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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

July 8, 1940,

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Roscuo workers search ruins of house in Paris for bodies, after Naxi planes swarmed over Paris suburbs, drop- ping more than 1,000 bombs. Radio picture from French capital.

GHOST WORLD

By VICTOR LEWIS NAZI_spics in England are. tapping "the next world" for secrets of British Naval moves.

They are using the "ghosts"

of Air Force men killed in action

"TAPPED"

BY NAZIS

to get information about the air bases from which our bombers set out on their devastating raids on Nazi airfields..

Airmen and sailors, invited to attend spiritualist acances in London and provincial cities to endeavour to "communicate" through mediuma with the spirits of colleagues lost in action, are unwittingly giving away valuable information to enemy aliens.

of

The organisers of these scances -serlous-minded investigators spiritualism are entirely unaware of the extent to which they may have been helping the enemy.

BUT 50 MANY CASES HAVE BEEN REPORTED DY MEN

• WHO WENT TO SEANCES AND DECAME SUSPICIOUS THAT WARNINGS ARE BEING IS- SUED BY NAVAL AND MI13- TARY AUTHORITIES AGAINST TIE DANGERS OF "CARE- LESS TALK" IN THE OVER- POWERING ATMOSPHERE OF A SEANCE.

British counter-spy organisations have collected proof that Nazi agents have contrived admission to "the

"The man who had taken me to the seance asked if the name mentioned was accuraté.

"Another man asked me if it was true that ours was the only 'plane not to return from the raid.

"Like a fool I answered both questions.

Then Loss

Loss of Blood

Forced Him to Land

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AS detailed reports arrive to supplement Air Minis- try bulletins announcing results of R.A.F. operations against the enemy, storics emerge about our pilots which tell of stoicism, daring and resourcefulness.

This one, about a British bomber crew, was told by a squadron leader.

"On a bombing expedition behind the German lines an R.A.F. pilot, aged 25, had his hand almost shot away, but continued his mission and unloaded his bombs on a railway crossing.

Schools To Help In Arms Drive

TECHNICAL institutions are to be used as factories to help in the nation's arms drive.

A memorandum issued recently by the Eoard of Education

urges technical schools and colleges to as- slat In the war effort by concentrat- ing on the production of gauges and figs. Without a sufficient supply of these many machine tools would stand idle.

of the preliminary worke could be done by junior technical students or by semi-skilled trainees.

Schools are asked to consider keep- ing their workshops open after the school work is over for

"He was finally forced to land in No Man's Land, owing to loss of blood.

"The sergeant-observer and the air gunner pulled the pilot from the machine, which they set on fire.

Ther they carried the pilat through woods and fields.

They Gave the Pilot Morphia "They encountered · Germans, but

took the opposite direction, broke Into a farm and hid for the night, giving the pilot morphin which they

had obtained from the stores in the bomber.

"They arrived at a river and shouted across, but the French on the other side thought they were Germans and paid no attention.

"His crew placed the plot against

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"Signals!" ejaculated the slipper. What "Signals wi' flags and that! does a man want w flags when he has a syren to gie a bit toot wi"." Ii is indeed the customary mode of communicntion amongat fishing trawlers and it is astonishing what a subtle range of significances can be convoyed by the strength of the jerk on the lanyard,

We passed the day yarning. The

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Scapa, Base Of Memories

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deckhands stood huddled on the lec. are dotted with tle crofts and a tree, and one went along the river

side of the upper deck smoking and farmhouses and flying over them by bank, found a bridge which had been

watching the sea. From Stornoway acroplane one notices the patches of AMPORA DOLORES VINAS, Peterhead they came, Hartlepool, bright green and brown which de- demolished, and then returned to his ja 20-year-old servant, of South Shields and Lowestoft. They had no note cultivation.

At

Plan for Shifts Institutions Icss weil equipped could fashion the parts roughly to companions.

