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U. S. Pilots in Africa
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Over Final Warmup
E' the Associated Press.
CAIRO, Aug. 17. —The United
States Army Air Force is almost
ready to put on its own fighter show
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The dress rehearsal—days of in
tensive training of American pilots
as flying comrades with desert-wise
RAF squadrons—is over.
When the Americans go back into
combat, they will fly the newest
American pursuit planes, with their
own insignia, in complete United
States Air Force fighter squadrons.
USAAF bomber squadrons already
are in action.
The fruits of air battle, sweet and
bitter, were shared by the Americans
and their British and South African
mates in camps pitched together
for the final fighting-training part
nership.
Two Firsts Hung Up.
Two firsts at the enemy’s expense
were logged for Maj. Claremont E.
Wheeler of San Jose. Calif., and
Capt. Glade B. Bilby of Skid
more. Mo.
Maj. Wheeler fired the firs' shot
at an Axis plane and Capt. Bilby,
who flew a fighter-bomber in a
big show at dawn Friday against
the airdrome at Fuka. dropped the
first bomb.
Second Lt. Jack S. Wilson of I
Benton City. Wash., may get credit j
for half a German plane.
Lt. Wilson was the first American
flyer shot down, but as he stepped
out of his damaged fighter inside
the British lines the Messerschmitt
which had attacked him also was
seen plunging.
A Lt. Whitaker of Tennessee let
go several bursts at a Messerschmitt
but did not claim to have hit it.
Flyer Swims Ashore.
First Lt. William W. O’Neill, jr.,
of Seminole, Okla., was,shot down
into the sea. He swam ashore and
is in a hospital recovering from ex
haustion.
Brig. Gen. Auby C. Strickland, an
Alabaman who formerly commanded
Paine Field, near Everett, Wash.,
spoke enthusiastically of the Ameri
cans’ final warmup.
“We had the finest training you
could imagine with the RAF." said
Gen. Strickland, who commands
the fighters under Maj. Gen. Lewis
H. Brereton, commander of the
USAAF in the Near East.
“Our boys got along splendidly
w'ith the British. They ate out of
the same soup plates, if I ever saw
comrades in arms it was the British
and American flyers in the desert.”
[ravel fo Mainz Restricted;
tombing Toll Increases
By !fe Associated Press.
BERN, Switzerland, Aug. 17.—The
German railway authority, reports
■eaching here said yesterday, has
>anned all but urgent travel to
ilainz while the work of clearing
tway the wreckage of last week's
tAF bombing proceeds.
The Frankfurter Zeitung said it
lad been requested that “only in
iispensable journeys to Mainz be
nade in order to relieve the rolling
•tock and personnel.”
The paper added that the death
ist now totaled 80. but added: “It
nust be assumed that a number of
hose reported missing cannot be
'ound alive.”
Political leaders and youthful fol
owers of Hitler have been working
:ontinuously since the night of Au
gust 11, the paper said, digging in
uins and putting out fires.
Voelkischer Beobachter listed as
imong the buildings destroyed the
tfainz Cathedral, “a century-old
ymbol of the Archbishopric of j
klainz, which burned to the ground.” ;
The bishop's palace was wrecked :
ind five other churches destroyed,'
he paper said.
Nation Board Gets Plea
:or an Airplane Tire
TAMPA, Fla. UP).—The Tampa
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onfusion by an application for a
ire for a private airplane. Nobody
ould find anything in the rules
.bout airplane tires, but Adminis
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o the board that rationing airplane
ires was an exclusive duty of the
Var Production Board.
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United States Navy Band, Sail
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Recorded music under the stars,
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i.m. today.
MEETING.
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Dartmouth Club, Hotel Annapolis.
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Civitan Club, the Mayflower, 12:30 i
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Emergency Committee, Rotary
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Genuine square ,dancing, YWCA,
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Japs Lined Up and Machin'e-Gunned
21 Soldiers Seized in Hong Kong Hotel
(Seventh of a series by a Cana
dian who escaped from the Japs
at Hong Kong.)
By BENJAMIN PROULX.
<A« told to Carl Wall ).
At 2 o'clock on the morning of
December 22, when the moon had
sunk over the ridges and the Hong
Kong beaches were in darkness, I
began leading my 29 men through
the 500-yard tunnel which led under
the Repulse Bay Hotel to the water's
edge.
We did not know whether or not
the Japanese were waiting for us cn
the beach. If they were we knew
we would not have much of a
chance. One machine gun would
take care of us very easily.
As we started through the tunnel,
I ordered the men to take off their
heavy army boots and sling them
over their shoulders. They did this
and we tiptoed over the damp con
crete in our stocking feet.
Sound of Surf.
We reached the end of the tunnel
and I held my breath and peered
out over the beach. It was very
black and still. The only sound was
the running surf.
I sent a man back to the hotel to
tell the officer who was in charge
of the armed forces of 250 men.
that everything was clear. We '
waited for a long time, crouching
in the mouth of the tunnel. But j
the man did not come back im
mediately.
When he did come back he told
me the officer had decided to make
a break in another way. With the
rest of the men he would try to
make his way through the Japanese
at the side of the hotel.
