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'THÉ CHINA MAIL, WEDNÉSDAY, AUGUSTI 1954.

BADER ISU

MISSING!

Stunned disbelief at the airfield

It just could not be true

TT la 1941. The Battle of Britain is over. Douglas

I Bader, the legless fighter nee with a personal score

of more than 20 enemy aircraft confirmed destroyed, is now a national figure with a reputation for utter fear- fezaness and invincibility. As a Wing Commander, DSO and bar, DFC, he lends a wing of three Spitfire squadrons in fighter sweeps and escorted bomber rakis over occupied France. The wing is based at Tangmere, on the South Coast, where his friend, Group Captain Woodhall, is station commander and controller. Bader takes off on a last sweep before he is due to go on leave with his wife, Thelma.

T

HE job

alertly that day watching

behind and alone. Better was to go for Ger- finding he was

climb up fast again to join the man fighters where rest; dendly to be alone in this they found them, and they dongerous sity. He was suddenly found them as they crossed surprised to see six more Messer- schmitts shend, mores pointing

More sitters! the other way.

He knew he should pull up and leave

them; repeatedly he'd

the French const.

Dead ahead and about

2,000 ft. below, a dozen Mes- serschmitts were climbing drummed at into his pluts never the same way. None of them to try things on thi. can. But seemed to be looking behind. the They were altters.

Bader said tersely into hia musk: "Dogsbody at- tacking. Plenty for all. Tale 'em as they come. Ken, slice us," and up and Cover

templation! They

irresistible,

hooked

All

A glance behind again.

Greed swept discretion clear, aside and he sneaked up br- hand the middle pair. Nune of them noticed.

0 Thi

Dame

PART 12

REACH

FOR

THE

SKY

By PAUL BRICKHILL

First he was

he

the cringing sightless cyeballs.

It went on

fushe. ол and

on....

He was flooting, in peace. The noise and buffeting had stopped. He thought it is ɔ quiet I must have a rest. 1 would like to gu to sleep.

said:

er gripped the cockpit. rim to lever himself up, wandering if he could get out of the shatteret Buitre without thrust from the helpless legs No-some- thing was holding him.

R/T u/s."

Bader spoke for the first time h since the enemy had hit him. ting out of my aeroplane." "yes, it came off og I was get-

He pulled back on the stick but It fell inertly into his stomach. The atroplane was diving in steep spiral and confusedly looked behind to see if anything and he knew and pulled the in a flash the brain cleared was following.

as the surprised and D-ring, hearing a crack then terrifyingly shocked to see parachute opened. Then he was that the whole of the Spitfire actually floating. High above, behind the exkpit wie missing the sky was still blue and right one-legged man with a fighter "Ach. £0{" he said fuselago,

tall.

Ba-all gone at his frot lay a vell of cloud. pikol. Sheared off, he thought vaguely. He sank into it. That was the obviously. "It is an oid injury. The second 100 must have run cleud at 4,000 feet, Cutting It Now we must have your trousers

fine! into him and sliced it off with ly under it and saw the earth,

In seconds he dropped off and see your other leg."

From 100 yards he squicted at The trulling one plunged down at the leading side of fame leited out be- four, Dundas, Johnson and hind it. Abruptly West beside him and the flared like a huge match being stuck and the aeropion: fell on rest hounding behind,

ember one wing and dropped on fire ali The German &

The other Germany flew its propeller. placidly ahead and steeply

placidly am. They must have

The altimeter was unwinding the een blind. the dive we knew it was

fust from 24,000 feel. perfect "bance." Picking the

floundering mind sought a grip account from the left, he closed

and sharply spurted.

startlingly fast, the 100 seemed to slam slantwise at him and, trying to lift the nose les im he knew suddenly he had bolly misjudged. Too fas!! No time!

Over.

at The doctor looked stump again, trying to equate

vf

THIS puts L-I-F-Ê in

your years!

M

OST people past 60 fall into two weight classes- those who are overweight for their height be cause they are storing too much fat and those who are underweight because they are not eating enough. The people who are overweight are more prone to heart trouble, kidney disorders, diabetes, and gallstones. Those who are underweight have less resistance to infec tloús diseases and

look far older than they need.

