1941-05-10 — Page 9

NANCY

THESE ARE AUNT FRITZI'S SOUVENIR PILLOWS AND

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SHALL WE GIVE

THEM AN AIRING?

POCKET CARTOON

"We stay here-we get shot. We go home we get fired, Each way we getta da

raspberry !"

Mussolini's

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Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

SAYI CAN'T GO OUT THERE--- DEM KIDS IS LAUGHIN^^

AT ME!

OH, ALL RIGHT.---.

I'LL HANG THESE

THINGS ON

THE LINE/

May 10-1941.

By Ernie Bushmiller

SCR

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MR RANDALL GOULD, former editor of the "Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury," had an un- usual experience on a flight to Chungking. He de- scribes the incident in the following dispatch to the "Christian Science Monitor."

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I have just completed a miles an hour, slowing to a the low fog up the Yangtze, rather extraordinary aero-stop after landing but still Such air is rough, but whole- while in came reports of alarms. plane flight to Chungking an unhandy sort of thing to some in time of air-raid. Mean- meet head-on. Evidently The planes, first reported as from Hongkong which re-

doubled to and later somebody at the radio office nine quired eight flying hours, was a little confused. eighteen, had passed Ichang. with twelve hours in the

Kunming sent out an alarm. No sooner had we finally So did a couple of other cities, plane.

got back to the leeward end apparently just joining in the excitement without As we neared Chungking, of the runway and paused general

much idea of why. Three and circled about, now and for more radio instructions

provinces were looking up in the unwelcome visitors. then glimpsing houses than things began to be air for

Meanwhile we flew lazily, wari- through the ground fog but more complicated,

ly, in the general direction of

POCKET CARTOON

"Of course, you realite it's all very informat"

Butcher of Libya

By Charles Foley

THE killer returns to his

THE

never getting enough visi- "Air raid alarm still on," Tibet. bility to find the river and reported the Chinese radio Finally came word that the island since they lie much operator as I stepped into raiders were bombing Chengtu Air Riddle ower, a Eurasia plane cir- the front compartment in and our pilot's judgment was It response to a signal from vindicated. We had flown off in cled with and above us.

Mac, who was using me as precisely the right direction to had started its patrol earlier. a sort of liaison officer to wanted.

be alone, which was what we By Robert Walling

But we couldn't go There was nothing for it but the passengers in default of back till we knew there was an

lair. Marshal Rodolfo (C. N. A. C. "all clear." So Mac instructed THE great mystery of the to fly and keep flying, hop- a stewardess.

Italian air force is:

before our windows, and to stay Libya," retires to his farm Where are the modern bom-ing like Micawber that some-tried Chinese girls but one everyone to draw the curtains Graziani, "Butcher of was shot by Japanese inside the plane when we on the Tiber, near Rome, bers and fighters we know thing would turn up.

raiders and the other re- landed. Then having previ after a life filled with blood, they have?

Forty-five minutes passed signed promptly there- ously radioed our identity-we One theory is that the and then our radio brought after).

dropped on a remote Chinese cruelty, glittering success, military field.

and now, calamitous failure. Italians came into the war word that a "first alarm" "Well, where are the Japan- before their air force had of approaching Japanese ese?" asked Mac.

And there we stayed for two Since the day a few been equipped properly with raiders was broadcast. At

hours, reading, talking, snoozing months ago when Graziani down "They don't tell me," replied but never leaving the plane. the new machines,

10:50 we slithered

the operator, laying his head Boy soldiers in baggy uniforms gave to the world his own and unexpectedly found phones down. Everybody at with mostly sandals rather than astonishing account of how landing-place on the remote the radio office has gone off to shoes peered all about, and tap- his army was "taken by sur- ped mysterious messages against prise and overwhelmed" at western field instead

Itailan fighter pilots who have been captured now say: "What is the good of our trying to fight with our two guns against your eight?"

of the dug-out.”.

going on to the island. Our But the headphones continued the metal fuselage like divers Sidi Barrani, his doom has In the Middle East the Italian pilot had just received to emit loud buzzes. Mac said, trying to signal to the occupants been sealed. planes-used-against-the British-instructions to keep away "Why, they're still talking Greek forces are, generally speaking, capable of only 200- from the regular field for a what do they say?" 300 m.p.h., are poorly armed, few minutes because the unarmoured. Several of them

are constructed partly of metal

and partly of fabric.

