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NAZIS FLEW TOO HIGH

TO BE

HURT

By DAN CAMPBELL

(United Press Staff Correspondent)

In this flight, flying at the comparatively low altitude of 13,000 feet.

The lieutenant gave the rango and the guns thundered. I held 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 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 period of time.

succession with con-

mearis

formation. smoking.

about fivo miles.

side-slipping and

There was a tremendous back- The gun-site is really a corner guns slowly swinging about as of the coast jutting out towards the lieutenant at the range wash of air beating hot around

Almost at the same time, a Ander barked out instructions. our pants-legs and flapping our France. Far up the channel, a

Dornier came in at A low We stood around for an hour 3.78 beat the air, sometimes in conta. One after another, the convoy could be seen by using

altitude, whining toward the glasses, and was also receiving while the gunners cursed be-

sen. Guns quickly swung swift the ominous attention of a Ger- cause "Jerry is flying too high.”

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

After 30 minutes one lleuten- forth on our heels.

He miles in the other direction, the ant stated that "you may smoke learned to listen for the firing channel and was almost certain We soon was smoking as he crossed the Germans had already sent over outside your gun-pit," and the command and then hold on to our net to reach the French coastline

few shells to calibrate their

gunnera walked out in disgust. KUNS.

But a minute later they were on

cars.

so plainly visible that trains I arrived at the gun-site in the alert again. The range was

There were expressions of dis- and docks at Calais stood out mid-afternoon just as airens in 23,000 feet and we could hear Xrst as the German planes float- clearly on the horizon. the town below and, along the them droning over us,

cd for overhead through the const began to wail. The gun- The commands

barrage and thlugs died down again. Thirty minutes later

ther waves began to fly over.

site

looked

gunners

child's a like

enme sharp

GUNFIRE WAS CONTINUOUS

One gunner off duty, standing I counted 24 bombers in one beside me, said. "wo are going to

Christmas toy with tin-hatted and fast, and the guns began to and range-finders swing all around the compass. gathered inside the gun-pit 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 lo-

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

'New Order' for Europe

If Hitler is

really as con-

Federal of vie. tory us he pro- to be.

fossis

21

The

the range

like a merry-go-round, called: 18,400 feet-still a bit high for The akies within 2 few "Range, 148; angle, nine," and accurate firing, but "hell-fire minutes were filled with German the guns swung leaving their corner" followed them across the planes, their bellies flashing noses almost directly into the sky with a series of ahult bursts brilliantly in the sunshine. Gun-

whipping at their tails.

heavens.

Report credits Hitler with

desire to carve W "Plan-

1?

ON THE TARGET

Hongkong Telegraph.ders out of

Tuesday, September 10, 1940.

Wyndham St., Hongkong

Telephone: 20015

Then came the order, "On the Target!" and one clutches for sund-bugs a the first salute 25

THEY MADE A

MISTAKE

A few minutes later at least

more bombers-Dorniers-

fire Wis nimest continuous. Eight Heinkels flashed across the channel and a neighbouring battery took a band. They cheered us when shells burst among the German formation.

The German planes

were

The

Holland.

Bel- gium and roared upward. Ten feet of protected by waves of Messer coming so fast that it was almost North-Eastern flames spouted from the muzzle schmitts roured above us. There guns awung around and around.

impossible to keep count. France. What

of the nearest gun.

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

was left of the first two would

he remains strangely hesi- tani about dis- closing his plans for

According to his almost certainly be destined as "new order. ́* propaganda he is the predestined "protectorates" of the German "liberator" of a Eurupe that has Reich, and the same fate would Krowned for centuries ander no doubt await Denmark, Nur- British "tyranny" and for 20 way and the rump of Poland. As for France, the Nazi Press years ander Versailles "sense.

JL revival of lessness." Now that he holds has hinted at

Burgundy; Alsace sway from the Vistula to the media-val Bay of Biscay and from the Lorraine, on which Bitter had North Cape to the Mediter many times proclaimed that the ranean, what is there to prevent had in designs, has already. him from conferring on Europe seems, been unobstrusively re

in The Greater some of those benefits for which incorporated 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 conferred the "liberated" having here

dis- Apparently 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 snjall nations. prospect of an indefinite future

ןןןן

DISABLED-BUT YOU CAN'T KEEP A

GOOD FLYER

DOUGLAS BADER, the leg

By J. D. S. ALAN Air Correspondent

less Flying Ofeer who blasted a Hornier out of the sky,

on a list of pilots .......... set the seni

for flying rose because of his wooden leg whose passion above grave disabilities.

Fight year's ago 1 learned Bade bad started

VALESC

They laughed at Carlin when he

that tried to join the R.A F, so he learned special flying to By privately then hullerd und Here was a line story i suw worried his way into the service

No. 74 Squadron in France

it under a headline such as:

DOWN

Nieuport souf, The legs ANTIUM +11+

pulated, but he returned to the front

to fly nn SEA

He was killed in a trash after his

machine caught åre.

