1940-12-13 — Page 32

* ་

Page

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 13, 1940.

SHOT MURDER

Ice Cubes! RAIDERS DOWN

Ever been rushed for ice cubes at a

party or your bathing shed? Buy packet of Dairy Farm Ice Cubes and you'll find your problems solved. Crystal clear, and generously sized, they won't spoil your drinks or aïve them an "off taste."

25 cents per packet of 48 cubes

THE

DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE CO., LTD. Pure Food Specialists.

-

Good

News!

The gift of a Wahl-

EVERSHARP pen and pencil

is

sure to be good news

EVERSHARP is the only pen that is safe to give, as the recipient can "fit" it perfectly to his or her style of writing. Simply move the slider on its "Self-Fitting" point-up or down --and in un instant you "fit" the pen to your ́own style of handwriting.

It alone has the safety ink shut-off, which Beals the ink in the barrel when the cap is screwed on-one stroke refill-exceptionally largo ink capacity and shows when to refill.

New Eversharp Repeating

· Pencil to match

Just press the top for a new point or a new lead-feeds leads continuously. Pen and pen- cil sets in beautiful Doric design and modern. color effects. Repeating Pencil also made in gold-filled metal, chodium plate and combina- tions of these metals and pyralin.

useful and much appreciated

gift for any occasion.

EVERSHARP

ON SALE AT

THE SINCERE CO., LTD.

AUTHORIZED DEALERS

VISIT. SINCERE'S CHRISTMAS BAZAAR Santa Claus is waiting there to see all children.

GETS D.F.C.

ONE OF THE MEN who has for weeks been de- fending London from the fury of Hitler's air blitz- krieg has been honoured. He is Acting Flight-Lieu- tenant Christopher Frederick Currant, and he has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Ministry announced.

Four other D.F.C.'s and one D.F.M. were at the same time awarded to men who have been promin- ent in attacks on enemy territory, destroying the Nazi invasion schemes.

Of Acting Flight-Lieutenant I Currant the Air Ministry said he "has led his flight with great skill and courage in air combats in the defence of London," and "has des- troyed seven enemy aircraft and damaged a number of others.

"His splendid example and fine. fighting spirit have inspired the other pilots in his flight."

He was born at Luton in 1911, and his home, is at Harpenden, Harts. He enlisted in the R.A.F. in January, 1936.

20 Attacks

Acting Squadron Leader John Fulton was awarded the D.F.C.

This Officer, the Air Ministry said, has taken part in 20 major operations over enemy territory since early in June, 1940.

Since March Pilot Officer Lewis has taken part in 38 flights over enemy territory.

The D.F.M. was awarded ...-to Sergeant Andrew McDowall, who, it was stated, has led his section on many occasions and has des- troyed at least six enemy aircraft, one in a brilliant head-on attack at night.

TO GO TO U.S.A. IN YACHT

One night in September an Seven persons are to attack on enemy objectives at make an adventurous trip

Brussels was frustrated by the

failure of the starboard engine from Britain to the U.S.A. and he turned for home. Later in a small yacht. the engine functioned normally,

'PARACHUTIST' WAS A WEATHER SPY

Police, Home Guards and A.R.P. men took part in a parachutist hunt in Woodford and Buck- hurst Hill recently.

For many miles around what appear- ed to be a parachute was seen slowly des- cending from a great · ́ height. In cars and on cycles the officials followed it for over half an hour, till it came to rest in the: garden of a house in. Buckhurst Hill, It proved to be a me- teorological balloon used for weather re- ports.

COUNTESS'S SON AS A SEAMAN

Bidding farewell to his wealthy

and he decided to resume his Since there is now no other mission,

way in which he can get back to He made two successful attacks, his home in an American ship, straddling the railway junction Mr. Henry B. Clarke, an Ameri- with both sticks of bombs,

can business man, has bought his Tribute is paid to his "per-own yacht.. sistent determination, outstand- This has been fitted out for ing skill and devotion to duty in him at a small Devon port, and the face of heavy opposition and is ready to cross the Atlantic. friends and life as owner of a many set-backs."'

The vessel in question is the 1,000-acre cotton plantation in Acting Squadron Leader Fulton136 tons schooner. "Norroit,” was born and educated in British which Mr. Clarke has bought Hon. Walter Osra Bunt-Macken- Peru, the thirty-three-year-old Columbia..

from its former owner, Earlzie, second son of the Countess of Beatty, just for the purpose of Cromarty sailed for England to returning to California. With join the Navy, ment numbers, seven. passengers and crew her comple-

Bombed Harbour

The D.F.C. is awarded also to Acting Flight-Lieutenant Peter Coplestone Lemon, who since the beginning of the war has con- ducted 28 operations over Norway, Holland, France, Belgium arid Germany.

