1941-06-24 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 24, 1941.

TESTING TIME

GERMAN AIRMAN HOME GUARD

CAUGHT ON ELECTRIC PYLON

ONE OF THE EIGHT GERMAN bombers shot down in recent night raids fell on an unoccupied house in a residential area of a south coast town. The house was demolished and the 'plane, which was loaded with incendiaries, burst into flames.

Another Nazi 'plane came down in the west, and two in the northeast. One of the victims of anti-aircraft fire blew up in mid-air near the Tyne. It received a direct hit after it had been illuminated by searchlight for only one minute.

The machine that hit the house had a crew of four. They baled out. Two were found dead In

a scrup metal merchant's yard. Another was discovered in a gar- den with a leg wound. The fourth. who landed unharıned, gave him- self up to Mr. Frederick Frewin

railway shunter.

Given A Cup Of Tea

Mr. Frewin, who was in a cabin at the time, said that the Nazi had

a cut lip and seemed dazed. "I

BABY

KILLED AS

FATHER SAILED

Three hours after she

called three of my mates," he add-had said good-bye to her ed. "We gave him a cup of tea and a cigarette.

caid he had landed on top of a

a

"In my opinion the day will come when you will have to use what you have learn- ed, and I am confident you will do as well as you have done to- day."

Lieutenant-General Sir Bertram Sergison- Brooke said that when he handed a silver competition cup to a Golders Green Home Guard company.

BRITISH BROADCAST TO NAZIS

The B.B.C. has enlisted the aid of well-known Bri- tish Left Wing repre- sentatives to broadcast daily to the working classes in Germany. The broadcasts are designed to reawaken the political

husband, who was return- "He could speak a little Eng ing to his ship after lish and told me he was 21. He compassionate leave, Mrs. goods van a little way down the S. Williams, 23, was grop: consciousness of former out of it all and repeatedly shook ing among the debris of

their home in Liverpool! for the body of her seven- week-old daughter.

line. He seemed relieved to be

hands with himself."

Another man who caught a Ger- man airman was Richard Jenkins, a miner, who on getting up in the morning looked out of his window and saw the airman squatting un- der à hedge.

About a mile away George Ste- vens, who lost an eye in the last war. found a second German air- man, and followed Jenkins to the police-station, A few minutes later a police-sergeant turned up with a third prisoner.

Suspended By Parachute

One of the occupants of a ma- chine shot down in the North- East was found by members of the Home Guard at dawn suspend- ed by his parachute harness from a pylon.

One burst of machine-gun fire brought down an enemy bomber in a West Country rural area, badly burn- ed, escaped by parachute, but two others were burned to death.

Two of the crew,

A squadron leader, who des- troyed three Nazi 'planes, was accompanied by an observer who hus shared most of his exploits and has been awarded the D.F.M.

Streams Of Metal

The leader said that in all three fights streams of burning metal flew back at him, some hit- ting his machine.

"The moon lit up the whole side of the fuselage and rear turret of the second raider;" he added. "The gunner opened fire at me, but my first burst silenced him and there was a large orange flash from the fuselage.

• "Burning bits flew back and ong of them dented the nose of my aircraft. There was another flash and the Heinkel went down ver- tically into the ground."

"double" recognised his first

German crats.

Social Demo-

An hour each morning is given to news and commentaries, and an hour twice ล week in the Each broadcast is re- evening. peated.

It was the first time the father Sydney Williams, 26, had seen his baby. Three hours after he

The time of the evening broad- had gone in Liverpool a high ex-casts has been chosen to coincide plosive bomb struck the house.

Mrs. Williams was unhurt and with the news broadcasts in Ger immediately ran to her baby and many, so that they may be listen- two-year-old daughter, who were ed to with less risk of the heavy penalties inflicted in such cases in bed in the front room. A beam had fallen across the bed. by the Nazi authorities. The mother extricated the older girl, who was unscratched, but the baby was killed.

Three five-watchers saved over 20 people trapped in a basement shelter. Steel pillars supporting the floor above were still in place, but debris from the front of the

house had fallen into the shelter.

was

An endeavour is made to carry on political thought from the point where it

ended in Germany by Hitler's advent. "The Voice of Labour," one of the features. is

survey of the Another feature Socialist Press.

Talks

a

is American labour news. are also given on economic sub-- jects and there are discussions on German financial policy. one-

One of the men pulled away coping-stones and another, a legged man, James Aspinall, went inside. "I passed about six peo- ple," he said, "when I noticed looked ill and that one of them I realised that gas was escaping.

I

Regular broadcasters in this ser- vice, who give their talks in German. are

Noel Mr. Philip

Harold Laski Baker. M.P., Prof. and Mr. R. H. S. Crossman.

them was а fire-watcher, who was standing in a doorway.

Bombed At Whist "Crawling over the debris found the leaking pipe and bent In another Merseyside town a it upwards

S that

the flow of family of 11 were extricated from into the house the ruins of their home. They gas was directed above. After that we clawed had been playing whist and the away debris with our hands and father had five trumps still clut- rescued our friends."

ched in his hand.

It is believed that

one of the

Several people were killed in the only other Liverpool district raiders was badly crippled by

be much damaged. Among anti-aircraft firej

to

ITALIAN DIES FOR BRITAIN'S SAKE

AN ITALIAN WHO DIED for freedom-he

Another pliot who scored a landed with British parachutists in Italy and was vletim as a Heinkel. He gave one captured and shot as a traitor by the Fascists—is burat and Immediately there commemorated in a Press announcement. It reads: was a terrific explosion,

"Parts of the aircraft flew off

and hit my windscreen, and' I had

"Picchi — on Palm Sunday, 1941, Fortunate

to pull up," he said. "After that Picchi sacrificed his life for the cause of freedom. A

I had the satisfaction of seeing the brave man of high ideals. Until the day breaks,

German crash.":"

Fighters Raid Enemy

dear F. RIP."

1.

According to a Rome announce allowed to do something for the As well as tackling enemy ment he was recognised when country he had grown to love. bombers o

Lover

Britain, fighter taken prisoner and denounced as He was no Fascist, he used to say pilots flew over Northern France an Italian subject.

that Italy had been sold to the and attacked the Nazis, above their Picchi, £1,000-a-year banquet-Huns own aerodromes, the Air Minis-ing manager of the Savoy Hotel, try stated.

had lived in London for more One crew spent more than half than twenty years,

No Fascist

He was interned in the Isla of Man, and · ho accepted that oxite, because he bollowed the law was right. When his chance esme to do something to help us win the war, he volunteorod,

an hour near a French aerodrome used as a base for raids on Bri tain. During much of that time they were under fire from the At her fat in Sussex-gardens, "He need not have done any- gunners on the ground. Twice the Bayswater, London, W. Mrs. thing for Britain, but he so ad pilot attackedchemy aircraft. Florenco Lantieri, a white-haired mired us and so great was his When another bomber took fr widow, told the Daily Mirror loyalty that I am sure he would the Blenheim sent it down Ir a “I inserted the notice In, memory havo seized any opportunity." steep diving turn, toda

of my dear friend. He died for Britain,

On his way out, from Britain the Blenheim found and bombed, al anti-aircraft position,

Picchi was well-known in fash- ionable clubs in the West End. His chief was drowned when the bolArandora Star was sunk.

Wilfred Picchi as he was known in his job, ploaded, to

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