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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 5, 1941.

SPEEDING UP DELIVERY TO BRITAIN

(By ANSEL E. TAIBERT)

THE ANNOUNCED DEPARTURE for London several days ago of Air Marshal Sir Frederick Bow- hill on a huge American-built, four-engined bomber from Newfoundland signalizes a tremendous speed- up in the flow to Britain Iy air of aircraft built in factories of the United States.

Sir Frederick, known throughout the Royal Air Force as "Ginger" Bowhill, is one of the best organ- izers in the British Empire, and until recently was head of the important coastal command of the Bri- tish Isles, with the responsibility of seeing that every German air or sea attack on a convoy was met by immediate and appropriate counter measures.

hasn't

or

He was relieved of this job so if such luxuries, but it that he could fly to Canada and affected the morale a bit. I never study how the delivery of Am-heard, in all of my visits to Eng- erivan aircraft by air to Britain] land, a single man, woman could be increased several hun- child say in even a private con- dred per cent.

versation that he had the slight- Now in London making an offl- est doubt of England's ability to ciul report embodying detailed | win this fight." recommendations, he is expected back soon to direct the ferrying operations in person.

"Really Rolling"

Now

a

It has been no secret in avia- tion circles that British defence leaders were concerned for time by the

slowness of the trans-Atlantic ferry service to get} into high gear.

R.

At present, In the process of being taken over by the British Air Ministry, the service has been successively in the hands of a Canadian civil group and the British Ministry of Aircraft Production. Operations were hampered mainly by a lack of experienced personnel In the directorate on this side.

The hop from Newfoundland to Britain takes from seven and one-half to ten hours at present, and the return trip thirteen от inore, Col. Hutchinson disclosed. Ferrying bombers, he says, isn't

AMERICA

COULD FEED BRITAIN BY AIR

Speaking at Schenectady,

Mr. Kenneth Farrell, the food chemist, said that if shipping was unable to reach Britain it would be possible for the U.S. dried food industry to ship enough supplies by 'plane to feed every mon, woman and child in Britain.

He calculated that 300 bombers could supply one day's food.

"SPIES" FIND

ARMY GOSSIP

the hardest job on earth, although | The Army is talking too

it's far from easy." He asserted

that during all the delivery flights much in this war.

made to date, not a single ferry

This is the opinion of officials pilot had been attacked by a Ger-who have been "pumping" people man raider.

in towns near big camps.

They were sent out to discover "The way we slip into Britain how much anyone would talk. at varying altitudes and times How much a Fifth Columnist each trip would make it almost could discover if he tried, and for any Gorman what people were saying. Ang fighter pilot to accomplish an they found it easy. Interception," Col. Hutchinson I related.

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miracle

Civillans generally cold. shoulder them. But soldiers, The reapled German bombing from captains down to privates raids on Britain, now "one huge often-casually and ingenuously. aerodrome," according to Col.

-gave them all the information Hutchinson, are ineffective. Con- they want, and more. crete runways are not generally Dropping into the conversation used in airports built in the Bri- with a subaltern in a village bar, tish Isles, he related, and the huge an official had no difficulty in craters blown in the ground are discovering where his H.Q. was, filled in and packed down in a how many men were stationed few hours by fast-working repair there, and what other troops were crews. Col. Hutchinson said that in the neighbourhood.

in the raids he experienced, none The official's report showed of the bombers ferried over was exactly what information he had hit directly, although one or two received from different ranks in suffered minor damages frota the Army and exactly what ans→ bomb fragments.

wers he got from clvtHans.

No one challenged him, al- ́ though, if they had done so, they would have found reason to doubt his identity.

