1941-02-12 — Page 29

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 12, 1941.

SMASH-&-GRAB

IN NIGHT RAIDS

Scotland Yard - is taking special mea- sures to deal with new- type smash-and-grab thefts from West End shops in night air raids. Gangsters wait until there is heavy gunfire, break a win- dow with a brick, fill with portmanteaux goods, and escape in the black-out. Watch is also being kept on London gangs who travel to provincial areas where the police are occupied with the results of bombing.

TRADED WITH

ENEMY CHARGE

WIFE A

'PLANE WORKING ENEMY, HEROINE

BLAZING BOMBED ENEMY, GOT HOME

NEARLY HALF of their 'plane was shot away. What was left was on fire. The R.A.F. men put the fire out then carried on to drop their bombs.”

They brought the flying wreckage home from Germany. The pilot sat down to write his official ac- count of the adventure: "I have the honour to report that on the night of November 11-12 the aircraft was damaged.

He

草案

recalled the radio man's words "I'm going blind, sir," how the rear gunner guided the operator's hand to the key to tap out messages for forty minutes- messages that never got through. The aerial had been shot away.

The pilot, in an interview, said that for Afty minutes clouds hid their main target--the oil refinery at Wesseling. Cologne-so they made for the railway goods yards at Cologne before that was ob- scured ton

"It seemed as if we could not miss

our new target,"

" said pilct. The bomb doors were open, the radio operator was standing by to drop the great flare, and the bomb aimer had started giving the usual alterations of course.

"Then A.A. fire opened up in. tensely

LOCAL SHARES

H.K. GOVT, LOANS 34% Loan (1934) 034 b. 3% Loan (1940) 93 b.

BANKS

Bank of East Asia $76 b.

The workers in the factories are going to it and behind them, sup- porting them with their grit and loyalty, are those "unsung heroines, the workers' wives."

Mr. Horbert Morrison, Minister of Home Security, sald this at a conference of employers and work- ers in London to discuss the Gov- ernment's policy on working after the siren.