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HOW IT FEELS TO JUMP

THREE

NATURDAY was not such

Sa successful day from my point of view, as on our third patrol I lost my aircraft,

We were nt- about 21,000ft. when we got involved with a squadron of Messerschmitt 109's. They got me even be fore I saw them. which was very annoying. .

I first felt a curious sort of bump, and as I turned to sce what was up my controls felt funny; a lot of red sparks and black smoke appeared around my feet, and a cloud of white smoke-probably glycol-he- gan streaming back from the engine.

The aircraft began going downhill fant. I slid back the hood and began to get out; my goggles were whipped off, and my helmet began to lift up in the slip stream.

I realised I had not undone my straps, so I pulled out the retaining pin and stood up, standing on anything which came handy (the seat, the in- strument panel, or the stick, I don't really know), Thọ nir seized hold of me, and there was a wrench na my oxygen tube snapped off (I had for- golten to undo it), and I shot out into the sky.

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The aeroplane disappeared. *

It was nice and cool falling. I was head down, of course, but found the position quite comfortable. There was no sense of speed, or any feeling of falling.

I had a look at the clouds below me (they were at about

MILES

BY THE PILOT

OF A SHOT-DOWN HURRICANE

How it feels to jump HL from a blazing fighter plane three miles up is described here in a letter from

a Hurricane pilot who had to bale out-Fly- ing Officer Ralph Hope, a nephew of the late Mr Neville Chamberlain.

4,000-5,000ft.), and then col- lected the odd bits of my hel- met and had a look round.

My parachute was still on Both my boots were my seat. on, and I didn't seem to have lost anything except my gog-. gles, a handkerchief and map. They must have fallen out of the pockets in my knees when I first went upside down.

After a while I thought about pulling the rip-cord.

I seemed to have fallen a goodish way, so I pulled. The canopy streamed out, there was a hard jerk, and there I was right side up, quite com fortable, and floating slowly... oh, so slowly-earthwards.

I was at about 9,000ft, to 10,000ft. then, so I had fallen for about 8,000ft.-9,000ft. (from about 18,000ft.), and might have fallen farther with advantage.

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When I looked up I could sce the shining white canopy above me, and little silver specks having no end of a dog fight in the

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whine, but that was the only di turbance.

The parachute began to swing me about and it was not long he- fore I felt sick-very sick, In fact by the time I landed.

my

It was fun going into the clouds as the sun played a sort of spectre of the brocken" effect on shadow 18 I approached them. When I emerged, the countryside tooked pleasantly open, and after drifting quite a way thought I saw where I should lond.

Two farm hands had the same Idea, We were ail wrong. In spite of attempts on my part to avoid it. I came down in a spinney of young oak trees, pulling up short about 20ft. from the ground, hang- ing in my harness.

I managed to get hold of a trunk, pull myself over to it, get out of the parachute harness, and climb to the ground, where I remained quite still until I was found.

The Army soon took charge of me, gave me a drinks and some lunch, and drove ine back to my base.

The only damage I sustained was n hefty bruise on my right shoulder from hitting the tail as I jumped, and a bruise on my leg and a torn trouser from the nomewhat un- ceremonious descent through the upper branches of the ook.

Now I go about with my arm in a sling, feeling particularly good as I have been given a week's sick leave,

N his first patrol, after return-

ing to duty, Flying Officer Hope was killed he stayed too long in his crippled Hurricane, he stayed long enough to make sure the machine would not crash on buildings, but too long to enable him to jump to safety,

His father's photograph is now one of the cherished records-of-his-unit-- No. 605 (County of Warwick Auri- llary) Squadron of the R.A.F. Fighter Command.

ISTANBUL.

VERMANY'S big problem GoMANocht is to

Turkey out of the war.

To succeed in this, she must forfeit some of her aims in the Balkans. Hitler must restrain his desire, to march through Bulgaria to help his ally Mussolini in the campaign against Grecce,

For Turkey has given a categorical assurance that any move from Bulgaria into Greece means that Turkey enters the war, against the Axis.

I have been told that "men- sures of the utmost import- ance will be taken by Turkey in the near future.”

This statement was not made by extremists; but by responsible people in legisla- tive circles hore.

No Mobilisation

The same sources, added that this should not be taken as meaning a declaration of

war.

Turkey, to-day, is complete- ly prepared for war in every respect. But general mobili- antion is considered as unlike- ly for the present.

Looking at the general Bal- kan situation from here, it seems reasonable to assume that Germany will avoid a direct move through Bulgaria unless forced to it by a com- plete Italian failure.

Yet there are many com- petent observers who take the view that continued Greek re- . sistance will force Hitler to act.

FAMILY LIFE IN

TUBES IS NEAR

I'M a fairly equable person. I

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think, but twice revently I had inoments when I could have chear- fully slaln two of my fellow women. Mothers, too, they were. The first time was when, with another Journalist, I was making tour of the London tuber 10 report

there un conditions woman with a tired-eyed, little boy said: "Oh, if

only

they have compulsory evacuation. Itis brother is in the country and quite happy, but his father and I feel we want this one with us for company. We know we ought to send him, and If we had no choice we should have our minds made up for us, shouldn't we?"

