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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 19, 1940,

Goering's Suicide Squad' Mend Shattered Nerves In Norway

LARGE numbers of German pilots and airmen are now resting in Norway. They are men who have been bombing London, and according to statements made to a reporter recently by a man just returned from that country, they are far from

a happy band.

"They are known as the Suicide Squad," he said. "A number are pilots who used to fly passenger planes between Germany and London. Few, however, are volunteers. The daylight raids are referred to as 'death trips."."

The German pilots based in France, Belgium, or Holland, after two or three raids over England, are ordered to fly their machines to airfields in Norway. Even though they fly from a French base on their first raid over England, they do not return to it. They go to a base in another part of France, or to Bél- glum or Holland.

SECRETS FROM NAZI SCRAPS

the Navy's

German propagandists are spread- This is part of the practice ing stories throughout Norway of the carried out by the German High Imminent collapse of England. A few Command to keep the pilots from weeks ago they were saying that

Leakages In į Invasion was about to begin or had talking of their experiences or taken place from France and blockade of Germany, and the speculating as to loanes Rus Belgium.

effect of the blockade on the tained.

"Actually the Germans transported Gorman economic system, are thousands of troops to Norway' to train them for the impending invasion. being tracked from the wreckage There were many rehearsals on the of planes and from odd scraps of Dust, the troops being taken to sen enemy war material which fall in small steamers and fching craft into our hands.

"We never know where

we are

going after a ruid over London," one pilot told the informant. "Sometimes we fly under sealed orders, at others a radio message comes through while we are in the air. During raids we have to maintain radio touch with headquarters and report progress,"

Allough there is no apparent shortage of skilled plots and crown, Germany is now adopting methods of compulsion to obtain pilots. Young officers are taken from cavalry and other regiments and ordered to report for a training.

Under Arrest

Recently threa young officers of a famous cavalry regiment were ordered to report for training as bomber pilots. The other officers in the mens decided to give a farewell dinner to them. The dinner became known "Farewell to the Suicide Squad!"

Beralt. the organisers placed under arrest, und' all who attended were punished by being sent le danger posta

As the

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Norway to-day is being prepared as the jumping-off ground for intensive raids over Northern England and Scotland is the spring.

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Looted Everything. "The Germans," said the informant, "have looted everything and sent great quantities of food Into Germany, Meat can be had on only one day a week-lf supplies are available. Most of the butchers' shops are closed.

"Civilians are now living mostly un vegetables they have grown them- welves"

"Many of these troops had never seen the sea, much less experienced its behaviour. They went aboard the vessels full of sice. How different was their return,

Some had actually to be

carried ashore. They would have

been pretty fine Invading army

for the British to deal with." Although the air pilots admit that their losses have been in excess of what the most pessimistle antlelpated, they say that there is no real shortage of materials.

...

Every plane which comes down in Britain, every piece of equipment. It contains, even the uniforms of Ger- man prisoners, are closely examined by skilled technicians.

When they And anything a litle out of the ordinary the scientists get to work and changes in manufacture materials are traced. or the adoption of new substitute

UFS

FAMILY PARTING-More than 3,500 Puerto Ricans are in army training in Uncle Sam's tropical outpost. Above, Puerto Rican National Guardsman bids farewell to wife and baby at San Juan.

Scotsman New Chief No Basic Changes Are

"Changed Woman" At Scotland Yard

Awarded £1,654

A Scot, Superintendent Alec Bell, Constable of Scotland-yard. has been appointed to be

He succeeds Chief Constable John

A woman who was stated to have become a nervous wreck through a street nccident way Horwell recently appointed to the awarded £1,654 damages and Provost Marshal's department of the

R.A.F. Costs in the King's Bench Divi- sion recently.

She is Miss Emily Josephine Hoban, aged 44, of Oakley Square, Hamp stead Road, N.W., who fractured her skull when a G.P.O. van backed into her.

Miss Hoban had not been able to

resume working.

"She is now a changed woman," sald lier counsel.

Liability was not disputed by the defendant, Edwin Gentleman, of Onkford Road, N.W,

To All vacancies

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Needed In The Army

DRASTIC investigation into the part which the British Army played in the three weeks' battle of France has revealed that its organisation was excellent and its weapons first class.

Immediately the French capitulated (writes a military cor- superintendents the commissioner has respondent) a number of committees were set up and examined promoted Chief Inspector Richard many witnesses to find out if there were any flawa in the organi- Ivor Rees, who was born in Glamor-sation of the British Army.

an forty-six years ago.

The evidence has shown con- cently appointed liaison officer beclusively that no basic change warfare, great changes had been tween Scotland and M.I.5, also be is required. comes superintendent.

Chief Inspector Leonard Burt,

Detective Inspector Greeno, the Yard's motor bandils specialist, promoted chief Inspector,

Great Changes To meet the demands of modern

made in Army organisation between the end of the last war and the be

Alterations which are neces- ginning of this. sary are few and of a minor Perhaps the most striking altera- character.

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Circle, Is Accused

Alfred Hartley, aged twenty, of Market-street, Whitworth (Lanes). was accused at Rochdale recently of attempting to commit suicide by throwing himself from the upper circle of the Theatre Royal there. He was remanded for medical observa- tion.

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thought of committing su but I

Hartley, who was not seriously hurt, was alleged to have said, "I had been courting a girl and she jilted me and got married last Saturday. I changed my mind. On

night, while in the Theatre Royal, I decided to smash myself up and get put in the infirmary for a few weeks."

Superintendent French sald the woman on whom Hartley fell was badly injured. It was not known how long it would be before she re- cavered.

BEGGAR'S GIFT

TO WAR FUND Moved by the German atrocities.on London, a beggar at the city gate went to Lucknow magistrates and paki in four annas (about 42d.), the whole of his day's takings, to the Governor's war fund.

He had heard of the raids on Lon- don on the radio,

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When the crisis le past in illness, recovery may still be a long way of -The real turning point for the better comes when the pallent begins to fill out and pick up noticeably from day to day,

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