1941-09-17 — Page 25

THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 17, 1941.

NAZI AIRMAN TELLS HOW IT FEELS TO RAID BRITAIN ---AND BE SHOT DOWN

"I ALWAYS KNEW there were no laurels to be won in England · few of the flying personnel escape, they either get shot down or taken prison-

er.

This admission was made by the wireless opera- tor of a German night bomber who landed by parachute after his 'plane was shot down recently.

After abandoning his machine the operator slept under a tree, and gave himself up to the police in the morning.

"Before we started on this trip I had a pre- sentiment that it would be unlucky," he said.

"Our pilot was very

nervous,

He said the whole flight was n farce

"Fron the start everything

went wrong.

"We were flying at about 19,000

1. when I saw a shadow behind

11. 1 took another look and saw that it was still behind

Us.

and about 650 yds. away. Switch- || ng on the intercommunication. 1 shouted Night-lighter astern and To starboard.

There Was A Bang

ATROCITIES

IN SOVIET

VILLAGE

A terrible tale of Ger- man atrocities in a Rus-

The moon was as bright assion village designated

day, and the night fighter eame

closer and closer.

by the letter "V" recap-

AGED 101, LEFT 108 DESCENDANTS

An Australian wo- man who died in Randwick hospital on July 2, at the age of 101 left 108 direct descendants. She was Mrs. Maria La Greca, a native of Messina, Italy. Mrs. La Greca came to Austra- lia in 1900, and for many years lived ot Balmain. She had 11 children, 30 grandchil- dren, 64 great-grand- children, and three great-great-grandchil-

dren.

"It only gave us a few seconds, tured by Soviet troops is o********

Then there was a hang and crash.

the aneraft and bits flew all told in a message to the:

over the place

"The mechanic shouted: 'I'm bleeding to death." thing like that. but ! had no

too fast.

sonit.

Tass news agency from CLUB FOR

the theatre of war.

time to help him-things moved i Five wounded, Red Army men,

hat says, were brought to the vil

1. populat on

"I looked for the right fighter lage. The Nazis herded the whole and saw him banking away.

tu the

square,'

swung the machine-gun Found where they cut off the arms, ears |

and then bayonetted them.

When the Soviet troops recap

INDIAN TROOPS

a

and sent a burst after him Then and noses of the Wounded men The "Keren Institute" the Lieutenant said 'Don't fire, And I saw flames coning from beneath the port engine.

"At that I hurried. As spolt de the burst hit our aircraft the pilot had put the nose down, and probably got rid of the bombs. Then he simply roured down SO that I had no idea how high we

were..

New 'Plane

"On that evening we had taken over a brand new aircraft with

mine new parachutes, and

dict not it. But I struggled into

hatch. opened the lower escape

it.

and jumped."

The British

pilot

who

down this Heinkel was a

shot fight

Heutenant in 11 night-fighter

squadron which had already de-

stroyed over 50 raiders.

Describing the

combat.

he

continuallv

raid that when he first saw the Heinkel It was flying so slowly that he had great difficulty in keaping it within view. The German nilot weaved from side to side and alternately climbed and dived so that the British flier had a long chase before he could get into position to attack Immediately he opened fire he saw an

aircraft.

has been opened at village they released camp occupied by Indian tured the the arrested Soviet citizens who troops in Negri Sembilan. had been threatened with death. Villagers told how, when the Ger- This institute is a recrea-

occupied the village. the tion

fitted with Nazis of ance began plundering wireless set, gramophone,"

games of various kinds,

mans

food. utensils, crockery and clothes.

room

In the first few days the Nazis notepaper, etc., by the arrested more than 100 persons, Negri Sembilan Indian 13 of whom they brutally killed. An old man they buried alive. Troops Entertainment

Anybody who gave food or shel-Fund.

ter

to

the victims

Nazis

The fund was started by Dr. R. brutality was able to the death B. Krishnan and a committee of penalty.

WORTHY OF THE FATHER

A

explosion Mr. Lyttelton, President

Indian Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims and is entirely run by them for the benefit of units of the Indian Army in the State.

the

name

The institute has been given "Keren" to com- of arms by memorate the fea's Indian troops at Keren, in Italian Somaliland, recently.

com-

It was formally opened by the Pritish Resident, Mr. J. V. Cow-: gill, in the presence of a large ga'hering of Indian troops and

of the Indian members munity of Negri Sembilan,

Prominent among the company were representative Chinese who had been invited in recognition of their action in making a spontane- gift of money, collected

in the fuselage of the German of the Board of Trade,

He was getting into position for speaking at a lunch given the

a second attack when the raider in London by the British among their nationals, to the com-

burst into flames and went down Chamber of Commerce in manding officer of these Indian

to crash on land.

V

PARTING SHOTS

Belgium to

the

| troops a good example of inter- Bel-racial goodwill in furtherance of

or Malaya's war

gian Government, said: "I Britain good in fuging

should like to record our

admiration of King Leo-

cause,

pold's steadfast refusal to BANNED

HOW THE PARTING SHOTS Work with Germany and

OF A

DAMAGED

WOUNDED THE CREW INKEL the example, worthy of PUBLICATIONS IN

· BRITISH BLENHEIM IS TOLD BY THE AIR MINISTRY NEWS set. SERVICE.

The Blenheim, on patrol off the Norwegian coast. had sighted the Heinkel and attacked it, getting in a heavy burst.

s father, which he has

CHINESE LANGUAGE

Mr. Lyttelton, added that the

A number of what are: officially{T war had brought the three great described as "Wang Ching-wei and est colonial empires in the world Communist publications" "are Into an alliance the Belgian, among the list of undesirable pub The Nazi machine made for the Dutch and British. The great cations, the importation of which clouds with only one gun firing resources of the Belgian Congo into the Straits Settlements is

the prohibited. but six of the bullets entered the had been directed towards Blenheim, wounding all three common effort. Those services Printed in Shanghai and Nan-

would not be forgotten.

king, they are in the Chinese members of the crew.

Hero of the event was the M. Pierlot, the Belgian Prime language and include the Central wounded gunner who had reached Minister, struck a warning note China Daily News, New Eastern over the unconscious observer and about the condition of his coun- Magazine, Bulletin of the Central Press Service. Overseas Affairs endeavoured to send out signals to try...... base, persisting in each attempt Referring to the food shortage Quarterly, and "It is Natural for China and Japan to be Friends until he collapsed time and time in Belgium, he said:

"I know to defeat the German But Unnatural otherwise." again.

publications The Blenheim was found by power nothing is too much. I. Other undesirable.; searching nircraft and guided: 10 know that the rigours of the include textbooks of Chinese His a:bale in the Shetlands where the blockade are necessary. But lot tory during the Last Hundred "crew found refuge in hospital.-- me add that we hope there will Years" and "New Economics" "of

British Wireless,

bo a way of avoiding the worst" the Modern Knowledge series.

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