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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 29, 1940. ́*
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Portsmouth was raided late in one afternoon, but only about twenty machines were able to pierce an intensive A.A. barrage. Many others were driven back by British fighters.
Bombs were dropped in several parts of the city. A cinema was hit while a performance was in progress and the gallery collapsed. Some members of the audience were trapped in the building.
Another cinema narrowly escaped, the bomb dropping in a car park close by. A furniture factory was damaged and a number of houses in working class and residential districts were wrecked. There were a number of casualties, but they are believed to be relatively few in view of the number of bombs dropped.
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At Ramsgate, waves of bom- the roof had been blown off his bers and fighters were met by a car, which was full of stones and they shrapnel. While the debris was tell it by its exquisite bouquet alone. But it is
terrific A.A. barrage 'as
search casualties the perfect blending of fragrance with mell-crossed the coast. They scatter-being cleared away and
large number was being made for and dropped
aanother raid alarm occurred and of high explosive bombs, and few incendiaries in all parts of more bombs were dropped in a
causing the town,
damage to neighbouring district. houses. Casualties were few in of rescue continued without in- relation to the damage done. terruption.
Most of the damage was done
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in the third of a succession of Bomber Blown To Pieces raids that began
at breakfast
time and continued throughout the day. When one building was hit people sheltering in the base- ment escaped unhurt although covered in dust.
place Lively air battles took over the town during the raid. One Messerschmidt 109 was shot down by a Hurricane some miles inland. As the machine crashed An assembly hall was wrecked. into a cornfield the German pilot A man who was cleaning it for landed safely by parachute in at a brotherhood meeting was re- neighbouring field.
scued unhurt from the ruins by a warden.
Outside the building a placard still proclaimed: "Brother man,
and don't stay outside
hope for the best. Come inside and
get it,"
battles took More air
place and during the raid on Dover,
raiders were .seen to several crash into the sea.
hit
а
by One bomber was Spitfire high above cliffs to the east of the town, blew into pieces
GERMANS
CENTURIES
TOO LATE
An ingenious theory has been put forward- to explain why Ger-. man raiders frequent- ly drop bombs isolated and desolate districts.
on
A number of bombs have fallen near spots which are marked with the word "camp". on ordnance maps, and it is suggested that these markings refer to present day military camps. Ac tually they refer to old British fortresses mainly earthworks dating back to 1000 B.C.
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JAPANESE PAY UP INDEMNITY
HAI-
JAPANESE AUTHORITIES A few yards away a house in mid-air, and fell in the water HAVE PAID A TOTAL OF AP received a direct hit which re-just outside Dover Harbour. One PROXIMATELY US$1,080 AS duced it to a mass of rubble, of the crew was hurled out of | INDEMNITY TO THE FAMILIES but the occupier, Mr. N. Stroud, the wreckage, and his parachute, OF THE 18 ANNAMITES WHO and his wife emerged unscathed. | torn by the explosion, opened WERE KILLED WHEN NIPPON
him to mid-WARPLANES BOMBED One of those killed was a po-out and carried
he dropped into PHONG DURING THE JAPAN lice constable who was sleeping Channel wher
ESE LANDING OPERATIONS after being on night duty. His the sea. home was wrecked.
A cannon shell from the bom- THERE ON SEPTEMBER, 26. ber fell in a field.
top of cliffs, and soldiers found a goat The Japanese payment, at the kicking it with his hind legs. rate of approximately US$71 pef Luckily for the goat, the shell life, followed
a vigorous French failed to explode...
protest to. Tokyo, Later
Aged Couple Rescued
a
on
109
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In a road where several small houses were damaged, a-man- of eighty-five and
of woman
a Messerschmidt eighty-three were among those attacked a barrage balloon. The Meanwhile members of a Ja rescued. "I had not time to go balloon fell in flames and the panese economic mission reached to the nearest shelter," said the raider turned back for the French Hanoi. They will commence talk
by "I was trying to reach coast, surrounded bursting with French colonial officials later Watchers on the Informed quarters expect that th the cellar when everything seems | A.A. shells.
a wid
woman.
ed to fall on top of me, but coast saw a British fighter pounce conversations will cover stood close against a wall and on the escaping raider and shoot range of financial and trade ques escaped with a bump on my it down in mid-Channel.
head. What worries me most
is that I lost my top teeth."
