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Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 26, 1941.

"This is all wrong!

The Royal Air Force has made detailed plans atudfed fighting tactics and the problems of eva- to ensure an adequate supply of highly trained sion of Nazi defences. They must know, in In- pilota, nir gunners, wireless operators and timate detail, every section of their plane and in general personnel during the war. At the Initial PICTURE (1) are seen a group of flying officers learning valve operation on a radial aero-engine. Training Wing the men learn discipline, adminis- There are scores of lectures to be attended tration, ground drill, the rudiments of the theory on airmanship, navigation, armament, signals, of flight, air navigation, gunnery, bombing, morse reconnaissance, photography, operational tactica and airmanship.

and meteorology and PICTURE (2) illustrates At the Elementary Training School they begin connaissance is an important part of the young how men are taught to use an aerial camera. Re- to learn to fly and at a Service Flying School bomber pilot's work. they take the air in operational types of air- Cross-country practice is essential for the craft.

beginner and PICTURE (3) depicts a Flight Commander checking courses on pupils' maps before he sends them out on

A Blendy flow of young men is arriving every week at the stations of the Bomber Com- mand Training,

Group of the

Training Britain's

Pilots

Air

their aerial journeys. There

n

PRIVATE LIFE

OF A PRIVATE

SERGEANT CARRIES ON

THERE are men in uniform

at this moment whose do-- ings will fill up long winter evenings in the twenty-fifth century-long after their names are forgotten.

looks seventeen; is already h ser-

Royal Air Force. They are the bomber pilots of to- great deal to be learned in this field- We have one such in our company. norrow. Indeed, they are already quickly taking their recognition of vulnerable points; how He is about twenty-one years old; their places among the bomber crews which are to pilot the aircraft so as to get the best photo-geant. bombing military objectives in Germany.

In training, physical fitness and morale, the graphic results; the geography of German or Ita-1 British airman is pre-eminent and the highest lian territory; signal procedure; the variations standards are required of them before they are of wind with height, ice accretion, cloud, fog and passed on to the operational squadrons. They thunderstorms.

are medically examined at every stage of their There is, however a social side to the lifel advancement, so that when they are fully quali- of a pilot which is probably incomparable with fied pilots, they are also perfectly fit. A pilot that of any other of the Services and there is no must be capable of flying by day or night in all more cheerful place than the officers' mess.

In sorts of weather; he will have learned_to_curry_PICTURE_{4)__are_shown_a_group of pilots at out all types of bombing attacks and will have ense after a day's work.

By Hannen Swaffer

REAL PLOTS

WAR

W to-day?

【HERE is the Guy de Maupassant

FOR

FICTION

The reply almost struck him in the face.

"We don't care," said one of the material, officers, "if the food is good."

that night the portions were bigger than ever, and the ofeers were more than pleased.

And, for days, the lorry arrived every morning full with joints-and, every lunch-time and every night, German officers ate heartily, and, in

The master of the short story found,

much In 1870, dramatic and trogi-comical, in the German conquest of France.

you can imagine the way in which Parts Now,

ore the restaurateur rushed to the oppression a hundred times more kitchen and ordered the cook to do their repletion, became almost pro-

But, even

Semitic. tyrannuus.

hls best, how the waiters were told despair, there is humour.

to be profuse in the helpings, how

Kroans

under

#mid

the

Do you know Flambaum's? It is a their master hovered around the BUT the new prosperity was too

popular Jewish restaurant in the table. Rue de Faubourg-Montmartre.

The next night six officers came-

good to last.

bled.

"Why are the Jéws getting all the food?" they asked,

In all the roads leading up to "The officers, replete with food and Montmartre, and even in the grond For years, until the Nazis entered profuse in satisfaction, went away boulevard, rival restaurateurs grum Paris, you saw in it only an occasion- delighted. al Gentile and he would be taken there, sight-seeing," by some Jewish and, in a week, the place was full of Germans. No Jews were to be seen. The Gentile would hesitate over There was no room for them.

And, under the growing patronage the chopped liver in which his host delighted, praise the lochshen soup, of Nazidom, Flambaum's took on a when once he had sampled it, ask for new prosperlly. unother helping of gefulte fish, and

friend.

enjoy, too, the kreplich, or meat in BUT, alas, it could not go on for pantry.

ever.

"Give us larger portions," demanded the Germans one night.

At Inst one complained to the Storm Troopers. They complained to General von Stulpnagel, the mill- tary governor.

That night, Flambaum's was closed, by his orders! It is strictly Kosher

again-but it has no food to sell!

