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'THE CHINA MAIL," MAY 7, 1941.

HEAT IN

FURNACE DESERT TESTING

GERMAN

ENDURANCE

HEAVY SAND-STORMS IN FURNACE-

LIKE HEAT ARE TESTING THE ENDURANCE TOOK BOMB

OF THE GERMANS IN THE SOLLUM-TOBRUK AREA, ACCORDING TO WELL-INFORMED MILITARY CIRCLES IN CAIRO YESTERDAY.

The situation was reported much the same as 24 hours ago and the enemy's attack

TO DUMP-

FINED £3

When a bomb fell near

is believed to have proved exhausting as well his old home in South- as costly to him.

The position in Abyssinia, wherej the Imperial northern and south- ern columns are gradually con- verging on Amba Alagi, Ís des- cribed as very promising for the Imperial Forces.

Observers returning from the Western Desert

say that the Germans are being considerably affected by the conditions there. PRISONERS DIARIES CON.

PLUMBER'S

MATE:

BISHOP

TAIN FREQUENT REFERENCES A thirty-year-old York plumber

TO THE HEAT AND SHORTAGE WHILE BOMBING BY

THEIR

DE ANES IS OFTEN TIONED.

WATER

had his breakfast and then set out

East London, Leading Signalman Arthur Pullen was a bit upset.

Then he learned that the bomb hadn't exploded. So they hadn't wrecked his birthplace? Well, that was easy, he'd shift the bomb.

Pullen is forty-two, has been a DIVE to repair water tank. Ten

in the Navy. OWN minutes after the job was finished twenty-five years

about he was shaking hands with the land sailors don't care MEN-

Archbishop of Yorks, Dr. Walliam Temple.

bombs, But let his wife tell the It seems that there is some truth in the reports that the Ger-

Stopped by # nurse in the story. munis trained troops for desert stree, he had willingly agreed to

in sand become one

donors In the East Riding cam and by

warfare by manoeuvres dunes on the Baltic

strenuous exercises in glass-paign,

of the first blood

"The bomb weighed 110lb. and had gone through two storeys and a settee, and was lodged under the floor boards," she told the "Daily Mirror."

As the volunteer -Leonard Wood, of Dodsworth Avenue, York-was taken into the test ing room at the Threatre Royal. аге

houses to accustom them to heat.

German tanks are not prov ing well suited to desert work and British mobile guns able to pick them off at close range,

Reuter.

German Losses

In Raids

Germany has lost 41 night bombers already this month.

This total-nearly half of the record April losses-was reached with announcement that two ad- ditional raiders. it is now con- firmed, were brought down on Sunday night by A ̧A. fire,

Thus this year the Luftwaffe's locses by night total 203, which! compared with 130 for the whole; of 1940, of which 93 were brought down from June-on- wards.

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the Archbishop was just seeing! "He borrowed a saw and some the sample of blood drawn from thick wire, sawert round the bomb his own ear placed into a test and pulled it out.

tube,

Blushed Before Mike

"Some men wanted to help but he would only let my seventeen-year-old son Harry come along. He told them it

was a coat, the

of 'one dog, onc,

Leonard was next in the chair, Then, each with a plece of cotton wool in his ear and a blood donor badge pinned to his Aichb.shop and Leonard walked together through the Market Square to speak into the micro- phone,

bone.'

саве

"He carried the bomb to a pub- lic house which had been nearly "It didnt hurt much did it?" destroyed in a previous raid. said Dr. Temple to him.

Harry, who is as tearless as his Leonard blushed as they were father, followed him in case he greeted with a fanfare of trum-dropped it. peta from a military band, Then, his big moment over, he slung his bag of tools back on his shoulder and set out for the next job.

VILLAGE SMITHY'S NEW TOB

Works Were Ticking

*But he thought the public house was too near some houses, so he took it to a dump.

"All the time the works were ticking. He was going to dis- mantle the bomb, when the bomb disposal, squad men came along and he was taken to the police station.'

STRAINING HIS GREAT Two more enemy aircraft were] MUSCLES TO THE TASK HIS brought down in the Channel on FAMILY HAVE DONE FOR "This morning he was fined £3. Tuesday in daylight when small] NEARLY 200 YEARS. BEN at the police court for 'removing formations crossed the Kent coast, BACHE, THIRTY-SEVEN-YEAR- [and' tampering with a. bomb and flew a short distance inland. OLD SMITH OF THE SPADE dropped from enemy aircraft.'

The Air Ministry says bombs AND SHOVEL FORGE IN THE were dropped on a town on the LITTLE VILLAGE OF CHUR- "The money was paid by his Kent coast and another on the CHILL (WORCS) BEATS, HIS flag officer and will probably be East Coast but little damage was HAMMER AGAINST HARD deducted from his pay. done and there were no serious STEEL.. casualties. Reuter.

TERRORIST ARRESTED

But instead of fashioning the "He doesn't care, and has told farm implements as his eighty- me he would do it again if neces- four-year-old father, and his sary. The vicar has offered to forebears back to his father's pay but my husband told h'm it great-grandfather, used to do, he was all right, A number of peo- is working to form great ladles ple whose homes would have been for pouring out molten metal to destroyed, also want to pay it." make hand grenades for our fight- | ing men. THE JAPANESE AUTHORITIES, As the villages pass by they the hammers THE FOURTH U.S. MARINES hear the c'ang of AND THE MUNICIPAL POLICE and the road of the furnace, blown RESULTED IN THE ARREST OF on by powerful bellows worked A CHINESE TERRORIST FOL- by the water wheel on the village LOWING AN ATTEMPT To stream.

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") COOPERATION BETWEEN

ASBABBINATE: TWO JAPAN ESE NAVAL SENTRIES IN THE HONGKEW AREA OF SHANG HAL

One sentry was slightly wound- ed in the finger.,

In the course of searches by the Japanese and the S.M. Police a lone Chinese was seen running away. He was chased and arrested and handed over to the Japanese, authoritiesInternational News Service. MEZGA

PREMIER LUNCHES AT PALACE

The Prime Minister, Mty Wins- ton Churchill, was received in audience by the King land re- “A Yank at Oxford" "mained → to lunch - with"; Their

Majesties at Bu Intham Fal Westerdiyi Rei

A neighbour said, that a col- lection to pay the fine was being made. "I paid 58. —and would'. like to give £5,"‹œaid one. "We have nearly got the 23. already."

From morning to night the forge: Last September Pullen climbed is busy for Ben the Smith does to the roof to deal with some in="

work that has fa len to him. noe. spare himself in the new cendiaries. On another occasion

he was trapped in a bomb crater.

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