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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 22, 1941.

GROWING POWER OF R.A.F. BEATS NEW NAZI TACTICS

BRITAIN IS GRADUALLY GAINING THE ASCENDANCY IN THE "BATTLE OF THE BOMBS.” OUR NEW NIGHT BOMBERS ARE CARRYING GREATER LOADS AT HIGHER SPEEDS AND THE GERMAN PILOTS ARE BEING INCREASINGLY DIVERTED FROM THEIR TAR- GETS BY OUR DEFENCES.

More and more of the new bombers will be available in the future. Their increased speed will offset the shortening hours of the summer nights and enable us to get farther and farther into Ger- many in the minimum time.

At the same time, heav-[ ier types of bombs are be- ing used and still heavier ones will be at the disposal of the R.A.F. shortly.

It is now elear, a spokesmant in London stated, that many of the German pilots and Crews And fur greatly improved defences al tich more Tordable obstacle, and they are reluctant to come in to the muure heavily defended

Consequently, many thear bombs have fallen in fields

There is no doubt that the Germatis are suffering heavy losses;

THE NINE

DAYS

Head of the Ziegfeld Girls Club on the West Coast, Irma Wilson 18 a glorified beauty In the M-G-M musical film, "Ziegfeld Giri."

LOVE IS

WONDER CURE FOR WOUNDED

(BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)

proportionately. to their night "This day, being Sun-

the R.A.Fit is confidently ex-

pected, will take POZY even Biore deadly toll of the

enenty

ort

bombing effort, and this is calis-

day, a chaplain held Holy Doctors in a big milit- ng them much Concert. With greater experience and traming Communion on the beach ary hospital and Cupid and dunes. His congrega- the best cure in some of tion

five their cases. was scattered times by low-diving bom- bers. but reassembled love causes reactions much the each time till the service present a second stage in the ended."

moonlight nights.

Threat To Shipping

The recent German raids

battle of the

7'

bombs. The ut- This is just one of the thrilling tempt to destroy British morale incidents, never before recorded, has been defeated and the Nazis, that mukt

to starve us British gallantry

fe

now striving

and ports.

i

up the epic story of

and endurance

The inental act of falling in

same as the artificial gland treat- ment which became famous just

before the war.

The patient may not know it. but when he falls for his nurse he not only feels better: he IS better.

"Falling in love" one of the

ut by attacks on our shipping in the evacuation from Dunkirk. doctors explained to a reporter, The whole story is told by Johr|"causes certain chemical reactions The R.A.F. Is confident that Masefield, novelist and poet of the It сам overcome this threat; sea, in "The Nine Days Wonder" beneficial. The thyroid gland par- but changed tactics arc neces-¡ (lememan, 3s. 6d.)

sary. Our bomber forces must

be diverted from time to time

No "Fancy Writing"

lair.

in the body which are definitely

ticularly is stimulated, and this liberates energy-creating hor- mones which whip up the entire system.

"In short, the whole process is

ment"

Cases of shock react parti. cularly well to falling in love. Even the healing of wounds is accelerated when the system is thus toned up.

to raid submarine bases and aircraft and submarine fac There is no "fancy writing” in! tories. Raiders in the Atlantic this an count of those momentous a form of natural gland treat- must also be tracked to their nine days when the fate of the British Army, perhitpes of the A "standing order“ まい小 the nation itself. depended on the RAF also is to bomb invasion courage of a few thousand Brit- pets at regular intervals to make ish sailors, ishermen, bai vees, SUND that conditiis there are lightened and amateur yacht amtavourable for Rediem. With men. their USERL thoroughness the Germans have been preparing for! Vasing and are no doubt much) better prepared now than they were last September.

It is

So if the boy friend's in hos- a straightforward pilal and you're thinking twice document, based on official re- about the expensive fare don't. cords and the dlaries of those He'll get better twice as quickly who were there.

pater a glance at you. "The soldier. W. C. E. Smith,| Because of the vast area under RAM.C.." is praised by the cap- her control, Germany can evacuale tain of the Royal Daffodil, which a large proportion of the popula-hud 1,500 men aboard when she tion from "danger zones" away was attacked by six enemy bomb- from the practical range of ourers and badly hit. Altogether, planes. There has been wholesale this ship brought off 8,000 men. evacuation from Berlin, and some Germans are living in occupied France, Austria, and Czecho- slovakia, People not essential to the war effort have been widely dispersed.

FOLLETTE ON THE WARPATH

One Man Sayed 25

Then there is the story of Mr. J. R. Elton. steward of the yacht Bystander [owned by Mr. Wallace D. Ruome, managing director of the "Daily Mirror."}

When the King Orry sank in the harbour entrance Elton dived overboard with

4 HUNS AT 500 FT. GUN COAST

When four Messersch- midt 109s bombed a south- east coast town

a Cor-

a rope to save poration water inspector troops too exhausted to swim. and his wife and twenty-| thirty minutes, rescuing twenty-year-old daughter were

He remained in the water for

five officers and men,

On coming aboard again he went to his galley, equipped with cooking utensils for seven. and in the next half hour sup- plied ninety-seven soldiers with hot tea and food,

REMOVAL FROM OFFICE OF WAR SECRETARY HENRY L. STIMSON AND NAVY BECRE- TARY FRANK KNOX "FOR PUSHING THE NATION TO THE BRINK OF WAR," WAB

"The enemy had proclaimed our URGED IN NEW YORK BY complete encirclement and de- PHILIP F. LA FOLLETTE, FOR-struction," writes Masefield. "No PARTY doubt he had expected to achieve MER

PROGRESSIVE

GOVERNOR OF WISCONSIN.

both aims.

La Follette sald recent talks by "The nation said to those men, the two Roosevelt cabinet mem- in effect: 'Hold on; we will get bers were "designed to frighten you away.' and terrorise the American people "They held on and we got them into waging a war they do not away."

want." He appealed to Americans at large to "help President Roo- Sevelt fulfill his promises to keep America from war."-Associated Press.

GOERING'S ORDER

:

BUS GIRLS WIN FIRST ROUND“.

killed.

The 'planes, flying about 500ft., then flew seve miles along the coast firing their machine-guns.

Fine families were made home- less and an old man of seventy- two killed in an attack on an eastern town.

Another German 'plane return- ing from a night flight over the 300ft. of the south coast came down to within ground-and A.A. guns opened are. It is belleved the 'plane crashed into the sea...

CIDER IS MORE POPULAR

A change in the drinking habits

Plans to shuffle bus crews of people was mentioned, by Mr.

| because some drivers were said to Sidney Lamb ta meeting of the be: getting too "friendly" with their Kensington (London) Licensing

Justices,

All German houses of a light conductresses have been suspend colour are to be painted darker, ed by the Eastern National Bus This has been ordered by Goer- Company, it was announced, ing, says Columbia Radio, so that The girls had threatened to they will not be seen so easily strike when the new schedule from the air:

was due.

Since the war," he said, “num- bers of people who used to order wine, now take to beer, and others to elder. There is now a consi- derable demand, for cider."