on the East Coast last night and crashed into the, sea.-British Wireless.
WEATHER REPORT
The Royal Observatory reports that-the. anticyclone is centred to the North-East of Hokkaido with n "White. the parleys ware feeble extension south-westward The prolonged and the German ad-to the Yangtse Valley, vanos continued, while every typhoon is situated about 100 miles day the enemy; ocoupled new north of Tournne; moving WN.W. town, the Fronch armistice it probably enter the coast of hegotiations, remained stead- | Indo-China in the vicinity of
Donghol
fast.
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