THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 16, 1940.
MUTT AND JEFF-
GIVE US A
DRINK OF
WATER!
WATER!
WATER!
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OH IT
'S AWFUL! WE WERE WALKING
WHAT HAPPENED
TO YOU. FELLERS?
WAS TERRIBLE!
THROUGH THE DESERT, OUT THERE AND WE:
CAME TO
A LAKE!
WE WERE SO BIN
HOT WE JUMPED
RIGHT IN!.
GO ON, THARS HO LAKE OUT
THAR!
THAT'S⋅ JUST IT-
-By BUD FISHER:
WE SWAM A
MILE AND A HALF BEFORE WE DISCOVERED
IT WAS A
MIRAGE!
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MENACE TO
ST. PAUL'S LUFTWAFFE BEGINS
REMOVED
For the first time in very many years no ser- vice was held in St. Paul's Cathedral yesterday, as the structure was still under the menace of the time bomb which fell in the grounds on Wednes- day.
dral was barricaded.
no
re-
TO FEEL STRAIN QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
BOTH IN THE PRESS and among the general public the latest phase in the Battle for Britain the savage attack on the people of London is the subject of much speculation both as to its purpose and the reason it has been adopted by the German authorities. A number of conclusions are generally
reached.
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While hope grew that the First, the new tactics of scattering bombs in- missile might prove a dud risks were taken. Nearby descriminately over the Metropolis, which no one sidents remained evacuated and can imagine to be an important target in the purely every way leading to the Cathe-military sense, is taken to be a confession of failure Instead of the usual worship- on the part of the Luftwaffe to do substantial dam- pers yesterday morning there were only steel-helmeted mem- age to the main centres of Britain's war production, bers of the bomb disposal squad] to be a confession that attacks which have been at- strolling near the railings.
tempted on Britain's military targets have been too costly and that the German air force is beginning "Pop Always Pays" to feel the strain of such heavy losses.
Later in the day experts safely
removed the bomb.-Reuter,
After the bomb had been re- moved traffic was allowed through the area for the first time for several days, and it was expected that business pre- mises which had been closed would be allowed to reopen to- day. Reuter.
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Second, that having lamentably the Nazis might well hope the rest ailed to gain superiority in the of the country would be paralysed ir over the R.A.F. and failed to and the way for invasion render- nflict serious damage to Britain's ed easy.
var machine, Germany has now But the morale of London is co turned the force of her. attack far ùntouched and everywhere} against what she hopes will prove the opinion is confidently express Britain's weakest point, namely ed that it will require bombing onj civilian morale.
a scale vastly more widespread
de-
At the same time, London is the and more intense before the nerve A communique issued in Cairo centre of communications, centre of Londoners can be crushed:"con yesterday reported that another of political life and representative a scale Italian raider was brought down of the nation in a way which is fences will never permit the Nazis
which the, London by anti-aircraft fire over Mersa- true of the capital of no other to achieve without inflicting' ter- Matruh yesterday-Reuter, country. By destroying London rible losses,
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Damage to London certainly} has been done and much suf fering caused. Many of hør prominent buildings, which form the chief target for Nazi bombs, have been damageḍ. These include some dozen TO-MORROW. famous old churches, St. Paul's Churchyard, the House of Lords,
Columbia Picture Buckingham Palace (three times hit), the Law Courts, Hogarth's House, Somerset House, three of the largest hospitals and a num- ber of smaller ones and two news- paper offices.
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Some 2,000 of her civilian popu- lation have been killed and many more injured or rendered home- less.
Yet the general life of the capi tal proceeds uninterrupted and the
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