1941-05-07 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 7, 1941.

Gentlemen don't batha in Cary Grant's backwoods, they aim- ply dunk themselves in the nearest river! Small wonder, then, that Grant-portraying a frontlersman in Colonial days-should view with alarm his present situation. It's a scene from Frank Lloyd's "The Howards of Virginia." starring Grant and Martha Scott, coming to the King's Theatre on Friday.

CRAWLED IN 'PLANE FIRE

HE SURE KNOWS US!

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"The English will be regarded, as the “most valuable allies in the world' as long as we may expect from their leaders and from the broad masses of the people that ruthlessness and toughness which is de- termined to carry through to a victori- OUS end any fight which they have once begun,"

Believe it or not- those words were writ- ten by Hitler in "Mein Kampf."

The Minister of Economic Warfare, quoting them at Shil- don, Durham, declar- ed that Adolf had written his death war- rant.

TO SAVE PILOT SANDMAN

A BRITISH BOMBER lost height, crashed into a hillside, and burst into flames just after taking off with others for a night bombing mission to Italy. The captain of the 'plane extricated himself and saw three of his crew of four climbing out of the escape hatch.

He ordered them to run clear, then ran round the blazing wing in which full petrol tanks were burning, and crawled under it to rescue his injured second pilot.

Despite his own injuries a man William Joseph Whyte, and cracked kneecap and severe Pilot Officer John Tregonwell contusions on the face and legs, Davison, New Zealand Air Force. -he dragged

Davison's and carried the

wireless operator, pilot forty yards from the air Sergeant Geoffrey William Brazier, craft to a hole in, the ground,' has been awarded the Meda) of where he lay on him just as the the Military Division of the O.B.E. bombs exploded.

The O.B.E. (Military Division This gallant deed was perform- Medal) has also been awarded to ed in the dark under difficult con- Sergeant Alfred William Wood, ditions, and in the certain know- ledge that the bombs and petrol tanks would explode.

The here of this incident was Sergeant Raymond

Lewin. His name was in a list' of R.A.F. awards.

He has been

awarded the

George Cross-second only to the V.C.

Brave Padre ·

Sergeant Lewin

was born at

Keltering, where his father Ives. He was a chemist before enlisting

EQUALITY IN DEATH

Squire's son, labourer's son.... They should have the same kind of memor- ial if they give their lives for their country.

in 1936 as a pilot under training.

The name of a padre also ap- This was the gist of remarks pears in the awards 'he Rev. made by Mr. H. King, Chancellor Stanley William Harrison, or of the Chester Diocese at Chester Clare, Suffolk, who receives the Consistory Court. George Medal.

Mr. King adjourned an applica- An aircraft crashed and burst tion made by Mr. S. B. Kerr, of into flames about three miles from Frodsham, who applied for a its aerodrome, and though it was faculty to place a memorial tablet not his duty to do so. Mr. Har-at Frodsham Church to com- rison boarded the ambulance go- memorate his son, Flying-Officer ing to the scene.

Malcolm Kerr, who was killed over Dunkirk.

On arrival he plunged into the wreckage, and despite the scorching heat and exploding machine-gun bullets, dragged a member of the crew from the burning debris. He then supervised the work and led the firepicket himself, getting out a second man, and helping to remove a third,

Saved Trapped Man

The George Medal also goes to Flight-Lieutenant Donald Cecil Smythe, a Londoner, and Pilot- Officer Gerard Ryder, of Bicester, Oxon.

Smythe, Ryder and a sergeant were the crew of an aircraft which crashed and caught fire shortly after taking off. Smythe and Ryder managed to extricate them- selves, but the sergeant trapped in his cockpit.

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The Chancellor said:

"I think it is a sensible Idea that the distinction In com. memoration should be as slight as possible. For instance, you might have a squire's son klfled by a bomb, and a labourer's son 'killed in the air. The labourer's father probably would not be able to afford a memorial, but the squire might. That points to a desirability of equality for the highest and the lowest in the matter of Individual me- morials",

HELPED

VICTORIES

BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)

In the garage of a house on Shooter's Hill, London, S.E., a

man played with sand.

He pored over the minute grains through a microscope, weighed them. raised miniature .desert storms with them,

And this study helped to get the British Army to Bardia and Tobruk, Derna and Benghazi,

at a speed which sent the Ita.lan Empire rocking on its heels. When Ralph Alger Bagnold, retired major of Signals, experi- mented in his father's garage, his researches were at first on an un- spectacular scale.

"Hut they became more elabor- ate," Colonel A. H. Bagnold told me. My son began to carry out experiments with wind tunnels raising his own sandstorms.

"Gave Italians Hell'

"The stuff got all over the place and" with a laugh - "I had to turn him out in the end. Thereafter his more ambitious experiments were conducted at South Kensington, The story of Major Baghold's achievements has now been dis- closed by Sir George Sansom, visiting professor at Columbia University, New York, who said that Bagno'd's "passionate inter- est" in sand was at least partly responsible for our North African triumphs.

But Major Bagnold played more than an academic part in the Libyan campaign. He com- manded a select little party of officers who gave the Italians ho!!.

Setting out in specially equip- ped desert cars, the party made forays far into the desert, popping up at the gates of distant garrisons and driving the Italians out into the arid sands.

"My son's last trip before the war," said Colonel Bagnold, "was to the border of the Libyan desert and the Sudan; the objective raised plateau on a range of mountains.

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"This plateau, the Gils Kebbir, was supposed to be inaccessible, suggestion made by the

Mr. Kerr agreed to consider the but my son and his companions cellor, and the matter will be dealt of it with a car, and ran all over Chan-made light of the task, got on top with at the next Consistory Court. the flat. On that remote plateau he found ancient footmarks in the sandstone.??

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Min spite of the fire and ex- ploding Incendiaries, the two officers re-entered the plane and Total agreed damages of £1,750 Road, Dartford, Kent, Sextricated the trapped, airman. were awarded by Mr. JusticeHe was a passenger in a car.

The George Medal has also been Cassels in the King's Bench Divi which was in collision with awarded to the following: Flying alon to Mrs, Joan Kathleen Berry, lorry owned by Mr. Noel Douglas Officer Kenneth Leopold Nobbs who has a baby daughter, in re: Thorne, of Mareschal Road, Gulid- (RAFVR) Leading Aircraftman spect of the death of her hus-ford, against whom judgment with David Nelson, 2nd Class Aircraft band, Mr. William Andrew Berry, costs was entered.