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THE CHINA

MAIL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1950.

IS ANOTHER WORLD

Continuing the first authentic, do t ailed report about - the Flying Saucers, tho first instalment of -which bogan in the China Mail yester< day. Gerald Heard, British scienco writer of world repute, tolls today the story of an astonishing tragedy -the story of the only man in all the world who had come almost near enough to touch the fringe of the mystery - of the strange objects rang- ing the skies.

WATCHING US?

tious, let us say it seemed to leave, his leap into the need to sec.

upper

sky gava such a "wash" to the air that the passenger plane But the light that came from the two pilots were riding gave the cabin surely would make a very confirmatory and at the anyone inside incapable of see- same time very unsettling rock- ing anything outside oven in over.

the daylight, let alone

at

night. For this fore-port glared Captain Chiles rightly at once as though someone were burn- went into the passenger part of ing magnesium flarea inside. the ship, leaving his recond officer to By the craft. He must find out ir.

SAW anyone elsa what they had seen.

Nor was that all. Right long the side of this fish-like monster that swam the air, all down its length, as, down the sides of some of those deep sea monster-fishes that live in total dark, ran a vivid purplish band of glowing light.

Of course, it was the dead-hour of the night, a quarter to three a.m. But one passenger, a Mr McKelvie, did see the light rush past close to them. And he did note that it was a light unlike any light he had seen,

Tracking the

By Gerald Heardry-it was

officers

morning, observers

the flying

11 field of the city

of Macon

in

had

found that about 2 8.m. APTAIN C. S. CHILES Thirdly, to complete its un-

illuminations, with his first canny

there that Was officer, J. B. Whitted. hull an orange flame which, as at

spouted from the back of the air They were flying a passen- it fanned out, spreading in ger plano

from tail, turned into a up

more dell- Houston, Texas. The cato yellow.

also Georgin Pretty, no doubt, but were on the staff

more than a trifle alarming seen rushing of Eastern Airlines Incor- when seen so close. For this overhead a porated. And both had great fan of flame was half as long, dark find records in war and long again RS the

100-foot wingices tube of a flying ob- Ject that evi- dontly furled Itself along through the

peace.

The plane left at half-past eight on July 23, 1948. At 2,45 a.m. there was a good mean coming through some cloud.

broken

craft that spouted it.

Windows

huge flame

that sported

in the

from the stern.

On to this well-lit, A lifelike, if not a human, bril touch was given by two rows quiet scene suddenly a

windows. But super-glant forpedo dash- of

it. It was coming straight watching them as they,

humans,

two

KENNETH who

This unique picture of a flying disc was "taken by William Rhodes of Phoenix, Arizona, on July 9, 1947. He described it as 'Uke a rubber heel with a small hole in the middle." The back of the

heel acted as the prow.

being pursued at Bethel Alabama

Dy

would clear off and the "thing", oblige by standing stili,

The command had made ready. Three fighting planowi were already up and racing) every moment higher to come up with hidden high

the intruder.

Soon the scouts,

Abou

the

clouds, began to speak

the

clearly by telephons to whole group In the tower. At least, the man in command of the scout fleet of three was now Captain A That wa

His report was. good ds' far as not

being disappointing. But it was grima, too. He had the quarry in view.. He who on its tracks.

And there had been no ex- aggeration. It was of "tremen- dous size.” It looked, too, ⋅ as though it were metalllo,

Then the voice from the far- up plane went on: "The thing is climbing."

On and up

The next phrase was hopeful. "It's going only half the speed of the pursuit."

Yes, he'd try to close in. But after five minutes, when

the

And it is of the utmost impor. tance that we should remember loudspeaker again took up that fact when we are reading tale, it was not so certain. TAG this tragic story. For terrible as monster had evidently take two airmen the encounter proved, the "en fright. It had shown its mettle working for a countered," the

visitor, did it wuk

Jocal Alabama, everything within its remark do now climbing at close on

flying service, able powers to avoid a contact, --

But this secm-

ARNOLD

ed to have no

the

glow and not even a wake.

AA100

first discs at Boise, Idaho.

miles an hour.

the

speaker

again to keep clear of complications. addressed the tower group th

Though

us terrible monster volco was from one of Mantell'

Both he and his as any the human eye has ever companions.

it ran like rested on,

a hare fellow plane had seen the object. who But they had lost sight of it now away from the rash man pursued it.

and of Mantell.

A showdown

For he had gone on up after and had disappeared in still higher clopt,

At last át À quarter past thres Mantell's voleo was heard again.

The Navy authorities sug- The two men tried. to follow, ed toward the Eastern Airlines moment that they flashed by

It was on January 7, 1948 that ship,

the two pilots did not see any gested as their contribution to but of course it out-paced them

the discussion "What In-they were frotting along at we were presented with a possi; Both the dying offleers saw faces pressed against the panes heaven's name was that?-well, under 200 mp.h.

bility of finding out more about That was

In August 1947, these strange visitants than we down the air traffic lane they astounded

might be one of the super. watched It

everyone knew quite at the start, of the excite- had been able to observe. were on. But it was

a bit this outrage on common sense rockets which above them.