Both defects can

usually be put right

by careful dieting

RS detailed in the

CHAPMAN PINCHER

concludes his Liva-Longer 'series

probably

the

fold

& moderate amount of fat and would be healthier if you

is desirablo, except in the lost some of it. If the fold diota of those who are grossly less than half an inch thick you with Domo extra overweight, This is best supplied could do

evidence suggests that milk is Fried foods

seems

manus (below right). These which makes people' look frail dlets, aimed at adding life and wrinkled by cousing

sag. Feeding experi to years as well as years to skin to life, are based on the latest ments on elderly people have shown that the aging body has findings of the old-age re the power to recover this fat if it is fed sufficiently and it then searchers which show:-

Plenty of nourishing protein looks years younger.

Here is a simple test to show fat and spun and battered him and and rimless glasses walked up landed somewhere else with his foods-meat, fish, and eggs

the later years whether you have enough are needed in the wind clawed at his flesh and and looked down at him.

to combat the natural wasting under the skin: Pinch the layer The doctor frowned at the But John Hunt, a shy, young

of the muscles and other tissues. of skin just over the lower ribe and on into con-

officer, thought

Protein trouser leg pulled the intelligence

seems to stimulate between finger and thumb. If also on, timeless, empty

the formation of "antibodies the thickmeas of this skin

than On and torn cloth nside and stored in Thelma had been told, and drove witless and helpless.

one inch you thren kooked at over to cheer her up.

the substances in the blood is more thi the steel and leather amazement,

She was in a deckchair in the watch counter gerin attack, Bader's face and at the wings

have an excess of fat when she said, and medal ribbons on his tunic, run and only

for tea?" Come "You have "Hallo, John. Puzzled, be

he realised lost your leg.""

that she did not know. Somehow, in an agony of

talked embarrassment he

in the form of milk. The latest weight. irrales irrelevant things, when a car drew up and Woodhall got out and walked straight up to them. almost as important for olderly the Without preamble he said: "I'm people as it is for babies.

Vitamins

Eating plenty of fried foods are needed maro afraid I've got some bad news 3 than ever in old age, The provided these have, not been

Doulas did

(also called forbidden by the doctors be for you, Thelma. not come back from the morn-Vitamin lacin acid)

to cause of gout-is one of quick- nicotinic Ing sortie."

Thelma stood dumbly.

strengthen weakening muscles, eat ways to put on extra weight Woodhall went on: "We makes joints more flexible, im in inter life,

the sense

Fats may damage the heart if of balance, should get some news soon. I proves

tho enten in excessivo quantities in shouldn't worry too much. He's and also helps to rellevo

but this danger sometimes middle age, mild Ind:structible,

depression probably a

seems to decline after 80. found in elderly people, prizoner."

By weighing yourself often Too numb to ask what had

and by carrying out the "pinch B This

thought.

Old-ago pensioners oro the test" described above you will happened, she stood very pale going to

people most likely to be under- be able to find out when you be good. The docter and said: "Thank you. Woody." Thelma had believed he was

not have struck the right food unbuttoned the invincible and now the whole wight because they are

to eat. It is intake for your needs. getting enough trousers and cased illusion had burst. She would

difficult

a for them to afford

Doolors recommend that oldi them down over

diet containing people should drink at least a the hips. He froze, not cry. As always with strong high-protein

of quart fuld each day it ones. Otherwise he would have staring transfixed at the leather notions, she covered them up. much meat or fish.

Later Dundas came with

Doctors adviso that they addition to at least one pint of flowers in cnc hand and a E tore his hel HE

Lucky, too, not to be landing and metal that enensed the

bottle of sherry in the other. should spend as much as they milk.

on milk-which supplies There is no evidence that met and mask on the rigid metal leg like a post atump of the left leg.

He had been out twice alone can

the alcohol in moderation harms old off and yanked the that would have split his loins, was a silence.

