London, Nov. 2.
Three members of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force were awarded the Military Medal for displaying "courage and example of a high order" by remaining at their posts and calmly carrying out their duties during an intensive air raid on an aerodrome. They are Acting Assistant Section Officer Elspeth Candlish Hend~ orson, daughter of Mr. Robert Candiish Henderson, Scottish King's Counsel, and' Sergeants Joan Eugene ' Mortimer and Helen Emily Turner, who in vil life were respectively a pol al organizer and a tele-can be said present which would compromise operations already in progress but, obviously, if for Emple Britain wished to maintain communications 10 the Aegean Sea, Crete is of the utmost. importance. The many islands of the Aegean also offer positions from which Britain could fuel light craft and the Toni islands similarly have valuable stratepossibilities, Time is on Britain's side and it will be taken by the force-lock but, meanwhile, the Navy is doing everything possible to barrass the Italian left flank in Libya, In view of the risk from alreratt in the Mediterranean, supply ships for the fleet in the Eastern. Mediter=
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