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*How do you feel this-morning, Jock 7"
Ugh!"
**Like that, eh?”
* Worte shan that!”
;
"Good party, though. Never enjoyed un evening as much for years.”
"I've never hated a morning as much. 'X'm ̧xtill tossing feverishly on my bed of pain. In fact I don't suppose I shall gver get up again. Send me some books from time to time, will you? And a few flowers. Tell the boys I'm keeping
a stiff sopper lip.".
"Has nobody.told you about Gimlets? I stuck to them all evening. Feel ́ar fresh as a whole field full of daisies.” "You mean that Rost's Lime Juica takes care of the hangover before it starts?"
"Definitely. It's known as 'a thera- peutic agent if that conveys. any» thing to you"
WITH
THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 4, 1940.
LONDON
BARRAGE GUNS
HOW THE MEN behind the anti-aircraft gun keep at bay the German mass raiders when they attempt to strike at London is told in a dispatch
A BODY
published in the American press by Ned Russell, an BLOW FOR
American journalist now in London. His story was written after he had seen an anti-aircraft battery in the Thames Estuary at work.
"Heavy anti-aircraft guns in this district which are guarding the highway to London over which German raiders fly night and day to the London area belched forth curtains of tons of splintering steel yesterday and last night at targets the gun ners were unable to see and broke up at least one- raid on the capital," he says.
the sheets
"I stood with officers in charge of operations who shouted com- mands to the gun teams as they
into hurled their barrage air. I watched as, great of yellow flame and smoke shot from the 4.5 guns and 85lb. shells screeched from their long muzzles through the low, thick clouds to
“It might, if my mind could grasp words of more than one' syllable. I - say ---- I think 1:12 send out for some right away. May act retrospectively.bürst like thunder out of sight, Thanks for ringing -old boy, I feel better already. See you one of these days at the club, Good-bye."
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"These guns fired as many as twelve shells above the clouds in
R.A.F.
BOMBERS'
ACCURACY
The pilots who bombed less than a minute. The din was the Potsdam railway sta- ear-splitting.. The earth shook tion in Berlin are definite violently under my feet, and one
away: For several seconds after
HITLER
The R.A.F. drop bombs and set the Black Forest ablaze: This sends Hitler into a violent rage. Why?
Because next to oil and iron, wood is Germany's greatest need: The whole of the ersatz economy of the country is based on a plen- tiful supply of timber."
Fibrated wood is in general use as a cloth substitute. A German hausfrau advised: her husband not to hang his new suit in the wardrobe.
"Why?" he asked. "Because it might take root, was the reply.
The Nazi civilian wears boots
from wood.
blast from the explosions shat-that they identified their tered a window several yards target and hit it with with soles and uppers both made these guns fired, as I listened to great accuracy. The same wood, chemically disintegrated the shells bursting in and above care was exercised in the and then plastically moulded, is the clouds, I heard scores
hombing of other legiti-used to replace glass. mate targets in Berlin impregnated with phenolic resin
other guns booming in the dis
tance.
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Wood in the form of vencers, and other German cities. and then compressed under high Recently American Journalists pressure, is used as a substitute were shown that. Hamburg city for metal... 45 was intact, though they were not Wood supplies essential alcohol
shown the docks, on which our for German aircraft.
concentrated their Every barracks, airfield and in attentions. The Americans were naval base uses wood for construc
military at least able to testify that we tional purposes. Every had done no sprinkling of bombs wagon or forry consists largely of blindly, as the Germans have wood. Almost every ammunition-.
box is made of wood. been doing over London.
God Help Them "Once at young, officer beside me said. "There are about. tons of little pieces of steel up there now; God help anybody aircraft had near them.' Every battery this area was throwing a barrage fired carefully at a predetermin ed spot a thousand yards away, where brigade headquarters knew
The R.A.F. sticks to the policy The railway depends on wood. by reports from the fighter com-" mand that German bombers were that the bombing of military ob- for sleepers; telegraphy demands approaching. When the officers jectives is the best contribution wooden poles.
The German aircraft industry called Cease fire a curtain of which the air power can make to steel was bursting over a wide winning the war, and that the ter-made its remarkable pre-war ex- area, jolting the planes violent-rorising of civilians is a futile di- pansion, principally through the substitution of wood for metal. ly and probably damaging them version of effort,
The Germans fly so high over To-day it is still dependent on severely.