We began walking slowly along the
soft sand about 10 yards from the
water. I knew that the path over
which I hoped to lead the men to
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Fort Stanley—6 miles over the hills
from Repulse Bay—was about a
.mile from the tunnel.
Pill Box on Bearh.
Between us and the path there
was a pill box on the beach which
the Japanese had captured. We
had spotted it several days before
on reconnaissance. We thought we
might just as well blow it up on
the wav to Fort Stanley. It would
be a sort of final gesture. It would
be like thumbing our noses at the
Japanese.
About 100 yards from the pill box.
four other men and myself left
the others and began crawling on
our bellies toward the box. It was
round and about seven feet high.
It was built of concrete and tnere
were small openings about four feet
above the ground just large enougl\
so that a machine gun could be
fired through them.
When we got to the side of the
box, I could hear the sound of
some one moving inside. I touched
the arm of the man closest to me.
He touched the man next to him.
This was the signal we nad been
trained to use when absolute silence
was necessary.
When the signal had been passed
around, we pulled the levers cf our
hand granades, counted to four and
tossed them through the machine
gun openings and ran for it. They
w-ere seven-second grenades and
they made a hell of a noise.
Shooting Breaks Out.
We were running up the beach ;
when the sound of shooting broke
out near the hotel and we knew that :
the others were making a break
from the side of the hotel. The |
noise covered us and we made it !
to the footpath.
That trip over the hills was bad.
It was covered in spots with dense,
thorny unSergrowth. From time to
time we stumbled over two-inch
sharpened steel spikes which the
British had put there a long time
ago to prevent an enemy force from
advancing swiftly along the ravine.
We still did not dare put on our
shoes for fear of making too much
noise and our'socks were in ribbons
and our feet bleeding. But we
reached Fort Stanley early in the
morning and I handed the 29 men
over to Canadian officers.
Months later in India. I met a
young Eurasian friend who told me
what happened at the Repulse Bay
Hotel after wc had left and the
Japanese came. He tcld me that
early the ne>:t morning a Scotch
nurse walked out of the hotel with
a white flag toward the Japanese.
Gallant Woman of 70.
(I should like to say here that
she was probably the bravest, most
gallant woman I have ever known.
She was more than 70, gray haired,
and had been the nurse at the
hotel before the Japanese came. It
is impassible to give her full credit
for the heroic things she did during
the siege.)
A Japanese officer met her. She
told him there was not a single
combatant in the hotel and asked
that the women and children be
spared.
She honestly did not know about
21 officers and men who had been
lost in the hills and had crept into
the hotel during the night. When
the Japanese discovered these men.
they lined them up in back of the
hotel and machine gunned them.
The men, although they were armed,
did not put up any resistance be
cause of the women and children.
Marched to Camp.
Then the women and infants and
children and several civilian men
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were marched 15 miles from the
hotel to Hong Kong and put in a
civilian internment camp. I do
not know what has happened to
them since.
I have told before of m.v im
prisonment in the Japanese military
camp after the surrender of Hong
Kong on Christmas Day and of my
escape over the Chinese mainland
to India, so there is nothing much
left to tell.
Since I have come back a lot of
people have asked me if I think
we can beat the Japanese and what
I think is the best way.
I do not pretend that I am a
military strategist, but I think the
only way we are going to beat them
is to beat Hitler and Germany first
and then take care of Japan. But
even then it is not going to be easy.
These Japanese are tough. They
are fanatical. They are brave.
They are smart.
Bare Hands Not Enough.
But I do not think they are any '
braver or any smarter or any 1
tougher than the Americans or the
Australians or the Canadians. I
think in hand-to-hand combat an
American boy with a good right j
hand can knock any short, squat
Japanese for a loop before he can
even get started with his over
rated jui-jitsu.
When I was with Gen. Chennault
I saw how much better tthe Amer
ican flyers were than the Japanese.
But we don’t want to make the
mistake that we’re up against a lot ;
of funny little men who walk and 1
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act like monkeys. You have to have
at least as many planes as they
have and planes that are hard
hitting and fast. And they have
to be in the right place at the right
time.
Bravery and bare hands aren't
enough against these short, squat,
brown men.
We found that out at Hong Kong
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Free Italians in Americas
Join With United Nations
F tht Associated Press.
MONTEVIDEO. Uruguay. Aug 17.
—The Pan-American Free Italy con
ference yesterday adopted a proposal
by the Argentine delegation that the
Free Italians (anti-Fascist Italians >
of North and South America state
their ‘ absolute solidarity with the
people of the United States. Britain,
Russia, China and other United Na
tions.”
The proposal also urged that they
take the stand that ‘‘justice should
be meted out directly against the
persons responsible for the crimes of
Fascism and that, free of any spirit
of revenge, they declare the present
war should end with exemplary
justice.”
The conference is composed of
representatives of Italians in the
Americas.
A proposal by the Uruguayan and
Argentine delegations for creation of
an Italian national council and an
Italian legion and other points re
lating to the establishment of a free
Italian government in exile was
temporarily laid aside pending the
arrival of Count Sforza of New York,
one-time Foreign Minister of pre-'
Fascist Italy, and Comdr. Randolfo
Pacciardi. who were expected to ar
rive shortly by plane from Brazil.
Anti-Fascist Italians were urged
to combat the fifth column in the
Americas.
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