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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 22, 1941.

MEN ACT

ACT AS BOMB TARGETS FOR R.A.F. WHY 17,500 MEN

(By A Special Correspondent)

HUMAN TARGETS WHOSE JOB IT IS TO BE BOMBED FORM, I CAN NOW REVEAL, ONE OF THE MAJOR FACTORS THAT MADE POSSIBLE THE SMASHING OF HITLER'S INVASION AT- TEMPT LAST SEPTEMBER.

All the great work of the R.A.F. and the Navy might not have been successful but for these men. Without their heroism our airmen could not have achieved that bomb-timing perfection that ensured the Nazis' destruction.

Bombing a mobile craft on the sea calls for a much higher degree of accuracy than aiming at a stationary land target, and our airmen are given a special instruction and practice course under the real conditions that would obtain in any invasion project to attain this.

They have targets to bomb af' 502 spersally built muter-boats, j 4011 in length. driven by three 100 hp. engines which develop a speed of 23 knots.

Naturally they require crews, act here's where the "Heroes" Brigade" comes into the picture.

Three men, it

helmsman, en-

gineer and radio operator, man these motor-boats, and their job is to get out of--or is it in? -the way of bon bs 'planes. Such is the accuracy of

PILOT PUT

150 ITALIANS

IN PEN

An R.A.F. fighter pilot dropped by our played a game of sheep

LEFT HOME

George Brian, news commentator for Co- lumbia, New York, broadcasting system, announced that last year 17,500 husbands left their wives in the U.S.A.

reasons

The main given ware: 1.-Overdrawing

penses account;

ex-

2.---Criticising and

nagging,

3. -Slatternly op-

pearance at home, especially at

the

breakfast table;

4.---"Keeping up with

the Joneses."

GAOLED THREE YEARS FOR ROBBING DEAD

For stealing rings from the bodies of four air-raid victims,

George Alfred Hobbs, aged forty- three.

mortuary assistant, of Crescent, Kensington, was sentenced at the Old Bailey

Hubbs, who pleaded guilty, ask- ed that four similar cases should be taken into consideration.

this bombing from anything be- penning in Libya. Flying tween 1,000ft. and 15,000 that his Hurricane, he was the Cornwall more often than not a hit is made. sheep-dog and 150 Italian to three years' penal servitude.

The bombs used are 11. soldiers were the sheep. filled with tannic chloride to give off plenty of smoke when burst- ing, and they are fitted with de- layed action fuses, so that, when- ever a direct hit is scored on a boat, they go straight through the hull and burst in the water.

Crash Helmets

There is some protection for these men in the arinoured wheel- house, and buoyancy is obtained by fitting unsinkable hulls, which are lined with expanded rubber and water-tight bulk-heads.

The central section is covered with half-inch bullet and splin- ter proof armour plate, built on rubber bases, and there are bullet proof port holes and lookouts.

The crew have crash helmets and ear protectors, but that and the three and a-half tons of armour does not prevent them having some very uncomfortable moments. A hit will capsize the boat.

Then they have to swim for it. But if the boat does automatic- ally right itself - it usually does -they manage it and climb back to get ready for the next dose!

Human Targets

These human targets keep up their game of hide-and-seek in their "coffins" for hours at a stretch in all kinds of seas and weather. With 23 knots in their

engines they can zig-zag, dodge and turn with great facility In similating the tactics enemy craft

would employ.

But not for long do they keep out of range of the pursuing bombers above them.

Twisting and turning, the 'planes chase the craft about the sea, ending with a shower of bombs that threaten to blow it out of the water.

He penned the lot captured them single-handed. He saw them near Marsa Beddau.

He fired a burst to chase them He kept flying around them, r- ing a fresh burst to their right or their left every time he want- ed them to change course.

When they hesitated he fired behind them to urge them for- ward,

of more,

The Recorder, Sir Gerald Dod- son, told him: "You violated the and sacred privacy of the dead did it time after time."

SAW A HEDGE FLYING THROUGH THE AIR

By this means he drove them

A 8ft. crater was found at a on and on till they reached the

poultry farm in the Home Coun- pen" a British military post,

There, British troops welcom-ties where a bomb had dropped, ed the prisoners into the fold | Many persons inspected the hole, and the pilot flew off in search | Children poked about in it for "bomb splinters." Then, after- While this shepherding went on, wards, there was another explo- other pilots ran a kind of hound slon, and the 6ft. crater became trail hunting Italian generals and one of 40ft. senior officers who were roaming Two bombs had fallen in the the desert - in and out of hiding i same hole. A workman who had trying to find their way to just passed the spot saw a hedge

sailing in the air.

safety.

13-YEAR-OLD BOY PUNISHED GRANDMOTHER

A BOY OF THIRTEEN agreed, after a talk with the magistrates at Poole to go to a public school, one of the best-known in the country. On this under- standing the summons for assault brought against him by his grandmother was adjourned.

The boy, she had said:

Refused to go to the public. school because he could not go by taxi,

Made his grandmother get him breakfast in bed and at- tacked her when she did not get It within five minutes.

Stols from her and so fright-

ened her that she had to spend the night at a neighbour's, "On one occasion," said

when it wasn't done he came for me."

"Not Happy There"

"As his chief mode of punish. Ing me, as he calls it, he pulls me down and puts a pillow over my head, almost smothering me, He said: “if anyone..comes into the house they will find a corpsa hara,

Unless their wireless, mast or Berlal is damaged, the crew keep in radio contact with the "at- tucking" "planes throughout the manoeuvres, directing the aiming yet all the time trying to evade neighbour for the night because hat after me." the bombs.

grandmother, "I stayed with

· his

Even this morning he did it. with an elderdown. I managed to fall out of the back door and a he threw my glasses and my

I was terrifled of him. In the The boy agreed that most of Nothing pleases a crew more morning. I had to wait until he his grandmother's evidence wag than to have A young airman got up before he would let me true practising on this ocean range" in.

"I am not happy there," he for the first-time. They see to it He demanded his breakfast in explained. "I did not go to the that he gets plenty of practice, bed and said: “I will give you school because she arranged for but it's sheer delight to them to five minutes to cook my bacon somebody to fetch me from the signal with their smoke device if and eggs, and if you haven'i coach, Other boys can have

| he puts a bomb through their done it I will go for you

I tools a clock to time me,

النبط

He taxis. I would have been called and La-Sissy,”

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