Dean Road, Liverpool, for allusions concerning their job. They alze and then pass them on to better

The Orkneys lie in Latitude 50' "The survivors set off and crossed "gag" marked her identity card had seen a sister trawler strike a equipped colleges for finishing. Much the river by climbing the broken "Issued in Cologne" and copied mine the previous week. There was North, 450 miles north of London,

rest and one survivor, of the

the and the spring and summer, with its by American ambulance men. struts of the bridge, and were found the Morse international code itile skip not a trace remained. Yet sun, clear atmosphere, and absence about 10 from her brother's sea manual. they were undismayed: soft-spoken, of darkness except for "They had been two nights in No She was sent to prison for three gentle-mannered, Just carrying on hour-and-a-half on each side of Man's Land."

with their job. months at Conway recently..

midnight, may be wholly delightful. as many Week-end Fliers Got 13 Cormans-The-girl-was-charged-under the sunkan ship had met her dooma luminous glow above the northern

We reached the area where the from

midsummer the transition period from sunset to su

to sunrise is marked by † hours out of 24 às can be organised,

Among R.A.F. auxiliary fighter Emergency Defence Regulations with There might be another mine ther horizon. If the sky is unclouded. Shifts of workers or evening shifts squadrons are business men, week-being in possession of information The sweep might pass over it. On books can easily be read or photo- might be arranged and the work-end fliers who went into action half which might be directly or indirectly the other hand it might be our ship's graphs taken at the hour of mid- shops run during these periods as a an hour after they had reached thef of use to the enemy,

bottom instead. Either would de- night. Even in summer, however, it factory. The usual commercial rates front.

tonate it. In that event man stand- stated at the previous

sometimes blows flercely for days on will be paid by the Government for

They immediately shot down a hearing that she also had a skeleton ins on the upper deck had perhaps end with sheets of driving rain. all that is produced,

Dornier, and the following day 3 map on which Important places were below in the engine room

a chance in a million. But down

it Dorniers. and 4 Heinkels before marked,

War IT is the winter that is really certain and instantaneous death. I breakfast and, in the afternoon, three cannon-fire Messerschnitt She explained that she traced the went to the head of the ladder leading trying, almost numbing to the map from a school atlas and that to the engine room and looked down. senses when the weather is really the places were towns she wanted The two engine men and the two at its worst.

stokers sat on a bench facing the eronkpit.

The night lasts from about three They were naked to the

next waist and the light reflected from the in the afternoon until nino machinery made play on their shoul-morning. It is usually bitterly cold, der muscles; and they were singing with much snow, sicet, rain and fog, in harmony, singing some old Scot- During strong gales from the west tish ballad at the tops of their voices, and north-west the wind whistles

down the bleald hillsides and con I went back to the bridge verts the great expanse of land-

Sergeant's "Miracle" 2.3/4lb. Baby

110's a total bng of 13.

It was

"If we could only have + few, to visit. hundred extra @ghters we would bej able to drive the Germans from the skles," is the opinion of the British pliots.

Three R.A.F. pilots alone have shot down nearly 100 muchings be- tween them.

Ripped a Heinkel in Two

Asterisk Referring to the code, Supt. W. M. Hughes said there was an asterisk against the letter "U" which denotes "You are standing into danger,”

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•

the

P. C. Jones said that, when ar- rested, the girl had a short sheath kalte attached to a light weather belt where the skipper and The chief ace is a New Zealander, in her handbag. "She told him she Lieutenant were yarning about who has accounted for 40 machines, carried it for self-defence and "felt shoals and shipwrecks.

One of these was a Heinkel which lost without It" Vinas told the the ace ripped in two with the eight Bench that she had no intention of inachino-guns of his Hurricane as the "doing anything about the war." German was about to drop a heavy As she left the court and entered calibre bomb.

the police ear she was hooled by Pilots who returned one of

from their waiting crowd. night long attacks

German on communications reported that the entire German reur was muss of flames.

ANN. WINIFRED, four weeks old, is the pride of Westminster Hospital, though her hands and "Then I got suspicious. I sudden-wear her mother's wedding ring arms are so tiny that she could ly realised nothing had been anid Lefore about curs being the only as a bracelet. 'plane to crash. So I dried up. In the long history of the hospital "When people started to go, the she is the first 6-months premature mon I went with disappeared. I baby to survive. She was never saw him again."

twins (the other died) and was born in the surgery at the hospital en trance.

In Doll's Clothes

circle" at seances attended by men Farms Win Their

in the Forces.

Air Gunnor's Story

Recently a young air gunner who

War

It is announced that furmers and

Ann Winifred weighed only 2b, 13oz. and the doctors had little hopel of saving her.

But, dressed in doll's clothes, she

has taken part in severol raids "tromfarm workers have ploughed up, les in a hot-air tunnel in a room

all the 2,000,000 acres periences. In one raid his plane pasture land set them as a war-time

had made a crash landing. Two of effort. the crew had been killed.

"I knew nothing about spiritu- aliam,” he told me, "but when I was on leave in London a mau stavine at my hotel talked to me about it. He asked me if I would like to on to a seance and see if the medium could talk to my... two dead friends,”

"I want. There, were about 201

people there.

