THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 20, 1 1940
VISIT TO THE NAZI BOMBERS' GRAVE
PEOPLE WHO find it difficult to credit the staggering successes of the R.A.F. ought to be shown the graveyards of the Nazi aircraft we have destroy- ed, writes a special correspondent.
I went to one of these graveyards to-day, and the scene was unique. Here lie the remains of enemy bombers which came to shower death on women and children, and were shot down in the process. With them lie crumpled Messerschmidts.
You have to come to a gigantic scrap heap like this to appreciate the bringing down alone of 188 enemy aircraft on one day and 48 on another. Not all of them, of course, redch the dump. Some disappear for ever in the Channel; others are blown. to bits; others, again, may come down in places not easily accessible. But the
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hard labour, by Mr. E. Himsworth at Kowloon this morning.
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The lossard accumulation vreckage speaks for itself. looked at the big wing of a Dor- nier, with it black and white cross standing out forlornly.
Nearby were German airscrews that had been twisted mnte fan- tastic shapes.
Some of the blades even had bullet hules through them.
Smashed fuselages, bits of cupolis, retractable undercar- riages, odd wheels and tyres, all figured in a collection of junk which contained a high pro portion of sheets of strong me- tal. it had for the most part been concertined as if it were tissue paper.
My guide pointed to a rough piece of fused metal resembling a heavy lump of clinker. "That is a common enough sight here," he remarked, "When the machine has caught fire the heat reduces parts of it to a blackened mass.' What had once been a beautifully formed radiator is now revealed as a poor shrunken thing with the honeycomb tightly pressed into a solid block.
Daily Addition
As I wandered round, a goods train pulled into the siding about
100 yards away. Each of its Jong line of open trucks was load- ed with a fresh consignment of crashed aeroplanes. These trains arrive so regularly that the giant heaps are added to daily.
The constant influx would prove overwhelming but for the energetic
way In which hundreds of workmen apply themselves to systematically
recovering all that is worth while.
reduce the
Steadily they Aluminium alloy to small pieces which are promptly taken to the adjacent furnace. Pre- sently you see the result of the smelting. Ten tons of little ingots of the valuable alloy were ar- ranged in neat piles, the work of half a week.
Ingots of this kind have helped to make many new Spitares and Hurricanes in recent months. And many more will follow.
BOY SAVED FATHER
When an incendiary bomb fell on the bed in which he was sleeping, twelve-year-old, Joe Chown, of a south-west village, thought first of his invalid father, who was in the next room..
Having got his father to
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safety, Jos got a bucket of earth, returned to his bedroom and `coolly put out the Blazing bed.
"Sparks were flying near-my eyes and the glare was terrible, but the earth got the better of it". he told a reporter.
Officers" and men and their girl friends were dancing in a road- house in the same district when a shower of incendiary bombs rained down."
One fell on the roof of the ball- room, but was safely removed by a naval officer guest. The dancers were unaware of what had hap- pened,
POLICE GUARD CONVICTED
According to the prosecution. accused approached a hawker on Sunday at Taikoktsui. He said he was a police constable and asked for some "tea" money after accus- ing the hawker of possessing stol- en coal. The hawker asked de- money and reported to the police, fendant to wait for him to get the who arrested accused.
QUARANTINE OFF
Quarantine restrictions Imposed against arrivals from Tientsin on account of cholera bave been re- moved.
UNIC
THREE INDO-CHINA
TOWNS BOMBED
In retaliation for French attacks the That air force has bombed Vientiana, Savannaket, Sisophon and Siemreap, in Indo-China, ac- cording to a communique issued in Bangkok. yesterday.
Bangkok radio announced that three important towns in the pro- vince of Cambodia were heavily bombed.--Reuter
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