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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 20, 1940 ·
HOW BRITAIN REACTED TO RAIDS
THIS IS HOW the various sections of the British public reacted to the ordeal of the mass air raids.
Children who were not evacuated from towns raided on the Thames Estuary behaved magni- ficently. They kept up the spirits of their parents and elders, and were not scared of bombs, 'planes, searchlights or sirens.
The Anderson shelters stood up well and though a few were penetrated by splinters from heavy bombs bursting at close range, the majority were undamaged.
In those shelters which had been hit the occupants of the houses had had no time to get to them, and stayed behind in Ü lower room of their homes.
A.R.P. and first-aid men did grand work.'
But they all complained that they had no time, to organise themselves properly because the sirens here were not sound. ed until after the bombs had fallen.
Hospital Calm
FREE LOVE
FOR NAZIS
!
PRAY FOR
ITALIAN LOSSES
The fact that Bri- tain took the initia- tive in East Africa has had a profound effect in Abyssinia.
The natives were most impressed by the bombing of Diredawa. No bombs fell on the town, but the entire bazaar is reported to be praying for raids throughout the coun- try, and for the maxi- mum damage to the Italians.-Reuter.
"I am a soldier, 22 years 000000000 old, tall, blond, blue-eyed.
Before I go away to give "KIDNAP"
Fuehrer
The raid on one town provided up my life for my Fun ATTEMPT
the first real test for a British and my country, I want
hospital under air raid conditions.
The result was described by the to meet a German woman!
secretary as "very satisfactory." by whom I could leave a SEQUEL
For over an hour the whistle child and heir for the]
of bombs screaming through; the air, and the crash of re- peated detonations mingling with the roar of air-craft and
glory of the German Reich."
The Yaumati "attempt- ed kidnapping" incident
the thud of A.A. fire was clearly This "agony column" advertise-had a sequel this morning
heard,
ment is typical of hundreds which before Mr. Q. A. A. Mac- "Without one solitary excep-appear daily in the Nazi Press. tion everybody behaved
fadyen at Kowloon, when Soldiers invite girls to become
magni-
ficently," said the secretary.
"The patients themselves-they were all awake-remained and quiet.
calm
mothers
of children by then seven persons appeared on before they leave for the Front different charges. They.
Women, in turn advertise for al
soldier to give them a child. were remanded for three
"A German girl wants to be-
He Never Whimpered father is a German soldier fighting Det.-Sgt. N. B. Fraser.
come the mother of a child whose days at the request of
One story typical of many acts for National Socialism," runs one
Accused are:-
of courage comes from a house such advertisement in the Chan Sing, alias Chan So-tai, where an A.R.P. warden, Mr. "Schwarze Corps," the organ of 33, motor-car driver, of No. 307, Maurice Reginald Baker, lives the Gestapo. with his wife and five-year-old son Nigel.
"Before I was out on the job," Mr. Baker said, "the first bomb, exploding in an adjoining garden, threw me down as I was hustling| Nigel and my wife to safety in the house.
Encouraged By Nazis
Hennessy_Road;
Wong Ping-kwan, alias Tong Chui, 22, of No. 3, Pottinger Street,
Lau Ping-po, alias Ko Lo, 24, of No.-71, Connaught Road
Leung Ki, 26, of No. 344, Ma- protauwei Road,
The paper has made a speciality of this kind of advertisement,
Marriage is seldom mention Central, ed by the advertisers, who are frankly advertising for "I then went off to Frederick
miscuous sexual relationship. The Nazis encourage the prac 344, Matauwel Road,
Leung Shu-cheong, 22, of No. Jolley the Mayor's chauffeur --but he had been killed by a |tice. Any woman who has a child Li Siu-kai, alias Lam Chui, 25,
by a soldier is given preference for of bomb-splinter, and I spent the next half-hour attending to other child is brought up
Government positions and the Hang, and
at the ex-
cases.
"Then my wife, Nigel and my pense of the State. wife's sister went into our An-. derson shelter with a neighbour's dog. The neighbours were the Cooks. They were all hit and went to hospital.
WAITER ASPIRED
:
an unnumbered hut in Tai
Chau Yau-chi, 35, accountant of the Tai Ping Restaurant.
