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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 9, 1940.
DIRECT HIT ON EAST
END CROWDED SHELTER Strikes One Vulnerable Point, The Ventilator BIG DAMAGE Only 50 of 1,000 BERLIN
Killed Or Hurt
TO OIL DEPOTS
HEAVILY BOMBED
CHILDREN SLEEPING IN PERAMBULATORS AND WOMEN WITH BABIES IN THEIR ARMS WERE KILLED WHEN A BOMB EXPLOD- ED IN A CROWDED SHELTER IN AN EAST LONDON DISTRICT IN SATURDAY NIGHT'S RAID, WRITES A PRESS ASSOCIATION RE- The Air Ministry news PORTER WHO VISITED THE SHELTER AFTERWARDS.
| service, describing Friday ›00000000000 night's operations, says
In connection with Saturday's big raids, Ber- lin announces that "im- portant targets at 21 places," apart from Lon-
The bomb fell directly on a ventilator In don, were attacked. fact, apart from the raids shaft measuring only about three feet by one. on London, the only big This was the only vulnerable place in a power- damage done outside the fully protected underground shelter accom- city which is officially re-modating over 1,000 people. ported is that done to oil installations on the Lower Thames.
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The bomb fell just as families from scores of nearby streets were settling down in the of the country say that a train was shelter to sleep there for the night.
News reports covering the rest
machine-gunned by two 'planes;} the Midlands area had “nuisance raids," in the course of which five
a
Three or four of the roof sup-|
bombs were dropped; and there port pillars were torn down and were several raids on Welsh about 50 people lay stunned in coast town, but no bombs were
heaps. dropped.
American
Three blocks of luxury flats. two containing 800 elderly men and women and children, the other about 300, were practi- cally. unhurt although in the heart of the bombed areas. The upper floors of one house were demolished.
The roof was slashed off a
A woman having a bath escap- church and another bomb glanced off the top of a blocked with a few scratches.
Immediately the crash
It is thought the same enemy' bombs 'plane unloaded several press correspond- ents have sent long reports to over this area. their papers of the ralds On London. One correspondent, says that "certainly more than, 90 per cent. of the damage`done was to non-military objects." An American news commenta- tor broadcasting while the raids' were still going on said that, "to) sum up, it is a big fire and there' are people dead." But only two' A -West London district had a sections of the city bad been at- good share of the German night tacked and "the people are bombing. Some damage was done nothing less than wonderful." to property but there were few
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of flats, leaving walls hanging she rushed downstairs and ask- over into the street, and a business premises was wrecked. ed "How is my maid?"
The maid received facial in- juries from splintered glass and was taken to hospital.-Reuter.
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No Panic
When the bomb struck the shel-
ter, volunteer workers rushed to the scene and dragged the wound- cd to safer places to await the arrival of the ambulances. Nine doctors answered the call and saved many lives by dressing) severe wounds by the dim light} of torches.
SOMETHING TO BE PROUD OF!
A Berlin High Com- mand communique claims that "Reich Marshal Goering per-
the raid on Berlin tinued for two hours.
con-
Thick cloud covered the target and some aircraft had to bring back their bombs.
Onè section of bombers visited the west power station, already Įdamaged in previous raids.
The .B.M.W. aero-engine works at Spandau, in the north- west of Berlin, were located and set on fire.
The Salzhof oil
reservoir was
sonally is conducting apparently badly damaged for several particularly violent explo- the German air raid sions followed the bursting of
bombs. Britain reprisals on from northern France.
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The communique states: "In uninter- rupted succession one million kilos of bombs of all calibres so far have fallen on har- bour and industrial areas in the Thames.". -Reuter.
RICKSHA COOLIE CONVICTED
Attacks on
military objectives in the Black Forest were renew- ed. As flames roared through the pine forests there came a series of explosions.
Railway sidinge at Krefeld, Hamm, Soest, Mannheim and Ehrang were bombed with..sud cess,
Counter-attacks were made on enemy gun emplacements and aerodromes near the French
Reuter. Channel coast.
ROYAL FAMILY AT
CHAPEL
Yesterday was observed as 'a- Day of Intercession, by churches. throughout Britain. The King Princesses and Queen with the attended divine service in the Royal Chapel in Windsor Great Pleading guilty to assaulting an Park. British Wireless. There was--no-panic, and the Indian police constable (PCB114) women were magnificent,
outside the Kowloon Godowns One man should have a medal, yesterday, a ricksha coolie, Ngan in the opinion of an Air Raid Chung, aged 24, was fined $10 or Warden, He organised those one month's hard labour by Mr. who were unhurt into rescue E. Himsworth at Kowloon this parties and gave no one any morning. -time for panic. He knew what
DJIBOUTI RAILWAY BRIDGE HIT
The ricksha coolie was alleged It was announced in Cairo yes- to do and say, and it was largely to have struck two blows when terday that the bridge at Awash, due to him that all the 14 dead the Indian constable was, in the 90 miles east of Addis Ababa, on and the wounded were got clear execution of his duty, keeping the Djibouti-Addis Ababa rail- within 20 minutes...
ricksha coolies away from the way, was badly damaged by entrance to the Godowns.
IR.A.F. bombers. Reuter,
"Did What Anyone Else Would Have Done"
His name H. Beer, and he is an ex-soldier. He explained later that he ran to the shelter to see if his wife was safe and then "did what anyone else would have done." He told everyone who was in a position to help to get down to it.".
Beer himself praises a police- man, whose name he does not
EXAMPLE OF NAZI DISTORTION
AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE of German distor
know, but whom he called tion is provided by yesterday's Trans-Ocean render- "Lofty." He was "splendid and
ing of an official British communique on Friday set a good example."-Reuter."
night's raids.
Where the London communique mentions “road
DUKE OF KENT damage causing temporary traffic diversion in some
AT RAIDED AERODROME
Four minutes after the Duke of Kent had inspect ed an aerodrome during an extensive tour of the Kent area yesterday bombs were dropped near the aerodrome.
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places," the German rendering is "Roads impassa- ble, the principal roads leading from London show- ing big bomb craters."
London mentioned "some dam-1 oge to gas and watermains."' This becomes in the Trans-Ocean version "Districts in the capital are without gas and water.”.
Gratuitous German. additions
include the following completely
untrue statements: .....
1. That London broadcasts stat-
HEAVY GUN
PRACTICE ORDER
ed airports were fully ablaze. Heavy gun firing practice is to 2. That the B.B.C. reported be carried out this week, on Wed- callway stations bombed and em-nesday, Thursday and Friday be- tween 10 a.m. and 4 p.th. On bankments destroyed,
3. That the havoc was so ter-Wednesday firing_area_ "A" will rible that no communique was bo affected. On Thursday, fring The Duke went to a shelter and issued..
arcas "D" and "E" will be affect- lunched there, many feet below The usual communique was in ed, and on Friday firing will be the chalk cliffs.
fact issued at 7.57 a.m. reporting carried out from selected areas in During the morning the Duke as quoted above and adding that the northern and castern areas of had inspected, an aeroplano fac- damage, and casualties were, in the island, Firing will take place tory and later saw a lively a pir general, slight and there was into an area approximately of a battle over the Channel-Reu-small activity, after midnight, - 1,000 yards circles, with "Makong
Island as the centre..
ter,
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