1941-02-27 — Page 23

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 27, 1941.

CHINA MAIL

-WINDSOR HOUSE

THE PARTNERS SPEAK

ex-

the

The two European Axis part- ners have spoice but it is tremely doubtful whether most ardent Nazi or Fascist re- ceived any reassurance from what their leaders sand. The Halians certainly dil ant. Mussolini's speech, which was, as he himsel! confessed, given reluctantly, was nothing 1100 than A series feeble exeiras, for Haly's, downfall for winch he abortie is responsibile He put forward the argument that as Hdy was inrepared for war at the same time as she had

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already been at war for six year?

were under-Landalike

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In a next breath has declared

sampporting

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weight of 2,000,000 soldiers.

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THE SAME OLD RECORD

DREAMS

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the

HUMANITY

force and arb!

lery The gave deed, some in teresting figu of the great pre

which AVCTU Bande for parations

capture Egypt and destroy Brit ish ught in the

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1311: 1 200

Mediterranean the bud ef, he sand 1.900 the of all valibres and of recent type more than 15. achine-gun, 11 000.000 art illery shell, more than 1,000,000. 000 rounds of amanuntion auftematic weapons. 24,000 tons ul

City clothing and 759 armoured

The figures, outlining the rare- ful .eparation. The Italians had made in Libya are worth quoting as they not only refute his state- "unpreparedness". bul ment of

the strength they also indicate agat which the British had to contend, and give an idea of the ! amount of "war materials" cap tured. His further plantive com- plant that Haly had always begn obliged to fight her wars far afield was glos atatement as Al bant vacant be considered

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Murad.nt. Who con-tantly Hut he is the spotless child! of Both, cat when the vera-tom st

prvsaricate as well as Les parter in crime, who wrote 11 - book Mein Kampf". thegle there is always a eur- tam coree of credibility

FIL winch hej B:try', speech kindly informed his histers that he was "veling more freth than ever." was given on the 21st an

unhappy

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MUNICH

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Empire Heroes

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Flight Sergeant Bertram James

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They Go On Fishing

I can't mention the names of the trawlers or the skippers concern- ed; but at about midday the first put his trawl down about 15 miles off the coast, which wasn't In sight. There was a slight casterly breeze and something of a haze, though no sea to speak of, when, at half-past twelve, two enemy aircraft were seen to the south- eastward and approaching fast. They lived down, and spent the next hour-and-a-quarter circling round anel attacking at close

range

They started by dropping

bombs, several

which fell sufficiently close to send their... splinters raining on bobrɑ, to a much damage. Meanwhile, the Und hand had got busy with his

By "Taffrail"

first

Lewis gun, plastering the Hemkel at close rang and ap- parelly damaging her. for after a time she flew off out of night.

But

nircraft

before this both new round and round in circles Spraying the trawier with maa - chine-gun bullets It was two

gainst one, and the trawler, with her crew of mine, was a very easy inget, partieilarly as her trawi was down and she couldn't weigh it As her skipper sand, she could only hope for the best und steamı

ound and round in circles.

ld

The other story's about a 33- year old trawler which was also for one- and-a-half hours intermittently attacked

when engaged in fishing. She didn't carry a ma- chine-gun; but her skipper fired his rifle every time the aeroplane came near, The aircraft dropped several bombs, which missed," and then used her machine-guns. The ship was hit again and again and damaged; but

there were ΠΟ casualties, as the men had taken cover-all except the skipper, who

W., that little ship she was a shup of 159 tons, forty-one years was fairly riddled with bul- Tets and bumb splinters Hey funni mast, ventilators, super- structure, wheelhouse, sides and deek were punctured again and agoin. The compass and telegraph were damaged, the shrouds, rig- ging, wireless aerial-practically overy rupe-cut or stranded. One bullet went in through the open or of the galley and punctured the oven door after wounding the cook. The hand manning the Lewis gun wa also wounded, as was the skipper who told me the story. Pilot Ofeer J. R. H. Meaker, ! A buikt which had first hit some- British airmen operating against altack wet two occasions and ma-

At the who comes from Ireland, although ! thing else struck him in the backs thu tabadas in the Alle Best, a. einme-gunned the boat,

inly 21, has shown himself to be of his head. "I felt something hot.” v. against the Nazis in Gev end of the day he returned to lus

his pri- resolute my attack, with a calin. I he said, "and put up my hand and and handed over buse Halty tud eeupwd teritory me

this in the neck of my SULPTS. In the test its

In the announes ment of determined temperament." He hits and includ

five airerath, ¦ jersey," showing me a splayed out awards rated by the British Air the award it is stated that Acting shots down at least

The urine come from Flight Lautenant Campbell had | Pilot Offeer T. E. Neil hus des Copper bullet with the usual steel core. He showed me the scar, too. Montry.

shown "skill, italive and devo-troyed six and Pilot Officer N. K.