Second, fifth and sixth accused are charged with assaulting (with intent to rob) Mr. Fung Kim- sang, owner of Tai Tung Restaur- ant in Des Voeux Road Central, "All through the warning
and the Tai Ping Restaurant in Nigel was peeping out
Yuumati, on August 17. in Pak-Hoi · and looking at the scar.
Street when armed with a pistol. chilghts, shouting: 'Are
First five accused are charged they getting
Li Lau, 23, was charged be- with armed robbery on March 8, anywhere neari 'him?' We did not hear fore Mr. G. T. Lowry, this 1940, at No. 344, Matauwei Road, whimper out of him all the morning, with obtaining money second floor, and with possession time.
by false pretences.
of three revolvers and one knife.
a
TO BE POSTMAN
It was stated that defendant Seventh accused — the account- Killed At His Door
obtained a sum of $10 from a ant of Mr. Fung's restaurant, is waiter by promising that he alleged to have conspired with One victim of the raids was could obtain employment for him others to commit an armed rob- killed because he was curious. as a postman.
bery, while the fifth accused Harry Wieden, thirty-four, Defendant was sentenced to charged with possession of an heard the bombardment begin 14 days' hard labour, and order- automatic pistol on August in an Essex town, went to the ed to be expelled from the Co- without a licence. front-door, and was killed by a lony as a destitute:
bomb splinter.
Many people had narrow ́es- capes, but were still able to laugh.
A Suffolk rector and his family were awakened by bombs which fell on either side of the rectory. They escaped unhurt.
U.S. SHIPS TO CARRY CHILDREN
FAILED TO RENEW LICENCE
is
17
The U.S. Senate yesterday Mr. K. E. van Marle, of No. 20, unanimously The rector's wife said: "The tion permitting US, ships to bring before Mr. H. G. Sheldon, K.C., approved legisla- Conduit Road,, was summoned bombs swept my chimneys for children from the war zone. The this morning, for driving a car in ma free."
́Girls' Escape
By seeking refuge in shelters quickly many avoided serious in- jury.
Thirty-seven evacuated girls in a hostel in East Anglia went into a refuge when the siren went.
A bomber crashed into a large tree in the garden and burst into flames.
Bill is now being sent to the Repulse Bay. Road, without a House of Representatives for ac- valid licence. tion on minor Senate amendments.. He had failed to
renew his. Reuter.
licence and a fine of. $10 was |Imposed.
said:
A. Jack, of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, was fined $10 "The noise was terrific and at for a similar offence. first frightening. But most| Defendant had never had a people soon got used to it."',
Hong Kong licence. Nor was the damage as great Mr.. C. E. Hyde, of the Hỏng. as was feared.
Kong & Shanghai · Bank,
was
The matron declared that had Many bombs fell in one district summoned for failing to have a the machine not hit the tree it of the Eastern Counties. The only licence disc on the windscreen of. A repres would have struck the hostel. casualty was a lorry, driver stand-his car on August. 3. Noise of the raids, though in- ing beside his lorry. He received sentative told the Court that the car was newly bought, and the tense, was not so bad as was ex-a slight wound. Ipected.
One man in the centre of a 'district where many bombs fell
* Caravan dwellers only 150 licenco disc was hot given to him yards away were unhurt and in time. A fine of $10 won their caravane untouched.
Imposed.
THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 20, 1940
GIRLS'
GERMAN TRAPS TO CATCH BRITONS
IN THEIR ATTEMPTS to found an efficient Fifth Column in Great Britain, the Germans, it has been discovered, have trafficked in their women and young girls, some of whom are now the wives of British citizens.
THE NAZI
REFUSED
TO FIGHT
"
It has not been a one-sided affair. The women, Angered by a sneer at most of them young, good-looking, intelligent his "synthetic courage,' "Aryan blondes," willingly agreed, years ago, to Errol Flynn, the Irish- hand themselves over body and soul.
Belonging to the Hitler Youth Movement,
born Hollywood film star, membership of which was compulsory for German challenged the editor of a boys and girls as far back as 1933, they threw them- pro-German newspaper in selves for the sake of their Fuehrer into the "duty" Buenos Aires to à duel. of meeting British citizens, marrying them and bearing them children.