ONDON, The proprietor washed his hands in Lories

invisible water in his apologies.

•

too, s ils real-lite

They tell me of a woman ambu- "Things are getting dificult," he snid. "Food is becoming scorce, and lance-driver, 25 years old, who is one we poor Jews get only the leavings of the heroines of the Blitz. in the markets,"

With the Germans, there came the Threat. The Jewish customers got fawer in number, for they feared attacks of the kind they had heard of in Berlin, Vienna and Progue.

Still, the restaurant carried on... THEN, one night, three German of.

cers stamped in! The proprietor trembled. Had the fold. pogrom begun?

"Don't lei that worry you," he was

Army lorry The officers, however, did not bully NEXT morning, an

They sat down and un-arrived outside Flambaum's. It or threaten. folded their serviettes.

was stocked high with ment. The waiters wondered.

should they do?

What

it was their master who look charge. Nervous to the extent of be- ing overpolite, ho approached the overlords of Israel,

She has corned local fame by her skill in putting out incendiaries. They fall wherever she goes, and al- ways she is off her seat in a moment, putting them out.

Nor are her colleagues far behind her in their anti-frendlery triumphs.

The other day, the and her follow- Not for long had the street seen so workers at her post received an order much. "It is with the officers' com--The chief says you are nil to at- piments," said the non-commission tend a lecture to-day." ed officer in charge!

Anxious to become profielent in Meat of all kinds was there, great every detail of their ton. they sil stdes of beef, shoulders of mutton, turned up to hear an LC.C. oficial. "Pardon me, gentlemen," he said, breasts of veal and pork, for the "I am going to instruct you how "but haven't you made a mistake? soldiers hadn't worried about what to put out Incendiary bombs," he

beanni.. Perhaps you did not see the Kosher they had taken.

There went up a great yell of care with which that was got rid of! Anyway, laughter...

gn outside.. This is a Jewish You can 'Imagine the

restaurant."

The corporal known as Bears- breath was telling us about him.

The young sergeant was Involved

He went out as a private and re- turned with stripes."

in the Withdrawal from France,

"He done all right," said Corporul Bearsbreath, E adoles in 'im you could of pushed a wheelbarrer through

Belgium was beginning to crumble. Our men, cut off, were hacking their way to the const.

We were fighting a landslide.

Our men were exhausted. The young sergeant, who had been pro- moted on the fleld, was also ex- hausted.

Under a hailstorm of jogged iron and a perpetual peeling-off of dive- bumbers spraying endless muchine- gun bullets, be found himself almost alone. But he still held the little bale or corner which he had been expected to defend.

By soine means unknown to selence, he maged to shave-Cor- Doral earsbreath says, with the sharp edge of a broken mirror.

He also polished his boots-prob- ably against the backs of his battle- dress trousers, hints Bearsbreath, with some disapproval.

At last it was necessary for him to withdraw. He did so, although his chances of survival were something like those of a beetle in the gearbox of a fast car.

He shouldered the riffes and equip- ment of his five men, and marched towards the const.

The party wua dive-bombed. The young sergeant came out of a chaos of blue flashes and hideous noises to find himself lying on his face with a lump of bomb in his back.

Presumably be applied his first leid dressing, hinta Bearsbreath, and

himself up, and marched up. blcker!

A Nazi felter-plane sighted him. and gave him a couple of bursts by waw of diversion.

He adopted the correct kneeling porttion returned ava rovinds rapid in the outclaliy- prmerthed number of seconds: LAW the plane stagger, as it were, and then come down anile pucleus of a comet af black smoke. Beartbreath _MAYN KO, Hnyway,

lte marched on. On the way he came nerons a wounded man from Durham; carried him two miles; encountered more bombe; zot behind a broken ear, and-to- Jensing his salstv-estch—brought down all- ather plane. I'm still quoting Bearsbreath, JI* hoofs, by this time, were worn out. So were the roles of his feet, lle left little red niches si ha walked,

E ought to of died, but 'e carried on just out of spite," says Bearsbreath. "De- kidem, there was only another twenty műfen to wo to the cost,"

He covered those twenty miles and renched the const; got the wounded Dur- ham man into a bost, and, there being no more room. reluctantly abandoned his eloment. and awem.

He got aboard a ship; sinod, a terrifying flure of bloot and rage, resling and coughing; dur dawn to somo hidden ra- serve of energy: raiulod « superior ofloer, and finted,

And here he is, won-what marked under his clothes, but otherwise as right an

rain.

But H.B.'s all right!”

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