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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 19, 1940
WARM & & SAFE SHELTER IN TUBES
ARE YOU ONE of the hundreds of thousands who, going home in the Tube at night, have looked. out of the train window and pitied the people who make their beds there cyery night? Have you said to the man or woman next to you, "Poor wretches. It must be perfectly frightful?”, writes a "Daily Mail" reporter.
Well, you are wasting your sympathy. I was one of the 10,000 "poor wretches" who spent the night in the Holborn Tube. And it was not nearly so frightful as it looks from the train window.
Never have I felt so safe since the bombing of London started. It was not comfortable-in fact, my couch was hard. But it was warm-and that is going to become important as the nights grow colder.
There is an atmosphere of com- radeship passing all night through that stifling air. Neighbours who quarrelled before now reserve places for each other.
The men play cards, the women knit and gossip, and the children play.
There
form edge, bunched my pillow and said "Good-night" to the Santos family. Within half an hour F must have been asleep.
Aj 12.55 a.m. I felt a soft hand it was Auntie on my should. Rolli.
"You too near de edge," she told me. "The train, it come very soon." I rolled obediently nearer safety.
It was 6 a.m. when I next awoke, The English at the other end were dressing. The Gibral- tese at my end were still anor- ing, but not for long. Domigo woke first, then John, Ernest, and Rosa, and finally Mr. Sai tos and his "missus."
They bring down their beer bottles, but when they open them you see they are filled with milk.
are the "old original" who occupy the same sites night after night. There are the covet- ed corners, the "classy" stations.
Down in Hackney, for instance, the people who like to pick and choose say that "all the nice) people go to Holborn now," and those who cannot get in there go farther west, for they don't ap-looking bundles of night comforts prove of the crowd in Bank or St. up the moving staircase. To be Paul's, and they say
lifted upstairs in this way seemed Liverpool Street is bad for their "rheuma- an absurd luxury after the un- civilised way we had spent the lics."
night, and I found myself laugh- ing.
Together we carried our crazy-
NAZI BULLETS KILL GIRL
A nine-year-old girl, Sheila White, was machine-gunned by a Messerschmidt and killed at a South-East Coast town. The girl was attempting to reach the Anderson shelter in the garden when she was struck by a bullet and died .almost immediately.
The Messerschmidt machine-gunned large area of the town from
a height of about 500 feet. It was so low that the mark- ings could easily be seen. Many other peo- ple, including women and children,
had. narrow escapes.
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TRADE BOAST OF AXIS
"Germany and Italy will divide Europe into two economic spheres under the sole guidance But once out in Kingsway and control of Berlin and Rome," could think of one thing only the writes Count Volpi in the "Po-
polo d'Italia."
The "best scats" in Holborn are along the walls of platforms one and two. To get one of these you have to arrive soon after 3 p.m. otherwise you have to make dajair, with the front row and nothing to Jean against.
Escalator Fun.
The children have to be amused until nine or ten, when, tired out. they can sleep through the din of passing trains. Most of them have their favourite games by
now.
Not even the Swiss mountain air has ever smelt as sweet as the air of Kingsway sinelt to me at 6 o'clock in the morning.
HOME GUARD DRESS
"In view of the increase of her develop population, Italy will her industrial output and her export trads, which is essential to her existence.
"Nevertheless she will continue to pursue the polley of securing her necessary raw material from an enlarged colonial.empire. The War Offcż states that 'ex-. "Gold is unnecessary," and officers and others must wear either the present holders of gold
Guard uniform while will acknowledge the new Ger-: Amhurst Road, Hackney, for in-carrying out Home Guard duties, man-Italian economic-system-in
uniforms stance, likes to be taken up and and not other
which Europe, or the Axis Powers will down the moving staircase, with they may, on other occasions, be refuse to recognise the gold stand- her daddy. Mr. Sorrin, an active entitled to wear.
Four-years-old Nita Sorrim, of Home
young tailor's assistant, told me. "I have to take her up and down two dozen times a night before she is willing to go to sleep, For- tunately, I like it too."
The man you may have seen propped up, at the extreme end of platform one, looking like the King of the Holborn Tube, is Mr. John Vancliff, a Whitecha pel taxi driver, and one of the "old originals.""
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He knew the Holborn Tube be- fore it grew overcrowded; Now,
every night, he sits there playing solo with three other men, while the four wives sit near by darn inga socks and gossiping off this and that,
Refugees
At the other end of platform one the Gibraltar refugees now and shelter. Mr. John Santos, a Gi braltar taxi driver, was there. with my missus and four of my
'Ave. He invited me to join the family for the night, and as they had a space 6ft by 3ft. vacant, which was more than I could find elsewhere, I-accepted.
There were Rosa, aged 11, John, agod D, Domigo, aged 8, and Ern- Est, aged 6.
My leatle baby Garmen, she hasa de measles," explained Mr. Santos. Then there were grand- maand so many sisters and brothers and in-laws that I lost count.
Ernest had ear-ache, so we set- tled him early, and except when John anwound his bandage to play. with it, he lay undisturbed. John did this eight times during the evening. But his only other toy in England is a ping-pong ball, so It wasn't surprising.
ard in European markets."
RAIDERS BOMBED "BY THE CLOCK"
THICK CLOUD caused the German raiders over London to adopt the system of "bombing by the clock." This results in an area being bombed in- discriminately, with the idea that certain objectives within it will be hit.
"Bombing by the clock" is carried out in two stages. The first stage is the flight across the Channel in the direction of the target. This is car- ried out above the clouds on a fixed course, at a fixed speed, for a fixed flying time.
Then the raider -descende below the clouds in a glide to observe a landmark 20 on 30...... mitos outside.. London). Having found this, the ́-pilot nota out on the second stage,
Newly-Fixed Course. This entaila going above the clouds, to fly rapidly on a newly fixed course, while watching the hands of the clock closely,
regarded generally as a com plotely - unsatisfactory-way attacking targets
Any air force that adheres to the method blindly is obviously. not concerned with "accuracy», a
Gooring was using his best- trained blind-flying-pilots: These men fly through the-top: layers of cloud with no natural horizon to guide them.
More Noise
Ac 80011 28, say, 5min. 10sec. have passed, the bomb-aimer Their eyes are fixed on instru- relensde: his load and hopes inents which tell, them whether that the bombs have fallen they are flying straight and within the selected area of level," and at the correct height. London.
This type of flying ignores, wea- The air crew cannot know ther conditions. whether the orca has been hit, Landoners thought that the because they cannot see through hombers were flying particularly the clouds. And they dare not low This Impression resulted descend again because of the from the higher speed-and balloon barrage and London's therefore louder engine noise At 11:30 pm, Auntie Rolli took huge nest of anti-aircraft guns, of the aircraft, and" from the charge She could hear the English Meanwhile the bombers great echoes that the clouds were send- snoring at the other end of the speed, the crew hope, will make ing down to the ground.".. platform and thought it was time the neroplane a dificult target for The raiders were somewhat "we" followed suft. ́ ́ ́ ́I' folded my the anti-aircraft, guns...
W lower than usual, but notas. crúg in three a foot from the plate Bombing by the clock! low as they seemed,
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