New York, Sept. 26.
The "New York Daily News" reported today that French Indo-China is preparing to resist further Japanese pressure in Indo-China beyond the terms of the Franco-Japenese agreement signed in Hanoi last Sunday.
'A representative of the Indo-China Government, Col. S. Jacomy, was said to be en route from Washington to Hanoi by plane with assurances that the American Government favours extending all aid short of war to Indo-China, provided that it acts independently and effectively in resisting Japanese pressure.
The paper also reported that the French liner, Ne de France, was en route. to Indo-China carrying a "Free French" Senegalese division from Africa.
The paper said that while in Washington, Col. Jacomy sought to obtain 150 planes, guns and munitions for Indo-China. He also suggested that American planes be sent to Indo-China from the Philippines, the report said.—United Press.
On the last occasion a mass attack was made, namely on September 15, both the "All Canadians" and pilots of the first Royal Canadian air force squadron to reach England did their share in bringing down the record number of 185 enemy aircraft claimed by the RAF. They fought side by side in several recent battles.
The people of a Kentish market town have started a fighter fund in appreciation of the valour of a fighter pilot, who saved a neighbouring vil lage by refusing to jump from his shattered Hurricane.
They had seen the Hurricane coming down with flames darting from it. No sooner had it landed south of the town, states an Air Ministry bulletin, than the petrol tanks exploded. The pilot had just time to scramble to safety with slight head injuries.
Before being hit by a Messerschmitt cannon shell during a dog fight, he had shot down the Messerschmitt 109 in flames.
The same afternoon another fighter pilot, a squadron leader, who had destroyed one and probably two Messerschmitt 1095, landed near the same town—by parachute—with an injured foot and soaked in petrol While the wound was-being dressed, the police put the parachute on show and began collecting for the town's, Spitfire fund.—Reuter.
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