At last he noisily sucked in a

that afternoon over the Channel proteins and fats. Bread,

old-nge pensioners mainstay, rubber ball But only half a leg was left to little

Ho

people, but those who need to "Ach!" breath, and said

as far as France looking for over his head-the land on he did not thinks of

locked once more at Bater, back Bader'sdlow rubber dinghyeentially a fattening food, but get their weight down must hood ripped away that.

source restrict their drinks during the had ordered him it is also an important were at the two stumps and again at till Woodhall Grass and cornfields screaming

rald in a voice of but something was holding his noise battered at him. Out came lifting gently to meet him, stooks Bader, and

fences. Two sober discovery: "We have heard brought in some soup with tears Derpine by the fall, pulling it the harness pin and he gripped of

rolling down his face. out of his bunds and slewing it the cockpit rim to lever himself peasants in blue smocks leaned about you."

Bader grunted vaguely. round. It lurched suddenly and up, wondering if he could get against a gate looking up and ho

"Are you all right?" asked the then was pointing straight down.

but without thrust from the felt absurdly self-conscious. He the cockpit floating with dust. helpless legs. Не struggled thought-I must look comic with doctor.

he said tiredly. madly to get his head above the

one log

"Fine," windscreen and suddenly felt The earth that was so remote "Whereabouts are we?"

The suddenly

fiercely. He "Thla

is a hospital" said the he was being sucked out as the

with Nddled

"Et Omer." the shrouds and, doctor. tearing wind caught him.

He was out!

fumbling, hit, Top half out.

feeling Back at Tangmere there was when he did They watched the his not return. knee hit his a

until they

He almed at the leader 150 yards in front and gave him three-second burst. Bits flew off it and then it gushed volumes

smoke

its of white dropped.

The two fighters on the left were turning towards him, and,

Oh the temptation! crazily elated as though he had

Just pulled off a smash and grab

LI

rald, he wheeled violently right

11 E Spitfire to break off, seeing the two on Bashed past into that side still flying ahead and the depths

bbw, that he

pass between seeing nothing of them. in sheer bravado he held

coune to do so.

the carnage nong the enemy

As the

other Spitres fired and pulled back up.

Angrily he fattened again about 24,000ft, travelling fast,

Bader's mio cni-sign.

A good car

DUCO

would

S.melbing hit him. No noise

deserves the best finish

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refinished in

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green and dappled, where the The sun struck through. Something flopped in his face and he saw a gush of panic it was his right trouser leg, split High in the along the seam.

cleamed split

indecently the white skin of his stump.

Get out! Get out! Won't be able to soon! Must be doing over 400 rlready.

The right leg had gone. How lucky, he thought, to lose

'This will be good' one's legs and have detachable

op

und

died a few seconds ago.

сота Ind

TOSC

They waited

DADER

No, something had him by the nothing raquely some ribs stunned disbelief

holding him.

(The rigid buckle

Д

There

feat of the right tog hooked fast chest as consciousness mapped, sky and the clock in some vice in the cockpit.) He smelt the familiar hou how he could have no petrol

into

left. bare, Then the nightmare took his ex- smell

Pike said to Woodhall: "You'd posed body and beat him and room, and then they were lay-

his wife." and

"NO. fercamed and roared in his ears ing him on a padded casualty better

the broken fighter, dragging table. Old memories stirred. A Woodhall stalled, saying:

In a white cost give him time. He may have him by the leg. plunged down thinnish men

Nathaniel

the

snores

العد

Plenty of milk

13

of

back. Sickot, Douglas's batman, of protein, especially for those reducing period to one tot

who want to put on weight. spirits or one pint of beer a

Later, in bed when they left her, the tears came and she lay awake all night.

In the morning the reporters

(Most of the nation's protein is day.

"Dieting is a nuisance, but it derived from flour.)

It is the loss of the protective seems to be the surest way of layer of fat under the skin reaching a nimble ninety.

