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Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

February 12, 1940,

Distinguished Flying Cross Awarded To

Farmer And A Lawyer

Our Week-end Airmen Shot Down Hitler's Raiding Bombers

THREE R.A.F. men who shot, Leading a section of his squadron, leave during the week-end, but he down Hitler's bombers have been he engaged an enemy bomber, I did not breathe a word about it to

his wife said."

Patrick awarded the Distinguished Fly-attempted to escape in the clouds, bit me,"

́ ́ Fight - Lleutenant with great skill and initiative, he led ing Cross, the Air Ministry an-his patrol in pursuit and brought his Gifford, Auxiliary Air Force. nounced recently.

guns to bear from a distance of Aftu

Leading a section of his squadron, Two of them are "week-end" wards, causing the enemy aircraft to he sighted an enemy bomber over the airmen-men who joined the Auxi-crash into the sca.

He led mainland heading for the sea. Flight-Lieutenant Pinkerton is 30, the attack with skill, daring and de- Hary Air Force before the war and

Auxillary Air Force intermination, and as the result of a learned to Ay in their spare time, loined the

and left his fruit form at final burst of firing from his guns the The men's names, and the deeds, 1033,

Houston, Renfrewshire, to join his enemy aircraft crashed into the sca Flight-Lieutenant George Can-squadron at the outbreak of war. non Pinkerton, Auxiliary Alrning the farm for him.

His wife and his brother are run-

Forec.

"My husband came home on short

News Guide By Bernard Moore

The

Deserter

MAURICE THOREZ, General of the population had taken refuge But 24 helpless civilians Secretary of the banned French in the hills.

were killed and over 100 injured in Communist Party, was sentenced this atrocious condenade. in his absence by a military court at Amiens to six years' im- prisonment for desertion.

Un-Noutral Schools

ater in the same month an eremy bomber, apparently reconnoltring a British convoy, attempted to take cover in the clouds. Flight-Licuten- ant Gigord led his section after it. The pursuit continued some 11 miles from land, where the raider, showing signs of having been hit, crashed into the sea.

Flight-Lieutenant Gifford is 29, was n lawyer, in partnership with his father before the war, and learned to By with the Auxiliary Air Force at week-ends. His home is at Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire,

He is believed to have been the first pllet to bring down a German plane in the war.

"How wonderful, how splendid for Patsy," his mother, said. "We are so proud of him."

Son's Jay

FROM Tonder, in Denmark, comes Squadron-Leader Philip Reginald fan apparently trivial story which is,| Barwell. He failed to return to his sapper

wever, a significant pointer to the He led a fight of six aircraft over unit on the expiry of 24 hours' leave. situation in former German Schles- the North Sea, to intercept enemy bomber aircraft which were approach- Tall and burly, this young ex-miner wig.

he is only 35-was at one ilme one It is about a Danish parent, who ing a British convoy. After shooting. of the most important inen in France withdrew his child from a local school down the first enemy aircraft himself, in collaboration with he succeeded, because his class two other pilots of the fight, in des- He and Leon Blum were the leaders

regularly sung the troying a second aeroplane. Nazi song: "Fare-

of the ill-fated French Popular Front.

Two years ago, when German and Italian Intervention in Spain was at clamouring its height. Thorez was for vigorous action by France against the Fascist States.

In 1936 an anti-Hitler speech hq made in Strasbourg evoked diploma- the protests from Germany.

Soon after the outbreak of war the French Communist Party was banned, but reports from Paris indicate that its members are sill netive.

Recently Parls police surprised a secret inceling in a suburban cafe and arrested 15 persons.

Frightfulness

GERMANY'S

pocket-battleship, Deutschland, which sunit the Rawal- pindi, near Iceland, has been in the wars before.

On May 29, 1937, Spanish Govern-

KIEL HAMBURG

GERMANY

well, my dear, farewell,

The engagement ultimately resulted forin at least six, and possibly seven, of we're off to fightie nine raiding aircraft being brought against England." down.

Its success was very largely due to A strange song the high standard of gallantry and for neutral:

choolchildren to | leadership displayed by Squadron,

-cader Barwell,

៥.

But the school Squadron Lendor Barwell is 32.

as not neutral. was educated at the Persse School, fter the Great Cambridge and Wellingborough

Wor

n, plebiscite School, is the only professional air- man of the three; Joined the RA.F. was held

ยา

Schleswig (taken 13 years ago.

om Denmark by

from

Ils two sons, aged eight and two, Germany in 1804) are living with his father at Swavesey. and in the north-Canbus; his wife bi staying with her

father at Peterborougli. ern part a majo- rity voted for re- turn to Denmark.

His cldor son John was told of his father's decoration by his grand-

In this strip of father when he got home from school. territory along He danced for joy.

"Barwell was a very unassuming

the German bor- der the Nazis boy; a very good fellow and a live ment planes flying over the Balearic Islands scored four direct bomb hits have been assiduously building up a wire," Captain H. L. Allsopp, officer in her fore-part, killing 27 and minority movement similar to that commanding his school O.T.C., told

in the Sudetenland. wounding nearly 100..

Flight-Lieutenants Gifford and Plu- Part of their technique has been tolkerton were both in nights when tho

Germun |develop*^ special

schools, Firth of Forth was raided, and both

Two days later Hitler, with typient brutality, replied.

the "Dally Herald."

At dawn the

the German cruiser, Ad-heavily subsidised from Berlin, in have since been promoted Squadron- miral Scheer, and four destroyers which children of the German mino-Leader. They are the first Auxiliary appeared off the defenceless town of rily are taught to be good Nazis. Air Force men to be decorated Almeria...

The teacher of the singing class, with the D.F.C. himself a Dane, is leader of the local Squadron-Leader Barwell has been

promoted Wing-Commander, Nazi Party.

In one hour they pumped over 300 shells, methodically destroying street after street of houses.

By good fortune Almeria had just had a false air raid alarm and must

ELIZABETH (Penn.) To ELIZABETH (Princess)

PRINCESS ELIZABETH has forwarded to the Christ- mas Treat Fund a dollar, sent to her by another little Elizabeth living in Pennsyl vania.

"Dear Princess Elizabeth," the American girl wrote, "I have seen a lot of movies about how the school children have been moved

from London to the country to keep them from das- per, and with you would get let Your Mother and Father to you come over to this country where it is safe.

The movier say that some of the children who are sent to the country are from the poorer families. The one dollar en- closed is the money that I have saved, and I am sending it to you so that you can give it to somebody there and use it in helping come of the poorer. chlidren."

The Nelson "Defect"

LONDON.—A young recruit passed part of his medical examina- tion at Newcastle-on-Tyne with flying colours last week, but was then found to be blind in one eye, and rejected.

Making an indignant protest, he said: "The best fighter Britain ever had had only one eye, and they put up a monument to him in Trafalgar-square.

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