NOW PRISONER OF WAR
AIRMAN WHO SAVED CEYLON ' FROM INVASION
Recd. 6 p.m. Rugby, March 15. On April 4. 1942, Squadron-Leader L. J. Birchall. of the Royal Canadian Air Force, sent back warning to his base in Ceylon of the approach of the Japanese fleet, accompanied by five aircraft-carriers. The warning is credited with having saved Ceylon from invasion, but Birchall failed to return from his reconnaissance and was presumed lost, says the Air Ministry news service. Now, nearly a vear later, his wife in St. John, New Brunswick, has received word that he is a prisoner in Japanese hands.— 8.0.W.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 63, 17 March 1943, Page 5
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