Stan-held. ** Canadian, has Another bullet went through his tim to duty." many parts of the Empire

Magor Robert Henning Proller

jersey, and there were more frag- The fist South African pilot 1

brought down seven, niversary of the birth of the Na! Le decorated im ilus war. He Thomas, of the Middle East Com- One of the best photographers!..nts of metal in his head and one shoulder. "I can feel 'ein It lasted one and a half! Gving in the Middle East and mand, has been awarded the Dis- of the Royal Air Force has just Party.

By been awarded a bar to his D.F.C. pricking," he explained. "My old hour, the greater part being oe" -

na; been awarded the Distinguish agusled Flyg Medal.

While operating superhuman effort he saved hise - Flying Officer Alistair Lon-woman picks out two or three new

One recent recon- bits every morning.” cupied in retracing the growth ellid Flying CresN. the Nazi party and incidentally, over Italian territory his plane'plane and the life of his air-gun- uex Taylor."

After a dive bombing raid naissance over Kiel, the announce- the obscure was hit and forced down. He was ner.

ment states, was considered the his own rise from

1sted as last. For fourteen days on a gun position he attacked an rank of a disgruntled agitator, to

He was hit by most valuable for the Navy dur- The tramped

deseri, Italian aircraft, across the

an explosive bullet, and severelying the war. Another time he took his present position as

ulering terrible hardship, but

in dense fog and secured right shoulder. off staggered

the wounded in the figurehead of the German nation.eventually

He gave directions Behind him ́his observer was kill-valuable photographs of the Dort- Hitler's speech differed from Mus- British lines.

the most soline's only in the fact that the which led to the rescue of his aired. Despite his weakness through mund-Ems Aqueduct,

point of Germany's nf blood. Flight Sergeant vulnerable His deed was one of great loss latter has already tasted the bit- crew.

Thomas set his course for Berbera, busiest industrial waterway. From the about forty miles away. Almost other exceptionally successful re- Another pilot serving in ter fruit of defeat and was try- endurance.

ne brought back of blood, and connaissances Middle East who has been award- exhausted by loss ing to soothe his people for his

ed the diplomatic failures and catastro-

D.F.C. is Acting Flight with his right shoulder useless, he photographs of Cap Gris Nez and a successful landing, with Flushing. He has completed 60 of phic military rebuffs, while the Lieutenant William Weir Camp-made

of his plane these photographte missions. former spoke of the preparations bell. He is in charge of a flying the undercarriage

defeat buat. He sank two Italian sub-retracted. The official description Described as a particularly bril-bobbed up every now and then to Germany was making to "Enemy No. 1" as Mussolini des- mutines in two days and machine of his bravery is "u superhuman lant tactician, Flight Lieutenant fire his rifle.

had

Archibald Ashimore McKellar has

Then he had the idea of firing gunned a third because he

Seven fighter pilots who re- been awarded the bar to

defence of ordinary rockets, pointing them in run short of bombs. He is known as "Dead Eye Dick."

ceive awards, six the D.F.C. and D.F.C. During the While on patrol he sighted his

one a bar to the D.F.C., have be-London he shot down eight 'planes the acroplane's direction. He fired comment, both on account of their first submarine and immediately tween them shot down 54 aircraft in eight days, and led his squa-eight in all, and the aircraft, mis- taking them for something lethal, inaccuracies, but also because of set his plane into a dive. As be

over Britain and Dunkirk. Pilot dron with fighting spirit and re-

kept at a respectable height. "But released his

Officer W. L. McKnight, a Cana-source. the facts which they were intend-flattened out, he

I expect we'd have been done in," The submarine reared dian, receives the bar to the To conclude, here is a simple the skipper told me, "if the fog ed to conceal.

