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DEATH

GONSALVES --On November 7, 1940, at her residence, 25 Homuntin St., Kowloon, Morin Hyndman Gonsalves,

59 years. aged Funeral will pass the Monument at 5.30 p.m. (Macao, Shanghai and Manila papers please copy).

The

Thongkong Telegraph.

Thursday, Nov. 7, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 26015

November 7, 1940.

SPITFIRE PATROL

"AND what," I said ing of darts, their chess; and that I was silently calling down post, whence the ground de

walted.

all the luck at my disposal on fences are controlled.

warily to the squa- From a long distance came the pilots who were about to dron commander, the sound of a civilian siren, take the air. "should one particularly howling the warning. Then "And what happens now?" I.... avoid-if anything-in "Guns," commented one pilot writing about the Royal absently. Air Force?"

the boom of anti-aircraft guns, asked.

The telephone rang again.

He did not hesitate. "Stand by," said the squadron "All that film stuff. All commander, that drip," he said, "about heroics.”

"Bird-man stuff?”- "That sort of drip," he agreed.

London waited. We waited.

Back for Tea Eventually we returned to the

"Oh, I stand by the phone mess, and, on our heels, the until the last minute," said the squadron came swooping down squadron commander, Then to home and ten,

It had been a quiet. patrol, the time comes to scramble, and when they see me get into my "for once. Not a banditas plane, they all get off."

they call the Germans--hind been encountered.

Out of some technical 'talk'

He kept the receiver to his

"All except me," said a Can- car, and squinted out of the windows at the weather.

dian, with a great affectation of roguishness. "The doctor made round the ten table, and some "Yes"to the Instrument me promise that I positively squadron

· domestic comments by the 'commander, there all right." And to the pilots wouldn't fly to-day."

floated a passionate protest by "Got out to your 'planes."

had wanted to Again the telephone. "Patrol the pllot who Papers were dropped. Chairs at 15,000 feet

Blank? show his badge to the photo- We were talking in the mess creaked. The door

grapher. slammed

Right!" The squadron com- of the fighter squadron whose open in a gale of wind from the mander stood up.

He was slightly more sinister in apponfance than he had been guest I was, and, if I may be field. The room emptied of the

"Good-bye!" he cried, and before, for his goggles had given allowed one spot of drip, I felt men who were to fly.

The squadron commander re- was gone.

him two lovely black eyes.

"These flies are appalling!*

my age.

.

over

By F. G. H. Salusbury

he said, spreading honey on his.

The men reminded me BO vividly of others in whose com- mained at the telephone. "Tell I watched the squadron com- bread. "It's fantastic where pany the last war was fought 'em to get into their 'planes," mander climb into his plane. they come from."

he said to another officer, "but All the propellers swung

"Ah, yes," said the intelli- by my generation.

not to start off."

through a haze into thunderous gence officer, "you're haunted by Then-Hullo The squadron I was visiting

they're invisibility. Then, with a roar, les, aren't you?" is on the doorstep of London what? Righto."

plane after plane followed him, "Haunted my foot! It's no and, since the "blitz" began, it The propellers of the fighters charging off the ground into the laughing matter," the pilot pro-

teeth of the wind.

tested-and he really seemed a his had very little leisure be- were flicking round. The gun-

ners, manning the A.A. defences Soon they were lost in the little nervous-they're infec- of the station, were looking up. clouds. Then they emerged, as thous things, flies are. They're

-white as gulls in the sunlight; damned dangerous things!".

and, as we watched, the scream And that, I, take leave to sug- of the station siren warned as gest, is as good an example as If I had not been warned of enemy aircraft. While one will be at "thirty-

you will find of ability to pre- minutes available,”

We hopped on a lorry and serve one's sense of proportion meaning against drip, I would say that that all pilots must be within not only was I thrilled, but also bumped across to the command in war time.

tween dawn and dusk.

Action!

thirty minutes of the aerodrome and accessible by telephone, "fifteen another will be at minutes available," and another at "readiness."