Their sole aim was to gain of smiling German girls. Soon all British rights by marriage.
hree were laughing
ΟΙ
Flynn's offer was not accepted, perhaps as well for the Nazi, for the film star is a good boxer as well as a first-class fencer and Often enough love cune after together, the girls.
and joking pistol shot. and
course, Flynn's arrival in Buenos Aires; many of these marriages speaking fluent English.
was reported by have been ideally happy.
"El Pampero,' Next a tall handsome German a strongly Yet the overriding thought and doctor sauntered across to
pro-German news- aim has been to serve Hitler and English visitors to ask one of the to him film portrayals.
some paper, with slighting references | Germany.
girls in the party to dance. The authorities have not been
The time is not propitious," the He told her unaware of the increased number swayed to a haunting
casually, as they newspaper said, "for the arrival of
Strauss in South America of an marriages between
actor German. waltz, that his home was in Ham-whose plays are based on fantasy.' Austrian and Italian women and burg and that he had only re- British citizens year by year. cently returned from service with
German troops in Spain.
Here is a story told by a London business man who went to Ger- many before the war.
They Never Drank
He noticed, he said, 3 re- markable and sinister change in Berlin night life in the months before Hitler invaded Poland.
"I know England well," he added. "I
was a student at Liverpool University.
Maybe soon shall return."
Not until war broke out did the girl
recall the arrogant smile of that swaggering young German as he said, so softly "Hitler's clean-up of the night,
"Maybe soon I shall return." life was thorough, all right. The And it was not until the Nazis astonishing thing was that instead hordes marched that she remem- of night clubs being closed, in-bered the words that night of an telligent girls of good family Australian: "You know, I've dis- were found in them.
covered they hate us, especially. "They were not painted trolls, the women, in these places." but good-class girls who could;
Courage Sneer
A sneering comment on the taste of United States film fans, and the parts played by Flynn caused Flynn to write to the] editor.
"From the safety of your office courage," he wrote. "I agree that you complain of my synthetic there is no doubt regarding your own courage. Therefore, the re- medy is simple."
Flynn went on to invite the editor. to his room at his hotel and bring all the arms he want- ed. "Then we will lock the door," he said.
speak English or French. They Met At Spas acted as dance partners, but un-
"If you open it before I do, I like so many professional hos- All these stories go' to make a
will kiss the ground three times tesses, they never drank.
portrait done in whispers. Plea in front of your office. If I leave "They were
smilingly, eager to meet santly,
first, then publish in your paper charmingly, foreigners, especially English-Germans sought the friendship of that for once a Nazi hero had the men. While plying their guests the British. And, very often, these courage to meet a contender on -with-drink they
would ask Germans-married into the British an-equal-basis.' questions, innocent questions on Empire.
Flynn waited in vain in his the face of it - по use in "Der Englander" was flattered room for the editor to turn up. peace-time, but red-hot stuff if a
by the fuss, Maybe he would war was on.”
find himself linking arms with al handsome, strong-limbed fraulein and swinging to the captivating rhythm of the Rhine lieder,
"A Rhenish
In Hamburg and Cologne it was the same. This hard-headed busi- ness chief saw lovely, educated girls waiting to pounce unwary.
on the
And there is the story of the well-to-do Englishman who took his wife and son to Garmische. scene of the last winter Olympic Games, for a holiday.
Charming To Son
A pretty blonde receptionist
maiden with
Rhenish wine, that must certainly be heaven on earth," is the rough translation of the song they sang.
Heaven on earth! Here was romance, perhaps, for an im- pressionable English boy, here was the prospect, maybe, for a
for love of country.
ACCIDENTS ON BRITISH
RAILWAYS
German girl to trade herself The Annual Report on No idle fancy, this. The intern-accidents of British rail-
went out of her way to be char-ment camps of Britain are pack- ming, so charming that they were fed with such stories. forced to ask her out to dinne: with them. Anything less would have been churlish,
She accepted. Speaking perfect English, she never stopped asking questions, nor suggesting how much she would like to come to London.
She was charming to the son.; An invitation to England seemed almost the least that could be of fered her.
Yet, sensing the girl's OVCI eagerness to visit Britain,
the
WORKERS
OF WORLD UNITE!
ways in 1939 is of interest
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