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A FELLA

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FIVE AGAINST

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IN AERIAL COMBAT

A BATTERED Royal Air Force reconnaissance 'plane, landing with its retractable undercarriage jammed, cart- wheeled on to one wing and caught fire. Its crew jumped or were dragged clear-and the most glorious air exploit of the war over the Western Front was ended.

The 'plane was the sole survivor of five that took off from behind the Allied lines.

Soon the five were up against fifteen. The fifteen were Messerschmitt fighters, faste st 'planes in the German air

forec.

The story was recently released by the Ministry of Information.

Orders had been given for a patrol to reconnoitre a position behind the German line in the most strongly defended part of the Saar.

Anti-aircraft batteries put up n❘ with his handkerchief the pilot was fierce barrage but the R.A.F. machines went through it success- fully.

When well over the frontier at height of over 20,000 ft. the squadron lender sighted the enemy. Out from 'behind a banit of clouds came ninej Messerschmitt Aghters.

They appronched

able to save enough gas to get home. The landing had to be faced with the retractable under-carriage Jam- med halfway and the offside tyre shot away.

it

As the machine touched down spun in n circle, cartwheeled over on from directly one wing and caught fire.. The navi- ahend, lying 2,000tt, higher. Away gator was flung out on his head with on the right another six dived to nt-his clothes on fire. tack,

• The reconnaissance was the work to be done. Nothing must stop it The British formation Blew on.

The gunner

was jammed inside, but without a thought for his own safety the navigator hauled him out and smothered his blazing coat with bare hands.

Breaking formation, the Germans

The squadron leader had been concentrated mass fire on each British machine in turn. Their method was flung clear and was picked up fazed to wheel, dive and come up under but not seriously hurt. the tail of our aircraft. Aghting lasted for 35 minutes.

of our machines were

Intense

Before he and the air-gunner were Three taken to hospital the navigator shot down; summed up the fight and the feelings

another made a forced landing, but of the crew, "Old Hitler's given me out of the twelve men forming the a bit of a headache, but that's nothing crews eight were seen to escape by to what-we'll give him." parachute.

Flow On Alono

Was

banking

The squadron leader alone left. He flew on to finish his job. Dodging, sideslipping, and to get away from the concentrated enemy fire, he held the course set for In the tall of the reconnaissance. the aircraft the gunner kept up

a

Official despatches from French headquarters described the air battles as the fiercest since the wor began.

The French say that the losses by both sides are about equal, adding that several French 'planes have not reported back.

The squadron leader is an Irish- man, the navigator an Englishman, sieady fire. A stream of bullets hit and the wireless operator-air gunner the engine of the leading Messer- a Scot. schmitt.

The enemy machines swerved, and and flames

I u second burst into plunged to earth.

The gunner kept up his fire. One burst hit the second fighter. With black smoke pouring from the nose it went down.in a spin; 250 rounds of ammunition had accounted for two enemy aircraft.

Shaken by the gunner's steady_and accurate fire, the 13 remaining Ger- mans gave up the night.

The navigator, the third member

of the crew, kept his pilut

on the

homeward course, though his Instru

was wounded in the forehead.

80 Bullet Holos

Frenchman Heads Allied Committee

Economic Co-operation

French

CAPTAIN THANKS RESCUERS

HERE you Ece the captain of

the steamer Kensington Court thanking the pilots of the R.A.F. flying-boats which res- rued him and his crew of 33 in the Atlantle,

The skipper, Captain J. Scho- fleld, of South Shields, said thai he sent out an SOS as soon as

spotted the submarine.

"Alter we had got into the port beat the slip Was torpedoed," he continued. "When we saw the aircraft we all began tu cheer. As we were flown to the coast we were givên tòs and cigarettes."

The officer commanding the first flying-boat to arrive is 23 years old. His home is at Wim- bledon, London. "After search- ing round for the submarine we alighted," he saith "and having Inflated our collapsible boat we were able to take 20 men aboard without difeulty." The officer commanding the second flying-boat, whose

home

Australia To Spend £50,000,000. On War AMAZING EFFORT BY DOMINIONS

LONDON, Nov. 27 (Reuter). The determination of Australia and Canada to give maximum co-operation to the British war effort was emphasised by the Australian Air Minister and the Canadian Finance Minister, broad- casting from Ottawa on Friday.

The Australian expenditure in the first year of the war will be £50,000,000, nearly four times the expenditure in the first year! of the last war.

Almost double the number of men tare training.

arc

Belgium Army Leave Stopped

More Rumours Of is at Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, salı,

20,000 Air Pilots "We were in the air about 20

Nazi Movements first milles from the

Twenty-thousand air plints aircraft.

BRUSSELS, Nov. 27 (Reu- and made for the scene

being completely trained in Australia, un-

In addition to the thousands of Auster)-On Sunday night Belgian aware that other aircraft were on their way. While we wers

tration air fighters to be trained in authorities again commandeered remaining picking up the men a third flying-boat ap- peared, but we signalled fimt all was clear."

