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FLEW TOO HIGH

NAZIS

TO BE

HURT

By DAN CAMPBELL

(United Press Staff Correspondent)

guns alowly swinging about as

in this fight, flying at the comparatively low altitude of 13,000 feet.

The lieutenant gave the range and the guns thundered. I hold on tight while bursts of smoke

:

DOVER, Aug. 31 (UP).—I witnessed to-day one of the heaviest blastings of the broke up the formation. war against this vital port area. Nazi Germany threw fleet after fleet of warplanes Somebody called, "Heinkel across the channel in an obvious effort to destroy British port and airdrome facilities, crashing at two point 50" which means about five miles. Veterans on the gun-site which gave this part of the coast the name of "hell-fire Through the glasses we picked corner" said they had never seen so many German planes coming over in such a short him up as he drove off from the formation, side-slipping and period of time.

There was a tremendous back.

smoking. The gun-site is really a corner of the coast jutting out towards the lieutenant at the range wash of air beating hot around

Almost at the samo time, a finder barked out instructions. our pants-legs and flapping our Dornier came France. Far up, the channel, a

in at a low coats. One after another, the altitude, whining toward the convoy could be seen by using We stood around for an hour

вед. Guns quickly glasses, and was also receiving while the gunners cursed be- 3.7's beat the air, sometimes in

swift succession with the ominous attention of a Ger- enuse "Jerry is flying too high."

con-around until they were firing cussions that rocked us back and almost at the coast-line. man reconnaissance plane. Some

After 30 minutes ono lleuten- forth on our heels.

We soon miles in the other direction, the ant stated that "you may smoke learned to listen for the firing channel and was almost certain was smoking as he crossed the Germans had already sent over outside your gun-pit," and the command and then hold on to our not to reach the French coastline

a few shells to calibrate their

guna.

gunners walked out in disgust. But a minute later they were on

cars.

swung

он

--so plainly visible that trains I arrived at the gun-site in the alert again. The range waa There were expressions of dis- and docks at Calale stood out mid-afternoon just as sirena in 23,000 feet and we could hear Kust as the German planes float- clearly on the horizon, the town below and along the them droning over us.

ed far overhead through the barrage and things died down again. Thirty minutes later cther waves began to fly over.

coaat began to wail. The gun- The commands came sharp

sito looked

like

child's FL

CUNFIRE WAS CONTINUOUS

One gunner off duty, standing

I counted 24 bombers in one beside me, said. "we are going to

Christmas toy with tin-hatted and fast, and the guns began to And range finders wing all around the compass. Kunners gathered inside the gun-plt and The lieutenant at the thin murderous noses of 3.7 finder, which looks like a double- flight alone, I could hear the use up some ammunition to-

nosed cannon and swings around lieutenant fixing the altitude at day."

'New Order' for Europe

If Hitler la really as con- of vic- fident tory as he pro- feasts to

χαι

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

Tuesday, September 10, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong

Telephone: 20515

the range

Iew

like a merry-go-round, called: 18,400 feet-still a bit high for The akies within A "Range, 148; angle, nine," and accurate firing, but "hell-fire minutes were filled with German the guns swung, leaving their curner" followed them across the planes, their bellice flushing brilliantly in the sunshine. Gun- noses almost directly into the sky with a series of shell bursts fire Was almost continuous.

heavens.

whipping at their talla,

THEY MADE A MISTAKE

Eight Heinkels flashod across the channel and a neighbouring ON THE TARGET

battery took 4 hand. They cheered us when abella burat Then came the order, "On the

among the German formation. Target!" and one clutches for A few minutes later at least

The

German the first salute 25

planes sand-bags as

mere bombers-Dorniers- roared upward. and

Ten feet of protected by waves of Messer coming so fast that it was almost impossible to keep count. The Bames spouted from the muzzle schmitts roared above us. There guns swung around and around, of the nearest gun.

must have been 40 or 50 planes loosing salvo after salvo,

DISABLED - BUT YOU

CAN'T KEEP

A

Report credits Hitler with a

desire to carve A new "Flan- ders" out મ Holland, Bel- he remains

gium strangely hesi

North-Eastern tant about dis-

France. What closing his

was left of the first two woulf plans for a

According to his almost certainly be destined as "new order." propaganda he is the predestined "protectorates" of the German "liberator" of a Europe that has Reich, and the same fate would groaned for centuries under no doubt await Denmark, Nor- British "tyranny" and for 20 way and the rump of Poland, years under Versailles "sense. As for France, the Nazi Press 24 revival of Левинен." Now that he holds has hinted at

Burgundy: Alsace. Away from the Vistula to the meliæval Bay of Biscay and from the Lorraine, on which Hitler had North Cape to the Mediter many times proclaimed that he ranean, what is there to prevent had no designs, has already, it him from conferring on Europe seems, been unobstrusively re- the Greater some of those benefits for which incorporated in she is supposed to have been Reich; and the Nazi radio has waiting so long? Yet, as the just announced the creation of weeks pass by the only benefits an independent Brittany, Hitler whose passion for flying rose teenuse of his wooden leg

here apparently dis-above grave disabilities. conferred

the "liberated" having peoples are fresh plunderings of covered an unwonted solicitude their fields and warehouses, for the rights of self-determina- more Gestapo forays, and the tion of small nations. prospect of an indefinite future Although Hitler is clearly of humiliation and servitude. reluctant to show his hand. no can doubt for u moment Only in vague hints rather one than in overt acts or avowals de what he would do in Europe to we gain faint glimpses of the morrow if Britain were out of of direction in which the way. He would subject the Hitler's mind is working. It whole Continent to one form or seems that countries like Hol- another of political and econo- land, Denmark and

France mic thraldom. To save Europe would be required to de-indus- and herself and other Continents trialise themselves, restrict as well from that fate is the themselves almost exclusively meaning of Britain's fight. All to agriculture and become pre- non-Axia European countries, dominantly dependent on Ger- however the free expression of many for their markets.

