1941-04-15 — Page 25

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 15, 1941.

PILOT GETS HOME ON ONE ENGINE AND HALF A RUDDER

HOW THE SKILL of a pilot and the toughness of an aircraft won a victory against a German night fighter and brought crew and bomber safely home on one engine and with half the rudder gone, is told by the Air Ministry news service.

On the way back from an attack on a German town a Messerschmidt intercepted the bomber and at the beginning of the en counter put one of its engines out of action.

Bullets pierced the fuselage. !roke the wireless apparatus and

tunded te of the crew

in the «houlder

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Then the enemy rame boldly on to alʼack from the tear loo boldly ang the tip of his wing washed into the bomber's rud- der, half the rudder cane away but the enemy obviously had the worst of the callsion. He dived teeply away and apparently out of control.

But to control the bomber the pilot had to use all his skill,

The bon her seemed to be hob- bling along and on the way back ver Germany and Holland it could not be gut above 700 feet.

Towns and villages looked un- comfortably close and by the time it reached the Dutch coast it was down to 500 feet.

Chanced The Sea

The pilot thought it would be better in chance the sea rather 1k! Jand

Holland and be taken prisoner. To lighten the 1 teraft they threw out every- thing loose.

Then they discovered that heavy bob was still underneath them shtapta from A A. guns must have disorganised the release apparatus when they Were ONCE the target As soon as the bugub

6. elea: the pilot was able to 20 up to 1,000 feet though the arrerait was still difficult pisteer But he managed to keep it n the course and safely vingred the North Sea and landed with ALET

the mop British Whele.

"SIR PART": A THREAT

On the day before the announ- cement that he had received a Knighthood threat. were made against the life of Mr. P J Dolian, Labour Lord Provost of Glasgow.

He described the recent broad. 1 cast speech of the Prime Minister to Italy as expressing the feelings. cd the nation.

Now he has received the follow- ing letter, wiitten on black-edged notepaper and headed "Death to Dollan

"You ought to think shame of yourselt, praising 2 Tory like Churchill. You who claim to be a Socialist are only an upstart. You have forgotten all your promises 10 the workers, and are now re- vealed in your true colours as a Fascist cad and cur.

"The secret six in council ure watching your every movement, because three gunmen have been appointed to shoot at sight the loathsome Dolan.

"The prophet's words will come true. You will be Saint Pa; before you are Sir Pat."

HEMINGWAYS AT

TEA RECEPTION

Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Heming- way were guests of honour at a tea reception in Chungking yes- terday afternoon given jointly by nine cultural organisations, in- cluding the Chinese Institute of Journalism, the Chinese · People's Foreign Relations, Association, the

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PASTOR ON

CHARGES

OF THEFT

A piston was accused at Liver- pool of stealing £63 he had rol- ¡lected to provide a canteen and ¦comforts for soldiers,

Against the Rev. James Fitz gerald Crawford, aged thirty-four, of Broadgreen Road, minister of the United Presbyterian Church of

Halls-fane. Frelatict

Liverpool. were five charges of false pre- tences and theft.

He was accused of having ob- tained by fraud a cheque for £130 from Alfred Cyril William Thrush and cheques for £20 from Clif- ford Briggs.

Mr. M. R. Baimer. prosecut· ing, said the complaintant in the first case was a fellow clergy-

man

It was alleged that Crawford But the £130 cheque by saying his annual returns to us churel. were due and he could not for- ward them unlers, he could certify he had 4 200 in his bank.

He was stud to have got othet cheques by saying he wanted the money to buy food for his canteen antl the grant from the Auy

EJSCE Thes WIN charity came through

Actually, the prosecution alleg

ed there was no such grant.

CORDELL HULL DENOUNCES DICTATORS

[SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"}

U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, in a formal message on the eve of Pan-Amer- ican Day, denounced the Dictators' "brutal disregard of morality" and urged the 21 American Republics to rededicate their energies to defence of the common frontiers and the preservation of freedom.

Mr. Hull proclaim- ed the keystone of in- ter-American rela- tions was the "sancti-

ty of the pledged word," which binds the Americas together against European ag- gression." Interna- tional News Service.

ALIENS

TO GET BADGE

Mr Balmer said Crawford Fy emily aliens work; m Beit- opened the "Broadgreen Canam are to be given deal badgen tren and Comforts Fund" for

button to the men and soldiers 10 June, created a birch for the women. The badges į committee, and received £105. Jile age wilt be a smuth finging a The prosecution alleged that he sword. stole £63.

Thes Was Crawford was remanded on bat. Am stry of Labou

announced by the which has [set-up a Central Agency to be (responsible for making use of the

services of these aliens,

There

WEPT WITH

WIDOW VICTIM

An absentee soldier alleged to. have wept with a widow and then stolen £7 from her was sent for trial by Liverpool magistrales,

IS 111 Britain a totul foreign population of about

quarter of a million.

It

British Aliens

in

20

an casential feature the placing of foreigners in war work here that they shall have the same wages and conditions as British subjects, the Ministry states.

Allied nationals will come under the unemployment and national The man, Francis Joseph Ban-

health

insurance systems. and brough, aged twenty-nine,

faced

have all the advantages of the five charges of stealing money and social welfare Acts

open to the articles from women.

normal citizens of Britain after Mr. A. Rawlinson, prosecut-they have qualified. ing, said that Banbrough wore A good number will probably be either the uniform of a soldier, drafted to the Government's train- an officer in the Merchant Navying centres.

He did this to gain the con- A special section for women has fidence of women whose names been set up, and the training cen- ail addresses he had got from tres will shortly be open to them. newspaper notices of the deatha

Arrangements are being made to of relatives.

open several special exchanges in He sympathised with one wo- the London area for certain nia- man whose husband had been tionalities, to be run no co-opera- drowned. When she wept he wept tive lines, with the help of the with her. While her back was Allied authorities. turned he stole her handbag con- taining £7.

On being committed to Liver- pool Sessions, Banbrough said: "I am guilty of all the charges,"

JAPANESE DISPLAY

JUNK TRAGEDY

NEAR NINEPINS

Eight passengers, including women and children, and the master were 'drowned on Friday when a junk overturned in a squall_about a mile north of the Nine. Pin Islands.

EXUBERANCE [SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

Forty Japanere 'planes flew over China Branch of the International | Shanghai yesterday afternoon_to Peace Campaign, and the Chinese- celebrate the signing of the Ja-were rescued by a passing junk American Institute of Cultural { panese-Russian Neutrality Pact and brought to Hong Kong yes- Relations Central News,

International News Service.

terday.

Five members of the crew

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