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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH August 29, 1940.

By Walt Disney

MAGAZINE

R. A. F. PILOT TELLS

A DOG-FIGHT

We the morning of the first

"E got a "Stand by" early

day of the Dunkirk evacua- tion, and at 9 am, we got our orders There were 12 of us and, climbing to 20,000 feet, Wir headed acTUSS the North Hea

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We kept well together, but of course kept radio silence We knew every inch of the Coastline to which we hending. but CYCD without that knowledge there was no mistaking it WOM Dunkirk Only ferm minates after leaving Britain and t our helght we could see the pil fars of smoke rising from the burning town and the villages all the way up from Calaus

At 4,000, we were beething along still looking for trouble when I saw a Hun formation of about GO machines 20 bombers and 40 fightersal about 15,000ft, and cursed the height we had lost,

The fighters, mostly Mex- serschmitts, heeled over and come screaming down at us and the next second we were in the thick of it. That at- tack developed like most dog fights into individual scraps. It was at about 10,000ft that

I found myself on the tall of my first Hun, a Messerschmitt

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particularly that ny gyro way spinning crazlly and the artificial hortion And vanished newhere into the interior of the Instrument panel, calmly turning up its bottom and showing me the maker's stamp and the words Air Ministry Mark IV 20 Mine. thing like that

Down went the Measerschmitt ngals with me close up his tall With the great speed of the dive controls were freezing solid and I was fighting the stick hard to bring the flun up into the centre

LAMENT

HE French Republic is no

There The land of France,

led

to disaster by traitors, self-seckers and imbeciles, is thrown back into a bondage such as its people, even under the

sway of the Bourbona, never knew. The outward form of a Republic is indeed preserved; but what does the name "Republic" mean when it is no longer the public good but the will of a foreign tyrant, executed by men who have taken his bribe or al- lowed themselves to pass into his power, that reigns supreme?

The history of France, like the history of Britain, dales indeed from the conquest of jis térritory (nearly 1,000 years ago; but that WAS conquest of civilisation, whereas this is a reconquest of the powers of darkness. One thou- zand years of struggle towards liberty are undone by eight weeks of fear, confusion, military failure. The cradle of modern democracy sinks at one stroke beneath the dood.

Mirabeau,

Danton,

Robespierre, you who championed the rights of the French people against the pri». vileges of a ruthless aristocracy and you who. Indeed shed the blood of thousands, to fall in your turn beneath the guillotine that the

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solee of the people might prevall, do your uncary spirite quail at the the darker tyranny now stalking through your native land?

LIBERTY

You, Bonaparte the Corsican, who conquered all Europe in the name of Liberty only to yield in your turn the lure of Empire, did you not feel the eyes Europe's did you not feel the eyes of Europe's new tyrant reating on your marble lamb? Did not a remnant of Italian blood in your long-dend veins stir with revolt when the Italian hyena of to- day fastened his teeth in the body of BL your

You heritage?

who marched ૉ. conqueror from Paris Berlin, Rome, Madrid, Egypt and Russia but stopped short of the English seaway and fell at last to English arms, do you not, in great soul's resting place. your call down Heaven's vengeance on the modern appressors

of your country and those who have de- livered her to their power? -

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And you, the French people, ever patient in suffering, ever: va- ifant in battle, sver Feady to spring ta arras in defence of your own freedom and in the cause of liberty the world over, you who have held aloft the torch so long, who lift the fires and booke the chains in evey & that has thrown off its oppres- sors and sent a message of hope for

the earth, do you sccppt.

corner of

fer, mute under the conqueror's heel and silent before the jackal's Will yelping of your betrayers?

you eat the poisoned frults of sur- render for ever rather than lake up the sharp daggers of rebellion or shoulder once more heavy arms of war?

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had got on with the Messerschmitt swarm they had got into above Dunkirk, but on the way back the Arst to answer my radio call said that he had gut four Then he suddenly said, "Oh, hell,

my en- gine's packed up." Then, "I'm on

Are"

There was silence for A second

twn and hr said.

"Yippee! There's destruyer downstairs. I'm bailing mit " A second later I heard him mutter. "But how?"

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a matter of fact not cury to bail eut of a Spitfire. The best way

to turn her over On her back and drop out through the hood-if you can. That, we found out later, was exactly what he had

done.

MORTAL

Martin beld her tight. "I've come to take you away. We'll go to-night on skle, the way I took Werner-across the Pass to the Austrian border."

"To-night?" Her voice was

a whisper. "I need never go back to town? I need never let you go?"

-Try He laughed quietly.

and get rid of me." Then he went on with his plans. "We should be ready to start soon after sunset. We must reach the border before

Your daybreak.

mother will be counting the hours.

promised ber to bring you safely home."

"Home." She lingered over the world.

He went on gravely, "It won'! be easy, this journey. You've got to know what you're taking on. 11's a long hard way. I'm pretty zure nu one suspects the spot where

the border 1 CETOES

but there's always the chances of o patrol

her anxiously. holds out."

"If your

strength

She smiled bock at him vallant- ly. "You're

my strength, I won't fail you."

Again they plunged coward and Freya was just managing to alum- blc along beside him when all knce,

he cried, "Freya, look, tock!"

