1941-09-30 — Page 16

R.A.F.

THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 30, 1941.

RAID ON GENOA

Pilot's Vivid Picture Of Deliberate Bombing

D.A.R.P GIVING BADLY

EVIDENCE

(Continued from Pagë 1)

Chairman: Are these instructors paid?-Not instructors on the staff of the school.

Which ones are paid?---The out- side instructors.

How many outside instructors are there?--About 120 sir.

How much are they paid?-$4; per lecture.

And how often are these lecturesi held? About three times a week)

WOUNDED

TO BE FREED

Hour And Half Over City

STIRLINGS AND WELLINGTONS WERE IN A SWISS HOSPITAL TRAIN THE FORCE WHICH ATTACKED OBJEC- In addition to the above, wit-'HAS BEEN PLACED ÁT THE ness went on, he had to give con- DISPOSAL OF THE GERMAN TIVES IN ITALY FROM THE BRITISH ISLES · sideration to the construction of AUTHORITIES FOR THE RE.

PATRIATION OF SOME 1,500 ON SUNDAY NIGHT. an A.R.P. Store, A.R.P, School

SERIOUSLY WOUNDED and Headquarters.

Additional Staff

FOR A SIMILAR NUMBER

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TIBH . - PRISONERS OF WAR One Wellington pilot, who made a care- WHO ARE BEING EXCHANGED fully-planned low level attack on a large fac- GERMAN PRISONERS FROM tory at Genoa, said that going out they flew He said: My stuff while at the BRITAIN. Colonial Secretariát, consisted at The train will take some 300 through moonlight, but near the Alps it be- the commencement of only my-wounded British prisoners across self and a stenographer, After a France to a French Channel port came cloudy.

where they will be exchanged for an equal number of German

few months I found il necessary

to get a Chinese anti-gas lec-

turer.、

sir

Chairman: Was he pald?—Yes,

How much did he get a month? About $400. After instruction

So that an instructor gets $12 a week?-Not necessarily šir. Owing to the lack of space not all of them.appointed Mr. Chan Tak-kwong, got $12 a week, though one man to All the place and as work was might do.

on the increase I found it neces- sary to appoint another Chinese unti-gas instructor......

The Wardens

~Witness then went on to say, that he was also concerned with the organisation of a Corps of A.R.P. Wardens and to do that al committee was formed consisting of Chinese in all the Police dis-

Was he paid?—Yes, sir.

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prisoners who will arrive there by hospital ship from Britain.

The exchange is expected to begin early next month-Reuter. Offial Statement

The release of severely wound- ed British prisoners of war in Germany, and 500 chaplains and medical services personnel, will probably

repatriated next month.

be

Sunday night.

They skirted a terrific electrical attacked by airtraft of storm over Mont Blanc, and they the Bomber Command on could see the zigzag flashes of lightning over the famous peak.

When they reached Genoa, they stayed there for an hour and a bombed and large fires were start

"At Genoa, industrial areas were half, flying round, at between 2.-ed in the docks,says an Air Min- 000 and 3,000 feet.

istry communique issued in Lon- don yesterday.

The bombers above 'thêm kept dropping flares around them, lighting up their "plane. There was, in addition, a good deal of heavy flak and a fair amount of fight anti-aircraft firò.

"Other forces attacked targets in western Germany, including Frankfurt. Five aircraft of the Bomber Command are missing"

This was announced by MyThere were two layers of rim the communique states.

́ ́ Aircraft of the Coastal Comphanu Duncan Sandys, Financial Secret-over Genda and a high bank of

attacked an oll depot and refiner- ed up a good 'pinpoint for our cast last night.

first rur up.---

How much?-I am not sure, butary to the War Office in a broad- cloud over the moon, hut we pick-ies at St. Nazaire, says the com-

I think $50 less than what Mr. Chan was getting.

tricts in Hong Kong and Kowloon. It was $350 then?--Yes, şir.

Are these wardens paid?--They

Continuing, witness said: To- are only paid when they are call-wards the end of 1939 I found the ed out, sir.

The repatriation will be carried out in two British hospital ships and the British prisoners will be exchanged for German prisoners who will embark at a South Coast port and be landed at a pori in Northern France. Reuter.

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STUDY IN INDIA

Scotch Caution

Scotch bomb

"The . cautious almer dropped a few incendiaries which.dropped right on the far- tory and soon the whole of one end of the enormous building was ablaze...

work of organising A.R.P. work beyond a single man and in 1940 Continuing, witness said that Mr. Puckle was appointed and this committee was later divided this permitted me to leave a cer- into the main committee and the tain amount of detail in his hands sub-committee, and while

bombs were dropped." Mr. and I could concentrate on major George Pentreath took over chair- | problems. manship of the Main Commit-

stated that

of the

Professor R. Coupland, Faculty Fellow of Nuffield College, which

"On the next time round; high explosive as well as incendiary They went round a third tune was established at Oxford shortly and saw the fires still going strong. as the before the war for research into They then dropped a stick of

A.R.P.practical-political-and-economic bombs along the docks.

im-problems, has undertaken for the The factory fires were still burn

in College a study of the developing when they left. of ment of self-governing institutions

in India.

tee, the duties of the sub-com) – Witness -mittee consisted mainly of enroll- · construction

ing recruits, and altogether 22 store was of paramount district sub-committees were portance, he approached, formed to look after this.

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Chairman: Who was this?—Mr. Tickle, sir.

Outside Architect

Witness continued that this of- ficial told him that no officer could be spared from P.W.D. for that work and witness later applied to the Financial Secretary for, and was granted, permission to call in an outside architect, witness add- ing that when he informed the D.P.W. of this, the latter verbally suggested

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Witness, in continuation, salḍ it should be noted that it was not till March, 1939, that Mr. Hobbs was, detailed to act as his technical ad- viser and that up to that time hej had been carrying on without one.] Even then, Mr. Hobbs worked in his own office at P.W.D., and it was not till September that he (Mr. Hobbs) began to work- in an office adjoining his own next to the Colonial Secretary's Office............ Witness then went "on "to "tell of à conference at which it was decided that payment for A.R.P. work would be made out of P.WD, funds and not A.R.P.| funds, and this conference”... re- sulted in a confidential.". schedule for AR.P. work for 1939-40 to be debited to P.W.D., and that the only responsibility left with him was to apply for funds for equip- ment and stores.

No Further Dealings

· He concluded: In June, 1040. I minuted the Hon. "Colonial Secretary that I had no objection to the transfer back of. Mr. Hobbs. to the PW.D. staff. This":"was agreed by the Officer Administra- ting the Government, the Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith, and on June 18, 1- minuted the P.WD. Since July 1, 1940, I had no further dealings with construction worl

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A bomber from New Zealand and Czech squadrons took part in the bombing of Italy.

munique, adding "two aircraft of the Coastal Command are miss- ing."-Reuter.

“Masonry Airborne”

A New Zealand Squadron Lead- - er described how he flew "just about 400 feet above the summit: of Mont Blanc.”

"There was. plenty of light at Genoa" he said. "Flares were dropping all over the place. Com- ing back it was pitch dark, all the way. We could just make out the peaks of the Alps but after that-we-didn't see a thing-until- we came out of the cloud over the aerodrome.”.

There were many. Hampdens. în the attack on Germany, where Frankfurt was one of the chief objectives. One Hampden.pilot, seeing more than mere flying frag- ments of a building in Frankfurt,

airborne from one burst."--British-

Official Communique "Objectives at Genoa, reported impressively masonry Türin and elsewhere were Wireless.

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