GOOD FLYER DOWN

Nort

on

the leg- DOUGLAS BADER,

lena Flying Officer who blasted a Dornier out of the sky, on a list of pilots set the seal

By J. D. S. ALAN Air Correspondent

They laughed at Carlin when he that tried to join the R.A.F., so he learned Eight years ago I learned Bnder had started a special flying to y privately, then bullies!

and Course Here was a fine story I saw worried his way into the service, it under a headline such as:

Nu 74 Squadron In France

were

Nieuport scout. The I was am- pututed, but he returned to the front to By an S.E.3

He was killed in a crass after his machine caught fire.

WILLY Coppens, the Belgian ace (now a Chevalier), lost a leg towards the end of his brilliant war career, in was which his successes included destruc- "Rugby Hero Flying With very sad on the day his little S.E.5 tion of 25 German balloons.

Two Artificial Legs."

I consulted the Air Ministry and

Was

did not come home.

He started flying with an artificial A few days later a German pri- leg, and in the first two years, in. soner was brought in. He asked if which he was Air Attache to London they had an officer with a wooden leg. and Paris, made 52 cross-Channel fie sald that a machine crashed be- trips in his small private machine.

Major Munnock, V.C., greatest of

German front line. He would not eye. stop till they cracked him over the

The Indian, Wiley Post, and the head with a rifle and look

Imperial Airways pilot, Captain Hin- prisoner,

"That's Carlin" suld the relieved each had lost an eye.

chliffe, did excellent work after they

British pilots.

told: "It is true, and we cannot ask you to stop the story. Bader must behind the German lines. An officer

If you print the with a wooden leg tried to make his all fighting pilots, wangled his way valided out soon. story questions will be asked, and way from the wreckage through the into the Air Force with a defective he will not be allowed to finish his course."

The story did We agreed to forget. Any opinion may for the time be such scheme would, of course, gagged, are looking to Britain to

not come out until it was too late to do Bader any harm. involve for all of them a tremen- restore their liberties and to dous fall in their standard of enable them to play ench their living and the denial of any part in determining with us and pretence of economic freedom. with one another what sort of As to their political status, no n Europe they shall live in. information is vouchsafed, a Their faith in us will not be dis- fact in itself sufficiently ominous, appointed.

Salute to Hader and thuse unnamed R.A.F. and Air Ministry officials whe turned the blind eye.

M M

A VIGOROUS air fighter in 1918 was "Tumbertocs" Carlin, so called

The Head of Heartbreak House

IN

a room of the Palace of St. To Heartbreait House, every day, they are sent on to the countries con- James,, where not long ago come long lines of people.

splendid uniforms glowed in the proud ceremonial of a Royal | Lovee, works the Chatelaine of Heartbreak House.

cerned.

Each day thousands of inquiries

utter through the letter-box.

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AND who Is the Chatelaine of Heartbreak House?

She would not be at all anxious for THERE was a Foreign Ofee de- you to know. Middle-aged, with For 12 hours every day, and often partment in the British Red Cross kind, twinkling eyes, Miss S. J. seven days a week, she sits at her Society before the war. It was only Warner does not court pubilcity. She desk, while through her healing when Hitler unrolled his winding-just carries on with her job.

That is why she has just been fingers run, in a ecaseless stream, the sheet over Europe that families were war's most poignant letters.

separated on a scale never known be- nwarded the O.B.E fore. For she is the head of the "Foreign Office" of the British Red Cross: So-

And the Chatelaine of Heartbreak Luxury Tax Expected

New Budget Plans

clety; and it is her job to provide House, with a few friends, decided to a link between thousands of anxious help in the task of soothing the men- people in this country and their re-tal anguish of their relatives and latives lost in Poland, Norway, friends.

Sir Kingsley Wood, Chancellor of the Exchequer, may make an an Czacho-Slovakia, France, Italy, Bel- To-day, 65 people work with her,nouncement in the House of Com gum, Denmark, Holland, and the All, save the shorthand-typists, work mons on the future of the. Purchase Channel Isles.

Tax Bill.

HINTMEnt Westminster that! She works to give hope to; thou They send all addresses and parile the bill will be dropped and that the sunds who without it would have only culars to the Red Cross headquarters tax itself will figure in a modified despair.

Min Geneva, where, after being fled, form in the Budget as a luxury fax,

unpaid.

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☆

WAY back in 1917 Lieutenant Mor

.

Karius, ace in the Richthofen squadron, had only one hand.

And Guynemer, most dashing of. gan, M.C., of No. 40 Squadron, had all French aces, was so delicate that. one leg practically severed by a shell no branch of the French, infantry

at 0,000 feet while he was flying a would accept him.

ZEL

ONWARD HEATHEN SOLDIERS I

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