1940-02-13 — Page 19

Tuesday,

HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH

NANCY

'AW, PLEASE. AUNT FRITZI-- İLET'S GO DOWN

SOUTH FOR A

VACATION

AGAIN

THIS SEASON!

NO, DEAR-- THE WINTER HAS BEEN QUITE MILD THIS YEAR--

IT WON'T. BE

NECESSARY

OH, SLUGGO--

WILL YOU GIVE ME A HAND, PLEASE!

Begins

To-day-The Greatest

Greatest Story

The "Hongkong Telegraph" to-day is privileged

to present serially this dramatised version of Alexander Korda's great film, "The Lion

Has Wings."

It is the greatest story yet.

told of the Royal Air Force, and is

specially written by Jan

Dalrymple, from whose

brilliant idea the film ·

was evolved.

THE LION

February 13, 1940.

Correct

By Ernie Bushmiller

-WOW---

I JUST RAN INTO A SUDDEN

SNOW STORM)

ON MAIN STREET

ERNIC BUSHMILA K pla

of the R. A. F.

HAS WINGS

There was a man with a pos-

ter which said: "Time limit for Nazis," but he was not selling) papers.

He stood in a little group who, FIVE minutes to eleven seemed uncommunicative, as if on the morning of Septem- they were waiting for some- ber the third, five minutes thing. They were.

more of peace.

The sun shone quietly over this pleasant isle of ours. The white clouds cast a pattern of shadows over the green and pleasant land. A haycart moved along a road. Two horses plodded in a field.

A taxi stopped, and its driver descend- ed and began to look into the sky.

The woman turned her head and spoke to her companion,

"D'you think ." she said.

The other girl looked silently.

at the cloch' above, the mantel-i piece and then at the waiting; wireless set.

She rose slowly-and-walked-over!- to it and stood for a few moments) drumming on the lid of it with her fingers. Then with a sudden movement she switched it on.

Gulls mewed above the downs, and in a hollow be hind the cliffs minute figures From the interminable silence crawled upon the close crop-the voice of the Prime Minister emerged faintly "and swelled into ped turf. The small black full volume. things they had come in motor - cars. There were bathers in the sea.

In the villages and towns where British people lived of knowledge.

were

"Up to the very last it would have been possible to have arranged a peaceful and honourable settle-: ment

الا

Their eyes met in the steady stare

"It is evil things that we shall and worked the autumn be fighting. Bad faith. Injustice. sunshine flooded down. ItOppression and persecution. Against! touched the old time faces of tho I am certain that Right will

prevali

Someone coughed. The

barns and buildings into National Anthem broke forth: new life and smiled on High-

streets and back gardens SUDDENLY the door opened men broke in and and car parks and ancient and two

were in Air churches and arterial roads stopped. Both

Force blue, one Wing Comman- with an impartial geniality.der, the other a Flight Com-

It was good to be a native of mander. Britain and to be alive on that September morning, except for the relentless passing of those five minutes.

Perhaps it was only the im- aginative who thought they saw an ominous dulling of the sun- shine, as if a shadow crept over the earth.

A year ago, the Royal Air Force was rated less than half as effective as the German. But planes now coming off the line at The rate of 1,000 a month have brought the R.ÂF.'s first = lné ' fighting force up to 3,000 planes Among them is the Westland Lysander, an observation ship shown below "peeling off" before dropping bombs,

"All right," she whispered.

the

As the Atherla crossed

Innocent passengers. A voice spat]

The 1.0. nodded curtly. "Yes, air"

"All right, carry on!"

The Intelligence Officer turned to ono of the wing commanders, "Barran, can I have your pilots: and crows here in a quarter of an hour?"

More Instructions were flushed into telephones. The machinery fbegan to cllek over with à fascina- ting eflciency. From lofty hangars emerged the giant planes selected for the hazardous job ahead.

Petrol, gallons of alcohol, poured in a never-ending flow into the tanks, guns were loaded with ammunition, bombing op- paratus was fixed and tested, and bomby were loaded carefully into their allotted places.

Nothing must be left to chance. But it is the way of the Briton that, the more perilous and important the task, the lighter the heart with which he tackles it.

Even at this moment-prelude to un expedition that carried death as the price of failure-there was room for a joke.

From his pocket an aircraftman produced a piece of chalk, and selecting #1 bomb he carefully printed on it: "ONE FOR ADOLF." and he putted the bomb almost with. floving care before it was loaded on

to his planet.

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With

complete informality the pilot ++++++++?

and crews lounged around the

vast table, waiting their last in-

structions:

"All the people here?"

"Yes, sir, replied the chief pilot.

"How many aircraft?"

"The full six."

"Right." The 1.0. paused. "Well,

boya, you're in luck..

A VARIETY PROGRAMME

REX

110 pro- paganda leaflets this time. It's the 8326-Tangeland. real thing."

"Good!" replied one of the men, and-excited grins spread across the faces of the rest.

"Now," continued the Intelligence Officer, "We've received Information that the German pocket battleships; are making towards the mouth of the Kiel Canal.

