1941-06-03 — Page 25

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 3, 1941

Magnificent Show In Crete Fight

"I FEEL PARTICULARLY, in view of the very adverse circumstances with which they had to contend, our men have done magni- ficently, and this view is shared by General Wavell. "All authorities in Wellington agree that the work of the Maoris has been out- standing."

This message was sent by Mr. Fraser, Prime Minister of New Zealand, from Egypt as quoted by Mr. Nash, acting Prime Minis- ter, in a broadcast in Wellington.

M. Per said he feared New Zealand car unities would

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U.S. ARMY

TO DRESS LIKE

OUR TROOPS

The U.S. Army is adopting an American version of the British Army's battle-dress.

The main feature of the uniform will be a streamlined field- jacket, worn over a pullover, which has been designed for use in cold weather. Reuter.

SAVED IN

A world of the future HALF A that science might build,

m which such trades as 'PLANE

Mr. Nesh said there was little carpentry and bricklay

doubt that the defence of Crete

art

to the struggle ahead and the

as a delaying action is cult prove, ing would become sports of the most valu riation and vegetables would be time factor was very soportant grown in factories, is pic

tured by the American,

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The farmer of the future would

A German plane was bombing an aerodrome in England. A.A. fire was ac

curate. It slashed

near

the tail, cutting the 'plane not plant a see who e seguire-jin two. Down dived the

ments he does not know in a

oil of whose suitability he has tail. Down,

no idea it is stated,

The new culture of plants in chemically treated water, it is declared, has pointed the way to the day when "agriculture will gradually pass into tory stage where there will be no guess and no fourteen. hour day.

a fac

Homes would he standardised and all their parts interchange-

"Your inspiring leadership unt the great gallantry and vajour ofi the New Zealand Troops, together! with their British and Australian comrades under your Command in Crete, have been magnißlernt and able. have been a constant source ol As in the case of hunting, fish- bride and inspiration to us all ing and archery. carpentry and Please convey my most profound, other forms of labour would be- admiration of their heroic part income sports when they were

necessities. the desperate struggle which will longer

have u immortal place m panes of history' Reuter

VICHY ON WEYGAND VISIT

The Press.

too, dived

the main part of the 'plane, nose first, deep in- to the tarmac.

As its bomb load exploded there was tremendous explosion.

R.A.F.s and Waafs ran from their

found trench shelters, only fragments left of the fore.

of the 'plane. part

And Its

crew.

But a few yards away was the tail NE

intact and in it the

little bruised, a

Associated

HERO ON FIRST TRIP

rear gunner, lot bewildered.

The Escape

How had he escaped"

The technicians, the scientists. the flyers argued still do, per- haps.

But they always came to one

explanation

As the man in the tail shot downwards to what seemed cer- tain death. the

in the bombs

Captain of a bombed and abandoned steamer owes his life to a boy of jeighteen who was on his fore of the 'plane exploded.

first trip to sea.

General Weygand's ar- rival in Vichy to report to Marshal Petain on the situation in North Africa burgh, found himself alone on the ship after it had been hit by a

has

cance,

"no special signifi-

declared well informed Vichy circles last night.

At the same time they state the recent Royal Air Force raids on Italian shipping. in the Port of Stax "have made Tunisia a deli- cale point in the Mediterranean."

The Jad, Alexander Dalziel, of i Juppa, Edin-1 Bedford-terrace,

the

bomb. Most of the crew had drift- ed away on rafts and boats. He shouted and through darkness came a faint answer.

York- Captain Copeland, a shire man, lay trapped In the forecastle with a broken arm.

Groping his way, Dalziel ra- leased Captain Copeland, drag- and ged him on to the deck after sliding him down the side of the vessel into the sea, help. ed him to cling to a log until rescued.

The Vichy news agency states: "The censu tative nature of Gen- eral Weygand's visit is confirmed The story was told when the by the fact that Vice-Premier Dor- | survyors of the

Jan

vessel were

is at present absent from janded at a British port.

and other Vichy"presumably still in Park

Captain Copeland members of the crow are making good progress.

-Reuter.

OUR GIRLS ATE TOO MANY U.S. ONIONS

SAYS STRIVE TO BE WORTHY OF FUEHRER

Their blast--as blast does- burst upwards, caught the de- Luenuing tail, praken its tall, so that in its last few yards of descent it was held almost to a standstill.

3 more It touched earth at four or five miles an hour. To the rear gunner it was like faling off a bicycle. Can you beat it?

GAVE

TABLETS TO USHERETTE

A complaint about tablets given to a theatre usherette was men- tioned at Manchester recently when Herbert Randall England, twenty-six, of Upper-Brook Street, months' was sentenced to Ave imprisonment.

Englund was convicted of doing an act calculated falsely to sug- gest he was a member of the A.R.P. service, and of unlawfully Four of the eighteen beautiful

Hitler boys and girls in Berlin possessing surgical appliances, a British mannequins who reached

Reich by

Youth steel helmet and a respirator. were told New York recently, on their way

Axmann to strive Detective Horne said that Eng-. to South America, were stated Leader to be "indisposed recently as a unceasingly to be worthy of the land, by pretending to be a Red "greatest German of all t'mes,"Cross and A.R.P. worker, was, a result of eating top many onions according to a German broadcast, menace to the public. Witness had received a complaint that Cynthia Maughan one of the Says Reuter.

This is a heavy task," he said, an usherette ta Manchester mannequins, said:

"but I am convinced that you' theatre had been given two tablets will fulfil it by having the image by a man supposed to be on duty of our beloved Fuehrer constantly at the theatre as a Red Cross

Society official before your eyes.

"It sounds silly, but because onions vanished from England we all crave for them now."9"

"It is the religion of our times

This fact deter

The girls are going to South to be a nation. I America on an official Government mines the life of our youth. Youth mission to display British clothes. i knows no rights, only duties."

The girl had to remain in bed; for three days, and it was alleged that she was given the tablets by England,

"I can tell

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