He was holding on and up. But DL well as common security. are being experimented with ment. And to start 1948 well, on the first of January a “ship" of

the thing was still rising above Then it suddenly swooped But some Fulding Intelli- in New Mexico.

showed up over

him and maybe Increasing the down. Captain

But could a rocket, that had the same cut Chiles swung gence, and one not unaware of

of Southern Stato over so much the other strayed, wander

Fort Knox, in his plane violently to the left. peril and indeed, wishful to

Kentucky gap between them. (amous as the place where the

Still he'd track it as far as Fortunately the monster veer- avoid disaster, was in control of the United States on its own? Mississippi.

even the most Again a couple of fllers saw ed as sharply, too, to the right, of this great shaft of speeding And surely missile and

could it from their plane and tried to biggest heap of gold ever ac he could go he thought he they

gulded rushed past

each force. And "he" was as skilful self

Then If that didn't altitude. other.

kept buried), was the centre of a little late in hardly prove as obligingly con- follow. But just by doubling its cumulated in all history was could stand up to 20,000 feet up he was--if.

almost at a bound.

bring him at least to a better the scene of action, The pilots stared as the ob- the day-considerate,

alderate, and willing and able pace, to yield right of way, as this usual, it got away giving nothing

This was planned to be a show. view and a cloner-up he'd give Ject flew past only some 700 His way of doing so never-

down. feet, away. It was close enough theless did not

be super-torpedo showed itself to away. to cease

This time people on the ground

It was be?

Joz Probably he did. ¡No just getting on for them to see that it had no alarming, indeed increasingly

saw it too. Fortunately at this wingsi

point, so. This fluke-less black whate

too, we get something three in the afternoon--the time knows for certain, What did cu when the light is stil very good show up was dumb, deba dumb. of the upper air suddenly

like what opticians call "punue and men fresh and alert. The The wreckage of his plane was doubled its really awful fan-

vision" that is to say we State

police, about half-past picked up over a wide area. tail of flame. This

set a gave the

report from far outside the

How he actually mit his death whole craft ☐ kick as though What we can ask, with more United States and from one of two, had been the first to give

no one could say for sure-but the warning. shot from a gun and the entire chance of getting an answer,

the most

and down-to-earth

. Scores of people had already dead he was. Communities in About 100

feet long,

this ship shot up like an arrow and Is-Had any report of any sort worldly-wise cigar-shaped body was sinister plunged into the clouds above, come to hand of this new the whole world from Holland. reported seeing something that made the State police call to 1048, a fe

few daya enough. But its lighting seeni- The pilots hadn't merely to type of unknown dich a non-

be ed even more baleful,

trust their four eyes for this disc? The answer to that is fore It had a fore-cabin or look- manoeuvre. Seeing belleving. Yes out port. So it was evidently but feeling is knowing.

A big, wingless shaft of a log in a stream, ja "manned" or inhabited ob- As their momentary and very thing like a

jector, to be still more cau- unsettling companion took his plunged across the traffic lané

Alarming

OPINSTERISE

...

SUPERIOR

...

Winglass

SPIRITLESS

shaft

Lane Crawford's Ian Hay 'high hats'

1950

REMEMBRANCE DAY

Remembrance Day la dedicated to those in the Services who fought so gallantly and endured so much between 1914/18 and 1939/45. it is also an occasion when Britons in distant parts of the Empire and foreign lands turn their thoughts to the Mother Country and feel that they share that great tradition which she has created and so splendidly maintained throughout the centuries.

It is now more necessary than ever before to mecure your generous support for Ear! Haig's Fund for the Ulsabled of the two World War. Their need le great, and the Committed of the British Legion feel that you would wish to be prominently Identified in the endeavour to alleviate the' dhitraks of ab hobfa a band of physical sufferars.

Poppies will be sold on Saturday, 11th Novembor, Remembrance Day will be colebrated on 12th November. Cheques may be made payable to PEAT, MARWICK, MITCHELL & CO. Tolephone House.

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the men who

TF the first volume of tho Government-sponsored

"popular" military history

fought

set

over.

Tragic

chase

one

In Junín Chiles and his tho College

wingless sky-charger, straight as a pole, but showing lines of brightly in the afternoon light one of his companions to search windows or ports, had f rushed travelling through the

foot. across the Netherlands, very fast, at a vast speed. It was evidently. He went not only to 33,000 making its way towards the big. Ho swung over hundreds of very high, said the astounded | Dutchmen,

air force field, Godman Base.

miles of skyzcape”: But there The airfield was alerted.

as matter When acoder-longer be heartcom could no

A very big object that shone speaker, the commander ordered

sky

WEB

5

Those on watch didn't have to was not a glimmer of the im

tower WAN

personned

Straight tube walt long. The Godman Field mème thing they had all seen

In all this confualon of really lending too much evidence we can. bezin to sort out the findings,

with its rolling above them.

