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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 21, 1940.

Two adventurous sweethea ta turned Into fourteen-inch-tall humanettes by the diabolical "Dr. Cyclops" are played by Janice Logan and Thomas Coley in the Technicolour shock drama named after the malign medico. Paramount brings "Dr. Cyclops" to the Queen's and Alhambra Theatres..

GESTAPO SPY

EVERY NAZI

IN

AIR SQUADRON

EVERY FORMATION OF ENEMY 'PLANES RAIDING BRITAIN HAS GESTAPO SECRET PO- LICE AMONG THE CREW. THEIR JOB IS TO SPY ON THE OTHERS. TO REPORT ANYONE WHO SHOWS FEAR.

A.F.S. CHEAT

DEATH

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Heroes of London's air- blitz are the firemen, re- gulars and auxiliaries alike. Yet there are still people whose idea of a joke is to give a false fire alarm, just at the time when these heroes are hoping to snatch an hour of precious sleep.

I spent a day with these heroes, listening to their own stories of their work, writes a reporter

out "Nobody stood

when an alarm came," said a station of - cer. "We had to stand there and like it. Nobody flinched, whether it was a matter of falling walls, bornbs exploding or a haul of ma- chine-gun bullets.

Blown in Dock

There was Joe. He was in full kit, working to stop the spread of a petrol fire when the blast of a bomb blew him into the dock. "Yes, there was Joe right in the big drink," said a comrade who saw it happen.

"We thought he was done for, but

men of A.F.S. a couple pulled him out. They applied artificial respiration and he was sent home. When he got there he had a hot bath. He was back on the jch in two hours."

Bill was one of a couple of en- gine crews who penetrated into the heart of a timber fire in duck- land. Here is his own story:

"We went through

some blaz- ing timber. Just as we got inside the sirens went again. Down came - dozens of incendiaries and in a few minutes the timber on the other side of us was ablaze.

"There was 2 ring of fire round us and craters in the roads.

When and if they get home Gestapo punishment is meted out to those who "funk" or who get a bad "mention in dispatches" from the spies. So German airmen raiding Britain have two alternatives to go for their objective and put up jumped on one machine and got something of a show when attacked by British fighters, or..

be manhandled by the Gestapo.

turn and fly back apparently without reason.

All Nazi machines are number- why German pilots appear to be ed in bold figures, Full reports so timid-why the raiders often of the engagements and the be- haviour of crews are handed in when what is left of the squadron, after the R.A.F. have slashed it, gets home,

These terror tactics have just come to the knowledge of the R.A.F., a senior R.A.F. officer told a reporter in London,

For it – Both Ways

The enemy seem to have a good idea of what British troops and the Home Guard are ready to hand out to parachutists--but they are taught to fear the same fate themselves.

In contrast is the attitude of the British pilot who was shot down in a sky battle and crashed near a pub. As he scrambled from his wrecked 'plane with a bullet wound in his right shoulder and his cheek laid open, he said:

"Get me a pint of mild and bitter and let me get back among those up there." He got his beer,

More Haste

Two American newspapermen

Draw Pearson and Robert Allen, who write a column which is syndicated throughout the U.S., say it is because the ~ German planes are not equip.

ped with navigation instru-- ments-only the leader of the aquadron carries such instru- ments.

Every British plane is a com- and plete unit, fully-equipped, can act independently,

The reason for the failure to equip Nazi planes, the newspaper- men say, was Hitler's haste desire build them, and the cut down expense.

ILLUSION

to to

STAMPEDES FAIR

A: panic-stricken crowd say they have found the reason peded at the Golden Gate

position in San Francisco

CHRISTMAS

C. INGENOHL'S CIGAR STORES

La Perla del Oriente

"The order came to get out as fast as we could. The driver

most of us away, but three of us were left with the other machine. "I hadn't driven for eight years, but I managed to get out with the other two boys."

EASIER

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HOMELESS

Central Offices Scheme

Central offices combining in one building all the departments deal- ing with problems of bombed- set out householders are to be up in affected areas all over Bri- tain.

Local authorities have received a circular letter from the Ministry of Health, signed by Mr. Henry Willink, M.P., London's chief of clearance and repair, advising them to organise these central offices as quickly as possible.

More than a dozen London boroughs have already centralised stamtheir organisation. Several-havo Ex-concentrated every department in after one room, where bomb-dispossess- an unidentified woman shouted fed householders move in rotation. "Run, run, the Tower of the from one official to another and Sun is falling!"

complete their business in Police estimated that fifty per-space a few square yards, sons of the 700 In the stampede stead or tramping, from one part were bruised of hurt. Eleven re- of the borough to another. quired hospital treatment.

