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DONALD DUCK

A FELLA

JUST. SOCKED DEWEY

IN THE EYE, UNCA

DONALD!

WAA--

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Battered R.A.F. Plane Only Survivor

FIVE AGAINST 15 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, fastest 'planes in the German air

force.

The story was recently released by the Ministry of Information.

Anti-aircraft

with his handkerchief the pilot was able to save enough gas to get home.

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

batterica put up a the R.A.F. flerce

but barrage machines went through it fully.

When well over the frontier at a the squadron height of over 20,000 leader sighted the enemy. Out from behind a bank of clouds came nine Messerschmitt Oghters.

success-

The landing had to be faced with the retractable under-carrloge Jum- med halfway and the offside tyre shot away.

As the machine touched down it spun in a circle, cartwheeled over.on They approached from directly one wing and caught fire. The navi- ahead, flying 2,000ft, higher. Away Rator was flung out on his head with on the right another stx dived to at-his clothes on fire.

tack,

The gunner was jamined Inside, The reconnaissance was the work but without a thought for his own to be done. Nothing must stop it.safety the navigator hauled him out and smothered his blazing coal with The British formation Bew on.

bare hands.

Breaking formation, the Germans

The squadron leader had been -concentrated must fire on each British machine in turn, Their method was flung clear and was picked up dazed to wheel, dive, and come up under but not seriously hurt.

Intense Before he and the air-gunner were the tall of our aircraft,

the navigator to hospital Three taken fighting lasted for 35 minutes.

shot down; summed up the fight and the feelings of our machines were another made a forced landing, but of the crew, "Old Iter's given me -out-of-the-welve 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 Alone

was

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

Ometal despatches from French headquarters described the air battles as the fiercest since ilie war began.

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

The squadron leader is an Irish- man, the navigator an Englishman,

steady are. A stream of bullets it and the wireless operator-nir gunner the engine of the leading Messer- Seot.

schmitt,

The enemy machines swerved, and

in a second

flumes

CAPTAIN

THANKS RESCUERS

HE

TERE you see the captain of the steamer Kensington Court thanking the plots of the R.A.F. flying-boats which res- cued him and his crew of 33 In the Atlantic.

The skipper, Captain J. Scho- field, of South Shields, sald that be sent out an SOS soon a

spolted the submarine. "After we bad got into the port boat the sup was torpedoed.“ he continued. "When we saw the aircraft we all began to chicer, As we were flown to ilo, coast we were given tea and cigareties,"

The officer commanding the first lying-bost to arrive is 23 yours old. His home is a! Wim- bledon, London. "After search- ing round for the submarine we alighted, he said, "and having infated our collapsible boat we were able to take 20 men aboard without difficulty."

The officer commanding the -second-flying-boat, whose-home.. is at Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, sald, "We were in the air about 20 miles from the first aircraft, and made for the scene aware that other aircraft were While we were on their way. picking up the remaining men a third flying-boat peared, but we signalled that all was clear."

In and turned into famer and 66 Pocket Battleships

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 enomy aircraft,

Shaken by the gunner's steady and accurate fire, the 13 remaining Ger- mans gave up the fight.

The navigator, the third member

of the crew, kept his pilot on the ments, were smashed and he himself

homeward course, though his instru-

was wounded in the forehead.

14

ap-

Are Kept on the Run

By A NAVAL CORRESPONDENT

Germany, faced by the steady failure of her U-boat campaign, is now forced to consider her lack of success in her endeavour to recoup herself by sending out a couple of surface raiders.

MASTERY HELD

BY FRENCH GUNS

ON WEST FRONT

From RICHARD CAPELL

WITH THE FRENCH ARMY. IN the French armies the war of 1914-1918 is simply referred to as "Pautre"-"the other one.”

Somehow or other it gets referred to in almost every con All who saw something versation. Its ghost will not be laid.

of the prodigious tragedy have had their memories of it'revived.

Deep in a misty autumn wood, shaken hands with in my series of I talked with an artillery com-visita to command posts and dug- mandant who had begun his war

ouis.

been

service in "the other" as an in-The-impression-made was that:

would have Kunners He those fantryman in the ranks.

pleased to show me every single place said: "There were times when af ordnance in the whole region. In I could not help despairing of some batteries every, emplacemen.

the outcome. The difference to had its particular history of Ingenuity day is that I cannot see anything expended or difficulty overcome.

but victory as possible.'