OVER 60 OVERT

+

care. WORLD COPYRIGHT RESTIVED "Reach for the Sku," by Paul Brickhill, is published by Collins, BREAKFAST Half cup brange juice, half grapefruit, OR one orange. One cog bolted, pouched or scrambled, OR one fried egg, OR one rash er bacon, OR one rasher bacon. with tomatoes (not fried); OR one sausage, OR small portion

Saturday:

A tea party with the Germans

Gubbins

do Question: Why

A.;

some

dear, a fast bowler

Q: Then why docan't he do

fried liver, OR kidney.

Two thin slices bread or to ast lightly spread with butter,

NO marmalade.

Cup of milk.

Tea OR coffee with milk. NO sugar,

LUNCH Clear soup, pen sony salad. On good helping cheese

OR half grapefruit and matadi.

OR alice melon. One roll Of Half cup potatoes plus half two thin slices bread thinly spread with butter,

OFFERTE QUO

cup broad beans, OR peas, OR carrots.

Salad and green vegetables

ad lib.

One cup of milk,

Fresh fruit að lb, OR hit

cup itéwed 'Fruit,

что но

er banana, OR cheese plus celery.

Take a cup of milk OR tea with milk.But NO sugar and NO

pastries, toast or biscuits,

TEA

Fish (bolled, steamed or baked but occasionally fried), OR⋅ roast

past lean meat, OR liver On belloed best, in caserole, S one who has always was otherwise quiet on the home

OR boiled ham (with visible fat removed), OR tripe, OR two thought that snoring front. They will remember when bowlers take a long run up to something about it?

short A: He would if he could be a the wickat and others Bounded 1300 is caused by a stop- primeval monster gargling with run?

certain what was going to hap-egg omelette, OR

and one boiled onion, OR Answer: Generally it is in- dragon's blood, when Tottering

speaking, pen, deur. page in the nose

Q: You said jum now that a teresting to learn that an Towers shock and shuddered as dear, fast bowlers take a long

take a trap had

and the been laid run and slow bowlers the dreadful noise reached a expert, Dr A. H. Douthwaite,

batsman knows about it. Why doesn't he know that's going to thinks it may

be a throw crescendo and tiles came clat. short run. tering down from the roof.

happen? will also remember the back to the cave man whose They

A: Because the bowler might terrible shores frightened enores of Gubbins competing has to

ret the leg trap and then do marauders and wild animala with the wild winter winds that achieve speed in his delivery.

blow

round the Sea Nest, thun-

Q: Why doesn't the slote something entirely different like EVENING MEAL Clear soup, Half cup baked or mashed

OB per bowling a googiló or a China-

potatoes plus half cup broad away from the pre-historie dering above the thunder of the bowler need momentum?

needs a little momen- man.

soup, OR half cup tomato juice, beans, OR peas with greeng Ho sea, shrieking louder than the

dear, but not quite so Q. Whatever are you talking | OR shellfish cocktail,, OK half ad lib."- shrieking devils of the gale and tum,"

not relying about?

alice melon. One roll or one thin

'cup' stowed fruit, OR-sheese more viciously than the much because he

A: I'll tell you some other slice of bread lightly battered. Fresh fruit ad tib, on har waves receding from on speed to beat the bat.

Q. What is he relying on?.

time, dear.

Good portionroset· lean and celery, OR welsh rarebit, ---

· A. Flight and spin, dear.

Coffee or ten with milk.

No Q. You talk about crickes to be ashamed of?

grilled), 'OR'' chicken, OR fish Stenting when visitors were having tea what do you mean by fictile

of member the

alls as if they were birds,

(boiled or steamed bus occasion. AT BEDTIME-One cup milk, ally fried).

OR a. milk drink. ·· cliff, to a gorilla chok- in the dining-room and Gubbins A. Well, dear, it is

nost.

the

quiet afternoon

waves and to the roar of was asleep, and at full blast,

Q: Why? Is there anything meat, OR steak (stewed of EBERTSO

me what a Chinaman is

A. Of course not, dear. Q: Then you can at least tell

A: I think it's a ball bowled

large, mad doggies just as an ATN Aurced the of the tween the balanan striking the can" sto "of the bowler'n' hand.

