FROM FAR AFIELD

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 February 1941, Page 5

FROM FAR AFIELD

VOLUNTEERS TO FIGHT FOR BRITAIN. AIR FORCE AND OTHER RECRUITS. (Utiikls Offlfi.il Wireless. > RUGBY. February 20. Four young British residents of the Bahamas arrived recently in England to train for Hying duties in the Royal Air Force. All have had Hying exjx-ri-ence in light aircraft, having learned to fly at their own expense. One holds a Canadian running record. These four are typical of those now arriving in steady streams in this country under the overseas recruiting scheme Under the scheme British subjects abroad who volunteer for •dr crew duties are provide;! with passages Home. Om- man. a Scotsman, living In Patagonia, r<>de hundreds of miles on horseback to r.'iteh a ship fur England al Buc’w A n Another travelled 80» •tides overland across South America to the of smhm*. Other arrivals from American rmmtncs have included Hrit-sh : < sidcnts in Venezuela, Havamt and Cuba A large number have rciiie from Brit'sh culm-tie., tnchiding the Leeward Islands, Bermuda, Trmu rhd. the and Mauritius, .\'o. oo *h<“ lule&t ri,lunti'<‘is to reach ms American ciiucii from Peru. He was formerly a nidio <>n»res* in » South Arnerman air ‘hie and h. « • . , ' ■ i : al' [shed *.!• lorn* itircrafi fundi has bciic-hi<-d ’l? c m by at .1 ’ h f • i'»>»'i, h i add>;i ; ■ a’ii n i < 1111 i r:: V 0 i 5 >»• di. • .>J•J■r<- ”< ■ t ?' ■ i ‘ - '.; J. ■a.•• ■ j i ■ i.< ■ r O ■■;llV ed Ir <a 111 O. S r■, ■,. . ■ d fMthme Tro- Loh!oWU two Loo-. ?ts >l'.-terd.«-d tfm'te fetmLmmmy lo Pm* 0.. ot.a 'o; * vm t’r'mri.