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New Trawler Fleet

British Answer To Magnetic Mines

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Canada.

Canadian expenditure in the first motor buses and army leave was year of the war is estimated at cancelled.

£63,000,000.

The Ministry of National Defence Orders niready placed since he says that the authorities were com- beginning of the war include £5,000,-mandeering buses only for a day. 000 in supplies and defence projects There

no confirmation of the in Canada, £1,000,000 supplies from Parls report that German troops inve Britain and £2,000,000 worth of been, moving about in the Alx-La- aeroplanes from the United States. Chappelle (Aachen) region close to

the Belgian frontier,

£6,000,000 A Day

Some £0,000,000 per day is now being spent on the war.

Though greater than the daily ex- penditure in the later years of the Jast

represents war, this un

in- of national materially fraction come,

may not exceed 40 per cent,

RED CHILD'S GUIDE

1

were

(Continued from Pare 4.)

Baltic ones. The

countries LONDON, Nov.

(Reuter).-

Mr. Colin Clary, the Government's just as bad. Would you believe that well-they held up our talks with England PARIS, Nov. 27 (Reutar), Between November 10 and 25, eleven Paris officials. have stressed British shipa totalling 25,707 tons, statician of Queensland,

two French ships totalling 3,000 tons known authority on national Income, by refusing to accept Russian guar- ments were smushed and he himself that M. Jean Monnet, former and four neutral ships totalling 23,940 estimnics that Great Britain devoted |antees of their Independencet

Goodness, why ever not? 60 per cent. of the currently pro- Inter-Allied commission repre- tons were sunk by German action. sentativo who has been ap- Germany's laying of magnetic duced national income to war pur- By this time the plane was in a pointed President of the Anglo-mines has brought an appeal from the poses in 1918, whereas to-day she all so sordid. They pretended wa

Admiralty for 200 trawlers. There were 80 bullet sorry state.

Committee to CO- A far greater number of trawlers, Not Yot Maximum Effort holes in the fabric; the alterons and

raw materials and complete with crew, bave already

He also estimates that the present rudder were damaged; both petrol ordinate Lanka were burst and flooding the munitions purchases abroad, is volunteered and will be formed as a production of British Industry is about inside of the fuselage with petrol and now an Allied, not a French special part of the R.N.V.R., becom-half as much again as in 1918.

Ing known as the Trawler Reserve. Thus it is clear that 20,000,000 á Jumes.

official.

Iday does not represent the maximum Swedish Protest To Raich

effort of which this country is STOCKHOLM, Nov. 27 (Ncuter).reonomically capable, whereas Ger- The Government has protested to many has "already martialled prac. Germany against the latter's action intically her full economic reserves and Allied laying mines inside Sweden's four-cannot make a great effort."

smile zone.

His appointment is the first of its

As the machine crossed the frontier From the alar- the engine failed. board tank petrol poured through a kind.

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Stinging Reply To Nazis

It is pointed out that the scheme of economle co-operation ulrendy being practically imple- menied, which is declared to be stinging reply to the German pro- paganda alleging that Allied' co- operation is only window-dressing.

The appointment of a Frenchman is warmly welcomed as further proof of the unreserved confidence existing between the Allies,

London.

The right to claim Indemnity for PILOT'S DARING

losses is reserved.

FRONT LINE LETTER

(Continued from Page 4.)

ever written In a war-time

ESCAPADE

Flies Low Over Nazi Fortifications

It is described as typically British

LONDON, Nov. 27 (Reuter)~-Con- falr-play to adopt a French chairman was because the Committee function int letter was the repeated and don't erning the RA.F. raids on Wilhelm- worry about me; I've got a cushy shaven and Hellgoland a few days Job miles behind the line" by men, the Air Ministry states that one who knew nothing cushier than in pilot few so low that he was able to and out of the front line. But it take the Nazis by surprise and get his cineras going before the Nazis And another noble fragment: "opened are. wonder if to-day is as tho a day.

taken. with you as with us. Sunshine, a

R.A.F. FORM NEW kept the missus from worrying."

SQUADRON

Many valuable photographs werd The weather was bad. Ice formed few clouds, a perfect day for golf, on the wings and there were low LONDON, Nov. 27 (Reuter)The new fighter squadron of the RAF Captain was propped up to write dying clouds and electrical disturb- to which the Nizam of Hyderabad that letter to the girl he had hopedances, making the return fight a contributed £100,000, is now being to marry, lie was dying, and know formed.

it.

Its pilots will be drawn from Brl-

tain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand

Land South Atilça,

W. T. K.

dimcult plecs of navigation.

I hardly like to tell you, Ivan; it's;

would take advantage of them by using their ports for the glorious Red Navy, and that we might even send in troops.

I say Is that why we're going to the Baltic for a holiday?

Yes, dear. I'm glad to any they've token it all back now. What are you staring pt?

Papa Stalin's neto yachting cap. It fits him remarkably well.

Funny you should say that, Ivan. (Whispers.) It used to belong to the Czart

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