They were standing on a sort of ledge and through the doating mist they could все re- vealed a valley, with white roofs, gleaming in the morning sun. It was like a bright glimpse of an- other world, "Austria."

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She was stirred to new life. near-

His eyes

were enger. to cross that open

on Austrian

"We've

space.

only Those tall rocks are soil. When we reach then we're safe. Come on, we can make it." They started off but suddenly he stopped, taut.

"What is it?" she asked, fright- ened.

"A parol. There, on the right." He faced her. It was a grim mo» ment of desperation. "What shall do? We have B Oghting chance. Shall we try for it? Or shall we go back?"

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exaltation in face. "I'm not afraid."

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her

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started, "Look, the sun's setting already. We've got to get busy"

She was

"So a bit dismayed. Boon?

But we've so much to say..” Her

lips curved

wistful with "We've never said the usual foolish things.”

humour.

"We've all our lives to say them." He kissed her long and well 05 the shadows deepened around them

"Children, so quickly to.

We cannot utter the word "France" without thinking also of another great word, "Freedom." The Declaration of the Rights of Man, the mind and heart that move the French people understand the tyrant's' enterprise and with such valour and such devotion, in all ares, to withstand and defeat it-these came to birth, as the day follows the night, on the smiling plans, by the softly flowing rivers, near the cool moun- tains and under the sunny skles of France. They

spring from the soil of her vineyards, from the rolling acres of hercom-felds, from the warm rains and light breezes that beget her life and fan her spirit. The heart of such a nation cannot die. the red-hot Irons of shame and It may beat less bravely for a time;

bondage, may: sear it; the breath of lies may weaken it. But, deep within the tortured body It will live on, waiting for the resurrec=" tion morning, waiting for the call that will; restore to "full life

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the downtrodden to even the new alt det, pourvu que la France darkness that bar closed about you?

Will you sweat and will you ton Bolt libres dyya will you submit and will you sure

DAVID SCOTE

Mrs. Breitner called, "It's getting dark. You have no time to waste."

Martin's

eyes gleamed with humour. "We're not wasting "time mother."

they

Night had fallen by the time had their knapsacks ready ond

their akis strapped to their boots. Then came the moment for departure and Mrs. Breitner's quavered blessing was upon them' as they started down the slopes.

They moved swiftly and steadily *-*

She said quietly, "To what? To your death-perhaps to mine?"

Swiftly, they kissed, knowing that this might be their last caress in life. They then emerged from their shelter and started to ay across the open snow.

But all at once the mist lifted and there was a ringing shout "Halt Halt." Almost, It sounded like. the voice of Fritz, begging them to stop.

They went doggedly on. Again came the plea, desperate- ly urgent. "Ha't. Halt there!"

And then-a rife shot rang out.

turned Another. Martin

- as if

· the hand of God itself had stop-" ped him. In that moment he knew that he was alone. Freya had been

'taken from him.

No, there was still a small malla on her lips as she lay buddled in

for hours, stopping now and then one now. ile stooped and gatser for a moment's rest. But after a

while Freya began to faltered her into his must long Martin's voice doated back in the have fainted," she murmured

*Am I going too fast? I'm painfully. He nodded. "But wat

did it, didn't we? We're real sorry""dear.” He returned to her; "Every time I look back you seem Her eyes clouded I think waller and trailer "grapesem, must rest a litle now. I'm tired She reached out to him. "Oh Very Very tired Her head full Martin, we're not lost, are we

back and she was lifeless in his Lost No. You're

not

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soul moved him to an instinctive action. He lifted the slim body of the dead Freya in his arms and rose to his feet.

The mocking sud fell on her young broken body, on the still, white face, the bright tossed hair. Fritz looked at her there, gazod upon this sacrifice he had offered to his gods on the altar of duty, Then, while-lipped, and crushed, he turned away

In the tomb that had once been the Roth home, Erich and Otto moved about, gathering

up their mother's possessions. She bad written and asked them to send on her little knicknacks,, reminders of her former life.

allence screamed out at him. "I had no choice. it was my duty." He went to the door. "There's a staff conference at Headquarters." You're to report with me now."

He and Erich went to the door .and without knowing why, Otto

stood there a moment.

.. Father's

Suddenly, he 'seemed to hear the muted strains of music. A flood of 'me- mories came to him. birthday dinner...

And then there was Freya's AWESIN, KRÝ volce, "Six candles one for each decade of a wonder- ful, life, father. Now you must blow them out—”

And the Professor," "Ours has been, a very united family-in this

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But there was a step for which : home - we've had the habit of they were listening. Why didn't gracious living. We've prided our- Fritz come? They know that be selves on our tolerance, and our had been ordered in pursult of sense of humour... Freya

With father," said in a ghostly the cand

and Martin. Why hadn'tUVILAN K he returned yet with their slater? "What made her do it?" Otto suddenly cried, "Why". He turned

as the door opened

Stiffly, mechanically, Fritz (ap- proeched them. H harsh with suppressed met them at the Karwan met

I ordered them to ball. myfused to obey" He couldn'

their dawning horror. command, the patrol

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¡Otto fall back

And now is the patrol came up, headed, by Fritzi Slowly" Martin looked at this' man who had once beerry hig@friend; “And?" them,” the

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