POLISH FLIERS

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20989, 16 December 1939, Page 7

POLISH FLIERS

MR CHAMBERLAIN

MORE BRITISH RAIDS

WAR RECORDS

JOIN ROYAL AIR FORCE SOME WITH WAR SERVICE ADMIRABLE WORK (Ofllcial Wireless) (Received Dec. 16 ,1 p.m.) RUGBY, Dec. 15 A detachment of Polish airmen which has been training to become the first of several Polish squadrons to be incorporated in the British Air Force will don Royal Air Force uniforms tomorrow.

These squadrons will be entirely self-supporting. The pilots, odservers, gunners, wireless operators and ground staff charged with the maintenance of the aircraft will be exclusively Polish. The first detachment includes several who have already seen service. One, a sergeant, was brought down by Germans during the fighting in Poland and escaped from his own country after it had been overrun bv the enemy The performances in the air ct the members of these Polish detachments has evoked enthusiasm and admiration from members of the Royal Air. Force, under whose direction their final training has been partaken.

SHORT VISIT TO FRANCE WITH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Dec. 16, 11 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 15 It is officially announced that Mr Chamberlain has arrived in France to spend a few days with the Expeditionary Force. HEADQUARTERS VISITED

TOUR OF INSPECTION WARM WELCOME BY FRENCH <omcial Wireless; (Received Dec. 16, 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, Dec. 15 The Prime Minister began a tour of the British Expeditionary Force in France, after lunching with the British Commander-in-Chief at General Headquarters. Mr Chamberlain arrived in France by air. The afternoon was spend on a visit to a section of the Royal Air Force attached to the Army. In a cellar the Premier saw a large telephone exchange at work. Here 1400 calls daily are dealt with and sometimes as many as 200 hourly. Tomorrow the Premier will continue his tour. A noteworthy feature of the visit so far has been the warmth of the reception accorded Mr Chamberlain by the French people. *

GERMAN BASES PATROLLED (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright; (Received Dec. 16, 11 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 15 It is officially announced that the Royal Air Force again patrolled the bases at Borkum, Norderney and Sylt last night and in the early hours of the morning. Enemy seaplanes observed at their moorings were attacked with bombs. A Berlin communique regarding the Heligoland Bight air battle claims that of twenty attackers ten were brought down by German fighters, and one German plane came down at sea. It adds that a single British bomber which approached the air base at Borkum yesterday without dropping bombs was driven off by anti-air-MINED AND SUNK FATE OF BELGIUM SHIP ONE KILLED, TWO INJURED (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright; (Received Dec. 16, 11.20 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 15 The Belgium ship Rosa, was mined and sunk on the north-east coast. One person was killed and fourteen were landed, of whom two were injured.

PANEL OF ARTISTS SELECTION OF COMMITTEE (OOlclal Wirelessi (Received Dec. 16, 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, Dec. 15 The Minister of Information, Lord Macmillan, announced today the appointment of an advisory committee under the chairmanship of Sir Kenneth Clark, rector of the National Gallery, to draw up a panel of artists to record the war at home and abroad, and advise on the necessary arrangements in co-operation with the service departments. The members of the committee are: Sir Walter Russell (keeper of the Tate Gallery), Sir Muirhead Bone and Mr P. H. Jowett. Sir Muirhead Bone’s name recalls a similar enterprise during the last war, in which he took an active part —drawings he made in France being published in 1916 in a volume entitled “The Western Front,” which contained many now famous drawings. His work and that of other artists, representing every phase of wartime activity, were later brought together in a permanent collection at the Imperial War Museum.