TRIED TO

But, according to Col. George Hutchinson, American pilot who participated in the flight de- livery of the initial group of Lockheed Hudson that went across the Atlantic last fall and has since flown many more trips, the bombers "really are rolling overseas" now. It is routine, he revealed while on his way to visit his family in Baltimore, for sever- al score a day to take off for England from the run ways of the giant airport at Hatties Camp. Praise For Britons Newfoundland. Canadian and British engineers hacked this field

Col. Hutchinson and other several years ago from the forests trans_Atlantic pilots with whom of the Newfoundland wilderness, I have talked have high praise in anticipation of its use in war for the British Overseas Airways involving Britain.

pilots assigned to work with them.. Col. Hutchinson is head of the One in particular, Capt. D. C. T famous flying Hutchinson fami- Bennett, the director of operations, ly" consisting of himself, his wife, is credited with keeping the ser |Blanche, and his two daughters, vice at a high point of efficiency Kathryn and Janet Lee, who have in spite of slip-ups and bottle- visited fifty-odd countries toget-necks outside his control. Capt her in their own plane in the last Bennett, the pilots report, often} ten years. Since last August, works all day on administrative || when he joined the trans-Atlantic details, then decides to take over- ferrying service as charter seas a four-engined bomber, and LEE WING PUN, 21, DES- member, he has drawn so many after a few hours' rest in Britain. CRIBED AS A DELIVERY. flight assignments to take bom- flies back again with a load of AGENT, RESIDING AT NO. 57, bers abroad on holidays such as ferry pilots in his plane.

WING LOK STREET, · FIRST Christimas Day, Easter Sunday, According to an official an- | FLOOR, WAS CHARGED · BE- Armistice Day and Memorial Day |nouncement of the British Press FORE MR. G. T. LOWRY THIS that his fellow pilots nicknamed Service, four types of American MORNING, WITH FRAUDUL him "Holiday Hutch".

bombers are being delivered by1LENT CONVERSION OF $15,908, He and the other pilots, a mis- air. It reports: "There is the ENTRUSTED TO HIM BY TSE cellaneous group of former crop Lockheed Hudson, latest verson | YUK-TONG; MANAGER-OF- dusters, barnstormers, airline men | of the reconnaissance bomber, THE KAM SING IMPORT AND and British airmen drawn matn~ | which has done such magnificent EXPORT FIRM.

RUN OFF WITH $15,000

ly from British Overseas Airways, work. There is the Boeing 'flying According to Detective Sergeant have taken some strange cargoes fortress." This is a big, four-White, accused had been employ- over. Not long ago a Canadian | motored, high-flying bomber with ed by the firm for a long time at general with his two aides, a cap- a fine reputation. There is the wages of $12 per month. He was tain and a major, sat în Col. Hut- Consolidated Liberator four- entrusted with a large

sum for chinson's bomber for the Atlantic motor bomber, one of the fastest the purpose of paying it over to crossing on boxes of flare shells heavy bombers in the world. And the To Hang Bank, at No: 11, and pouches of diplomatic mail in there is the long-range Consoli-Bonham Strand East. He-dis- company with a noted Canadian dated Catalina flying boat, one of appeared. scientist.

which already has gained fame | Accused was arrested at the by its twenty-hour shadowing of Kwong Tai Loi Boarding House, the Bismarok.”

Connaught Road Central, on There have bean peralstent August 2, where $15,453 in cash rumours that Britain Intenda to was found in his possession. He fly some of its smaller fighter had bought a ticket for Singa- aircraft, ́ ́equipped with extra pore, for the sum of $200. gasoline tanke, across this sum- Sentence of six months' hard mor, but so far none has gone, labour was imposed.

HUNGARIAN ORDER

[SPECIAL: TO “CHINA' MAIL"I More than 12,000 ̧ Polish and Russian Jews have been expelled from Hungary, charged with en- dangering the balance of Hungar- lan economic life. It It is believed that they have been transferred

The monotony of the trip was broken by an unusual serenade —that of 200-bullfroge areoaking In unison. These were being transported for experimentation in gas-defence laboratories so that England might have an eir-tight-defence against the}. possible use of poison gas by the Luftwaffe.

BURIED IN ONE GRAVE

- Found Courage High

"On another occasion I decided on my own to carry twenty-four cartons of American cigarettes Sir James and Lady Frazer, and a couple of crates of oranges who died within a few hours of to distribute among my English one another, were buried in one friends," Col. Hutchinson related. gruve at St. Giles'a · Cemetery, across the border into Gblicid. -- "There is something of a scarcity · Cambridge;

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