WETO

BREAKFAST One cup orange juice, half grapefruit, OR one orange, of one banana, Fair helping cereals, Two eggs, boiled or poached, OR one, egg, and · tuo" rashers bazon. OR fried liver, OR one or two kippers. Two slices of bread and bitter, or margarine. One cup of milk,

Tea, cofeo or cocoa,

This should end all criticism of TOY kmores, which hava stunned and depressed my family for more years than they care to remember, and which have But best of all they will re been compared the scund storm-tosred against ing to death

lon in the Jungle by people two cars above. Through the for a skilful slow bowler, helped who have never heard a gorilla amiable conversation and polite-by a cross wind or heavy atmo out of the back of the hand,

a ball so that dear,

Q: Are you trying to be cheking to death or a lion roar laughter the guests would rud sphere, to fight Ing in the jungle,

denly hear a noise flee the distint It turns about an inch off its They should know now that boom of Niagara Falls followed straight course to the batsman. funny?

Q: What difference 'does an A: No, dear. It appears to be I have been protecting them all by squeaks and

gurgica

remind inch make?

bowled out of the back of the water A: The difference, dear, be hand because all the batarzan ...

time from burglars and ing them of

a pipe, family would talk embarrassed carlier, ape-faced Gubbins pro louder to drown the noise, and ball with the middle of the bet when the bowler bowls is the tected his dependants from bad,

Instead of the edge.

back of the bowler's hand stone-age types and even larger, the visitors would answer in that does maker of he Q.Have you been drinking

unill they madder doggies who were then louder voices,

strikes it with the middle or the apain? wolves, and not think there must be some edge of the bat so

all arouting at each other,

the bat so long as he known

A. A littlo, dear, Alsatians.

oriices

Q. Do you think cricket 14 a But since familles are notori- thing wrong with your plumb-

would you A Wall, dear, if he strikes it straight game? the visitors onging," with long through the din,

with ously ungrateful,

the qutside edge of the hatt At Your voice is very poner geyes, it's our filthy' drains be le likely to be caught in the fra Because i think・・ HD \, ilver), OR SHERIA? m?be stow

dear. memories for ene's faults and no

allpe. It hà strikes it with the s memories at all for one's virines, It probable that they will the family would yell back inside edge he is likely to be crooked. They act traps for sand, ORA

"Chocolate cream cake or caught in the leg trap.

'padding, OK subió tart, forget their burglar tree nigh cucumber sandwich?"

each other, like poachers. They of two sadden, On: tripe and The what?

bowl balls out of the back of antean, OK chickán) G Kiss freak craie, On-intas, Tr only remember that they

their chandra-What kind, of a The les trap, dear.

Clood helping of potatoes, OR Ctn, of milk, were kept awake by the moled

to

1 talking about bowler were you when you took spaghěšil pina broad beans, OR. choking Ri- remember {

depth.

110 wickets for five runs in one hey

the roar

Cricksters, daar.

Inningsr ∙ing of lion throughout the enganado

Q. Then why trap their legé upp i night won Tattering Towers, the PEING a further instalment

did anything of the Burzy Kart when we used to of the Unintelligunt. Wor

animalar

kind, dear, yo Tvw how it sometimes blended, man's Guide to Cricket, Stan

Cir, Then why have you been ideously, with the wall of air-are advised to cut this out mia" dekr

boasting about 16:30:20: Genesy BREAKDRAWAL AVK wickets-for-110 | sirens and the thump of give it to any woman annoying

and sometimes haunted them with dimerait-

TIME, A-Shall wenza Into heir smeky drewna whale during a match,.

Cricket Guide

A

A.FT'll explain about it later,

„Does the; balursan : fenota about this trap?

MID-MORNINGI Cup of milk, OR u milk drink,"

LUNCH, Broth, OK any kind › peas, OR carrots, · OR paranípa

Dë...” Boup -- (especially pins greens and antaa “lud lib. soup), Fisht " (especially, but not in sach quantifies thah herringe" or salien), OK, mani thar prevents the "rest" of fire (especially beef real, perk or meal being esian,

fell with milk, bus without