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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 2, 1941.

CHINA MAIL

WINDSOR HOUSE

MOTIF OF VICTORY

Beethoven did not know the Morse code. But he wrote in it. By the sheer- est and yet most appro- priate coincidence pos- sible, he employed as a rhythmic pattern in the first movement of his Fifth Symphony what any telegrapher would recog- nise as the Morse symbol for the letter V.

There are two coin- cidences here, one of them obvious and of no im- portance. The letter V is the Roman equivalent of the figure 5, but what matters more is that V has become in France and other occupied coun- tries a symbol of ultimate victory over the Nazi ter- ror. It is written on walls and elsewhere to catch the eye of Nazi overseers. It is ubiquitous. So many V's have appeared as to suggest some sort of an- derground organisation. As long ago as April this newspaper reported on this movement.

Now, like an increasing- ly unruly child, 'V is not only going to be seen but heard. For victims of Nazi ambition are now learning to spell it out in dots and dashes; dot-dot- dot-dash. They can even

THAT'S ALL RIGHT, BUT WHAT DOES THE JAPANESE ARMY SAY?

to

Ferrying For The R.A.F.

sing or whistle it, to the "Calling Mr. Chang. Calling Many of the Englishmen were Our first call was at the Opera- first four notes of the Mr. Chang. Will you please pilots in the Royal Flying Corps tions Room, where pilots receive world's

One of them, their orders for the first nights of im- | during the last war. most

Operations Room familiar Ro

mediately? You are required Capt. Keith Jopp, is the only man the day. Mr. Smith, drive to symphony. If Frenchmen for a cross-country flight." with a complete disability pen- factory X and pick up a Spit- do this as often as senti-

sion from the last war who is fire," or Senor Silvario, take a Mr. Chang--nobody knows him still flying. With only one hand Magister (a training, aircraft) to ment prompts they will by any other name-rose from a and one eye, he transports any-aerodrome Y." reproduce most of the deep armchair in the rest room

at the aerodome and went off to thing from a Spitfire to a Welling- Each pilot nodded and went off symphony's first move- report to Operations Roem,

ton bomber.

to the maps and signals room. Spread out on the table was ment, which is based on a

This tall, constant reiteration

There are others, much younger, large, secret map of Britain. The of

charming nephew of General Chiang Kai-shek, Com- with the necessary flying quali- stallon is allowed only this one

channels ́of: dot-dot-dot-dash motifs, mander of the Chinese Army, is fications for the A.TA-50 hours copy, showing the

which these one of 200 pilots of the

pilot's licence-who flight across Britain Air und an "A" one set overlaying another

use. Aero- Transport Auxiliary, which has cannot pass the physical tests for ferry pilots must in crescendos sometimes commandeered this station. They the R.A.F.

dromes, balloon-barrages and A.A. batteries are marked as danger expressive of an increas-have relieved R.A.F. pilots of

spots to be avoided, for if ven- turing near a pilot is likely to be for hostile aircraft and taken fred on.

the lask of transporting 'planes

The leader of the women is Miss ing fury, as of suppressed from manufacturers to RAF. Pauline Gower, who was a close stations. This means two flights, friend of the late Miss Amy John- peoples.

with this aerodrome as the inter-

Nazis seem apprehen-mediate stage. "Planes come sive over this secret wea- from the factories without arma-

inents and other necessary fittings. Here they are fitted and flown on to the RAF.

pon. They are trying to cause confusion by adopt- ing Vas a symbol of Nazi

A day among these pilots, such victory. But those who as I spent, is equal to a round- write or sound V for free-the-world trip. There are Poles, Czechs, Frenchmen, Americans, dom can, as "Colonel V. an Indian and a Spaniard, as well Britton" has suggested in as English men and women. a broadcast naming July 20 as "V Day," leave the confusion "where it be- jongs-in Berlin.”

"One Hand, One Eye

I chatted over a cup of tea with one of the Poles. He was formerly one of several pilots of Lockheed air-liners operating from Warsaw.

A

By Yorkshire

Post Reporter

son, who was also in the A/TAI and was ferrying a plane when

killed.

Five Examinations

tinent.

a

This, I was assured, does not. happen often, but one man told me of an occasion when he went only slightly off his course-over. the sea and was given a hot few minutes by one of our battleships. "Which only shows how smart our Navy is," was his comment.

"

*

New Minister

The day was a special one for the pilots, ground mechanics, and work-shop men, for the new Min- ister of Aircraft Production, Lt.- Col, JTC. Moore-Brabazon, was

The Nazis may find with two others, he decided to airliner pilots.

The Americans are mostly ex-paying them a visit. After he had toured the station they gathered on One of them, the tarmac to hear him talk to themselves in a veritable leave for Britain. When it became Charlie Smith-owned several them as a father being one-of-

apparent that the fall of Poland vortex of sounds dearly was inevitable. Each took one of planes himself and few hunters the first men to fly an aeroplane familiar to German ears the air-liners and without maps to all parts of the American con- I stood between a begrimed, over- alled fitter and a millionaire pilot. or other guldes, except compasses, but ill attuned to Nazi flew across Germany and France

director

large. London There are five examinations: company. theories. Beethoven would to Britain. "One of my com- which every man must pass. He never have been a Nazi. panions has been killed since in begins with light types and goes a flying accident," he told me.

"One of the tragedies of the on to single-engine training and operational types, such as Spit-world," Lt. Col. Moore-Brabazon fires. When through these he is told them, "is that mechanical science outstrips political umbi- a Junior officer, told: how the composer with Nazi ventures. One

tion. We see to-day an exhibi- had dedicated his feels he would be glad to From there to the big stuff tion of the prostitution of one of light twins, such as Ansons and the greatest Inventions of the age "Eroica" Symphony to know that the motif of Oxfords, heavy twins Welling. Thus I find myself in a job that the military genius of "fate knocking at the ton and Whitley bombers and Is the bloodiest, most damnable

finally, the biggest- and largest and most terrorizing possible, the French Revolution door," with which his bombers Halifaxes, Manchestera

"But it is a job to be done. Soon, scientists and the R:A E, that in- I was taken on a tour of the nocent red, white and blue on our

The story of his disillusion with Napoleon is twice

only to destroy the dedi-Symphony V opens, has and Stirlings. When he cantly by the help of our engineers, cation page when Napo- been turned into a motif all, ho is made a senior officer. leon began to act like a of the inevitable knocking school, drum and flying field by machines will be seen throughout Hitler.

ominously on doors and one of the pilots, Dr. M. Whito Europe, to inspire terror in those Beethoven would have windows wherever Nazi hurst, who was Medient Omcer at with guilty consciences. Its effect Brooklands race track before the will be not only physical but such been no more impressed oppressors pass by.

es to finish this conflict.""

war.

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