1939-12-14 — Page 9

Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

NANCY

HELLO, NANCY--- IS YOUR AUNT FRITZI HOME?

NO, MRS. BROWSER--

SHE'S OUT!

OH, WOULD YOU COME OVER AND RUN SOME ERRANDS FOR

ME, NANCY?

VALNIKE MERI SEMBO METD

December 14, 1939.

By Ernie Bushmiller

I'M SORRY, BUT I'M NOT HOME.

EITHER, MRS.

BROWSER !

⚫ Short-sighted Old Lady:

"Have you ever tried giving your baby Di Water

NOV. 11

SWASTIK AND SIEGFRIED

"It is goot, it is goot, again we sink the Ark Royal, the Hood, the Repulse and the Rodney."

"Ach, Siegfried, the swinedog British must have three of cach."

XMAS

If You Know Someone Somewhere In France-

YOU'LL SOON BE ABLE TO SEND TELEGRAMS

NAZI TO R.A.F.: 'I SALUTE YOU'

By NOEL MONKS

Daily Mail Special Correspondent with the R.A.F.

Somewhere in France.

A GERMAN pilot sat down to dinner as an honoured guest in the officers' mess of an R.A.F. squadron last night. He had been shot down by one of our Hurricane fighters, but because of the courage he had shown dur-

By 0, D. GALLAGHER Dally Express War Heporter With the B.E.F. in France.

HERE is the most plea- sant piece of news I've dug up in the seven days I have been with the Army-there are going to be telegrams for the Tommies.

As they say in the B.E.F., "the service is about to be laid on." The colonel who is the Assistant Director of Postal Serviens (the big shot of the Post Office out here), has just come back from a conference at the G.P.O. in London.

There they talked about telegrams, and inspected the plans which are front-line soldiers going to bring

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for

ing the action ite was invited to chair till his knuckles showed white dine with the men he had fought. he said:

"Please forgive me. Your kind- He shook hands with all hlsness has overwhelmed me. For most hosts. They toasted him, and of my 31 years I have been taught he toasted them. Then in the to dislike the English.

"For these last five years I have Said the colonel to me recently. middle of the meal he buried his

flat rate been

to hate them. Only "We made

arc fixing a face in his arms and sobbed yesterday when I took off on this them. I'm afraid it can't be as cheap inst flight of mine I was told that as the ninepenny inland telegrams aloud.

If the English eaptured me I should back home, but it won't cost much more. At home they are all keyed be starved and tortured."

"Instead you have broken me with up for the new service."

kindness. For the rest of my your Bfe will be glad I met you. Gentlemen, I salute you."

The pilot who had shot him down led him from the dining room into the lounge. In An embarrassed silence the

continued with their meal,

other's

"Your Kindness'

Ten minutes inter the captured air- the man returned to his place at table and, gripping the back of his

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As one man the R.A.F. pilots leapt to their feet and acknowledged the The Nazi had given the Ger- salute,

the out-! man military salute, not stretched arm of the Nazi Party.

And this is why our fighter squadron asked the Nazl pilot to dinc.

Crow's Parachute Leap

Our Hurricane had been pouring bullets into the Nazi Dornier when smoke started to pour from it. Two members of the crew leapt from it and fell earthwards by parachute.| The Dormer was wobbling badly.

So is the colonel, a tall man full of He wears rimless nervous energy. glasses, and I should say he is about as efficient as can be.

Enthusiastic

And enthusiastle about his job. Bit of a psychologist, too-"If the troops feel that they are not in close touch with their homes, they are apt to think everything has gone wrong, They need news from home quickly," Telegrams will take from one to two

day. days probably one Fairly soon, you will see official announcements about this Tommy- Telegram Service, but I can give you a detail or two now,

The Hurricane pilot swooped low They will have to be addressed in over the enemy and peered into the the same way as ordinary letters, to cockpit. He saw the pilot slumped men in the B.E.F. Yes, I knew-the over the controls and concluded he address may be a long one and cost was dead. But he wasn't, though his money, The Post Office thought of machine was almost out of control. that too, and maybe the address will

Then the Nazi pilot did an amaz go free. ingly herole thing. He got up from the controls and climbed into the gunner's cockpit in the nose of the machine.

They will be handed in at post Britain. and offices anywhere in will be telegraphed immediately to Army PO. headquarters in France. the From there they will go to

In a a second he had trained the gun on the R.A.F. Hurricane ahead, and while the Dornier flew along on its front, or wherever it is, by normal own he let loose a stream of bullets delivery. at the Hurricane, which, however, was soon monoeuvred out of range.

The Nazi pilot was still at the gun when the machine crashed. He was unhurt.

To-day he is a prisoner of War with a new outlook on life and the English.

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Hemely enter

family nudiences, es to all types of

iaken from the famous

All this wax planned in the first place for hundreds of Tommies who Many are ace prospective fathers. worried, and want prompt news about the new arrival to whom they will one day show their medals,

News From Mary So-twenty-four-year-old Mary, al Noel-street, Nottingham, you'll be able to telegraph him the news. It will be working in plenty of time. for you.

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In case you don't know Mary.... characters aro Her boy-husband sat behind me at

daily comic

strip Penny Singleton Lakes the 36 Gracle Fields' concert, and cried a rale with Arthur Leke as her irrepres- bit when. Gracie sang the song about. the little boy who wanted his daddy lbie young husband.

"Broadway Musketeers" (Sinjeutte) :| back for Christmas.

A divorce melodrama which overcomes: boredom by violenco. Strip-tease dan-i cer reforms and rich man's wife doserin home and child for a rotter. With John Litel, Janet Chapman, Margaret Lind- way, Ann Sheridan and Marie Wilson.

When To-marrow Comes" (Queen's); Return creoning of a particularly ap pealing and entertaining film. Excel lent performances by Charles Boyer,, Irene Dunan and Barbara O'Neil.

BRITISH WAR FUNDS Committee Asks to See All Advertisements

The Entertainment Committee. of the British War Organisation Fund, under the Chairmanship of Mrs. Hobbs, C/o Royal Naval Hospital, Wanchal, is organising various events for the purpose of collecting money In aid of the fund.

Advertisements, posters or tickets to the effect that proceeds of certain. entertainments, bazaars, etc., will be donated, partly or fully, to the fund should kindly be subruitted in the first instance to the office of the Hon. Secretary, Government House.

The Committee for the Fund is deeply appreciative of all such kind and généraus - efforts and sincerely trust that entertainment, organisa tions will conform to these require- ∙ments.

This is going to be a two-way service. To and from the B.EF. And, as the official announcement' will tell you later, it is for urgent messages only.

No decision has been made yet about giving men a day or two leave to go home to deal with domestic crises like bables and things. Tommy's French comrades get a day's feave for such happenings.

The Allles add an hour to the war

midnight

when the to-morrow French go into wintertime with us Good old Entente Cordiale.

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