Readiness means that the squadron must be off the ground within three minutes, if neces- sury: and a call may go out, at any time bringing all the squa- drons to readiness simultaneous

THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph is used by the longkang Telegraph to Indicate nowe which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni.y. cations Ordinance, 1836. Such DAWA KI bears the Indiexion “U L"roteived la Hongkong on the date of publication by

It was my privilege to see the the United Frem Associations, who te-system "In hetion, but, before serve all rights and forbid republication. JUST RECEIVED BY AIR!

either wholly or in part without previons that, we had lunch, and, before arrangement

lunch, some. photographs were SEE THE MOST SPECTACULAR PICTURES OF THE WAR !

taken... SQUADRON OF NAZI BOMBERS SHOT DOWN WHILST

ATTACKING DOVER HARBOUR ! ·

BRITAIN'S BIG GUNS IN ACTION! CONVOYS AND MERCHANT SHIPS REPELLING RAIDERS! INVESTITURES AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE BY THE KING-1 ITALIAN PRISONERS FROM 3 SUBMARINES AFTER DESTRUCTION BY NAVY IN MEDITERRANEAN ! _THE_KING_AND QUEEN VISITING A NEW FACTORY ! MORE CANADIAN REINFORCEMENTS ARRIVING IN

ALSO SCENES SHOWING SIR ARCHIBALD SINCLAIR, G. BERNARD SHAW, GAS DRILL ON BATTLESHIP, TACTICAL MANOEUVRES ETC. ETC.

ENGLAND !

THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY At the KING'S

together with "HIS GIRL FRIDAY”

Have you booked your seats for

Someone

at the

Door?

THE EVACUATION

BOMBSHELL

This necessitated the donning of Mae Wests a bulgy kind of life-jacket which functions in- the event of a pilot, who has baled out, coming down in the

NO bigger bombshell could have been dropped in Hongkong than yesterday's official an-sen.. nouncement, that, acting upon

I?"

"No, you can't."

instructions from the 'Seereinry "Oh, sir," one pilot besought of State for the Colonies, the the squadron-commander, strik- Government has abandoned the ing an attitude, "but I would so compulsory evacuation scheme. like to show my badge! Can't It will mean rejoicing for some two or three hundred women who were reluctantly awaiting their turn to be ejected from the "Oh, sir" sighed the other, Colony; but what of those who and proceeded, in mock distress, so readily answered the original to cover the squadron badge on summons and are now in Aus- his flying overall with tralia? For they, it scems, West's ample charms. must perforce remain parted

Good - Bye!"

THE GERMANS AND AIR LOSSES

No of planes

GERMAN LOSSES

175-

Height of column Shaded portion

British stalement of German lossco German admission of losses

1504

125

100-

-75-

50

Mae

25

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cheerful."

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8:31 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

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from their husbands, the Im-instructions, "all life-like and perial Government refusing to allow the restrictions upon their return to be lifted.

It was shortly before thrée This is going to create an O'clock that the telephone rang. anomaly capable of producing The squadron commander an- an outcry which will make the swered it, and turned to the men protests regarding the original with the words "Brought to evacuation sound like half-readiness." hearted whispers.

There was a brisk movement The text of the official an- towards Mao Weats and other nouncement is characteristically necessities. Outside, I BAW ambiguous, and for the most crews running, to the machines. part leaves unsaid nearly all

those things which should have The pilotai resumed their been said. For example, why seats, their reading, their. flick- precisely has the Imperial Government adopted this sudden volte face? The official.com- recent tribunale have been honest. munique tries to explain it by and those evacuated, have long been Hongkong's British women, both here observing that the Secretary of insisting that they are not afraid to State for the Colonies has been face any dangers so long as they can kept fully informed of the situa- bo with their men. Is the abandon- tion". What exactly is this full ment of the compulsory evacuation scheme a concession to this plea? If Information capable of bringing it is, there is still no, reason why the about the abandonment of the evacuated women should not be per- compulsory evacuation? Is it amitted to come back. changed political situation which Hitherto we have had some sym has presumably rendered the pathy for the Government which, it Colony safe? If so, it is just as hus claimed, has only been acting upon instrualions in effecting compulsory

safe for those who are away to eva

evacuation; but if the new instruc

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aro to estion,

be officially families

tion originally aro still in Hongkong profceted at the expense of those who can stay, why can't families return?

carried out Instructions, In one part of the communique the so faithfully Government Infers that the political And the Government might well bear in mind that in this case it is situation regarding Hongkong pretty rotten, for it warns that the majority which is going to suf- "shout the situation further des fer; un intolerable state of affairs. teriorate", no facilities to leave the Wo, shall expect to see a further co- Colony can be guaranteed And it ir vision of these Homealde. Instructions permit this precisely which will not worry in the near future which will

their argumentent the return of our evacuees

No of

planes

$75

150

125-

100-

75

50

1 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

SEPTEMBER

BRITISH LOSSES

Height of column= German allegation of British losses Shaded portion

British statement of losses in air fighting over Britain

LABNER 17 131) SEU DE 29 34 15 20 21 22 29.

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