Sometimes we heard the London that they can hardly ex- wood to keep up its rate of pro- throbbing drone of a German peet to hit any particular build-duction,
'ing. Of course. the lake in St. bomber near by.. A map in the operations rooms on which the James's Park, which was drain- progress of all 'planes in this district was marked by crayon lines showed us their exact route und altitude. Sometimes we could not even hear the 'planes, We never saw any because the thick low ceiling.
of
·
Resources Trebled
ed in the last war. but has.i.ot been drained this time, was a good Hitler's annexations of the.last guide to Buckingham Palace, but four years have trebled his timber His invasion of Nor- even so if a German deliberately resources. aimed at the Palace he must have way, and Denmark had as one of been very surprised at the success its many purposes
the exclusion of his shot, and. he would proof the Allies from the Baltic, thus bably be quite unable to repeat cutting off Britain from the Scan- were it.
'dinavian' countries, formerly her.
it
"Most of the planes headed for London. When became known that there were no British fighters In the tar: get area brigade headquarters. suddenly snapped orders.
RECTOR HAS NO
telephone, "Prepare for barrage d No. 4 or 3 or 5, or whatever was wished, depending upon
the direction.
"The brigade commander Issued COMPLAINT
meaning
orders: Bearing, two eight one;} height, fourteen thousand; fuse, one eight point one,'
THE REV. H. E. B. NYE, shells set to burst after eighteen RECTOR OF SCAMPTON, NEAR and one-tenth seconds after leav- LINCOLN, DETAINED FOR TWO
UNDER THE DE ing the gun. Then the brigade's MONTHS
HAS order, 'Fire, and the battery and FENCE REGULATIONS, officer relayed it through a me-BEEN RELEASED UNCONDI- gaphone to the gunners. There TIONALLY. were four terrific cracks, blind- Mr. Nye, who expects to take. ing flashes, and sharp screeches. the services as usual, told the Then the order. Reload,' then "News Chronicle:"
four more cracks, flashes, and "I have no complaint against screeches followed by bursting the Government for their action. puffs in the sky. Finally, Cease fire...
Devastating Mass:
"They alone are the judges of. an emergency, and I recognise that in a time of public danger personal interests must go by the board.....
chief sources of timber,
On the other hand, Hitler has easy access to the soft-wood, ply- wood and wood pulp exports of Russia.
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We ourselves have trade agreement to buy three million pounds worth of Russian timber, an agreement which was not im- plemented owing to the, Russo- Finnish war.
We should remember that every yard of timber we get from Russia means a yard less for him.
DUTCH ADMIRE LONDONERS
Members of the Netherland "After one barrage yesterday "While I might have been Government have visited some afternoon I looked at the opera-known as a Fascist, I have never of the areas in London stricken tions-room map and saw that introduced politics into the threatened raid on London pulpit."
the by German bombs and during the Cabinet Council it was decid- to ed to offer a contribution of £50,000 to the Lord Mayor's Fund for the relief of London's air-raid victims In making this donation, the Netherland". Gov» rnment desire to express their deep sympathy with the victima of German air raids as well as their admiration for the splendid The Ministry of Food has just manner in which the London po air each night and day during completed new contracts for the pulation is standing up, to ... ito, raids over the estuary, have a purchase of butter and cheese ordeal.EENKOMOL
had been frustrated. The 'planes He added that his loyalty had crossed the South-east Coast the country had not been ques- towards. London, but the moment tioned. after the barrage line appeared guided by reports from the Ob- server Corps they suddenly made
a halrpin turn back across the Channel."
These heavy shells, of which thousands are hurled into the
MORE BUTTER AND
CHEESE.
100 per cent destructive effect from Australia -and New Zealand The Prime Minister of the New therlands (Professor P. S. Ger- when they burst within a hun for the 1940-41 season, we dred feet of a 'plane. They are. It is expected that the quanti brandy) and the Minister for Cóc able to damage and severely jolt ties produced will be substanti-lonies and Finance, (Mr. Welter) from 500 feet. Hence the bar ally greater than during last sea were received by the Lord Mayor rage from scores of guns creates son, They will replace, the butTM and handed over to him. tho a devastating mass of deadly ter and cheese previously sup- Netherlands, Government's contri-
bution. plied by the Continent."