DUTCH SYMPATHIES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 250, 16 December 1940, Page 2

DUTCH SYMPATHIES

HIGH OFFICIALS IMPRESSED BY WORRIED NAZIS 8.8.C. BANNED The widespread confidence which the population of Holland continues to draw from the fact that the Dutch Government is established in London worries the Nazis, who are trying to suppress pro-British feeling throughout Holland by the imprisonment of several high Dutch officials. Rumours sometimes circulate in London and on the Continent that the Dutch Government will move to. the Netherlands East Indies, bul in authoritative Dutch quarters it is said that such rumours or reports can be dismissed as pure inventions. A Dutch correspondent writing in the Times states that wireless sete are being removed from the homes of those people discovered listening to broadcasts from London by important Dutch personages. The correspondent also states that among the Dutchmen arrested and put in concentration camps are university professors of antifascist reputation who were engaged in activities opposed to Nazism before the German invasion of the Low Countries.

FIGHTING A DORNIER A graphic description of a pilot's impressions and reactions as he fought German Dorniers and was then shot down in ilames is contained in a letter written in hospital by Pilot-Officer John Fain to his mother Mrs A. J. Marshall, ol Brisbane. . Fain, who is 19, and is attached to a lighter squadron of the R.A.F., was wounded in action on August 18,- when 600 'planes raided Great Britain. "I was about 200 yards behind my squadron when we attacked a formation of Dornier 17's —about 20 of them. "I followed them down and got "a flaraer" on my second burst and 1 pulled up in a climbing turn to the right. Spotting a Dornier 17, I open ed fire, scoring with my second burst again. His port engine blew up in my face. "Just as he started to go down another Jerry planted a cannon shell in my radiator, blowing it to bits and putting a hole in my port petrol tank. "For a few seconds I was blinded by petrol and glycol coming up through the hole in the iloor and when I recovered a bit my 'plane was in a steep dive and on fire. "As I fell cut of the 'plane, I hit the tail and was stunned and came round as I was falling head first. I pulled the ripcord and the 'chute opened with a jerk, leaving me swinging in the breeze about 8000 feet up. "I floated into someone's front garden, wounded in the thigh, knee, ankle and arm,"'