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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 10, 1941

BRITISH BOMBER'S ALIENS

ORDEAL IN

WERE LOYAL -DIED

CLOUD AND SNOW IN ERROR

IT WAS SHOCKING weather over Germany and the North Sea (states the Air Ministry News Service). Pilots of the Bomber Command returned to their bases with reports of icing, electrical storms, dense cloud, and snow. The experience of one crew of a heavy bomber served to show what our aircraft were up against.

This crew had been detailed to attack a target in Germany. As soon as they reached the Dutch coast they ran into heavy cloud.

"W tried to climb through it but couldn't," said the sergeant palet We went Pp to 14,000ft. witheat getting clear started to now and very soon the! pub ude of the front turret way!

Then it

thickly enterpri The nont gun- thing so he al

her couldn't - རྩྭ་ཅ it

Cabe out Time over for top pant of his clothing."

"Thang get worse The air- speed arudicator Trow up. Task-

•! Ther strand pilot what he thought, and he agreed that it seemed pretty useless trying to get through We wore about 80

course for hate. Ten nummule, later

REVOLT

AGAINST

QUISLING

Party May Fall

The South-Eastern Øst- mars militud, cand tuming we set vold province of Norway the Schmand enzae started miss-is in open opposition to ing. Then the engabe failed al- the puppet government in the ca burettor. I decided to following the attempt to get ad of the bombs to lighten assassinate Quisling at

Fredrikstad.

together, probably because of ice

the aweralt. By this time we had gut down to about 11,0001. [ couldn't keep height at all amt we kept going into steep spirals los- ing 1.000ft at a tim€*, with the aircraft temporarily out of con- trol. At one tire tually heading eat again."

we were ne-

A Pilot's Nightmare "Sis searchlights caught the

The reprisal policy of the Nor- wegian sturn-troops has in many parts created a situation described in Osio reports as "the depress ing atmosphere of immuent civil

war."

The Norwegin Press have warn- ed the public to keep calm, point- ing out the the police are armed, machine and fastened on to us. I Many observers here believe could bear the shells bursting un- that popular agitation may force derneath and to the side. Every | Germany to remove. Quisling and now and Then we kept gomg into his party from power. those imrrible spirals. The wire- less operator was thrown across the aircraft and broke his ankle, but he got back to his wireless and kept working it. t had d* ready told the crew to get their parachutes on, but with the front gunner injured it would have been impossible or us to have left the; aircraft.

We couldn't have got him out.

I had a feeling at the back of my mad. too, that the starboard engine would pick up again once we got out of cloud.

The attack on Quisling was made shortly before Goebbels left Oslo. Goebbels entered Norway by train, travelling through the Ostvold, He left by air-missing the Ostvold.

Quislingites themselves are ner- Goebbels un- yous of this visit. doubledly obtained advice about the Quisling regime, and it is be- heved that some

of the replies he got from high German quarters were unfavourable.

Bigger Escorts

"The whole thing was A nightmare. I don't know how the guns missed us. With only! one engine I couldn't take any Several attempts on the life of evasive action We ran slan Quisling have been rumoured through a balloon barrage since the constitution

on our port side.

with

with over- saw shout half-a-dozen balloons thrown. He and his fellow-

We were still puppets nowadays travel on one engine then and I just larger and larger bodyguards. flew or. I was Eweating hot, The

A Norwegian youth leaped on artificial horizon wasn't work the running-board of Quisling's The ing, and with the air speed in car and tried to shoot him. dicator gone I couldn't tell when youth was clubbed by the chauf- we were nearing stalling point.

eur before he could fire.

་་ དwe had dropped to about 1,000ft when the starboard en- gine picked up at last, and so we got home after all."

Dawn Encounter

two as.

that It is possible sassination attempts have been made recently.

At the same time as the Fre- drikstad attempts there were large anti-Quisling demonstra- Fredriksten. tlons in Sarpsborg, Halden, and other Ostvold towns. "Down with Quisling" posters appeared in the streets, and repeatedly

Other aircraft got through to Western Germany, but it was clouds and piercing cold all the way. One of our aircraft re- Stormtroopers were turning from the operations at

beaten, night met a Messerschmidt 110. In the words of the pilot:-

FROM AFRICA TO

FIND WIFE KILLED

"The enemy machine came up to attack us from below. My rear- gunner watched him getting closer and closer on our tail. In the half light of dawn, and when we were only 400 yards apart, both the rear-gunner and the After surviving the ordeal of wireless operator recognised the an Internment camp in French- machine as a Messerschmidt 110. | occupied, Africa, Mr. H. W. Make-

· "The rear-gunner told me that ing, ex-member of Bristol City if I kept a steady course he was Council, returned home to find sure he could bring it dawn; He his wife and daughter had been opened fire before the Messer-killed in one of the heavƒ raids on schmidt had a chance, and within | Bristol.

a few seconds he saw it shoot up He was one of the British mer- vertically and then dive head-chant saliors who were interned long into the sea. Looking down when France capitulated. Recent- he saw a vivid flash. Evidently ly Bristol City Council declared the enemy fighter had blown up his sout vacant owing to his non- -oh striking the water.".

· attendance.

Errors in compiling the lists of Italians deported in the torpedoed Arandora Star led to the inclusion of a number of men whose sympathies were wholly with Britain.

This, one of the findings of the Arandora Star inquiry conducted by Lord Suell. is revealed in a White Paper.

No definite

instructions were

laid down as to the method of celecting aliens to be sent over. seas on the Arandora Star and other ships. it is stated,

Here 20 Years

In the case of Italians no class- ification by tribunals hurt taken place. Apparently the view was taken that the e who had been only

members of the Fascist Party. ; l those Who were arciently Fasent were equal- ly dangerous,

One of the Italian, deported had lived in England for twenty years and had been included In the list in error he was not a #nember of the Fasс st Party. Lord Sneil enuld not regard this lack of discrimination as satisfac- tory.

Subsequent scrutiny showed that, out of 717 Ital,ans appearing on the embarkatiun Foll of the Arandor Star, the maines of twenty-six did not coincide with nanes on the sts of dangerous characters supplicà

to the car])

commandants.

CZECH ARMY IS TO GET WAR MEDALS

tradition of

The "no medals” the Czech Army has been broken by the creation by the Czecho-

slovakian Government in Britain of two new war decorations,

The new medals, one for war service and the other for bravery, may be awarded to Czechs fight- ing with Britain, er to Allied sol- diers.

Three British RA.F. officers have already received the new medal for bravery.