In one thickly-populated D

and

the .as

borough J. G. Kelly, 43, of Oakland, muth-bombed London. tried to stem the panic. He (writes a correspondent) I saw jumped to a bench and shouted in one room once for calm, but a phalanx or terri-council-charnber-public. fled women and children, a rush-sistance officers, building officers, Ing from behind, knocked him rehousing and compensation de from his perth and battered him partments, food and notical regis- against the benches:

tration offers mood and. rest centre and a large, cló- thes cupboard.

The spectators, mostly women and children; were watching Jo-JO, 'the' clown, in a free, outdoor Candyland review near the Tower of the Sun, the tallest structure on Treasure Island. Is San Fran- cisco Bay,cabina du

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Fog clouds around the sun some- times give the illusion that the Phufekato wer indvikling

Apart from short-circuiting the householder's search for help; and advice, local central offices represent in each locality four. Government departments the Board of Education - and the Ministries of Food Health Henda, Becuri kutak

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 21, 1940.

HOW BARGES ARE BOMBED BY R.A.F.

(BY A LONDON CORRESPONDENT)

HOW GERMAN INVASION PLANS ARE BE- ING SHATTERED BY REMORSELESS BOMBING OF THE BARGES GATHERED IN OCCUPIED PORTS FROM EMDEN DOWN TO BREST WAS DESCRIBED BY WING-COMMANDER W. B. MUR- RAY, WHO WAS RECENTLY AWARDED THE D.F.C. FOR HIS PART IN THE OPERATIONS. THE ATTACKS HAVE BEEN CARRIED ON WITHOUT REMISSION SINCE THE MIDDLE OF JULY.

Wing-Commander Murray, who is 27 and looks much more youthful, is typical of the young cava- liers of the R.A.F.

I am in command of a Bien- heim squadron which is more * less on reconnaissance duties," he said. "Our awards are cumulative, į and are more for successful work{

on

afterwards, as a rule, the dam- age done doce not seem very great.

The Germans have a balloon and Boul- a number of flights than for Darrage both at Calais

ogne. Our chaps have often flown any one explot

through it, and sometimes touch- with their wings,

Wo watch all the German ship-ed the cables ping that is moving up and down the coast, and observe whether ships are getting certain harbours. If it is more, they may be bombed.

more or inte

1ewer

Surprising Them

"Most of these attacks on har- bours are done at night, and we always try to surprise the enemy by attacking with different ma- chines from a number of direc- tions at once, and at all sorts of altitudes, high and low.

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"The barges are doubtful quantity at the moment. No one knows what is inside them, as they are all closed. They ap pear to be about 80 feet long. Those we have destroyed have not blown up as they would, of course, if they had contained ammunition."

From Dover I often watched the fireworks" on the other side of the Channel when the R.A.F. bombed Boulogne and Calais: the orange-coloured flaming onions Soating up, the concentrations of searchlights, the flashes of burst- ing bombs and the anti-aircraft fire. Now I have been told of the sensations of a flier in one of those distant invisible 'planes.

Trip Over Sea

"It is like this," said Wing- Ommander Murray. “A short trip over the sea, very calm and plea- art, with a certain amount of worry about what lies ahead, then about five minutes when every- thing on earth seems to have been let loose in your direction. Usual- ly the searchlights seem to con- centrate on one formation, which causes great amusement to the rest of us, till one day you get caught yourself!

"Anti-aircraft fire la very frightening, indeed, at the time. You see things flash past and splinters hit the 'plane. But

SUBALTERNS' ALLOWANCES

Mr. Eden, Secretary for War, is likely to be asked in the House of Commons shortly to undertake a review of the financial position of junior officers. The matter is one about which M.P.s have been res ceiving complaints.

claims

There are three main which Mr. Eden will be asked to meet.

have

The first concerns the * £80. equipment grant. Officers long complained that the grant is not enough to meet the cost. The prices of material of uniforms and other items of equipment - will shortly be raised on account of the purchase tax-

The position of the wives and families of officers is also being questioned. Since the start of the war the separation allowances for wives and children and other de~ pendants of other ranks have been raised, but officers are still limit- ed to the old allowance,

The third matter Mr. Eden “may be asked to investigate is the pay of officers. This was not changed when", other ranks (ware recently, given um adtklonai-6d fm/+marj

managing to get back home safe with a bent aircraft. We try not to hit anything outside the target area, which is usually the har- bour."

CHRISTMAS

1940

Ready for a day in school. Virginia Weidler, who is fea- tured in "The Philadelphia Story,' rides her bicycle to school

wearing a two-plece ensemble. Her skirt is navy serge with all-round unpresa- ed pleats. With it she wears a starched yellow cotton blouse with pencil stripes in navy. The sleeves are long and full and button at the wrist in a regular tailored cuff,

K. M. A.