In September, with great courage in the face of Interes anti-aircraft fire, he' dived to 500 feat over Antwerp harbour and released a stick of bombs which caused a large, brick building to blow up and burn furiously.

1

His alreraft was damaged, but by skilful piloting a successful, landing was made,

The pilot is a West Country man, born in Devon- and with his home in Weston-super-Müre...

·· ́ Pilot Offée· Clare: Artlur Ho vendon Connor, has been award- ed the .D.F.C. for an attack he -made as captain of an aircraft on

Antwerp in September.

crew

The difficulty of finding a has been overcome, and Mr. Clarke has suc- ceeded In getting

tough West Countrymen, pall. over military age, but who are "game enough to tackle the ad- venture of crossing the Atian- tic in such a small vèsaël,

Now he work's aboard a ship In a West Country part as Dr- dinary Seaman Mackenzie. He signed up for special duties in one of the most dangerous jobs in the Navy at a wage of 286; a sum weck.

When not at sea his work will include scrubbing. decks, peeling potatoes and polishing brasses.

BOMBS FELL AS A BABY WAS BORN

A NURSING SISTER tending to a woman giv-

enemy barge concentrations at ing birth to a baby, with bombs dropping all round After a fruitless attempt to the tall block of a tenement flats. Another racing bomb, he approached the target to safety through the night in an ambulance with again, and was subjected to in-

tense fire from the ground, but a mother and two-hour-old baby while explosions al- the attack was pressed home suc- most shook the wheel from the driver's hands. cessfully.

During this attack the bomb. That is how maternity nurses compartment in the aircraft was are carrying on through the raids.. shattered and a fire started which. quickly spread to the wireless operator's and rear gunner's cock pit. The port mid-wing and the tail boom were damaged.

.Shell" fire ›pierced the

port rear, petrol tank, causing «grave risk of the fire spreading, and the starboard tank was also -plaroed, a

take us out, I do not know what- I would have, done for the The stories were told just In mother and baby."-" casual conversation to a reporter Another nurse, grey-haired Sis- who visited a London maternity ter M. Allfrey, who has volun- hospital bombed during n night tarily come back to the hospital, raid. Fortunately, there were no where she was trained thirty patients in the hospital at the years ago, to help during the war, time.

was luckler. Sister I, Beare. was call- She had three patients to get to ed out during araid to safety and found an ambulance.

„One of the bables was two hours

a woman who lived in a

Pilot: Officer Connor is a Cana- tenement building. The baby old when the ambulance set out dian, and his wife is lying at was born as bombs dropped all for a south-eastern hospital,; Ger- round the flats, then the nurse 10ft | man - planes overhead, dropped Bridgwater, Somerset. W

The navigator and rear gun- the mother as comfortable as she salvo after shivo of bombs as the anbulance, unlit, threaded its 'way, ner abandoned the aircraft, but

through the streets," the wireless; operator nir gunner remained and extinguished the

flamos, Ban

Pilot Officer Connor then suc- ceeded in flying back to his base and- landing 2 without further damage, despite his machine's con- dition:

Defied A.A. Guns

could.

Some time later n bomb hit a neighbouring block of flats and the mother and baby were moved to a nearby school for safety.

"I'd Have Managed"

Sister Allfrey said: "Another of No Food For 12 Hours the women was expecting her

prek

babycat any moment... If it had When Sistor. Beere went to visit | happened) I should have had to her, she found the mother sitting | attend the mother. In the dark.]. on the floor nursing her baby, Sho Than.cošually, "I suppose). I had had no food for twelve hours. should have managed,

The last DF.C..was granted to The nurse immediately set "It"" was a nightmare Journey, Pilot Officer Wilfred John Lewis, about finding a means of transport The bombs were dropping close who In September successfully to get her out of London, Finally, and shaking the ambulance. Ono pressed home, in the face of in-with another henvy raid in pro- | bomb lifted the vehicle from tho tense and, accurato anti-aircraft gress, the driver of a private car. road and threw the porter, who fire and searchlight glare, a dive- I took them to safety.

was with us, to the floor

"But we nerived safely und that

bombing attack on a concentra- Bletar Boore sald: "If I hadn't' tion of barges in Antwerp doclus. iboon ableŭto find that drivan tol won all that matteredi'li y