TYPES SHOT DOWN

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of a distressed submarine. The co-pilot went off-and-came-back- Not merely because the with a rich gift of native "Can't read it," said the oranges. And finally our radio report exposed his own un- Eurasia plane was out of operator with Oriental tran- brought the all-clear. Up we preparedness for Wavell's gasoline and it had to have quillity. "Those are the Japan- went again and flew back to assault, but because in it he in literally high accused the Duce of failing cach Chungking planes talking to ese the right of way.

other.'

haste, this time streaking across to send the tanks

and lots and above the clouds. Mac ejaculated with feeling,

armoured cars which had Friends of iron constitution As we swung about pre- "Holy smoke! Let's get out of

been promised him.

350-MILE RETREAT Many Fiat paratory to going back up here," pushed open his throttles, were still, or rather again, out OR 425. These are 270 m.p.h. the runway, suddenly Mac, and we were down the runway on the island airdrome to laugh

Mussolini could not sup-| biplane fighters, with only two our American pilot, jammed again and off into the clouds. with us over the way we had

hour and then run away. We press the report; nor at the machine-guns, manoeuvrable, on his brakes like a motor-

We laid a course south and had some undelivered Christmas time could he risk further but hopelessly slow.

car driver going into un-

from Shanghai and

them around. They loss of prestige by sacrific- expected traffic from a side the going was bumpy, for pend. cards

ing some idea of where the handed street. Before us roared Japanese might be, the pilot were very late, but then, so were ing the author, but since ment on the CR 42s, being the Eurasia plane at fifty more or less "hedge-hopped" in we.

HERE are the Italian types

shot down: FIGHTERS

A very few Macchi C 2008, and one or two Fiat G 50s. The

Macchis are a great improve-

monoplanes capable of 300 m.p.h.; but here again their armament is poor, and they cer- tainly have not the speed to overhaul or get away from a Hurricane. The G 50 is about as fast, and is a monoplane with better armament (four guns).

Some old Fint C 32 biplanes,

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"Some of us have march-cember 9. ed 63 miles in battle order

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"And all of us have done chotti S 79. This is a three- being trained in tactics "We march 25 miles in engined monoplane capable of of a most unusual and six or seven hours with aa sprint march of 24 miles 300 m.p.h., with four guns.

heavy load, we come in wet, with arms and equipment

or less." not even approach 200 m.p.h.

They are preparing for hungry, and short of sleep. and ammunition in six hours "Our muscles and feet and RECONNAISSANCE. The what one officer called "a 240 m.p.h. Meridionali It 0 37 right-handed punch which is shoulders say that it is time. These men do not wait two-seat biplane, with two guns. one day coming to the Ger- to rest.

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The essence of the train- ing of these new super-

"But we don't rest.

Rebellious chieftains were taken up. in aeroplanes and thrown out to be dashed to Ten pieces on the rocks. thousand tribesmen were rounded up and killed by firing parties or by hanging in one year.

POISON GAS

"We go on for another 15, Instead, they crash into the water as they are, in ALL these are out of date. But aggressive detachments is ör 20 miles, and, at the end battle dress, to see whether

the Italians have some first-

to create something which of that, it isn't possible to rate types.

There are the A.U.T. 18 monoplane shall have all the guerilla take another step or make they can reach the other badly for Marshal de Bono In his

side. They always do. fighter with a 1000-h.p. Fint engine, qualities of independence, another movement. and another fighter, the Meridonali R.O. 51, which could do 300. m.ph. venom in attack and extra- With only an 340 h.p. engine, Thare ordinary physical endur- "But really it is possible.

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They practice going two or three days without sleep "We go on and do a quar and for a long period with- ter of an hour's smart arms drill, or run to the top of a out food.

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Then Ethiopia. Thing's were going

1,000,000 Abyssinian campaign when Badoglo

7,000,000 and Graziani took over. With ruth- with streams of polson gas, less air bombardmen scorched his way to Addis Ababa, won the war, dukedom, became Viceroy, accepted

In February 1937, there

Was procession through the sullen capital, Bamba were thrown and Graziani was wounded by the splinters, Be-

fore

he would let the doctors approach

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six thousand were massacr

ed that day, cos!!

Ing Ethiopia, as in Libya, he made and Kenlled (UrPeaco

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