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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 2, 1941.
HOW THE NAVY SAVED OUR FORCES FROM GREECE
(By Reuter's Special Correspondent, evacuat- ed with the British Forces from Greece)
I AM NOW ABLE TO TELL HOW THE BRI- TISH EMPIRE FORCES IN GREECE WERE SNATCHED TO SAFETY AT THE LAST MIN- UTE FROM THE VERY FEET OF THE GER- MAN JUGGERNAUT.
Superhuman efforts by the Navy, with the aid of the R.A.F., enabled the evacuation to be carried out with the highest possible suc-
cess.
REAL
Troops who had tramp- ed miles across the moun- tains to reach their em- barkation points were
PLUCKY 'UN picked up by naval craft,
PRAISED
(By A Special Correspondent.)
Blacky carried on
a London A.F.S. girl with no medals, but with a re- cord of heroism that makes others proud to serve by her side.
"She's real plucky 'un," say her firemen colleagues. "If any one deserves a medal, she does.
don't know what we'd
without her."
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merchantmen and ingboats at beachess all along the eastern shores of Greece.
Euboea, to the Peloponnese, ships From Chalkis, on the island of sailed in to fulfil their task dead on time according to plan.
large
I was evacuated with a force from a small port in the Peloponnese after spending а nightmare 24 hours lying under olive trees in a cornfield.
We were subjected to con. tinuous bombing and machine- gunning by Nazi 'planes, Many of
comrades had my through Dunkirk.
been
A Ghostly Procession
is Mrs. Edith Lilian Blacky Smith, a widow and acting section officer of an A.F.S. sub-station,
her station received # direct hit, she calmly wrote out an SOS "Station hit by high-
I had left Athens at night with explosive. Telephone communica- a convoy of lorries under sealed towards tion out of order. Station on fre." orders. As we roared
She sent this note by messenger, Corinth in ghost-like procession to the local station,
I realised that a full-scale with- drawal was under way.
Saved Child
We passed a mile-long column
in
their as-
Then, with the firemen out of British infantry marching fighting other fires, she made an exhausted state to her way through the dust and sembly post. wreckage to a school she ter More lorries and trucks joined where a caretaker's child was the convoy until a giant snakelike trapped. Single-handed she tore at fallen bricks until she got the child out.
control
She returned to her room and, though the adjoining room was a mass of flames, went through the blaze and saved the station's records book and Spit- fire fund money.
For these acts of heroism she was commended in a letter from the Home Office.
Her station was hit a second Lime. She saved it by herself putting out several incendiary
bombs.
"I don't remember how many there were," she told me when I met her. "It all happened so
when the men quickly
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 homes. She was out each time.
line was wending southward.
In the grey light of dawn we where passed through Burges, many British trucks had been left burning by the roadside as a result of German machine. gunning.
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'GHOST" APPEARS AT U.S. CONGRESS
A
woman
young dressed in a painted skull mask and black robe rose in Congress during the British aid debate and threw it into confusion.
Appearing like
а
ghost in the public gallery, she cried, "My Novena ! My Novena !"
Congressmen shout- ed, "Throw it out!" "Scram!" and "This isn't a seance.'
"
As the Serjeant-at- Arms rushed the "ghost" from the gal- lery, she snatched off the death-mask and revealed а pretty young face.
PLAYED CRICKET WITH DICKENS
George Remnant, who was the oldest ex-county cricketer in the country, has died at Harrow. He knew Charles Dickens, and taught Lord Harris how to play cricket. He was 95 years of age.
Mr. Remnant played for Kent in the 60's. When he was a youth Charles Dickens saw him play a brilliant innings for Kent Colts at Gravesend, and asked him to come and p ay for his village team at Higham, near Rochester. Rem- nant played there regularly
We swept on to a small port where we were to be picked up. Three ships lay sunk in the har- bour and an ammunition dump' the feld behind the novelist's was blazing furiously. Reuter. home.
2-MILE VAIN FIGHT
TO SAVE OBSERVER
in
A U.S. ARMY FIGHTING 'PLANE with its rud- der knocked askew plummeted 12,000 feet to earth in a small Pampanga barrio near Clark Field, carry- ing with it an army private whose parachute had become entangled when he tried to bale out, says the "Manila Bulletin."
The private, Frankin R. La-! Sloan called to Labante to bale bante, 24, was killed,
out, and apparently Labante pull- The pilot, R. S. Sloan, battled ed the ripcord too quickly, foul for 11,000 feet to right the plane ing-the-parachute-in-the--falling- and' free Labante. He finally took 'plane, to his parachute at 400 feet from
Labante's home town was Hol- REGISTRY WEDDING the ground and landed safely. yoke, Massachusetts:
هما.
Both men were from the 2nd Private advices from San Fer Mr. Liang Nai-sien, Assistant-
nando said the 'plane burned when Manager of the Sun Trading Com- observation squadron, US Army, it crashed Army advices did not. pany, was to-day married to Mrs. air corps, at Clark Field, Fort confrm this. The plane was Lee Yu-ping, of No. 26 Blue Fool Stotsenburg. They had been up identified as an attackship, carry Road, at the Supreme Court Re-on manoeuvres. Sloan was leading ing only a pilot and observer. It gistry.
a flight of three 'planes.
was demolished SAL AAN An official army release said theThe machine landed on the ha The forthcoming marriage is wing of one of the three planes cienda of Mrs Africa/Santos in announced of Mr. Arthur Hall hit Sloan's rudder, damaging it so barrio Mamatita, Mabalacat, about Master Mariner, to Miss Hellen that the plane went out of con- 100 feet from the national high- Yuen, of No. 3, Ping Street,
trol.
Man Alvény," The hour was 20.0,m.
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