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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 5, 194C MUTT AND JEFF

I'M SOME DRIVER, EH, JEFF DID THAT ONE IN A SNAPPY

NOT BAD, MUTT

SIX!

AND HOT SO HOT EITHER ON A PAR FOUR HOLE!

M-M-I'M PARTÍCULARY KEEN TO HIT A GOOD DRIVE HERE! THATS MY WIFE JUST APPEARED UP THE

FAIRWAY THERE!

SEE'ER?

DON'T BE SILLY, MUTT! SHES AT LEAST 300 YARDS AWAY!

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By BUD FISHER

YOU COULDN'T POSSIBLY HIT HER FROM HERE!-

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Nazis' 4 Voices BOMBING

To Britain

to be devoted to the an- onymous stations.

For some weeks he has been running the "New British Broad- casting Station"-a synthetic affair which specialises in being dull and

At least four German stations now pretend to be secret British broadcast- ing groups, a Diplomatic Correspondent states. Ap-out-of-date. parently the German authorities have at last become convinced that their official broadcasts in

A BERLIN GASWORKS

A Pilot's Experience

A flying officer in one of More lately the Germans have our heavy bomber squa- begun what they call the “Work-

drons described in a ers' Challenge Station"-probably a challenge to the workers broadcast in the B.B.C. make out what the station is say Home Service "the scene ing. News is given out in what is meant to be working-class which followed the bomb- idiom; all that happens that

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English are either boring--with careful German precisioning of a large gas works

or ridiculous. They still maintain them, but much of Goebbels's effort seems

a schoolboy's or a Billingsgate ad- jective is put with unfailing re- gularity in front of every noun. tian Peace Movement," the Ger- For the next station, the "Chris

mans turn easily from Billings- gate to blasphemy, freely quoting the Gospels to buttress Goebbels's campaign of the moment.

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We got a certain anti-aircraft fire on the way out, but nothing remarkable.

By the time we arrived there were already a lot of aircraft buzzing about, and flares were dropping all over the place. One could pick parks, and places like that.

and railways, small

Over the city the guns were

but we were not hit. Altogether, the day's

We found ings from the Propagandaminis-our target without any difficulty. terium have become both duller It was a gas-generating plant and in worse taste than before, only a few miles from the centre Bremen has lost its novelty, and of Berlin. Someone else had the Germans have devised nothing started two fires in the north-east in its place.

Then there is "Radio Caledonia,' which broadcasts supposedly de-out streets pressing accounts of stocks, shares, and savings in Great Britain - clearly with the hope of appeal- ing to the canny Scots mind. letting off at us pretty heavily,

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west to east. My second pilot was flying the aircraft and I was doing the bomb-aiming. By this time we were down to 8,000ft. and I could clearly see the outside of the works.

Perhaps I ought just to explain here, very briefly, how the bomb- ing is done. The bomb-almer is ly.ng flat on his face in the nose of the aircraft, looking down through a large glass panel which takes the place of the floor. Al-i lowances have to be made on the bomb sight for the speed and direction of the wind, the height and speed of the aircraft, and so Then, when the target comes in line with the pointers on the fore and back sight, the bomb- aimer presses the firing switch- and down they go.

on.

Terrific Sight

On this occasion when the bombs burst there were four huge explosions across the works. I think that the first one must have hit a gasometer; so far as I could see there was no other explana- tion for what happened.

There was a violent eruption upwards and outwards. It re- minded me of a scene on the films. The first four large ex- plosions were followed by series of smaller · explosions.

Two huge fires started and great tongues of flame. leaped up -- I estimated that · they must have been rising to 1,500ft.-then dense clouds of smoke began to pour out. It was the most terrific sight I have ever seen. The bombs had fallen about 50 yards apart. Al- most immediately the fires ahd explosions seemed to link up, and for a distance of 200 yards through the works "there was this great mass of flames.

Next I saw our Incendiaries falling on the western edge of the capital of

plant. They take longer to get Ireland

down than the heavy, bombs. What Swayed from sido to part of the works they hit I don't know, but I could see large clus- ters of brilliant coloured flashes on the ground. In the light of the|| explosions I had seen momentarily two long buildings and a tower. Then the aircraft passed over and I could not see any more from the front, but the rear gunner,' said he Baw one of the buildings collapse in flames.

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