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LAUREL & HARDY "SAPS AT SEA

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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 30, 1940.

Western Desert

Air

Encounter

TWO ITALIAN AIRCRAFT were brought down and five others damaged during an en- counter between R.A.F. fighters and a large formation of enemy bombers escorted by fighters.

Announcing this, R.A.F. headquarters in the Middle East yesterday also said that dur- ing an R.A.F. raid on Tobruk on the night of December 26 fires were started but the full extent of damage could not be observed.

BY DINGHY TO SAFETY

The crew of a Royal Air Force bomber recently had

a

narrow escape from drowning after making a successful attack.on Ber- lin. The Captain, a Cana- dian, who was recently awarded the D.F.C. said:

"We found ourselves in difficul- ties when we were off the Frisian : lands. It became obvious that we should have to come down on

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The enemy bombed Sollum but, only slight damage was caused.

The successful bombing of Va- lona, on the foreshore of southern Albania, is also reported.

One heavy bomb was seen to explode 50 yards from a large ship but the effect of the other bomba could not be observed owing to extremely bad wel- ther.

All British aircraft returned safely to base.--Reuter.

ATTEMPT TO RAM HEAD-ON

GIFT 'PLANE

•

FROM LOCKHEED FACTORY

A Hudson Bomber named "Spirit of Lockheed and Vega". has just arrived in Bri- tain. It has come from America.

This machine was presented by man- agers and employees of the Lockheed Air- craft Company and the Vega Aeroplane Company and is а gift to the British na- tion.-British · Wire-

less.

A Junkers 88 pilot became so bember passing only ten yards desperate after a Blenheim fighter underneath the fighter.

had chased him for over 50 miles The Blenheim pilot had pre- We lightened the aircraft as that he attempted to ram his pur-viously opened fire and damaged much as possible by jettisoning suer head-on. Suddenly turning the bomber.

oil pouring

all surplus weight and nursing the at the end of the chase, he drove When last seen the bomber was.

ngine. We hoped to find a con- his Junkers straight at the Blen-flying slowly, with voy and came down somewhere heim. He nearly succeeded, the oùt. Dear to it, but no ship was sight-

In the meantime, we were etting nearer to England. SOOD we saw the coast and our hopes ran a little higher, but unior- tunately both engines spluttered and then stopped.

"I pancaked on to the water, and landed a quarter of a mile from the coast. The navigator and the: rest of the crew had launched the dinghy by the time I had managed to scramble out of the cockpit.

"It was just as well the naviga. tor had left his position because when we hit the water, which was rather like hitting concrete, the first decks were smashed and water just rushed into the aircraft, It did a kind of submarine dive and hen came up again. We were aboard our d'nghy and reached shore in about 45 minutes. We puddled the dinghy, propelled it shorewards with our hands and wam behind it to push along, and finally we reached safety."

soon

JUMBLE SALE OF HER HOME

One of

Goering's tip-and-run heroes dropped a bomb on the house of Mrs. Taylor, in the Wes Country.

Instead of being dismayed, she promptly held a' jumble sale tor the benefit of the Red Cross Penny-a-week Fund,

From the ruins of her home she calmly retrieved any still recognis- able belongings. The open-air auction fetched £4

spited furniture.

for bomb-

When crowds came to look at the ruins Mrs. Tayior picked the few autumn flowers. left in her small garden and sold them as souvenirs,

WANTS SACK OF FLOUR IN HOMES

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Mr. de la Bere (Con,, Evesham). is to ask the Parliamentary Secre tury to the Ministry of Food:

"Whether, In view of the dan... gers of, air bombardment, he will now 'consider repairing and put- ting Inta working order the dis- used mills throughout the country and bringing them back · into activity;

And whether, with a view to improving the country's larder,” he will encourage; householzers throughout the country to joki a 140lb, bdg. of flour with h view to its utilisation for home, baking in the event of an emergency, Bild zi

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