In the half-dark

voice-1

couldn't really tell where it came

from started mentioning my two dond friends' names."

The remaining acres of this total have been turned over,

baby.

+

The mother, who lives in Lupus Street, Westminster, hopes that hor Almost immediately plans will, bo, husband, a sergeant the battle announced for furtier ploughing- line, will see: Ann Winifred while with the same £2 on sere grani, she is still a "miracle" baby.

Telegrams, To B.E.F.

Parcels Stopped

Other reports show that the Ger- man dead are plied on the battlefield.

Road Safety Less Vital Now

locked water which is Scapa Flow boatwork dangerous, if not altogether Into a middened welter which makes

impossible,

The skipper let the names of But bleak and unsophisticated the East Coast lightships ripple Scapa Flow, covering the northern off his tongue, for the security exits from the North Sea, played its of the very words, as if he were unforgettable part in the wor of 1014-18 es ano of the chief bases of running a rosary through his the mightiest dent the

world fingers. The Germans had been ever known. It is now playing the bombing them and machine- samo part in another struggle in

war effort of this

bas

New Potatoes That a which Power is of im

Cost Less

Jersey Growers

Save Too

Jersey's new potato senson opened recently., First Hitings of the crap] should be on sale In London shops

seaman is the ultimate achieve portance in the

Allies. ment of bestiality.

I asked him if he had ever suffered shipwreck.

"Aye" he said "but ever for want heart but the whole structure of the of a lightship. But I was in a gallaxed again. There was a roar that body contracted with terror and re- off the Gundieet when I was a lad, filed all space. The trawler shuddered and it split the mainsail and we druv like a living thing reprieved from down onto the sands."

death; as we all were, because the

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He pondered over his memories. sweep had done its work and the of water collapsed far on a Thursday morning. The price Between the cap peak and collar mountain will be not more than 4d, a pound-Ittie of his face was visible but his away astern of us. A dead gull "I am not unmindful of the vital at least id. à pound cheaper than a eyes and nose: "I mind I had my come eddying down like falling necessity of protecting the public year ago.

best suit on board and I went below leaf. from

but reckless motor-driving,

The whole of this year's Jersey before she broke up and I put it on. there is a much more vital need crop is estimated at more than 00,000 A ano sult; it was." His eyes wist- nationally at the present moment." tons. Licences are being issued for fully contemplated through the mist Mr. Justice Croom-Johnson said gradual export to Britain up to the of years the sartorial magnificence of this when he bound over for 12 end of July. By that time the retail that suit. months

at Northampton Assizes price in Britain will be down to 2d. Allstair MacGillivray, a 24-year-old a aircraftman, who had pleaded guilty

has been effected by negatations

"But why?" I asked,

The skipper turned from contem plating the upheaval. The little Christmas tree waved its branches black against the broken water. ***Another of the--" He paused and "I forgot yo

"I had a mind to look respectable eyed me mischievousy, Reduction' In the price of potatoes when my dead body was washed were a releegious' ta mansia obtained an undertaking between the Jersey States and

ashore," he answered, the The judge, BECAUSE of the heavy mili- Therefore the public are notified from MacGillivray to abstain from Ministry of Food. A derby tary traffic, it has been found that no telegrams may be sent to the intexicants for six months.

In that moment the mine went up; The voice asked questions. ap-necessary to cancel temporarily B.E.F., and that the post ofees have

ing put into operation whereby parently addressed to my pals.

The prosecution said that a motor-potatoes will be sent to west of Enget is hard to describe'in any sequence la confusion of ovents or impressions "When It was over, other people in the telegraph service to the instructions to refuse parēcis, phēkets cur driven by MacGillivray at high and parts by specified routes instead that happen almost simultaneously the room started: asking me ques- B.E.F. (France) and to make and registered letters, and all letters speed without lights and on the of by the various pre-wer routes. The trawler lifted as if a glant had tions. The medium had said one of certain curtailments in the postal over 2oz. In weight.

wrong side, knocked down, n. man. It is estimated that in this way kiciced hor. There was a mountain my pals had asked about people at service, the War Office an-

MacGilliveny did not stop. He Jersey potato growers have been of water astern, white on the summit (mentioning the name of my nounces.

Letters under 262, will be accepted later said he was drunk and did not saved £50,000, normally spent on and black at the base with a fringe -station in Britain).**.

realise what was happening.

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