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 a hail of Italian machine-gun
bullets.
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 after 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 it flammes and its Crew given up as lost, he and his m Turned up at then lanse all except the gunner, who was killed
Sitting up in bed, his leg and army in splints, the pilot sand
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"We had dropped our bombs. Then Italian fighters were after Macchi 200 got a good burst in, and suddenly the fuse lage between the cockpit and the gunner's turret burst into a blaz ing furnace.
I told the crew to pump. from the gunner, whose gun had, stopped firing. I could get no re- ply
The observer limbed out Best +1 was gone, but the hatch on my side stuck, so I moved over fo follow the observer
"Jolly fortunate I did so, for just I was squeezing through to the hatch an enemy fighter let 11- other burst into our aueralt, this time destroying my seal and the Instrument patel 1 Sw it go to
pieces as I was about to jump
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"We don't call it sex appead to- day, we call it glamour." Claretico Brown, the director, told a report
In the old days we dressed sex appeal up a black at and bedecked it with jewels, then we sat if an a Porner.
"To-day it romps all over screen, gets its face dirty and it hair uneabert It has chucke: the black satin for simple sports traples It has come out of Uke boudon and in the open.”
A mesent Brown is directing James Stewart and Hedy Lamarr Im Metro's "Come Lave With M "When I did bade out, part of "Mas Larure would never hove
parar-huter hatten emight been able to wear anything
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My observer cane doven at velage further away in this valley After half an hour Greek soldie
jound me
"Soldiers bandaged 1130 15. found a stretcher. and for fours days carried me cheerfully over the mountains. olten through deep snow and along narrow mountain tracks with prec.pi teus edges.
niting ove
the endea stretcher I saw « lport vanga har bi vet my sure-footed helpers nexon slipped or slithered.
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"We stopped at mghts in vil- Jages. Local soldiers and a few civilians were good to us At last
Koritza then ed we reached Florina, where my leg aud
were put in splints,
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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 be used in modern warfare.
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 Dowing who has been the shotinaker for forty-
x 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 lend frem the Church of St. Mary Redcliffe into the moat. and that it came out resembling Slugs.
He tried the experiment from the church root with h wife holding a bucket of water below ant tend 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 heftise, known as the Bristol shot tower stands unnotic- ed in a busy main thoroughfare And Dowling, whose father held the job for thirty years before lum drops his lead from precisely the some pot miło precisely the same well as did Watts
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The Heraut age, Blumond. Surr. y. in her will Jett 120 m the Metropolifat and Land! City Police Chipinge 'n grati-
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"My observer, who was OK, ex cept for burns on the face and 1
hands. went back to the job.
"I went to hospital. It was cer tainly an experience n'er to look back upon, anyhow."
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 électricity cables, short circuiting them.
Some places were without pow- er for several hours.
Richmond and Twickenham were among the districts affected. In some parts of Richmond the light went off and on three times. Owing to the electricity supply having failed, 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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