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KING'S

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OUT OF THE HEART OF A GREAT CITY.

TBEATS A DRAMATIC SYMPHONY,

OF YOUTHFUL ROMANCE.

Golden Boy

RICHTH THE STUFF

OF HUMANITY...

CLOWING IN ITS

EISITORIAL FERVOR

THE LIVE DRAMA

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You're like a song that Agoes on and on Szakde of

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SOCIETY LAWYER"

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Count the "TELEGRAPHS” everywhere

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 Leating a section of his squadron, leave during the week-end, but he I did not breathe word about it to down Hitler's bombers have been the engaged an enemy bomber.

Patrick Flight Lieutenant awarded the Distinguished Fly-attempted to escape in the clouds, but me his wife said.

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,

tune to brar from a distance of fifty Leading a section of his squadron, Two of them are "week-end"

Fresh into the rea,

mainland heading for the sea. He led Flight-Leutenant Pinkerton is 39, the attack with skill, daring and de- Hary Air Force before the war and

Force in termination, and as the result of a learned to fly in their spare time. Soined the Auxillary Air

al and left his fruit farm The men's names, and the deeds, 1033.

final

burst of Aring from his guns the Houston, Renfrewshire, to join his enemy aircraft crashed into the sen

Later in the same month an enemy Flight-Lieutenant George Can-quadron at the outbreak of war.

His wife and his brother are run-bomber, apparently reconnoitring a non Pinkerton, Auxiliary Airning the farm for him. Force.

airmen-men who joined the Aux, causing the enemy aircraft te he sighted an enemy bumber over the

are!—

"My husband, came home on short

News Guide By Bernard Moore

The

Deserter

MAURICE THOREZ, General of the population had taken refuge Secretary of the banned French in the hills. But 24 helpless civilians Communist Party, was sentenced were killed and over 100 injured in

this atrocious condenade in his absence by a military court at Amiens to six years' im- prisonment for desertion.'

Un-Neutral Schools

FROM Tonder, in Denmark, comes an apparently trivial story which is, wwever, a significant pointer to the situation in former German Schles- wig.

He failed to return to his sapper unil on the expiry of 24 hours' leave Tall and burly, this young ex-miner he is only 35--was at one time one It is about a Danish parent, who

British .convoy, attenlpted to take cover in the clouds. Flight-Lieuten- aut Giford led his section after it.. The pursuit continued some 11 miles from land, where the raider, showing slons of having been hit, crashed into

the act.

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

He is believed to have been the first pilot to bring down a German "How wonderful, how splendid for plane in the war.

"We are 30 Patsy," his mother said. proud of him."

Son's Joy Squadron-Leader Philip Reginald

Barwell.

He led a flight of six aircraft over the North Sca, to intercept enemy bomber aircraft which were approach- down the first enemy aircraft himself, Ing a British convoy. After shooting of the most important men in France, withdrew his child from a local school he succeeded, in collaboration with

because his class He and Leon Blum were the leaders

two other pilots of the flight, in des- the regularly sang

troping a second seroplane. - Nazi song: "Fare- well,

The engagement ultimately resulted my dear, in at least six, and possibly seven, of

ef the fll-fated French Popular Front Two years ago, when German and Iulian intervention in Spain was at its height. Thorez was clamouring for vigorous action by France against; the Fascist States.

In 1936 an anil-Hitler speech he 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 still active.

Recently Purls police surprised a secret meeting in a nuburban cafe and arrested 15 persons.

Frightfulness

GERMANY'S

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

MBURG

GERMANY

farewell. tor we're off to fight down.

against England."

the nine raiding aircraft being brought

Its success was very largely due 10 A strange song the high standard of gallantry and for neutral schoolchildren to leadership displayed by Squadron

Leader Barwell. iing.

But the school Squadron Leader Barwell is 32, was not neutral. was educated at the Persse School, and Wellingborough After the Great Cambridge

School, is the only professional air- War à plebiscite was held in man of the three; joined the R.A.F.

13 years ago. Schleswig (taken

His two sons, aged eight and two, from Denmark by Germany in 1884) are living with his father at Swavesey, and in the north-Cambs; his wife is staying with her ern part a majo-father at Peterborough. rity voted for re- turn to Denmark. father's decoration by his

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

On May 29, 1937, Spanish Govern- nent planes flying over the Balearle Islands scored four direct bomb hits have been assiduously building up

His elder son John was told of his

grand-

the German bor- "Barwell was a very unassuming der the Nazis boy, a very good fellow and a live! wire," Captain H. L. Allsopp, officer commanding his school O.T.C., fold the "Dally Herald."

in her forc-part, killing 27 and minority movement similar to that wounding nearly 100.

Two days later Hitler, with typlen!! brutality, replied.

in the Sudetenland.

Flight-Lieutenants Gifford and Pin- Part of their technique, has been to kerton were both in fights when the develop specint German schools, Firth of Forth was raided, and both

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

The teacher of the singing class. with the D.F.C. Almerin

In one hour they pumped over 300 himself a Dane, is lender of the local' Squadron-Lender Barwell has been

promoted Wing-Commander. shells, methodically destroying street Nazi Party. after street of houses.

By good fortune Almerin had justį

had a false air raid alarm and most

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.

"Decr 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 dan- per, and wish you would get your Mother and Father to let you come over to this country

here it is safe.

ch-

"The movies say that some of the children who are sent to the country are from the poorer families. The one dollar 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 some of the poorer children,"

The Nelson "Defect"

1

LONDON.-A young recruit passed part of his medical examina. tlon 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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