In the town's shopping centre,
Guns Rout Raiders
de
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tions.
East coast.
the largest grocery store was A.A. gunners broke up a for-
Flying at a great height, the ruined. An employee of a firm mation, of German bombers which
killed were endeavouring of house furnishers was
to break first formation of twelve bomber was driven off by Spitfires afte while crossing the road to shel--through the outer London
at-a brief encounter." ter.
fences. It was the second Several public houses in differ-tempt during the day, and ent parts of the town were de- each occasion air raid warnings molished. At one, where all the were sounded throughout London. windows were, broken, the land- The first alarm lasted from just lord carried beer in buckets to "after 8 a.m.. until nearly 9 rescue' workers as soon, as the o'clock, and the second from 3:45 raid was over."
ed.
until 4.45.
Half an hour later eight Na bembers attacked from anothe direction. This time they wer driven off by heary anti-aircra gunfire.
As they returned across the Channel, followed by gunfire one, machine was seen to fa out of formation and plung So intense was the barrage
downwards towards the sea. and so heavy was the thunder
In another, district, thirtee of the guns that in many places It was mistaken
bombs. enemy 'planes attempting to attac The massed raiders wilted un-an aerodrome were driven wid and fighters,.. bu der the fire and turned north. by A.A. fire.
for
The third and largest forma tion of twenty Junkers crosse Two people, one a van driver, The afternoon. raiders came in the coastline shortly before nooi
but of
a heavy anti-aircraft bar were killed outside a temperance from the south at a height hotel and several people running 20,000 feet, and as they appear-rage caused them to take anothe They flew for severa. to a shelter were blown. downed over the Thames in rough ar- course.
coast in a vai miles along the were the steps. when a bomb explod-}-row-head formation they
effort to penetrate the barrag thet by a terrific A.A. barrage. The Mayor, Town Clerk, and After a few minutes firing the before turning seawards. members of the municipal staff gunners got the range pericctly took shelter in the basement of and shell after shell burst among the council offices and were sha- the enemy formation. ken by bombs which fell a few) feet in front of the building.
One bomb struck the gasworks, causing a fire. This was speedily. extinguished, however, by the fire brigade, the A.F.S., and bri- gades from neighbouring towns. In their efforts to escape some loosed high explosive and in Two men employed in the of the 'planes dropped like stones cendiary bombs over a residentia mains department were killed and then roared over the house and rural area damaging privat by a bomb which exploded three tops so low that the Home Guard property. Casualties were few.
Two raiders are believed feet from them as they were were "potting" at them.
down and th running for shelter.
A Spitfire pounced on a Nazi have been shot In another part of the town a plane that had already been bad-crew of four of one of them, a boy had a foot blown off and ly hit by an A.A.. shell and was wounded, were captured: was pinned beneath the wreckage trying to hedge-hop away. Tha In the South-West, hundreds of a house. In another street a machine crashed near a village incendiary bombs were showe civilian had a leg blown off. and á black, column of smoke ed on rural districts. Presumab
A woman who had sheltered marked its resting-place. Others the raiders were attempting In a cupboard, under hor stair. were obviously badly damaged: set fire to growing corn. General oase emerged after the raid A terrific air battle took place they were well off their target to find that her kitchen had over a south-east-town as the and in most areas little or n vanished.
flecting raiders and their escorts damage was done. A reporter who was watching met a large force of British Villagers or members of the raid, heard the shriek of a fighters. bomb and ran into a building, As
he reached the head of the Powerful Barrage stairs there was a terrine ex-olah te plosion, and he was blown from
Home Guard extinguished t fire bombs almost as soon as the
struck the ground, or they burne
themselves out on harvest Junkers 88 dive-bombers made felds. In one district, three stáci top to bottom without touching three unsuccessful attempts to were fired, but the flames we the stairs. He later four.
attack another area on the South-all put out within a minute.