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H.K. WOMAN TELLS STORY OF ATTACK BY RUTHLESS FLIER

The terrible experience of being bombed and machine-gunned in an unarmed merchant vessel by an expert aviator and marksman, is related by Mrs. Peggy O'Neill, wife of Hongkong's Reuter representative, in a letter to her husband from Casa Blanca.

Mrs. O'Neill is at present staying with her mother at Liverpool. She left Hongkong on June 27 in the Tirranna which was attacked by a seaplane off Casa Blanca on July 25. One man was killed and several wounded. Tirranna is a Norwegian ship,

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Lovely To Look At (From "Roberto'); | When I Grow Too Old To Dream (From "The Night Is Young')...... Irene Dunne (Soprano) with Orch.; There's No One With Endurance (Crumit, Curtis); Whon, Josephine (Crumit, Burt).......Frank Crumit; Nimble Fingered Gentleman (Billy Mayerl); Mistictoc (Billy Mayerl) Billy Mayerl (Plano Sulo);

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Mrs. O'Neill writes: "I was asleep ↑ ulong the deek when the plane came when it began. I believe a hombing back at full speed. The poor boy plane flew over us about 8 a.m. but made a dash across the deck but I was awakened just before 7 m. couldn't quite make it. by what 1 thought Was someone banging on the won deel outside my cabin with pick-axe. 1 put my hend out of the porthole and saw a hange bumbing seaplane zoom; past, Running the side of the ship. It was a bit of it shock as I was only just awake!

The Chief meer nurst into my cabin, hustled me into the alley- way and told me to stay there until further instructions. I was a good mb I did as he told me; two shots went eight through my cabin and i

"The radio operator, who all the now have one of the bullets which passengers also know, had very

alged in the wall just over my head.

harrow exenpo. HIR cabli WAR "There was only one plane

but f

Fabsolutely rudled with bullets, though we stopped the ship and he himself wasn't even seentched signalled to ask him what he wanted, i chreling he just kept

round round dropping Inventory und muctiine-ginning "đa, When inv storied dropping the bomba the caplan give orders to get the lif truts ready in ease af fire, but as soon as the crew appeared to get things ready, the bomber rame buck and he machine-gummed the lifebout

us the men dashed for cover,

"WON'T GET ME"

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"CAUGHT IN TRAP"

"So far as we could judge, the plane flew around us 13 or 14 times machine-gunning us from stem stern, and every time we sent out a man to signal him to see what he wanted, he Just machine-gunned him. It seemed to be pure wasion destruction_because if he had wont-

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aplinters and shrapnel

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9.30 London Reiny-The News. 9.30 Military Band Music. Washington Post (Sousa)....The Band Of H.M. Welsh Guards under

Direction

uf Major Andrew

Larris with Male chorus: Review Of The Troops; Intro: Selpio; King Cotton: Cinlopede Cock of the it ww were carrying ams North God Save the King; May

and Blossom

was nothing to prevent Jalan Bilan luxfing

the witer on

Boyol

London

Artillery Slow

Weish

coming on board to make enquiries March; British Grenadiers: Highland as we stopped the ship after the frataddle; St. Patrick's Day, Men of altack.

The plane went away smarleet: Money Musk: Wait for the Wagon..

H.M. after 8 o'clock, then we signalled for

POROD.... Band for Gaurds. fly help. A French destroyer picked us AVTOJAS

10.0

Relay The up about 11 an. and were we

Royal We glad

National Eisteddfod "O terribly sad thing happened.

to see her! We had had to

Of Wales, stay Cardiff, 1938. A very pesputar lad. the senior up- below linum. Deenuse we duin't prentice, whom we had

Welcome to Overseas Visitors. christened i know when we would be attacked on account of his good again. The French escorted us unti

A Corgeous

commentary on the scene us books, was killed. Poor bay! They

visitors from overseas are welcomed. hen a British 5. when

destroyer, from gut him through the lungs with five Gibralter is picking

on the Elsteddfod platform from the UN un and bullets and he died in half-un-hour. escorting us out of the danger zone.

Eisteddfod Pavilion, Sophia Gardens, He had just put out an incendiary There was no very serious damage

Card JT, bomb with the hose and had come done to the ship, but it was a terrible Across To Ou alleyway for mover. experience and ono

felt so

Gipsy Laughing Chorus (J. Bell) He was showing us the bont when helpless, I admit quite frankly

....Rhondda Welsh Glee Singers; Ar the captain, who was on the bridge, I was terrifled, and I think the other Hyd Y Nos (All Through The Night Lusked for someone to forward passengers were too, but in spite of Home (Songs of the Welsh Moun- Old Welsh Air); My Little Welsh Cand put up another flag. He went that caught Uke a rat in

feeling, everyone kept very cool and (Contralto) with Piano; Welsh Mo

trap

talns"-Williams). Leila Megane there was

no panie. Tho was on the bridge all the time giving and

captain

mories-Vocal Medley (Arr. Evans orders and he had lot of shrapne!

Intro:

Bells in his legs, but otherwise was not

The Blackbird; The hurt-which is rather a miracle Ashgrove, Men of Harlech; All seeing what a mess the bidges was. Wheat; David of The

through the Night;

Watching the thing

White

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to do it and os he was going I said, For God's sake be careful and mind you don't get hit,

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"The plane had passed over and

was quite a distance away. He put the flag up and was coming back

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The letter continues the following morning to relate that the French destroyer left and the British des- troyer signalled that she could not undertake the convoy without orders by from Gibralter,

<liscovered

of Lond wero using dum-dum of

of

my Quintette) with

Maestros (Vocal Blacksmith's Song-Gwilym Hiral- Orchestra: Cywydd Y Got (The thog); Breader Bywyd (The Frailty William Edwards with Harp occomp.

Life-Bardd Nantglyn

Telynores Gwyngyll Mentra "Most of us sat up until about 21 Ti Cumri (Adieu To Dear Cambria Gwen (Old Welsh Song); Yu fach when we

were due to pass Old Weish Gibraltar as, honestly, I for one, was in a blue funk.....The cap- tain who really had the worst time looks at least 10 years older."

Williams (Tenor) will Orchestra.

Song). Evan

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Legend (Schulenburg, arr. Ettinger) believed to be a temporary employee Jalousie Tango (Gade); Serenade The woman doctor referred to is ...The Richard Crean Orchestra; of the Hongkong. Government who from "Frasquita" (Lehar).....Emil accepted the post of ship's doctor as Roosz and His Orchestra. she was returning home

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