BUTTER AND MEAT

Evening Star, Issue 23691, 26 September 1940, Page 12

BUTTER AND MEAT

ADJUSTMENTS TO MEET POSITION (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 25. (Received September 26, at 10.48 a.m.) Although the weekly eight-ounce fat ration wajs not affected after September 30, only two ounces of it will bo butter. In making this announcement the Ministry of Food' explained that this was a precautionary measure to meet the normal seasonal reduction of output from Australia and New Zealand, which was always at its lowest in September and October, but rose progressively from November onwards. Tho seasonal increase of fresh meat enabled the ration to be temporarily increased from Is lOd worth of meat each week to 2s 2d. 4 GALLANT PILOT CRASHES WITH PLANE TO SAVE VILLAGE (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 24. How a pilot-officer chose a crash landing involving great risk to himself rather than abandon his machine, and so endanger villages in which his aircraft would probably have crashed, was told in the award of the D.F.C. to an Australian whose homo is in Edwardstown, South -Australia. During an attack on German bombers, this officer, W, H. Millington, damaged a Dornicr, but found himself engaged by three Messerschmitts. Ho damaged one of these, shook off the others, and returned to attack Nazi bombers. In a further attack on him by two Messerschmitts ho brought down one, but a cannon shell from the other hit the engine, causing the aeroplane to catch, fire. Realising the danger the village towards which he was flying would be in from an uncontrolled blazing machine, Millington kept his place and landed in a field. The petrol tanks burst just after the gallant pilot got clear of his machine.