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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 26, 1941.

POLISH "ACE" EVENS ACCOUNT WITH THE NAZIS

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A HOT COMPETITION is going on in the Royal Air Force now operating on several fronts Germany and the Continent, over Britain, over Albania, over Africa.

Two or three lucky men have put their personai "bag" above the twenty mark. Certain squadrons have passed the double century.

Besides these local affairs, we hig Henkel bumber, accepted the are now running test matches. The challenge right from the start. Aussies nd the South Africans | Despite his heavier aircraft, be are play my off F terrifie series gave back round for round, and month by month in North Africa more. Every one of his gun-nests and clawing down Savolas and flamed ** the fighter wheeled Capronic and Bredas and Fiats in about him.

A breakneck "best matches.

some

tocal

of

five"

Twice the Pole tried to ram, and Talled by inches.

AIR SUPREMACY IN BALANCE, SAY REDS

Air supremacy in the war belongs to neither Germany nor Britain, the official organ of the Soviet army declared.

British aviation, it was added, was not crushed and was even spreading its activit- ity.

TO NOT

RINGING BELLS-

Both Machines Crash 1S. 6D.

Each machine had been hit

an several times. Later, the Heinkel's

machine's

wing.

and

SL

the

Pancras

There an airfield on foreign oil which shall be forever Eng- land where an all-Black squadron of New Zealanders competes daily against British fighters for antique silver cup dug out of fuselage was found riddled like 2 Although it can no longer toll a

bell ruins while making colander, and one wing had fifty-

at junerals, Ack-Ack defences. The eup four bullet holes. A shell from Borough Council s charges a (which changes hands almost the German hit the tip of the Bri-Is. 6d bell-ringing fee for every every night) gues fu the side tish

tore funeral entering which ha shot down most at-away several feet of covering church. tackers dining the day's games in leaving naked ribs. Early in the; The clouds

fight the Pole was wounded in the And still the all-England play- left shoulder. ers in the home skies form a team

The end came

with startling worthy of un Hiad.

suddenners. Another of those sav- The pilots' room

buzzing, age attempts to ram caught was

the the other night, with the story of Heinkel just as it tried to turn, Ge of those single-handed ex-sheared away its port wing close ploits.

to the body, buckled up the at- tacker like a kicked can, and sent "Our charges are the lowest in them both rolling over and over Landon," he added. "If we wanted into the abyss.

to stop the charge for bell-tolling They came down within twenty because we can no longer do it, we yards of each other, and from should have to get permission of among the ruins of the black the Home Office, and that would bomber one figure painfully false a long time, even if it were clambered, humping frightfully. agreed to." with one leg dragging.

It took i

Fought Nazis At Warsaw

A Polish pilot had died that day; but it was not sorrow, but pride, that rang in the hushed voices telling his tale.

He was an officer in the Polish Air Force in 1939, and when the German besieged Warsaw he was In charge of a squadron of British- built fighters that tried to defend the city from aerial massacre.

hop or two toward the smashed fighter that had done the damage

Then, from the fighter's cock- pit came the harsh chatter of an automatic. The limping German stopped, crumpled slowly. and

fell.

The Pult was still alive when they got to him.

Outnumbered by forty and fifty to one, the Poles fought to the end. and this officer was the last man to fly in riefence of the shambles That is von Epp." he gasp- below. One by one he saw his ed. "You can know him73 duel- comrades shot out of the sky; stilling eut cross--his left cheek.“ the dark hordes of bombers came. And he closed his eyes and though scores blazed 01 the went to sleep comfortably, for the ground.

last time. He was smiling, but the

At last, he faced the destroying | dreadful, cruel bitterness had all fleets alone. He never told how gone out of it. many German Jureraft he shot There was an o'd duelling scar down but we know his bag must across the German's check, and. have heen astounding. because. apart from wounds got in the sky after he had made his escape from | combat, he had eight bullets in hiz Polurd and later joined the R.A.F., chest from his entny's automatic we saw him in action,

Letters and personal items on the Not until he had been several body showed that the name WHS months over here did any other Karl von Epp.

details of his story come out. Then, in odd words, grunted as- sents and inferences, it was un- derstood that he had spent thirty- six hours trying to dig out his mother, father, wife and 4-year- old son from beneath runs, blaz-

FLYING

ing all along one side, that had GIANT IS

collapsed on them as they tried to hide from the rain of German explosiver from the skies.

The child died first; then the two old people. When he had got through a hand to touch his wife, and pass her some water, more wall collapsed, Injuring his arms, and entombing the young wife in a final ellenco. He never got her out.

MISSING

Served in China Air Force Flight-Lieutenant L. P. Rowley, of the R.A.F., a Believed Chance Would former colonel in the Chinese Army, is reported missing.

Come

He had a strange belief-almost a manía. He said that a certain,{ Major von Epp was in charge of the German bombers that pitiless- ly smashed Warsaw, systematical- ly flying to and fro over it. He said he would know this man by the way he handled his aircraft in

He is thirty years of age and 8ft, 44in, in height.

Since he left left Taunton School he had had an adventurous life..

He has been a pilot in an air circus, and a crazy flyer in Ameri- can films, and when he went to

nirminded he was made a lieuten- ant-colonel at the age of twenty- one.

cemetery

A Londoner finding this item on an account for the burial of a relative, protested. The answer he got was: "We have to charge 1. It's in the regulations,”

An official of the Council told a reporter that they retarded this charge as part of an inclusive fee, and saw no reason to change it.

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His personal "bag" was sixteen enemy machines when, during the early evening, at the beginning of a recent great attack,on London, his section took the air. They got into a very big mass fight with scores if Heinkels and› Messer- schmidts, and from the beginning it was obvious that the Pole had picked out one for himself, appar- .cd football for Southampton. ently the leader of the raiders......... His brother, Mr. Richard Row-

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