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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 7, 1941.
NEEDS OF RAF MEN CALL
H.K. FOOD
KITCHENS
THE. HONG KONG REFUGEE
& SOCIAL WELFARE COUNCIL ACKNOWLEDGES WITH MANY THANKS. A DONATION OF
$1,000 FROM THE BRITISH FUND FOR RELIEF IN CHINA, TOWARDS THE $7,000 STILL NEEDED FOR THIS YEAR'S WORK. THE BOARD OF AD- MINISTRATORS ALSO PRO- MISES TO GIVE A FINAL
HAS BEEN OBTAINED BY THE COUNCIL.
FLYING FORTRESS
FINEST BOMBER
(By CAREY LONGMIRE)
PILOTS WHO HAVE TESTED the Royal Air $2.500 WHEN THE OTHER $3,500 Force's new Boeing flying fortresses, the giant, long- distance bombers that form the United States's big- Even though there are so many gest contribution to Great Britain's air power thus haps there may be one or several far, said: "We think this the finest four-motored
this bomber there is."
appeals to the charitable, per-
donate people who would sum of $3,500 for the refugee and destitute poor of the Colony. Twenty flying fortresses of the Boeing B-17 type The condition of some of these
are in Britain after flying the Atlantic in about people is lamentable, and with the increased prices of foodstuffs, seven hours each. The British Ministry of Aircraft the daily meals given at the Production put in that particular order mont is ago. only nourishment these persons It hopes for (one word 'censored).more fortresses "just as soon as they can be put together," in the the Food Kitchens was $30,000 words of a ministry representative.
four Food Kitchens is often the
get.
The estimated yearly cust of
Towards this, the British Fund 1or Relief of Distress in China donated $10,000, Lady Pollock collected $10.700 and with this present donation and promise of a further sum, an #mount of $3,500 is sun to be collected.
RADIO
6.00 p.m.-Indian Programme,
The new ones to be added to Britain's home fleet of four-mot- ored heavy bombers. Stirlings and Halifaxes, will be of a con- siderably later flying fortress type, the B-172. A second American
tor, is already (three words cen. sored).
Donations should be sent to the 6.45 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota bomber, the Consolidated Libera- "South China Morning Post," and marked "Food Kitchens,"
TERRIFIC LOSSES
tiona
6.47 p.m.-The London Pione Accordeon
Band and Elsie Carliste (Vocal). Don't Dingle Dangle On The Old Gar- The den Wall Butler & others); Vamp of Havana (Gilbert & Sulli van) deun Band,
"Bombsight A Marvel"
flying fortresses
Whether any
The London Plano Accor-have yet been in action is a well kept secret, Pilots who talked to
Elsie Carlisle Medley-Intro: Gertie, this correspondent and other news-
the Girl with the Gong: Home,
paper men on a visit to this as- James, and Don't Spare the Horses: sembly station made it plain that
No. No. 0 Thousand Times No:
Terrific losses in the Battle of Smolensk are now admitted in German reports on the operations the Eastern Front.
"There are no prisoners-only dead and wounded," according to a German broadcast announcer.
Meanwhile, the German excuse offered for their failure to obtain the Ukraine wheat harvest is a shortage of man-power and 4 dearth of tractors. The inost im-7.17 p.m.-Rawicz and Landauer (Two pressive fact that So far the Germans only control a very small part of the Ukraine is conven- jently passed over without men- tion.--Special Cable.
CHUNGKING VIEWS
Observers in Chungking believe that a Pacific war is inevitable in view of the s'eady deterioration of the Far Eastern situation fol- lowing the freezing of Japanese assets.
They suggest there is a high possibility of a Japanese south- ward push in September and a
Towera): Log Cabin Lullaby (S. & H. Byrne & Schuster)....The Lon
don Piano-Accordeon Band,
tests showed the Boeing a highly efficient bomber.
"That Sperry-bombsight is a marvel," said one pilot. "Wo think it is more accurate than anything else we've ever seen." a Equipped by the British for
whereas seven-man crew,
nine men are sometimes carried by the
Dirty Hands, Dirty Face: Little Chap with Big Ideas: Little Man. You've Had A Busy Day.... Elste Carlisle with Orchestra. Little Patchy Trousers (Noel & Pelosi); They Would Wind Him Up And He Would Whistle (Kalmar, Ruby)...The Landon Piano-Accor- deon Band, Grandma Sald (Magidson—Wrubel)
....Elsie Carlisle with Orchestra, fortresses in the United States, The White Cliffs of Dover (Leon & the plane has a range of 2,450 miles at a cruising speed of 220 miles an hour. From bases in virtually England it could fly to any sector of the Nazi-held Con- tinent, even as far as Bucharest or Sofia, drop its bombs and return, Depending on the distance to be covered, it can carry up to eight tons of bombs-enough to raze Com-un entire munitions factory. Pilots
over also were enthusiastic
itx 8.25 p.m.-London Relay = "Listening being "highly manoeuvreable:"
What makes the R.A.F. appre- 8.30 p.m.-Programme Suinmary. ciate the flying fortress so great- 8.32 p.m.-Half an Hour with Johannly, however, is exclusively
Strauss.
