THE CHAOS' OF LONDON SEEN IN LIGHT OF DAY
Reuter Tour After Night Of German Savagery
I FOUND INDUSTRIAL AND PRIVATE LIFE THROBBING AS STRONGLY AS EVER, WRITES A REUTER SPECIAL CORRES- PONDENT AFTER A- TWO-HOUR TOUR OF LONDON ON BOTH SIDES OF THE THAMES YESTERDAY.
German bombers which raided the capital the previous night had succeeded in laying low a bit more of this vast sprawling city and its suburbs but the "unprecedented chaos" and "paralysis of services for some time to come" claimed by Berlin I saw was a hollow boost.
I hailed a taxi from the pool of road transport which with the railways had brought all London to work as usual long before lunch. We were held up hardly 15 minutes before starting the tour while taxis, buses, trams and lorries straightened them- selves out in this busy corner of central London.
The jam was no worse than in pre-war days and was the long- est wait I experienced. At the first main line terminus I reach- ed by way of diversions which sent the taximéter up only 1/- above the normal fare, trains were run- ning normally.
There was a small colony of people, mostly women and
.children evacuating from fresh-
ly damaged homes.
A railway official commented: "The crowd is no bigger usual."
Normal Trains
than
From a night porter in a sub- urban" section of the station I learned that there was no inter- ference with the morning's busi- ness trains.
LONG
DELAYS IN CALL-UP
Criticism is still being heard
CAMMEL LAIRD CHAIRMAN KILLED IN RAID
Mr. W. L. Hichens, Chairman of the great shipping firm, Messrs. Cammel Laird, a director of the Lon- don, Midland and Scottish Railway and other large industrial concerns and a mem- ber of the Carnegie New York Trust, has been killed in an air raid on London. He was 66 years of age.
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regarding delays in the
the calling-up TARZAN
of men for the Forces. Despite a Ministry of Labour-explanation that the intake rate has been ac- celerated, and that the average in- terval between registration and Elsewhere broken walls, call-up is now about two months, gaps in the road and scattered there is evidence that often glass told of a stick of bombs much longer period elapses. which had fallen in the neigh bourhood. Squads of workmen were busy cleaning up the mess.
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A Japanese version of; Tarzan is now an inmate of the Itabashi poorhouse in Tokyo. He is about 17
A reporter was told of men of years old, eats crow and 22 and 23, whose classes were re-dove meat raw and does gistered before the end of last year
Blackened hosepipes ringed an and early this year, who are still not know where he was
area half a mile square. Two solitary fire engines passed their return to station.
on
Smoke was rising from one of London's biggest electric power stations but it was coming from chimneys and workmen were just emerging from their lunch.
Business As Usual.
I stopped at a roadside cafe for a quick lunch. The milkman and baker had called but the
late.
awaiting their ofders to report. Now that the Army, according to is drafting in men at the rate of the Secretary for War, Mr. Eden, 7.000 a day, it may be assumed that their exclusion is either be cause they are in the tradesmen's "pool" or they have been sche- duled for eventual service with the Navy or the R.A.F.
Revise Waiting List
born.
He was found by the Ikebukuro quent youths. Because he had no polics during a hunt for delin- ene to take care of him; he was sent to the Itabashi asylum.
According to the youngster, his earliest memory is that he was living with an old man in out-of- the-way mountains in Wakayama prefecture. During his life with the strange old man in the moun~ tains, he was taught by him a If these Services still cannot variety of old martial sports. He absorb such young men, it is sug-lived on berries, fruits and meat of gested that the waiting list should wolves and wild be revised and reduced, while mountain forests. with shopping those retained should be called up from for preliminary training,
proprietor had words with the Butcher, who was half an hour
Mothers passed bags. Dockland was far dead.
In the City, businesses
4
birds in the
As he grew up to adolescence, the old man said that he had nothing more to learn from him. and Other cases concern men of and that he should descend the banks were carrying on as usual. 26 who, when their class was re-mountains. So saying, the old man gistered, in April, expressed a de- vanished like smoke, the boy says, sire to follow their trades or to un- Since that day he had been wan- dertake specialist duties with the dering aimlessly until he was ar- R.A.F. They still remain in civi-rested, When he came to Tokyo he
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All over the dozen London dis- tricts I toured there was evidence of bomb damage, old and new, but what struck
me was thnt Among men in early classes with stones. Londoners had got the measure of whose call is also long deferred The boy is five feet four the latest attack on their homes are those with mechanical know-inches tall. He has a handsome as quickly as they did in the ledge who are to be drafted, when face and wears white pants, and first mass attack in September required, to the Navy, Army, or shirt and a hunting cap. Being and those every night since, and R.A.F. Here, again, it is suggested very agile, he likes to climb trees. were hard at work putting mat- that if the supply temporarily ex-in the asylum compound. He calls ters straight or carrying on with cecds the demand, the pool should himself Taro Kanda. 'their ordinary work-Reuter,
be drained, a little, and the men called up for general training un- til they are wanted in their own jobs.
CHUNGKING RAID
A.R.P. ACCIDENT › While working in No. 9, A.R.P. There is some evidence of cor Three Japanese planes flying Tunnel in the Central District responding delays in the industrial from Hupeh ralded Chungking at yesterday, Mr. E. V. Olsson was sphere. Many people anxious to 8 o'clock yesterday evening. Ten injured when some rock fell upon undertake munition work are dis- bombs were dropped, wounding him. He was admitted to: Queen heartened by the time lag between two men and demolishing several Mary Hospital for treatment. their enrolment and employment. houses,Central News.
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