**By the time you get there they] should be just inside. Your job; is to secure direct hits on the battleships.

"Here are six copies of your route and weather forecast. You cross the coast at Chillingham-fighter | command will be informed-change the course to 110 degrees,

8387-Sandy Jolas die Nudista 0G88-We'll meet again

ON

RECORDS

Intro. To-night. Rosita. Oh Donna Clara. Cafe in Vienna. Beside my caravan. Primo Scalas accordeon band. Sandy-Powell, and company...----

I'm sending a letter to Santa 0608-Ridin' home .....

A Mother's prayer at twilight.

Joe. Petersen.

Claus....With Organ accompaniment,

Billy. Cotton and his band..

0873-1low ashamed was... ....Sandy Powell.

“Oh Ain't it grand to be in the Navy. I'll remember, 0070–Till the lights of London

sline again

Lonely sweetheart. 0660-Moon love ....

Begone. 9671-An apple for the teacher

A man and his dream. 0c05-Wings over the Navy

Lords of the air.

Billy Cotton and his band. Oscar Rabin & his Romany band,

Hoy Smeek and his Hawallan Serenaders.

"

...Oscar Rabin, & his Romany 'band. ....Billy Colton and his band, *

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He continued the technical infor- mation which the R.A.F. men MARINA HOUSE absorbed carefully.

"I want cameras taken, of course. Exact data of what we achieve Is important. Anything else?"

"Well, there's just one thing. I. take it there's no balloon-barrage there?"

The 1.0. shook his head. "Not

He kissed hor suddenly, taking Atlantic death was stalking it if you stick to your route." her in his arms.

"Good," replied the chief pilot.

"When you come back," she sug-out an order, n torpedo snaked well, that's the lot."

The girl at the mantelpiece wheeled round, crossed to her hus-gested in a whisper. band in surprise, and took him by

the arm.

"You mean She nodded.

married?"

through tho ясл there WAB វា deafening explosion, and those in- | nocent passengers pald the Arst foll

Ralph Richardson was tugging atjof warfare.

"Are wo at war, then?" he asked. She nodded slowly. "Mr. Cham- his arm. borlain's just spoken, Bob."

The resonant drone of Britain's

"Good luck.". "Thanks."

Without any more fuss the med storted to move out of the room.

"What about our party to-night?”

God bless you, my dear, good-Air Force deopened as it moved asked one of the crew to another. "What was it he said yesterday?" bye." the Wing Commander asked. To "Good-bye." satisfy one man's vain, senseless ambition....

of

was the reply.

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Into Its stride. Battleships of the ulr stood ready and waiting. L TRA

"What are you doing to-morrow?" SHANGRA I, JAPAN, HONOLULU, SAN FRAN- "Good-bye, Ralph. Take care

So did the young aviators, direct

"O.K. Make it to-morrow," CISCO, LOS ANGELES yourscif." crossed to the other girl, and tak-good-bye."

Fight Comniander had "Good-bye .") good-bye

descendants of Britain's past heroes grinned the other, and he patted his KEELUNG, SHANGHAI, of sea and field. The atrocity of the Irland cheerfully on the shoulder.. JAPAN ing her hand in his.

The two women ran to the win-sinking of the Athenfa was some-

The

There was an uncanny silence for one thing. The sky held no aeroplanes, and wherever people congregato, there they congre- "He did his best to stop it, June." dow and leaned out. They saw two thing that must be revenged with gated in little knots.

Morle spoke again.

Was there an ochreous film we ready?" over the familiar scenes and the accustomed places as if the. forces of destruction warred somewhere overhead but out of sight?

There was that feeling about London! There was a woman who stood in a window looking down upon the street. She folt it strongly, a slowing down of momentum, as if the busca and the traffic and the people moved without intention, as if all, the happy racket and business and all the things aho kniew and used to take for granted : would gradually stop.

a second."

Ralph-are airmen, any two airmen, get into deadly swiftness,

4 cab and drive away. Gently Merle waved, her hand fluttoring

in the light like a dancer's scarf.

And nt that moment, the sound

They had not long to walt,

"You mean, are we prepared?" She nodded and the little move

SHORT, ataccato orders were ment spoke to all Britain.

"Never better," he answered broke over London, the wild wall- barked into a telephone and car- grimly.

ing of the mechanical banshee, the ried from the Chief of Air Staff "Ralph, what are you doing maniacal ululations of the air-raid down to the Station Comman- hero?""

signal. "Now station. I-we've only.got So war came to England, hurriedly der. A certain plan was tran

nt frat and without overmuch of smitted, "Oh, Ralph!" She clung to drama. him. He kissed her. Bob took Richardson and Bobby reached June's hand and led her into the their unit, well-trained cogs in an tiny, hall. He jerked his hand Immense and powerful machino.

The first blow against the enemy Lactfully to the drawing room of Britain's Air Force, a new and ***, the little fint.-

dendly enemy to Nazi Germany, on was to be struck. She smiled. "Good luck," "he Its toca, alert and cager. in a

A few short daya passed and the

⠀ To swallowed and looked at her Nazi undersens pirates. began their

in a dumb sort of way.

work.

*

"Zaro hour nineteen hundred From mouth to mouth the instructions wero passed.

The Station Commander turned briefly to his Intelligence Ofeor.

"You've got all the necessary in- formation ?"

And so the adventure began..

Propeller whirred, engines SYDNEY, MELBOURNE, via leapt to life like ginals awaking MANILA, and Way Port from a brief slumber, and slowly, VANCOUVER and SEATTLE one after the other, the six planes moved slowly across the ground.

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