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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 12, 1940
BULMER'S CIDER AIR DAMAGE TO BRITAIN'S
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THIS IS THE FIRST of a series of cables by. Miss Helen Kirkpatrick, of the London staff of the Chicago Daily News," to her paper describing the ffects of the German bombing blitzkrieg on the |industrial and shipping centres of England...
Industrial England, which took the brunt of the Nazi bombing attacks many weeks before the blitz- krieg on London began, is virtually untouched.
Its factories, the majority of: which are converted to wartime.' production, are turning out essen- tial supplies at a rate which car- tainly makes a quick Nazi victory impossible and any kind of Ger- man victory pretty uncertain.
One of Britain's biggest ports is crammed with tonnage from all over the world and ships unload thousands of tons of food and war materials daily, despite persistent German attempts to disrupt this vital work.
I spent six days touring the most important industrial cen- tres, inspecting war factories and visiting damaged areas. Full and [confidential reports of all damage
place I visited, and, while it is.
GABON
FALLS TO
DE GAULLE
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA "MAIL")
General de Gaulle's
done were available in every forces are reported to impossible to make these public, have occupied Libreville, it can be stated that air raids
have not so far impaired the Bri- the last port in Equatorial
Africa which
tish war effort to any marked extent.
Effect On Production loyal to Vichy.
remained
While nightly alarms and spor-
The Free French forces are adic day raids have affected pro- duction, it has fallen off only by thus in control of Gabon, accord- a slight amount, and there is con-ing to military, despatches from fidence throughout the industrial | Leopoldville,
Belgian area that this is only temporary. Congo.
Once
in the
roof spotting systems are fully working production is ex- It is understood that 'the Vichy, pected to be maintained.
Government cabled the coloniál
While the morale of Londoners authorities in Gabon to cease use- resistance, International has been the object of great ad- less miration, that of Industrial Eng-News Service. land is fully equal, and in many | cases far surpasses London's. And unquestionably a good deal of the Midlands and the North of Eng- land is far tougher than anything that can be found in London.
****Tougher ---- Angrier"
C. O. Surrenders
"THAT WAS
YOUR SON!!
An
R.A.F. pilot,
who, after an exploit -one-Sunday, was shot
down and had to bale out, wrote home a 'few hours later a note of four sentences. In place of his usual eight-page letter. His note ran:
•
"My dear Mother and Father,Just line, since I have not much time for writing, to tell you that "the old firm is still 'merry and bright. They seem ́to have made quite a show on the six o'clock wireless news to-night. Did you hear the long description of the Hurricane.and the two Dorniers over "Buckingham Palace and Victoria Station? That was your ever- loving son.'
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PRESSURE ON
RUSSIAN LAWYERS
The headquarters of the Free (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") French forces have issued the following Communique: "The
Henceforth.. all White Russian garrison of Libreville has ac-lawyers in Shanghai will have to cepted the conditions of the register with the "City. Govern- Commanding Officer Free French ment of Greater Shanghai" un- forces, for a cessation of hostili-der the Nanking regime's control. ties. The officer commanding "the Some of the lawyers hold cer-
by the farther garrison has surrendered him- tificates issued
Chungking. and these will have to be chang- self.
ed for certificates issued by. Nanking. Havas."
The effect of the raids to far has heen to infuriate the popu- lation as a whole and workers in-particular. And
north you go the tougher and angrier they get...........
The North is pretty adamant on
The warships, Savorgnan de
and subject of the war. Ir Brazza
the Commandant heard it once I heard it ten times Dokine, of the Free French Navy,
the
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in different forms: "We finished have entered Libreville. harbour, A Chinese cylist was knocked the last war too soon. The mis- The capital of Gabon becomes down and fatally injured by a take we made was in not march- henceforward à part of the Free motor-bus in Shataukok yester- ing to Berlin. This time we arc French Empire-British Wireless, day afternoon. not stopping until we have beaten the Germans and know they know it."
Peaceful Countryside Driving hundreds of miles. northward from London it was difficult to realise that not only is there a war on, but that big cities of this country are being pounded nightly with high explosives and incendiary bombs.
The countryside presents the most peaceful aspect imaginable;! and only the "presence of soldiers along roads which are punctuated with tank traps recalls that a battle is going (on. Again, going" | into big industrial cities it is alicult to find any, trace of dam- age, and it is necessary to know where to look for it.
As in the case of London most of the damage had been 'aone jry the residential area, and most of that to workers' houses on the frings of factories.
The organisation of clyillan
· defences and · first aid -services scema excellent, and the only criticism that could be made lo that the construation-of shelters Js much too far behind.
There has been damage to fac- tories, in some cases serious, but the number of factories demolish- ed or badly hit is so small as to make no.appreciable difference to national production: This is mainly due to vast-decentralisd tion::
Vital war supplies- Buch B (machine tools, aeropianes, gung «and ammunition are belog pro:: duced in so many different fac- torien, "ench with many zubní“ diacy planta to call on, that tho destruction of any one of them) cannot cripple production,
Many areas of industrial "Eng-, jand are more prosperous than they have been for years and un- employment has shrunk to the lowest figure for 23 years.
Av The 'Nažla! fæiled to find the #Nig
whon, they bomtud
...Berkeley Square "and 'they also "missed an owl (stuffed) that le
resident there. (Copyright, Fox).