ENFORCED REST

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23618, 30 March 1940, Page 11

ENFORCED REST

•FLYIN G -OFFICE 11 KAIN WOUNDS HEALING 4 FAST COMRADES' ADMIRATION By Tclepraph—Press Association —Copyright LONDON, March 2S The Now Zealand fighter pilot Flight-Lieutenant K. J. ("Cobber") Kain, the first ace of the Rnval Air Force on the Western Front, is standing by ready to fly, hut is under doctors' orders not to fly for a week, says the correspondent of the Associated Press with the Royal Air Force in France.

Flight-Lieutenant Kain's 'shrapnel wounds from the guns of Me.sserschinitts are healing rapidly and he is little the worse for his brilliant part and amAzing escape in Tuesday's great air battle. Every pilot on the Western Front hopes his luck lasts as long as his courage and daring. Immediately the news came of Tuesday's encounter, the first question asked was: "Was 'Cohher' there!' Mow many did he get?" He got two and nobody was surprised. They are expecting it of him now in the messes and estuminets of France.

The ground staff "wrote off" "Cobber" when his blazing aeroplane disappeared into the cloud bank, but he turned up at mess in a tiny French village that night, his face brick-red from burning oil. his eyebrows singed, bandages on a leg and a .hand, and his hair still stained and streaked with oil.

Three Messerschmitts and (wo. probably three, Dorniers have [alien to this tall; lean New Zealander. who left Wellington two years ago with a civil A licence in his pocket. Hi' was asked to go hack again when he presented himsell at the Royal Air Force Medical Hoard in England, because at 10 he had out-grown his strength. Three months later, the medical hoard having passed him fit for training, the ace of the war was in uniform. Tie has heen Hying ever since, carrying . the Dominion banner across the German frontiers in grand stylo.

LOSS OF U-BOAT AGROUND IN NORWAY - INTERNMENT OF CREW SUBMARINE DISARMED OSLO, March OS It is officially stated that the U-boat which ran aground on Tuesday is the U2l. A German trawler refloated the U-boat, which then proceeded to port under a Norwegian escort. The German Legation demanded the release of the submarine, but invosti- j gation disclosed that the vessel ran aground because of mistaken navigation and not ns the result of stress of weather. Therefore, the Norwegian Government ordered the vessel to he disarmed and the crew interned.

The C2l is one of a number of submarines built in 1935-36. She has a displacement of 200 to 1330 tons, and carries a complement of 23. About 140 ft. long, she is armed with three 21in. torpedo tubes and one small antiaircraft gun.

PREPARING TO SAIL REFUGEE GERMAN SHIPS NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES LONDON. M;irch 2!» Three German ships taking refuge in Ratnvia are now making preparations to leave. A report received this morning describing the preparations stated that the ships are all painted grey, their names have been obliterated. and they are busy loading cargoes. There are similar reports from other harbours in the Netherlands East Indies where other German ships are shelter-

ing. The Germans have been paying high prices for large quantities of raw materials. In addition to this expenditure, a good deal of currency will have to be found to pay the heavy port dues that arc owing.