*

WILLY Coppens, the Belgian bee (now a Chevaller}, 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 SF.5 tion of 25 German balloons.

Two Artificial Legs."

told

<id not come home.

He started flying with an arti@cful A few days later n German pri- leg, and in the first two years, in

Although Hitler is clearly of humiliation and servitude, reluctant to show his hand, no Only in vague hints rather one can doubt for a moment than in overt acts or avowals do what he would do in Europe to we gam faint glimpses of the morrow if Britain were out of

of sort

direction in which the way. He would subject the

I consulted the Air Ministry and soner was brought in. He asked if which he was Air Attache to London Hither's mind is working. It whole Continent to one form or

they had an officer with a wooden leg and Paris, made 42 cross-Chonnel seems that countries like Hol- another of political and econo-

He said that a machine crashed be- trips in his small private machine. "It is true, and we cannot ask yuhind the German lines. An officer land, Denmark

France mic thraldom. To save Europe

must be

Major Mammock, V.C., greatest of Lo stop the atory. Boder would be required to de-indus- and herself and other Continents

with a wooden leg tried to make his all fighting pilots, wangled his way If you print the trialise themselves, restrict as well from that fate is the invalided out soon. themselves almost exclusively meaning of Britain's fight. All story questions will be asked, and a from the wreckage through the into the Air Force with a defective

German front line. He would not eye. to agriculture and become pre- non-Axis European countries, he will not be allowed to finish his

stop t they cracked him over the The Indian, Wiley Post, dominantly dependent on Ger- however the free expression of course."

head with a rifle and took prisoner.

him Imperial Airways pilet, Captain Hin- many for their markets, Any opinion may for the time be Ruch scheme would, of course. gagged, are looking to Britain to

chliffe, did excellent work after they "That's Carlin!" said the relleved each had lost an eye. involve for all of them a tremen- restore their liberties and to

British plots. dous fall in their standard of enable them to play each their living and the denial of any part in determining with us and pretence of economic freedom. with one another what sort of R.A.F. and Air Ministry officials who As to their political status, no a Europe they shall live in. information is vouchsafed, a Their faith in us will not be dis- fact in itself sufficiently ominous, appointed.

The Head

IN

a room of the Palace of St. James, where not long ago splendid uniforms glowed in the proud ceremonial of a Royal Levec, works the Chatelaine of Heartbreak House.

We agreed to forget. The story did not come out until it was too late to do Bader any harm.

Salute to Bader and those unnuined

turned the blind eye.

M M

M

and the

*

Karjus, ace In the Richthofen squadron, had only one hand.

WAY back in 1017 Lieutenant Mor-

And Guynemer, most dashing of

Infantry

gan. M.C., of No. 40 Squadron, hud all French aces, was so delicate that one leg practically severed by a shell no branch of the French

A VIGOROUS pir Oghter in 1918 at 0,009 feet while he was flying a would accept him: was "Timbertoes" Curlin, so called

of Heartbreak House

To Heartbreak House, every day. they are sent on to the countries con- come long lines of people.

corned.

Each day thousands of inquiries |

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AND who is the Chatelaine of Heartbreak House? .

utter through the letter-box.

رحمه

She would not be at all anxious for THERE was a Foreign Office de- you to know.. Middle-aged, with For 12 hours every day, and often partment in the British Red Cross kind, twinkling eyes, Mas S. seven days a week, she sits at her Society before the war. It was only Warner does not court publicity. Sho desk, while through her healing when Hitler, unrolled his winding- just, caries on with her job. fingers run, in a ceaseless stream, the sheet over Europe that families were That is why she has just been

separated on a scale never known be awarded the 'OBE. war's most polgnant letters...

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And the Chatelaine of Heartbreak Luxury Tax Expected

New Budget Plans

For sho is the head of the "Foreign Ofee" of the British Red Cross So- clely; and it is her job to provide House, with a fow friends, decided to a link between thousands of anxious help in the task of soothing the men- people in this country and their ro-tal anguish of their relatives and

Sir Kingsley Wood, Chanceller of latives lost in Poland Norway, friends,

the Exchequer, may make an an~ Czecho-Slovakia, France, Italy, Bel- To-day, 05 people work with her, nouncement in the House of Com- klum, Denmark, Holland, and the All, save the shorthand typists, work mens on the future of the Purchase Channel Islas. De

BOOKMARK Tax Bu yoyoter that It is expected.nt

She works to give hope to thou- They send all addresses and parti- the bull will be dropped and that the aands who without it would have only culurs to the Red Cross headquarters tax itself will figure in a modifed despair,

112 In Geneva, where, after being filed, form for the Budget as a luxury tax-

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