1941-02-14 — Page 33

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 14, 1941.

SHORT SHARP AIR FIGHT

POSSESSED BY "MATRIMONY MANIA"

Jack Barrasford, aged forty-five, man- ager of a Carlisle cine- ma, was sentenced at the Old Bailey to

An ME109 which dived to attack the Dover bal- loon

twenty-one barrage yesterday was itself dived on and at- tacked by a sergeant pilot of the Fighter Command, states the Air Ministry

news service.

The sergeant pilot was on patrol In his Spitfire,

Describing the attack he said: "I was just below the cloud when the ME109 swept down from above me on to a barrage balloon.

He saw me and climbed, so I chased him and give him a three Or four seconds burst from as- tern.

He turned on his back rapidly Losing height Smoke was pour- Pig from his when he disappeared into the clouds.“

Since he did not see the emy plane again the pilot only claimed he damaged aircraft,

the

This sergeant pilot, who I even enemy planes to his cre

reently borrowed his sqr- on leader's plane when his own Satfre had been destroved. enst um 18 the borrowed plane and hot down an MEI9. British Wireless.

months'

imprisonment for bigamously marrying two girls.

was

He

stated to have been convicted of bigamy in 1936.

The Recorder (Sir Gerald Dodson) told Barrasford that he seemed to have an "inordinate oppetite,' for matrimony. "In- deed," he added, "mo- trimony has become a mania."

CHUNGKING SNOW

After days of drought, snow be gan to fall in Chungking last night

Central News.

CHAMBER MOVING TO HONG KONG

IT IS REPORTED THAT THE CHINESE CHAMBER OF COM- MERCE IN SHANGHAI, WHICH WAS RAIDED BY THE JA- PANESE ON WEDNESDAY, WILL TRANSACT ALL IT'S BUSINESS HEREAFTER IN HONG KONG, WHITHER ALI. IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS AND ARCHIVES HAVE BEEN MOV-

ED.

All certificates for Chinese- marufactured products which are absolutely required for shipments from Shanghai to Free China re- gions will be obtained in Hong Kone, it is added.

Meanwhile the new Chamber organised by the Nanking regime in Shanghai has begun operating.

Reuter

from

RED CROSS FUND NOW £4,335,000 Including gifts of £800 Lu and £750 from Chile the

· Duke of Gloucester's Red Cross and St. John Fund for Wounded

HOW has

reached £ 4,375.000 - British Wireless,

Col. de Wiart, V.C.. who come manded the Allied Forces in Nor- way, is gezetted temporary major- general.

SOUND ARGUMENT !

AN OUNCE OF PROOF IS WORTH

A TON OF TALK,

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