THE CHINA "MAIL, APRIL 8, 1941.
SAW BULLETS SHATTER HIS COCKPIT---SAFE
AS HE SQUEEZED through his blazing plane to bale out, the pilot of a British bomber over South- ern Albania saw his seat and instrument panel fly to pieces under hail of Italian machine-gun bullets.
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He jumped-and his parachute harness, nicked by a bullet, jerked one of his legs up behind his neck and broke it just above the knee.
Then, as he floated down with a bullet through his elbow, an Italian fighter came åfter him and put twenty-bullets through his parachute. But the British pilot, a twenty-three-year-old flight-lieuten- ant, of Woodchurch, Kent, lived.
Twelve days after his machine was seen in flames
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given up as lost, he and his meth all except turned up at their base the gunner, who was killed.
Sitting up in bed, his leg and arm in splits, the pilot said:
"We had dropped our bombs. Then Italian fighters were after Us. A Macchi 200 got a good burst in, and cuddenly the fuse lage between the cockpit and the gunner's turret burst into a blaz ing furnace,
to jump, but "I told the erea from the gunner, whose gun had stopped firing. I could get no re- ply.
The observer climbed out first and was gone, but the hatch on my side stuck, so I moved over to
follow the observer
"Jolly fortunate I did so, for just as I was squeezing through to the hatch an enemy fighter let other burst into our aircraft, time destroying my seat and instrument panel. I saw it go to pieces as I was about to jump.
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EVEN SEX
APPEAL CHANGED
changing Even sex appeal is these days and it's not the fault The man who of the war either says so has directed most of the screen's glamour girls for the past twenty years.
"We don't call it sex appeal to- day, we call it glamour." "Clarence Brown, the director, told a report- er. In the old days we dressed sex appeal up in black satin and bedecked it with jewels, then we sat it in a corner.
DREAM OF 1760 AIDS WAR TO-DAY
You would laugh if you saw a soldier carrying a | 170-year-old weapon. Pro- bably you would lay any odds that nothing invent- ed over 150 years ago and still made by exactly the same process could used in modern warfare.
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But you would be wrong. For in many British shells are a few lead shot pellets added to give the top of the shell ballast.
And this shot is made in the same place in Bristol and in the same manner that it was made In 1769.
Actually Edward Dowling who has been the shotmaker for forty- six years owes his job to a dream.
Roof Experiment
For one night in the 1760's William Watts, who eventually Fold his patent for £ 10,000, dreamed that he dropped molten lead from the Church of St. Mary Redcliffe into the moat. and that it came out resembling slugs.
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He tried the experiment from the church roof with his holding a bucket of water below and found he was right.
Then he took a house nearby. cut away the floors of the to. wer to allow a clear space down through the cellar to a well be- low and dropped his lead 120ft. from the top floor.
To-day the house, known as the Bristol shot tower stands unnotic-
"To-day it romps all over the ed in a busy main thoroughfare an-screen, gets its face dirty and its And Dowling, whose father held this hair uncombed. It has chucked the job for thirty years before him the the black satin for simple sports drops his lead from precisely the frocks It has come out of the same spot into prreisely the same boudoir and into the open."
well as did Watts.
At present Brown is directing
look at hei Her suits are straight-lin- now.
WILL TRIBUTE
TO POLICE
In Greek Lines
James Stewart and Hedy Lamarr in Metro's Come Live With Me." "When I tai bole out. part of "Miss Lamarr would never have but raught been able to wear anything my parachute round my leg. As ar parachute skin-tight black satin in the old opened, my leg was jerked up at days," he said, "out
Mrs Kathleen Mary Eph m cone broken.
"I was put to good a shaped, she doesn't drop her eyes and Dolman, walow, of The Hermit- because of the bullet through the gaze at the her through half-age, Richmond, Surrey, in her will elbow With twenty bulletsclosed tis When the occas on left £20 to the Metropolitan and through my parbekure we count demands. she uses her fists--and City Police Orphanage "in grati- tude for the unfailing courtesy to I landed pre- the audiences love it."
You've got to have "it" in your me of the police." "My observer came down at a voice to-day, There was a time village further away in the valley when a pair of eyes that had "it" After half on how Greek soldiers and a good form were all that was found me.
needed to get a contract.
ed the holes lates ty heavily.
"Soldiers bandaged mc up. found a stretcher. and for four days carried me cheerfully over the mountains. often through deep snow and along mountain tracks with precipi- tous edges.
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"Lookin! Over the side of my stretcher saw a boa maying chasin vet my sure-fonted helpers never slipped or slithered.
"We stopped at nights in vil- lages.
few Local soldiers and a civilians were good to us. At last we reached Koritza then ou Florina, where my leg and
were put in splints.
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"My observer, who was O.K, C. cept for burns en the Fare and f hands, went back to the jub.
"I went to ho-prad It was eer- tainly an experienen re to look back upon, anyhrey **
BALLOONS HIT CABLES
Drifting barrage -bal- loons hitting cables caus- ed an extensive interrup- tion of electricity supplies in many districts south of the Thames and in south- west England.
The balloons, breaking away from their moorings, became en- tangled in vital electricity cables, short circuiting them.
Some places were without pow- er for several hours.
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Richmond and Twickenham were among the districts affected. In some parts of Richmond light went off and on three times. Owing to the electricity supply having falled,' candles and an oil lamp were used in the blacked- out court at Dorchester when Pri- vate David Miller Jennings, twen- ty, was again remanded on charge of murdering Albert Ed- ward Farley,
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The residue of her £6,669 es- tate she left to the Royal College of Music to found a scholarship lu connection with violin playing.
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