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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 8, 1940

FIGHTER SQUADRON'S 'BAG' ON SOUTH COAST BRITAIN'S Big Messerschmidt STOP PRESS

WAR FUND DRIVES

War

Crashes On

Outskirts Of London

AIR

From city and village gifts towards the war ef- fort continue to pour in. While Edinburgh

NOT A SINGLE PILOT OF FIVE R.A.F.

IN YESTERDAY'S Weapons Week has real- AIRCRAFT LOST is e d approximately FIGHTING IS MISSING, ALL HAVING BALED £5,900,000 the little De OUT SAFELY. SEVEN ENEMY MACHINES vonshire village of Saun-HAVE BEEN DESTROYED, ONE BEING A ton. near Barnstaple, has MESSERSCHMIDT 110 WHICH CRASHED IN made a contribution in THE OUTSKIRTS OF LONDON. its way as noteworthy to the same cause..

Four of the others- three 109's and Junkers 87 dive bomber - were brought down off the south

Although there are only 50 houses and 180 people in the vill- coast by one Hurricane squadron. age a total of £1,800 has been raised. Aim was £100 represent- ing £2 per house.

Leatherhead, said to be the first

small town in the South of Eng- land to hold a war weapons weck, raised more than the £50,000 aimed at and more is expected to come in.

A novel method of raising money for the Red Cross has been employed by the station master at Grayrigg, Westmore- land, who auctioned for £20 a dartboard he won in a railway competition.

One of the most striking gifts takes the form of a cheque for £8,043 from one branch of the Fighting Services to another.

A. A. gunners have given langi- ble expression of their admiration for their comrades in the Fighter Command by sending this sum as a "take off their hats" gift to pilots.

One memorable day

\

Two Hurricane pilots who accounted for a raider who came down near London did not know they had shot it down.

HELEN DIVORCES FJ. PERRY

Helen Vinson, film star wife of Fred Perry, the well-known British lawn tennis player, was grant- ed a divorce from him at Los Angeles yesterday.

Mrs. Perry told the judge her husband Anglian coast,

was restless at nights. above the East

She said he would argue and loud- says the Air Ministry news ser- range.

and threw furni- ly slam doors vice.

ture around.

This fighter-bomber was first, sighted as it flew nearly six miles

they chased the enemy over London, climbing all the time. Above Chiswick they came into The German pilot tried to escape by climbing still higher R.A.F. fighters were patrol-but an R.A.F. fighter opened fire ting at 10,000 feet below and at a range of 200 yards and as he went into the attack flashed past only ten yards from the enemy.-- Reuter. ack

to

in machines

attempt an "flatten" Londen, the ack company decided here was an occasion worthy of celebration. It was whispered to their com- mander in chief that the men would like to buy a fighter. The chief suggested £5,000 the cost of a Spitfire and that should close in three the fund weeks. Every officer contributed

Three Formations

An Air Ministry and Ministry of Home Security communique states that three formations of enemy aircraft approached the country during the day.

a day's pay and the man offered Estuary about midday but did not

The first entered the Thames

to the

Insult was £8,043. 14s. 10d. Bri- capital. About the same time a

"He would keep this up until four or five o'clock in the morn- Ing. It went on until I lost my appetite and weight and becams very nervous."

Perry married Miss Vinson slx years ago at Harrison, New York.

Reuter.

MILLION

their money at the pay table. Re-succeed in penetrating FOR RELIEF

August, when Goering lost 185 tish Wireless.

single enemy aircraft flew over London at a great height and was

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Second and third formations OF PLAGUE

unsuccessfully attacked the Ports- mouth area during the afternoon..

Both

attacks were intercepted

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

The Manchukuo Gov-

and no damage or casualties re-ernment yesterday donat-

ported.

A few bombs, were dropped in cd $1,000,000 for the relief the early afternoon on two East Coast towns but caused little dam- age and few casualties. British

Wireless.

SHANGHAI

PRO AND CON

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA. MAIL")

WHILE SOVIET CITIZENS IN

| SHANGHAI CELEBRATED THE TWENTY-THIRD. ANNIVERS- RE- ARY OF THE OCTOBER VOLUTION, THE LOCAL BRANCH OF THE FAR EAS-

of victims of the plague epidemic.

The

sum will be distributed among those whose houses were burned down or who suffered in any way from the epidemic.

Hsinking has been practice lly rid of the dread disease but anti- epidemic headquarters warned re- sidents against relaxing caution and stressed the necessity continuing the extermination of

Havas. | fleas and rals.

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PROMOTION FOR MR. OKAZAKI

of

TERN RUSSIAN FASCIST PAR- Official notification of his trans- TY CALLED YESTERDAY FOR fer to the Consulate-General In SOLIDARITY IN THE "DAYS Calcutta was received yesterday

The prefix "special" to telegrams in

OF RUSSIAN MOURNING" morning by Mr. K. Okazaki, Jap used by the "Sunday AND ISSUED A PROCLAMA- anese Consul-General in Hong China Malt" to indicate news. which TION BRANDING SOVIET Kong.

RULE.、

Mr. Okazaki was The Soviet community held a Consul-General in large meeting and will continue Shanghai, and Portland.

Herald" and

is strictly copyright under the provi formerlysions of the Telecommunications Or Canton,dinance, 1938, and may not be reprint

circumstances,

od under any

oither

the festivities for the next four Mr. Yano, Consul-General in wholly or in part, without prior ar- days.

Nanking, is coming to Hong Kong. rangement.

This will be the first Soviet celebration in which former. sub- jects of the Baltic States recent ly incorporated into, the Soviet will participate-Havas.

WEATHER REPORT

The Royal Observatory reports that the anticyclone covers Chinn," Japan and the neighbouring seas. The depression as passed into the Pacific to the east of north Japan and the typhoon is moving northward between the Loochoos and the Bonins:

A.R.P. EXERCISE

A communication A.R.P. exer- cise will be held on, the Island un Sunday, November 17. commenc- ing at 9 a.m., the "China Mail" was informed this afternoon. ---Five - divisions will participate in the exercise with headquarters at Government House.

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