1941-05-02 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 2, 1941.

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By BUD FISHER

GERMANS GET

REAL

NOW

PLUCKY 'UN SHOWING QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

ROUGHEST HANDLING PRAISED

OF THE WAR

(By A Special Correspondent.)

Blacky carried on

a London A.F.S. girl with no medals, but with a re- cord

heroism of

that makes others proud to serve by her side.

"IN GREECE THE German army got the roughest handling it has yet received and got it from forces which were a fraction of its own strength," said Sir Archibald Sinclair, the Air Minister, speaking at a luncheon of the Anglo-Batavian Society in London yesterday. Smith, a widow and acting section

Sir Archibald wondered what Hitler was thinking about the change and chances of the struggle, saying: "I don't think Hitler likes to think about Greece and I doubt he gives a thought to the collapse of Mussolini's pinch- beck empire."

Referring to the "savage Ger-, GROW FAST. AND WE WILL man ar altacks on Holland a REPAY THEM. the time f its invasion Sir!

"She's real plucky 'un," say her firemen colleagues. "If any. one deserves a medal, she does. I don't know what we'd do without her."

Blacky is Mrs. Edith Lilian

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officer of an A F.S. sub-station,

When her station received direct hit, she calmly wrote out an SOS: "Station hit by high- explosive. Telephone communica- tion out of order. Station on fire," She sent this note by messenger to the local station,

Saved Child

Then, with the firemen out fighting other fires, she made her way through the dust and wreckage to a school she ter where a caretaker's child was trapped, Single-handed she tore at fallen bricks until she got the child out.

Archibald said: "Since that time The Air Minister planted out we in the cities and towns of that Hier is a realist and this country have learnt the hor-dominating his thoughts must be

She returned to her control ror of war as the Germans wage such factors as the growing weight

the adjoining of RAF attacks and the swell-roun and, though

room was a mass of flames, went "AIR STRENGTH GROWS, ing reinforcements from the peu- AND IT IS BEGINNING TO!ple of the United States.--Reuter.ugh the blaze and saved the

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For these wets of heroism she was commended in a letter from the Home Office,

Her station was hit a second time. She saved it by herself nutting out several incendiary

bombs.

"I don't remember how many there were." she told me when I met her. "It all happened so quickly when the men were again out fighting other fires." I asked her about the hit by high explosive.

"Oh. I just carried on." she said. "That's the only thing to do.

"Of course, it was a bit of a shock the explosion, I mean- but I didn't get hurt. I think I was born lucky."

Apart from her adventures in the fire service, Blacky has been has been bombed out of two

She was out each time.

homes.

ITALIAN FLAG AT R.A.F. MESS

The Italian Garrison flag which formerly flew over Fort Capuzzo is now at R.A.F. Headquarters in the Western Desert where it hangs over the doorway of the Officers' Mess of a bomber squadron,

This Squadron had taken a leading part in the continuous bombing of the "Fort.

A darc-devil pilot landed, ́ triumphantly seized the Garrison flag. brought it back and present- ed it to the Bomber Squadron.

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