NAZI PARACHUTISTS

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21176, 27 July 1940, Page 7

NAZI PARACHUTISTS

CAPTURED IN BRITAIN AFRAID OF BEING SHOT WOMAN’S GALLANT ACT (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, July 26 A housemaid captured one of four German airmen who baled out over south-west England. She left a raid shelter to turn off a gae iron which had been forgotten. An 18-year-old German landed almost beside her. He was badly shaken. She took him into the kitchen and gave him whisky. The home guard soon arrived, having watched the airmen jump out. They also arrested two others. The parachute of a fourth German failed to open. The home guard said all the Germans were very shaky and terrified of being shot at sight. Mrs N. Cardwell, who has been awarded the Empire Gallantry Medal for arresting a German airman who had alighted by parachute after his bomber had been shot down in a raid over England, related the details of the incident. Mrs Cardwell lives on a farm on the north-eastern coast. Her husband, a member of the Local Volunteer Defence organisation, was away when the airman landed.

Ordered to Put Up Hands “A farm hand came and told me that parachutists were coming down,” said Mrs Cardwell. “The telephone was out of order, so I sent a boy to the police on a bicycle. “Then I went into the garden and saw an airman limping across a paddock toward the house. There were two or three people about who did nothing, so I walked up to the man and told him to put up his hands. He did not understand, so I made signs, whereupon he put up his hands. “He handed over his pistol, and I pointed it at him while he walked down the road in front of me. We waited half an hour until the police and soldiers arrived.” Sinking of Trawlers The Admiralty announces the loss of two trawlers, the Kingston Galena and the Rodino, as a result of an enemy air attack. In addition to nine German raiders shot down to-day many others are known to have been severely damaged. The Royal Air Force lost one Spitfire.