American device called the turbo Waldmeister Overture
Grand supercharger. This enables it to Symphony Orchestra;
Planos). The Great Waltz-Selection: Roses In December (from film "Life of the Party"-Jessel); Rosalle (from film "Rosalie Cole Porter),
7.30 p.m.--Dance Musle.
8.00 p.m.-Landon Relay-The News. 8.15 p.m.-Londen
mentary.
Rolay-War
Post". Examination of Points in Daily German Propaganda.
Le Beau
an
faster
Danube Bleu....Lily Pons (Sop.) y 305 miles an hour at 25,000-
considerably with Orchestra: Tritsch, Tratsch-foot levels, Polka... Orchestra Raymonde: than any other long-range bomb- Morgenblatter (Morning Fapers) er at that height. The 'plane also Vocal Waltz...B.B.C. Wireless turns in an exceptional perform- Chorus and Orchesira; The Gipsy ance as high as 36,000 feet. Baron Selection....George Boulan- ger & his Orchestra,
Japanese northward push next 9.00 .m.--Local Time Signal and An-
Spring.
They point out that the pre- sent
describes Konoye Cabinet itself as a War Cabinet and holds all important conferences in the Central News. Imperial Palace,
INDEPENDENCE OF ETHIOPIA
The Foreign Secretary inform~
nouncements,
Pro-
Height Adds To Safety
Since few fighter 'planes oper- 0.02 p.m.-StudioTo-night We
the mant". A Review of New Records. ate at speeds greater than 0.45-10.00 p.m.----News in French (on Boeing in the sub-stratosphere the
Short Wave only),
R.A.F. is confident that Nazi fight- 9.45 p.m.-Alfredo and His Orchestra.
ers will have little success in Tell Me Again (Grosz);, Russian
Gipsy Sketch (A: Ferraris): Seren overtaking flying fortresses, and ade In The Night (Kennedy & shooting them down. (Sentence others); I Once Had A Heart, Mar-censored). Experts agree the air gurita (Connor & others).
war will be won by the-force 10.00 p.m.-London. 'Rolay-The News which can get its 'planes to the
and News Commentary.) 10.15 p.m.Orchestral interlude..
Siesta (W. Walton).... The London Philharmonic Orchestra cond. by
William Walton.
pondents.
11.16 p.m.-Close down.
ed a Parliamentary questioner! 10.20 p.m.-Verdi's "A{da”—Act 1. that the British Government had 11.00 p.m.-London Relay-War. Corres made it abundantly clear that it is their intention to recognise an independent Ethiopia as soon as the military situation permitted and such recognition would natur- ally be followed by, the estab lishment of diplomatic relations. The evacuation of large num bers of Italian civilians was al- ready proceeding but as negotia- tions on the subject were in progress he was not at present in a position to give any further information, British Wireless.
TIMPERLEY ON CHINA
JAPANESE PULLING
OUT?
highest altitude to fight, some holding that the most deadly air combats will soon take place at between 30,000 and 40,000 feet,
The flying fortresses reached Britain completely equipped with. seven guns "and with bullets in them," the Air Ministry represen- tative said. Pilots particularly liked the de-icers, which, in win- ter operations, will be invaluable. At the same big air station scores of other American 'planes df four-motored types were boing, made ready for action by several hundred workers, “many (women." The other American aircraft were the Glenn Martin Maryland, the Dougles DB-7, the Vought-Sikor- sky Chesapeake dive-bomber, and the Consolidated Liberator. THERE ARE INDICATIONS THAT THE JAPANESE TROOPS big workshop has just gone into IN CENTRAL CHINA ARE MAK-operation for the handling of ING PREPARATIONS FOR American-built Allison • liquid- LARGE-SCALE WITHDRAW cooled motors, such as those used ALS, SAYS. A SHANGHAI DIS-in the American Curtiss Toma- PATCH TO THE "TA KUNG hawk fighters, now being receiv- ed here and in the Middle East PAO."
in quantity, Maj~ Carl Brandt, chief Boeing test pilot, reached Britain with the first flying for tresses to explain their operation. The action of three American firms, Boeing, Douglas and Ford,
Recently the Japanese, ordered the suspension of construction on military roads and military estab lishments in central China.
The Japanese have also order
One:
There is every desire on the part of China to cooperate with the British should hostilities break out in the Far East, declared Mr. H J. Timperley, adviser to the Central Publicity Board of China who is in Singapore on the way to ed the puppet government to in collaborating on flying fortress London after a visit to Chungking. tighten the so-called "pacification production on a mass production Mr. Timperley added China, campaign". In an attempt to "mop scale and setting up new plants. realised the importance of taking up" the Chinese: guerillas,. Their in the Southwest for the Job was overy opportunity of improving scheme in to have puppet troops "the finest gesture for Britain in and strengthening contacts with garrison places which they will history," a Ministry of Aircraft
evacuate. Central Malaya and India-Reuter
Production spokesman asserted.
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