1940-02-13 — Page 29

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

February 13, 1940.

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, SLUGG0---

WILL YOU GIVE ME A HAND, PLEASE!

JW!

Begins

By Ernie Bushmiller

WOW-

I JUST RAN INTO A SUDDEN SNOW STORM.

ON MAIN STREET

రా

BUSHMrhed

To-day-The Greatest Story of the R. A. F.

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 Ian

Dalrymple, from whose brilliant idea the film

was evolved.

-

THE LION HAS

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 ...

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

The woman turned her head and spoke to her companion.

"D'you think.. she said.

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

The other girl looked silently at the clock above the mantel-i plece and then at the waiting wireless act.

She rose slowly and walked over!

to it and stood for a few moments

Gulla mewed above the drumming on the lid of it with her

Then with ♫ sudden

downs, and in a hollow be-movement she switched it on. hind the cliffs minute figures

full volume.

From the interminable silence crawled upon the close crop-the voice of the Prime Minister ped turf. The small black emerged faintly and swelled into things they had come in There motor - cars. were were bathers in the sea.

In the villages and towns where British people lived

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

Their eyes met in the steady stare of knowledge.

"It is evil things that we shall and worked the autumn be fighting. Bad faith. Injustice. sunshine flooded down. ItOppression and persecution. Against them I am certain that Right will

touched the old time faces of prevall." Someone coughed. The barns and buildings into National Anthem breke forth.. new life and smiled on High- streets and back gardens

WINGS

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 RA.F.'s first - Bine Dghting force up to 3.000 planes Among them is the Westland Lysander, an observation ship shown below" "peeling off" before dropping bomba.

"All right,” she whispered.

As the Athenia crossed the

The 1.0. nodded curtly. "Yea,

"All right, carry on!"

The Intelligence Officer turned to one of the wing commanders. "Barran, can I have your pilots and crews here is a quarter of an hour?"

More instructions were flashed into telephones. The machinery began to click over with a fascina- ting efficiency. From lofty hangars emerged the ginst planes selected for the hazardous job ahead.

Petrol, gallońs of alcohol, poured in a never-ending flow into the tanks, guns were loaded with ammunition, bombing up- paratus. was fixed and tested, and bombs 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 jan expedition that carried death as

the price of failure-there room for a joke.

WIS

From his pocket an aireraftman produced a piece of chalk, and selecting a bomb he carefully printed on It: "ONE FOR ADOLF." Fund he putted the bomb almost with loving care before it was loaded on [to his plane!

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With

complete informality the pilots

and crews lounged around the vast table, waiting their last in- atructions.

"All the people here?"

"Yes, sir," replied the chief pilot. "How many aircraft?" "The full six."

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

boys, you're in luck

no pro-

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paganda leaflets this time. It's the 8326-Tangoland, real thing."

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

"Now," continued the Intelligence Oficer, "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 kecure direct hits on the battleships.

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

Ha continued the technical Infor mation which the R.A.F. men absorbed carefully.

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

"Well, there's just one thing. 1 take it there's no balloon-barrage there?"

The IO. shook his head. "Not; "Good," replied the chief pilot «Well, that's the lot."

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

innocent passengers. A voice spat "When you come back," she sug-out an order, torpedo anaked

married?"

SUDDENLY the door opened and car parks and ancient and two men broke in and 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.

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

There was an uncanny silence for one thing. The sky held no aeroplanes, and wherever people congregate, there they congre- gated in little knota,

Was there an ochreous film over the familiar scenes and the accustomed places as if the forces of destruction warred somewhere overhand but out of Bight7

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

the arm.

"You mean Sho nodded.

"Are wo at war, then?" he naked. Ralph Richardson was tugging Sho nodded alowly, "Mr. Cham- his arm. berlain's just spoken, Bob."

through the sea, there was deafening explosion, and those in- nocent passengers paid the first toll atjof warfare.

The resonant drone of Britain's God bless you, my dear, good-Air Force deopened as it moved "What was it ho said yesterday?" | bye."

into its stride. Battleships of the "Good-bye."

[air stood ready and waiting, the Wing Commander asked. "To satisfy one max's vain, senseless "Good-bye, Ralph. Take care of

ambition.

yourself."

good-bye..

"Good luck," "Thanks."

And so the adventure began...

Propellers whirred, engines

Intro. To-night. Rosita. Ob Donna Clara, Cafe in Vienna. Beside my carayan. Primo Scalan secordeon band.

8387-Sandy Joins the Nudists......Sandy Powell and company. -D688—We'll - meet-again----ederevo en Joe Petersen.

I'm sending a letter to Santa Claus ....With Organ accompaniment. 9668-Ridin' home

.......Billy Cotton and his band. A Mother's prayer at twilight.

Sandy Powell. 9673-How ashafed I was

Oh Ain't it grand to be in the Navy. I'll remember.

slilne again

9678-TII the lights of London

Lonely sweetheart. 6660-Moon love

Bezone. 9671—An apple for the teacher

A man and his dream.

0603-Wings over the Navy

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Without my more fuss the men started to move out of the room.

"What about our party to-night.7" naked one of the crew to another.

"What are you doing to-morrow?" SHANGHAI, JAPAN, HONOLULU, SAN FRAN- was the reply.

"O.K. So did the young aviators, direct

Make it to-morrow," CISCO, LOS ANGELES

The Flight Commander had "Good-bye

descendants of Britain's past heroes grinned the other, and he patted his KEELUN G, SHANGHAI,

JAPAN of sen and field. The atrocity of the friend cheerfully on the shoulder. crossed to the other girl, and tak-good-bye."

The two women ran to the win-winking of the Athenia was some ing her hand in his..

"He did his best to stop it, June." dow and leaned out. They saw two thing that must be revenged with Merlo spoke agalo. "Ralph-are airmen, any two airman, got into deadly swiftness. we ready?"

cab and drive away. Gently! "You mean, are we prepared?" Merle waved, her hand fluttering She nodded and the little move-in the light liko a dancer's scarf.

And at that moment the sound SHORT, staccato orders were ment spoke to all Britain.

"Never better," ho answered broke over London, the wild wall-barked into a telephone and car- ing of the mechanical banshee, the ried from the Chief of Air Staff grimly.

"Ralph, what Are you doing, manineal ululations of the air-rald

down to the Station Comman- here?"

signal.

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

at first and, without overmuch of snitted. ***Oh, Ralph!" She clung to drama. him. He kissed her. Bob took

A

Richardson and Bobby reached

They had not long to walt,

"Zero hour nineteen hundred From mouth to mouth the

June's hand and led her into the their unit, well-trained cogs in an instructions were passed, tiny hall. He ferked his hand immongo and powerful machine,

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

deadly enemy to Nazi Germany, on was to be struck.. She smiled. "Good luck," he its toes, alert and enger.

A few aliort days passed and the Ho swallowed and looked at her Nazl underseas pirates began their

work. In a dumb sort of way.

and.

The Station Commander turned briefly to his Intelligence Officer.

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

leapt to life like giants awaking MANILA, and Way Ports 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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