I thought of the mothers who hnd set their teeth and sent their children off on the long journey And I made

· overseas to safety.. no reply, though I

ahould bnve liked to.

Weary Mito

The second time was when I was travelling by tube through London in the early evening on my way back from the country. I nearly fell over a bored, weary, unhappy mito of five who, with no toys to divert her mind, was Ad- geting and grizzling.

Her mother looking up from u magazine, administered a hearty slap to the child and went back to her reading.

By sheer luck, I had a rag book and some toys in my bag.

They had been intended for a depot in London, but the book, and a fascinating elephant that wagaled its head when you pushed it, were left with the baby, who promptly rubalded in a passion of Interest.

In The Basket

For the most part, the families who take shelter on platforms every night. are -sensibly and cleverly adapting themselves, to conditions

Small children, and older ones too, have their toys, and their. books, for boredom is one of the enemies we've got to fight in this

By.

VICTORIA CHAPPELLE

seem

Germany is known to have over a million troops concen- trated in south-cast Europa ready to atrike. If these troops march through Bul- garia to the Greek frontier, Turkey has made it quité plain that she will oppose them.

But it is possible that Ger- many and Italy will col- laborate in a move through Jugoslavia against Grecce, and in that event Turkey's attitude is uncertain.

Soviet Warning

Hitler may take advantage of the persistent disunity of the Jugoslavs to enter their country and progress from there to the aid of his Italian ally in Greece.

Russia's attitude to the whole Balkan situation is un- certain, but there are many reports which indicate that she wants to help the small nations against Germany.

For example, Russia is said to have given the present Greek authorities evidence of a Fifth Column plot to de- throne King George of Grecco and to set up a regime more favourable to the Axis,

On this information, the Greek authorities were able to act.

Other reports, this time from Bucharest, Bay that Russia warned Bulgaria that any attempt to further Ger- man desires in the Balkans would be regarded as an un- friendly act..

Germany is said to be aware of this Russian attitude and for that reason-is-more-likely- to move through Jugoslavia to Italy's aid in Greece than through Bulgaria.

LONDON'S NORMAL

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war and most mothers realise it. One evening I noticed a small baby comfortably asleep In a bli market basket which had been fitted with a pillow and a couple of tiny light blankets. There he lay, protected from the cold of the floo

floor and the

the draughts of the tunnel.

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In the morning, his mother told me, her 10-year-old son and she carry the basket home between them that the child remains in the

comfortable

relaxed position. I thought this an ex- cellent notion, which might well be adopted for general use when. travelling with a young child.

"Soup For Us”

Another little group was thor-" oughly enjoying supper-but they weren't drinking the tea which nearly every family seems to take in vacuum flasks.

"It's soup for us," said the Jolly buxom woman, obviously tho mother of the family. "I make it from bones and let it simmer on the hob. Then, when we're ready to start, I pop the saucepan (which wooden isn't a very big one) into. box, which is lined with straw and then with flannel, and has a straw- ilned cushion on top tied down with string, and two of the kids. cafry it between them. With bits of meat in it and vegetables and much-like, 'It's as good ņe a meal and all we want until the morn- ing."

“Mrs Alf"

like a cup of tea, lady, would you?- We've got an extra one."

I sat gratefully down on tho platform. "You must have read my though

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at once.

good of

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kinder looked sorry you for yourself," said the owner of the voice, a thin, brisk looking woman,

who talked to me, fed two children, and poured out tea all She smiled cheerfully. "Alf," she turned to a quiet man with

large

moustache and amazingly kind eyes-"You wipe Which out your cup for the lady." Alt silently did.

When I'd finished I said: "You must drink all your ration."

All nodded like a mandarin, and Mrs Alf replied:

"We do, we drink

Jots, but wo use the leaves again Oh, nut for drink- ing," cite added hastily, seeing the surprised look on my face, "For polishing I do all the house over with it Like this you collect all leaves every week and then

on some. boiling water a_quart, say and leave it a bit.

Then

you pour the liquid Into a battle. Why, I polish Iino- leum and glasses and windows and furniture with it, and it acts grand. The neighbours say you con sen your face in my windows. You Esk Alf."

pour about

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She paused and an extraordinary look of surprise' came over her face. "Leastways," sho added hastily, "You could. But two days ago a bomb went off in the

rond, and the house is a bit upset

shoulders

suddenly and she leaned, a trine forlornly, against the wall. Then she straigh- tened herself firmly and looked at Alf. "But the gentleman sold wo can go back to-morrow and we'll soon have it ship-shape again, won't wel" ller gaze sought her husband's anxiously. as though

It was from a second family that I learned of a new use" for tea leaves I had decided to make a dash for it, but the noise outside-begging for confirmation. was terrific, so I wandered back into the depth of the tube and stood there uncertainly. Sudden ly I heard a voice: "Wouldn't

All's kind eyes rested affection- ately on her face, and for the Arst time he spoke. That's right, old. lady."le

said. "In no time at all."

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