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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 5, 1941.

TINKER TAILOR-

Almost everyone to-day knows that for air raid warning purposes the British Isles are divided into numerous sections.

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Many know, too, that the in- structions for sounding the sirens in these areas in Brighton Bodmin. Bangor ur Berwick --go | out from the Headquarters of Fighter Command. But few know that the men in that headquarters who sift the Observer Corps' re- ports 100m an amazing Cross-

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One morning among the men whose job it is to know whether the approaching machine is hostile, there may a barrister, 21 the afternoon an artist, at night journalist. next day there may be an actor, an engineer, the son of a famous England cricketer, broker, a shopkeeper, a scientist, a mathematician, an economist, a commercial traveller, a car sales- man, a factory owner or a famous sportsman.

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Some of them were young Royal Air Force ofBeers in the last war. at the end of which they were, faced with the problem of forging a few career for themselves. They soon forgot their wings and their ribbons, and with the same spirit with which they had tackled the Boche of 1914-18 they tackled that by no means easy task.

In the many different avenues into which design or chance puid- ed their footsteps they met with varying degrees of success. ESTEL the danger signal which followed Munich sent them freking to th

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