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against British fighters for an several times. Later, the Heinkel's antique silver cup dug out of fuselage was found riddled like "Kau Tung on the morning of

runs while making colander, and one wing had fifty- Ack-Ack defences, The cup four bullet holes, A shell from (which changes handis almost the German hit the tip of the Bri-

to the every night) goes

sudetish machine's wing. and for

of which has shot dow

at-away several feet

covering. most

Early in the lackers during the day's games leaving naked ribs. the clouds.

fight the Pole was wounded in the

And still the all-England play-left shoulder, ers in the home :kies form a tean worthy of an Hind.

The plots'. room WIN buzzing. The other night, with the Story of of those single-handed ex- ploits...

one

Fought Nazis At Warsaw

A Polish plot 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 Germans besieged Warsaw he waES In charge of a squadron of British- uilt Bghters that tried to defend the city from aerial massacre,

the

The e came with starting suddens. Another of those suv- age attempts to ram caught Heinkel just as it tried to turn, sheared away its port wing close to the body, buckled up the at- tacker like a kicked can, and sent them both rolling over and over into the abyss

one

They came down within twenty

anch yards of each other,

from of the black among the ruins.

gure bomber

painfully lumping trightfully claimbered.

It took & with one leg dragging. hop or Two toward the smashed fighter that had done the damage.

Then, from the fighter's cock. plt came the harsh chatter of an automatic. The limping German and etopped. crumpled slowly. fell.

Outnun bered by forty and fifty to one, the Poles fought to the end. and this officer was the last man to fly in defence of the shambles bebow. One by mhe he saw his they got to him. comrades shot out of the sky; shll the dark hordes of bombers came. ed. though

blazed scores ground.

on

The Polc was still alive when

"That - von Epp." he gasp- him duel- "You can know

his left cheek ** the ling cut across

and his eyes And he closed At last, he faced the destroying went to sleep comfortably, for the He was smiling, but the fleets alone. He never told how last time. many German aircraft he shot dreadful, cruel bitterness had all down but we know his bag must gone out of it. have been astounding, because. after he had made his escape from Poland and later joined the R.A.F. we saw him in action.

There was an old duelling sear across the German's cheek, and. apart from wounds got in the sky combat, he had eight bullets in his Not until he had been several chest from his enemy's automatic. months over here did any other Letters and personal items on the out.body showed that the name was

details of his story come

Then, in odd words, grunted as- Karl von Epp.

sents and inferences, it

was un-

derstood that he had spent thirty- six hours trying to dig out his mother, father, wife and 4-ye» - old son from beneath ru ́ns, b.az- ing all along one side, that had collapsed on them as they tried to hide from the rain

German of

explosives from the skies.

The child died first: then the

R.A.F. GIVES

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Italian camps and motor tran-

Mon-

two old people. When he had sport in Albania were heavily got through a hand to touch his bombed by the R.A.F. on wife, and pass her some water, day, states an announcement from more wall collapsed, injuring | British Headquarters in Greece his arms, and entombing the broadcast over Athens radio last young wife In a final silence. He night. never got her out.

the Camps along

Tepeiini- Valona road were attacked while Believed Chance Would transport on the road from Klis-

troop transports soura and Dukaj were heavily bombed.

Come

He had a strange belief-almost

Mr. D. 1., Strellett pleaded not guilty on behalf of the defendant. Complainant, in evidence. said he was on duty on board the ss. February 16, standing at the gang- way. His instructions were not to let any person leave the ship without a permit or a pass. When defendant tried to feave, he ask- ed for his pass, but defendant paid no heed. When he aske for the pass a second time, he alleged, defendant struck him with his fat. A colleague came to his assistance and held defendant by the

arms Mr. J. R. Poye, an- other offeal of the Immigration Department, stopped the incident.

The case is proceeding.

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Major von Epp was in charge of losses.--Reuter,

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 attack, and he said he would meet the German again in air battle.

His personal "bag" was sixteen enemy machines when, during the early evening, at the beginning of a recent great attack on London,

TWINS LAND IN NEXT GARDEN

any

TWINS. AGED EIGHTEEN MONTHS, HAD A REMARKABLE

his section took the air. They got ESCAPE WHEN A BOMB FELL into a very big mass flight with scores if Heinkels and Messer- IN A TOWN IN THE HOME schmidts, and from the beginning COUNTIES AND WRECKED A WHICH THEY it was obvious that the Pole had BUNGALOW IN

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During a frantic search a child enlly the leader of the raiders.

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