1940-11-01 — Page 11

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Mediterranean Adventure: Civil Pilot's Feat

THE STORY OF A REMARKABLE FLIGHT FROM MÅLTA TO GREAT BRITAIN on the day that Italy entered the war by a pilot of the British Overseas Airways Corporation can now be told.

Captain J. € Kelly Rogers. the 35-year-old Irlahman who flew Caribou on the first regular crossing of the trans-Atlantle service in 1939 and brought the marooned Corsair back from the Belgian Couro in January, 1940, arrived in Malta with the fly. ing-boat Clyde on the afternoon of June 10.

neww

HELLE SINKING

DISCLOSURE

ATHENS, Oct. 31 (Reuter) - That an

Italian submarine was responsible for the unprovoked peacetime sinking of the Greek cruiser - Helle of the island of Tinos last August was revealed by the Greek Navy High Command yesterday.

Fragments of two torpédoes were picked up after the attack and

TRAWLERS SUNK

(Reuter)

LONDON, Oct. 31 The Admiralty announces

Wave Flower two trawlers,

cf

that and

Joseph Buxton, have been stink by enemy mines"

THAT EVENING THE ISLAND; ground staff to discover the fault, were found by experts to be

was breaking and the Italian manufacture. LEARNED OF MUSSOLINI'S DE-but dawn

The announcement was not CISION TO ENTER THE WAR need to get away before the a-

earller "for reasons of As passengers, Captain Rozers had lian Air Force made its expected made

which no longer exist." Air Vice-Marshal Sir H. R. M. first raid of the war was hecoin-po1ley,

adds the communique Brooke-Popham and 路 dozen ing more urgent every moment.

However, these were not the only: R.A.F. pilots who were

on their

A heavy well was way back to England. They all difficulties. declared their desire to continue breaking just outside the bay; if the flight home in spite of the the Clyde did not get off in

smooth water-and, with the ex-1 ceptional load and the faulty ADVENTUROUS JOURNEY - In the early hours of the follow engine, it was quite possible, that ing morning, therefore, the party she would not-she would almost made their way across the island inevitably be turned over and to the bay where the flying-boat broken up in the rough sea.

UNORTHODOX TAKE-OFF was lying. It was an adventurous

Every The pilot, therefore, decided on journey. In the half light. few hundred yards they were an unorthodox, take-off as the challenged by sentries. At one only solution. He taxied spot the army lorgy which was the placid bay, and through the acting as vanguard ran-straight-entrance at the swell was be-

to toss the boat. into a gigantin barbed wire en-ginning tanglement and was wrecked. he swung Clyde right round and advantage of the tide, Eventually, however, passengers taking and crew reached the bay with drove her, all out, back into the out mishap, and preparations were bay and towards the land. Would begun for the take-off. This was she come off? She did, within by no means an easy .matter two or three hundred feet of the since, as a precautionary measure, land, and rose triumphantly into considerably more petrol had to the bright morning sky,

Mindful of the Italian war be carried than was customary

ANOTHER COMPLICATION' planes, Captain Rogers brought to within 200 feet of Another complication was pre- her down

WEATHER

REPORT

overseas "waters

ENEMY CLAIM LONDON, Oct. 31 (Reuter) A German High Command com. munique claims that a warshly. is operating in and announces the sinking of three armed merchant ships with 18,400 tons and adda a total of Then that a U-boat-has-sunk a large armed merchant ship of 10.500 tons.

across

OLD CHINA HAND

DIES AT HOME Another ina with the old China Coast has been broken with the death of Captain RCD. Bradley. which occurred at nome on Octo- ber 28 at the ripe old age of 79. He joined Jardines. Indo-China

in-

"Tal Sang." His service in the Company cluded many ships whose names are now almost forgotten"Sin Taku". Mauzing." "Kowshing." "Pechil," "Yiksang" and "Fook. sang"

sented when Captain Rogers test- the water in order to take advand-SN.Cu. in 1883 when he was ap- ed the engines and found that tage, or the cover provided by pointed to the old

was in this one of the four was only giving low-lying mist. It just over half the correct power. way, virtually skimming the sut. Great efforts were made by the face of the water, that the first

part of the journey was made..

SHARP LOOK-OUT

at the Everybody on board, captain's request, was keeping a

A strict disciplinarian he Royal Observatory, Hongkong.

sharp lookout for signs of the 10 a.m.. October 31.

enemy. The channel between nevertheless well liked and ad·· Barometer (at sea level, 30.08 Ins.

Pantelleria, the heavily fortified mired by all who served with Temperature, 77 F.

Italian island south of Sicily, and him. He retired at the age of then has Humidity. 71 per cent.

Sicily itself was the main source 57 in 1918 and since of danger. Just as they were ap- resided in the South of England Temperature: "maximum" yesterday.proaching this, the first officer

Wind Direction, E.

Wind Force (Beaufort),"4.

WAS

cried: "Look there!" and imme- this time the lying-boat. was far 83 F

from the Italian Temperature; minimum last night,diately below them were two Ita- enough away

73 F.

Total rainfall since January

Han

on the

torpedo-boats. I wasn't bases to be out of the range of Rainfall for 24 hrs ending 10th afraid of them, but of their radio," any aircraft which might be sent sald Captain Rogers. "However, in pursuit. The rest of the journey today, nil

they seemed much more trighten-was uneventful. Indeed a landing ed of us and shot off at top was made at Biscarosse,

west coast of France, below. Bor- speed!"

A short time afterwards, the deaux. though if need be the Clyde Clyde spotted two enemy sub-could have reached her English marines on the surface... but by base with fuel to spare...

113.97 ins.

Against an average of, 82.21 ins. Sunset tonight. 5.47 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow. 6.27 a.m.

4 p.m., Oct. 31, Barometer (at, sea level), 29.90 ins. Temperature, T F Humidity, 71 per cent. Wind Direction, ESE. Wind Force (Beaufort). 4. Maximum temperature, & F. Minimum temperature, -73-F. Rainfall, nil.

HONG KONG TIDE TABLE From 1 to 7 Nov. 1940.

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