THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 1, 1940.
SIDELIGHTS OF RAIDS ON BRITAIN
STRANGE THINGS, many unrecorded, are happening every day in air-raided Britain. Here are some of the minor events which show how the British civilian is dealing with war-time emer gencies.
A Dornier, riddled with a spitfire's bullets, fied south over the Thames estuary. Suddenly its tail snapped off and the bomber crashed in a field near some houses. When householders hurried over they found two of the crew badly injured, the other two unhurt.
They took the uninjured men to
a house and decided that they had better be separated. So one of
the Germans was invited to take a bath. He accepted and was locked in the bathroom until sol- diers arrived.
In south-cast England a Nazi cut fighter landed in a freshly cornfield. Railwaymen working on the line went, over and took the pilot prisoner.
But of course they had to get on with their own job. So they left the airman in the cornfield A after taking away his. boots and socks. The Nazi did not even try to escape.
Rural Council Solemnity
A meeting of the rural council was being held in a south-eastern district when raiders were report- ed in the vicinity.
Solemnly the chairman rose and proposed: "That this meeting do adjourn to an air-raid shelter."
Solemnly a councillor rose: "I beg leave to second the motion."
FUNNIEST
STORY
FROM ROME
IN FOREFRONT
OF BATTLE
THE TRADE UNION MOVE- MENT IS NOW IN. THE FORE- FRONT OF THE BATTLE WHICH WILL DETERMINE.THE
COURSE OF HISTORY, STATES AL COUNCIL PREPARED FOR THE ANNUAL MEETING NEXT WEEK OF THE TRADES UNION CONGRESS,
REPRESENTING
THE REPORT OF THE GENER
ABOUT 5,000,000 WORKERS.
The report continues: "the posi- tion of the Trade Union move- ment in industry and its represen- tatives' capacity have never been more fully acknowledged.
We have not forgotten that power brings responsibilities. And at such a time of national crisis those responsibilities to the nation have been inflexibly pursued."
The General Council also ex- pressed appreciation of the way in which workers are going on with of providing "IF THE BRITISH PEOPLE the industrial task COULD EXPRESS THEIR VIEWS the means by which men in the BY A PLEBISCITE, FROM forces can raise an impenetrable SEVENTY-FIVE TO EIGHTY barrier against the Nazi hordes.-- PER CENT. WOULD ACCEPT British Wireless. THE HAND WHICH HITLER OFFERS," SAYS THE "POPOLO D'ITALIA."
"If Britain were ruled by men of the calibre of Henry VIII, Cromwell, Pitt, Disraeli, or Glad- stone, she would accept the salva- tion offered by the Axis.
"Under the present regime the English people are unable to manifest their real feelings.
"The silence of Lloyd George is an indication of his disappro- val." British United Press.
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Solemnly the councillors rais. od their hands. The chairman declared the motion carried. And solemnly they walked to an air. raid shelter where the business of the meeting was continued. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Smith were walking through the streets of a south-eastern town, when a raid began. They carried a jug and a saucer and they were going to their old home, destroyed by Corps, who spread the rumour bombs a month ago. They went on that two parachutists had been walking during the raid because, dropped at Wigmore, Hereford- they were expected by Smuts, shire, and four at Bewdley and their cat.
had been caught, was fined £30 Although Mr. and Mrs. Smith with £12 16s. costs at Leo- have a new home, Smuts refuses minster. to leave the bricks and wood where he always lived. They have tried everything to get him away. Now they are resigned to taking the cat his food every day among the ruins of their own home.
TOWN LOST HALF ITS
CHILDREN
EASTEBOURNE LOST HALF
WHEN ITS. CHILDREN
FIVE SPECIAL TRAINS TOOK 2,709 OF THEM AWAY UNDER THE VOLUNTARY EVACUATION SCHEME.
The Mayor and Mayoress saw them off, but parents were ex- cluded from the station.
The children were distributed between Bedford, Hitchin, Bal- dock, Bishops Stortford, Welwyn Garden City and Watford.
CHOLERA'S WANE
cases.
He was Percy Arnold Brown, of Ludlow. It was stated that
Indicating the slackening of he went to Ludlow Police Station. and was told the rumour was the intensity of the cholera out- untrue and subsequently motor break, Health Department figures ed to Wigmore and found there covering the week ended mid- was no truth in the report.. He night, September 20, show that then returned home, to Ludlow 70, new cases (23 from Victoria Downed During Funeral and on his way stopped five peo- and 43 from Kowloon) were no- ple and told them that six para- tifled, including two imported Overhead on the south-east
chutists had been caught. coast raged a terrific air battle. Below, a funeral.. procession
PRINCE EDWARD · wound its slow way to the ceme- tery. Men in R.A.F. uniform
ROAD BURGLARY carried the coffin. An R.A.F. chaplain conducted the service.
Miss Lee Lai, of No. 347, Prince Above one of the Nazi 'planes Edward Road, has informed the fell in back smoke. Below, the Police her residence was entered mourners lowered into its grave last night, and money and jewel- the body of a young · German airman, brought down four dayslery to the value of $548 stolen, earlier.
During the Ransom murder trial at Tonbridge, Kent, raiders were reported.
"Very inconsiderate people over- head" remarked Mr. G. R. Paling, prosecuting counsel. With that the witness continued his evi- dence.
WOMAN BECOMES
MAJOR
For the first time `à woman.doc-
tor is to hold senior Army rank, Dr. Anna Reaveley Glover, of the R.A.M.C has been appointed De-. puty Assistant Director of Medical
Services for the AT.S. Eastern Command.
She will rank as a major, wear a major's badges, and receive the ordinary..pay and allowances of an RIAM.C. major: But she will still be addressed as "Doctor.".
BEER SENT HIM TO GAOL
Arrested yesterday in connec-
L.D.V.
NAZI
froni
There were 110 deaths cholera in the period.
In the same week, tuberculosis deaths totalled 180, and a total of 247 new cases, were notified.
The figures for the 24 hours ended at midnight were seven new cholera cases (three in Victoria and four, in Kowloon) and new cases of tuberculosis.
TRAPS 3 AIRMEN
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THREE GERMAN AIRMEN were captured by a Local Defence volunteer when a Dornier bomber. was shot down by three R.A.F. fighters after a battle over south-west England. The L.D.V's son, an R.A.M.C. private, attended to the wounds of two of the crew.
"There was nothing in it," Cap-crew until a military detachment tain: Philips told a reporter later, arrived and took them away.
"was motoring when I saw the fighters on the Dornier's tall.
"I was driving home when I saw,
the bomber shot down by “our, fighters. I hurriedly put on my L.D.V. armlet and flourishing my revolver ran towards where
the plane e was lying.
tion with the theft of three cases -Two of the crew were wound- of HB. beer from, a godown at ed; and they had already been No. 59, Canton Road on Septem- pulled clear by, the third German ber 19, Wong Ming, 28, pleading nirman.
guilty, was sentenced to two "The men offered no resistance months'chard labour and ordered and I, disarmed them.
to be expelled by Mr. E. Hims-"My son, who, is a privata in worth at Kowloon this morning, on the RA.M.C was with me, and a-housebreaking charge.
he attended to the injuries of the
"The German bomber dived to. 2,000ft, twisting and turning.
"The planes were only just above the tree tops when a finat, burst of machine-gun fire; from our fighters brought the bomber down."
A local farmer said:
"My biggest job was to stop, alghtscore trampling down my wheat,
"They had forgotten the Gov- ernment making this offence liable to heavy fines.
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