His talk of the Versailles Treaty, out of the water, nose first, like D.F.C. He has destroyed six Ger- story which is typical of the hadn't come down and saved us, man machines in the last thirteen courage of civilians of the British We chopped our gear away and his protestations of innocerice, his a stricken fish, and then slid back

again vertically and sank from weeks. He is described as a "cour-Isles. In their everyday life now steamed full speed towards the desire for justice have been resight. All that remained was a ageous and tenacious fighter." they are likely to run into dati- shore, where the aeroplane

have be- peated so often-they

patch of bubbles.

Flight Lieutenant J. I. Kilmar- The following day he spotted a tin has downed 12 machines, and c, but they are always ready to mighin't have followed even if the

meet it with a stout heart. come a formula in all his public

Ger- Italian submarine on the surface. his dash and determination, with utterances-that even the

William Joseph Jenkins is a the clear thinking, combine to make man people looking at Europe to- Again he dived and before

crew realised they were being him a magniñcent leader. Acting Swansea air raid messenger. A day must feel that these declara-

attacked, he had let go his bombs. Flight Lieutenant P. S. Turner, raid was at its height. An urgent sort of way these men accepted the situation. They were neither tions of peaceful intentions

Both had wives of them young. the another Canadian, has shot down message had to be somewhat out of date, but here They found a mark beside

conning tower. In spite of

Their general at- aten machines. On September 15, Manselton to the control room, a and there cautiously interpolated rough sea and a gathering storm, one of the thros victorious days distance of some three miles, Jen- and families. sentences hold the attention. One Campbill taxied his flying boat referred to by the Prime Minister, kins mounted his motor cycle and titude, like that of the men of the

was with great skill among the wreck-Mr. Winston Churchill, in a mes-

set off on the journey, avoiding Merchant Navy, was that they weren't going to be prevented of these injected thoughts

the wreckage and burst gas mains. sage of congratulation to embodied in his remark that "only age of the submarine and rescued

of four of the crew. He then

Falling bricks knocked him from from going to sea and earning. te-Fighter Command, he brought

their livings by any pestilential his machine, but dazed and - a few fools could ever think

sumed his patrol and spotted I have

down a Nazi machine, and was bruised he remounted. He hatt Germans. Come what might, they'd revolution in Germany.

third submarine. Although he then hit by cannon shell. For a

damned to the taken on," he added, "many de- had no bombs left he dived to the few seconds it louleed as though knocked him unconscious. Helpers

a bomb carry on, and be not gone far before

·Huns.

They were mocratic enemies in the past and

phlegmatic, stolid his machine were helpless and out

men, these two skippers; hard- have always been victorious." This

of control, but by clever hand came and he recovered, and in- strange reference to the state of ing of his lost opportunities and ling he regained control, and even sisted on continuing with his e-bitten seamen inured to foul wea-

gent message. He had another mind developing in Germany is his failure to win the first bout destroyed a second plane before half mile to go. The tyres of histher and a hard life. It didn't seem to occur to them that they were significant and hardly, one would last September? These are a few he brought his own damaged ma machine were fint, ripped open doing anything particularly, dar- think, necessary for a beloved of the chinks in Hitler's armour chine safely back to his bage,

by-bomb-splinters, but he rode on Flying Officer T. A. F. Elsdan," leader to utter. Against whom which show the world that he is .was the threat directed? The not as invincible as he would like from Scotland, has a bag of six was blown off yet again, but or praiseworthy in adding to still he remounted, and delivered the nation's food supply of fresh to his credit. On September 4,

fish, though in these days their job think. Possibly

his message. our For

is just as tough us that of the Fuchrer then expressed the read- it to

when leading his squadron, his iness of Germany to

Jenkins has been awarded the thousands of others from the Bah "measure East neighbour, Japan, will not method of attack was successful our strength again." We like this fail to draw the necessary. .con-in destroying nine aircraft and George Medal recently instituteding fleets who are serving in the

probably three more.

by the King. word, "again". Was Hitler think-clusion.

minesweepers and patrol traft.

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cribed the British people. There were, however, various points in which cali for Hitler's speech

are

bombs.

effort."

his

taken from

fog had lifted."

What amazed me was the calm.