There was a rumour that at

The commanding officer, Columbus, Ohio, at the airfleld Colonel Hix, was there in con- there, as the sun was setting First and foremost we can be trok. He was using his binoculars, on that fatal day, a disc rushed sure that while - there may be and they had found their mark.

overhead, and this disc had and the Eighth Army, many different kinds of discs,

big. Daming flue-blast trailing conscious that the eye was there are also riding the upper Red flame out behind it upon them, played up accord-air, yes

So the trugle chase close and perhaps riding The clouds were broken. with the first saucer casualty ingly, with results memorable above and beyond the upper nir.

another in history."

"genush

this long, Through them appeared seme- The 'sacrifice made by t straight tube of a

thing

thing which made the warnings gallant planeer didn't add to ot Angono 'but an official bis- Now, Wo

the other sent ahead have nothing to fear knowledge any more than migi may raise

we, naturally torian will continue to believe question which

on the grounds of exaggeration have been gleaned from the

ground that it was victories that created have all been asking. "Surely The whole group of expert and

people-os Mom- The observations from the the headlines, not headlines the someone could

potent

a bunch as could be found tower showed that it was a new kind of trespasser with this

species, and may be a new genus, It is precisely because some- in all the world saw it. one did try to grapple with one It was huge. Any

of this strange visitation. of these "things," it is precisely

made by

ordinary the "thing" He tried to seemed to show that it was grapple with was still odder, least 600 feet, acrosal

doubt What there was no af more monstrous than either ALTOGETHER, there is a the other two so far sighted, that about (and this was a

queer air of unreality about tragedy for the first time stepped saucer style) it shot out in the For "Arme the Men" once they had been trained and this book. Why is the Singapore into the story.

daylight pulses or blasts of red (Stationery Office, 10. d.), toughened, "they never failed to debacle ignored if this is a What had been odd became Dame

sinister and grim,

of World War II. is a typical specimen of the NAAF.J,'% virtues (studied at victories. seven to follow, I suspect Brst-hand) was anything but that the War Office will over-generous?

have to issue a new cam- I do not think that the men paign medal to all who plod who fought in the wartime British Army want to read to- through.

day in an official history that

and

It will sell

deals with the British Army's carry out any task imposed." contribution to victory. Its

or

sometimes course they spinsterisk tone and Its almost unqualified adulation

because the

alt falled. And in that failure there United States official histories Death High Command may draw mild were shrods of glory. [praize from Whitehall

Why Greeks?

understand

strikes

genuine Army history?

WIND excellent, Impartion

have been coming out, ono after,

The New Year of 1948 was "1945 dawned," writes Lan another, for some years. It in

why we only a week old the second But this is not what I call Hay, "with all the world still hard to history, and it will be anything locked in conflict, and with no have been so slow off the mark. year of the Disc Era-when

death took its frat toll, but popular with our wartime visible prospect of victory."

Private enterprise publishers. Before we go into that story soldiers.

But that la pot true. On gave us long ago, Cyril Falls let us remember one thing-of January 1, 1945, I doubt if one and General Fuller'e authorita- great importance. These "trps- British historics soldier in a hundred believed that tive

(not, passers--if we should so call the war would last six months, mercifully, official) when the them have been meticulously careful to observe the ameni row dd Ion Hay, much superior writing which every But the Stationery Oflce need

Now here is a nice piece of public were really interested.

Eles." loved novellst

They may have been observing and play man of the Eighth Army should not be alarmed. This book will us-or even may be interested wright, como to write

this take to heart, Montgomery, he well-to the Army Educational in something other than spiritless, flat stuff?

not will no doubt but certainly they havo Corps, which "boing

to any had grasped the fact that the every regimental library, soldier of today, especially the

There is no evidence that "they motion made any somewhat

But not, I fancy, to the "self have self-conscious, class-conscious product of our conscious, class-conscious ex- toward landing.. Though one or who manned the two not very good reports any modern educational ayetem, la Servicemen keenly appreciative of a little tanks and guns which the clever they did come near the ground, hey certainly took care to do ao judicious publicity at an generals in Whitehall provided.

when' no. one was about who occasional put on the back,

- (London Express, Barvice).

might object.

Why does he spend the first 20 pages (out of 230) ruminas- ing on the tactics of the ancient Grecks, on Oliver Cromwell, on Cardwell - and Haldane, on the Somme?

Doca ho seriously ask us tó belleve; in 1950, that "after Dunkirk those who directed_the. course of the war never mado a single major strategie mistake??: that the soldier's assessment of

BOP

WELL WELL!

nomeen psychologist, make a text book of it, and to read the lengths

their curlarity

"Ho - therefore mado it him busincas to keep the Eighth Army well in the public eye, y

By Robert

Byer

ون

They have always tried to get

out of the way. It is of the Jossel utmost importance. We should

nover forget that.

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The group in the tower natur ally weren't just going to stand and gape and hope the clouds

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Before, no dica of that size had been, noted though some may have been as big, but too high to be gouged. But what one before had shown was this great flare of angry incande scence from the stern...

(London ** Express Service--World- Copioright).

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