One simple geographical fact

fords every man in the French

Happy Warriors

The gunner's life has this charm-

armics, the great and the humble that his job. has for him endless in- In these artillery messes and alike, an intimate satisfaction. Iterest.

the visitor WRS posts command Is that Germany is here, close at

generously allowed to feel that his hand, and vulnerable. Again and again you hear it suld small talk about the outside world! that it actual German soll had suffer-was welcomed. But conversation al- ed but a fraction of what invaded ways came back to gunnery. ¡France went through in 1014-18.

there would be no war to-day.

Crushing Retort Ready

The happy warriors of the front ast It is ut present are the gunners whose batteries are active. Some are; but by no means ull.

that knows Now everyone

the

If one arm more than another in the French forces relishes the differ-gunner's chief, idea is to be blazing As things are, certain lucky ent situation it is the artillery. When y the guns speak it is a German village units are getting all the fun. The now that totters and crumbles. If duty of the rest is to submit with

the dictum, heard) the Germans should choose, one of a good grace, to these days, to batter a French town here and again, that there are cir- there is a crushing retort from this cumstances in which quiet waiting,

ten; is a means towards victory. The French artillery is in wonder-

On one round of visits I, was the These ships, the Deutschland British steamer Stonegate and the side in readiness, By this time 'pidno was in

there wo inlet and the Admiral Scheer, have Norwegian Lorenz wichs, merful fottle, and a long tour of the gun first and only British representative

one capture, the American steamer sorry state. holes in the fobrie; the allerona and accomplished extraordinarily lit- City of Funt, has now been released. positions supporting a section of the To speculatens to the measures Maginot Line was a singularly plen rudder were damaged; both petrol the destruction, although they tanks were burst and flooding the are in a sense freak vessels de-adopted by the Royal Navy to dis-ant experience.

pose of these two surface raiders is ense of the Emden, In the Indian!

80 Bullet Holos

to be seen by these French gunners.

The welcome received could only

be read as the expression of a feeling After a time I began to lose count towards Britain which was more than

inside of the fuselage with petrol and signed for commerce destructidie, but it is well known that in the lot the number of good fellows I find cordial; it was brotherly.

fùmes.

As the machine crossed the frontiertion. the engine failed.

From the star-

With the low displacement of 10,-Ocean in 1914, more than a dezenį board tank petrol poured through 900 tons, they combine exceptional cruisers were at one time hunting for

the aircraft; bullet hole each time

Ultimately that ship, like other nearly all merchant ships and an banked, but try stopping up the hole radius of action, a speed higher, than her.

armament superior to any cruiser in raiders, found her activities crippled by the gradual disappearance of the existence.

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It is true that their armour pro-supply ships on which she mainly tection is limited, so that they would relied for sustenance. stand no chance of survival in a fight) with h genuine battleship or battle- eruiser. But there are only five ships in the navles of the Allies--the Hood, Renown. Repulse, Dunkerque and Strasbourg-which could both over- спе of these and destroy tako "pocket battleships."

Captain Visits Admiralty

Was

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ones. The

Baltic countries were

just as bad. Would you believe that

they held up our talks with England by refusing to accept Russian guur antees of their independence!

Goodncas, why ever not?

I hardly like to tell you, Ivan; it's ever written in a war-thine etter was the repeated and don't all so sordid. They pretended we worry about inc! I've got a cushy would take advantage of them by It may be reckoned to the credit of job miles behind the line" by men using their ports for the glorious Red the Admiralty that, in spite of their who knew nothing cushier than in Navy, and that we might oven zend, having succeeded in reaching im and out of the front line. But in troops. rariant trade routes, neither the kept the missus from worrying." I say! Is that why we're going to

"Ithe Baltic for a holiday? Admirat Scheer nor the Deutschland And another noble fragment:

Yes, dear. I'm glad to say they'vo has so far been able to remain there wonder if to-day is as fine a day

with you as with us. Sunshine. taken it all back now. What are you long enough to find many victims.

The only known casually to be row clouds, a perfect day for golf. staring at? credited to the Admiral Scheer is the Booth liner Clement, whose master,

Captain-was propped up to write! Capt. F. C. P. Harris, visited the that letter to the girl he had hoped Admiralty to recount his experiences to marry. He was dying, and knew

A report was broadcast that the it Deutschland had been sighted in the

North Atlantic, but, this is not con- Armed In British naval circles,

Though she has sunk two ships, thei

W. T. K

Papa Stalin's new vachting cap. It Ats him remarkably well.

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

O'Connell Foley

Con)-

A aiandant, indeed sold, to, me in so uny wards: "We are brothers!"

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