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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 19, 1940
WARM & SAFE
Make Buick Sedan
Morris 10 Saloon
USED CARS.
Model Miles.
Page
Reg. No. Price
52850 $2,400 60677
SHELTER IN D
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 every night? Have you said to the man or woman next to you, "Foor 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- form edge, bunched my pillow and radeship passing all night through said "Good-night" to the Santos that stifling air. Neighbours who family. Within half an hour quarrelled before
now reserve must have been asleep. places for each other.
At 12.55 a.m. I felt a soft hand It The men play cards, the women on my should.
was Auntie Rolli. knit and gossip, and the children. play.
"You too near de edge," she told.
I
They bring down their beer me. "The train, it come very bottles, but when they open them soon." "I rolled obediently nearer you see they are filled with milk.safety.
There are the "old originals" who occupy the same sites night| after night. There are the covet- ed corners, the "classy" stations.
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It was 6 a.m. when next awoke. The English at the other end were dressing. The Gibral- tese at my end were still snor! ing, but not for long. Domigo woke first, then John, Ernest, and Rosa, and finally Mr. Santos, and his "missus.”
Down in Hackney, for instance, the people who like to pick and choose say that "all the nice people go to Holborn now." and
Together we carried our crazy. 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 Liverpool lifted upstairs in this way seemed Street is bad for their "rheuma- an absurd luxury after the un- tics,"
The "best seats" 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 do with the front row and nothing to lean against.
Escalator Fun
The children have to be amused until nine or ten, when, tired out,
civilised way we had spent the night, and I found myself laugh- ing.
But once out in Kingsway I could think of one thing only the air.
Not even the Swiss mountain air has ever smelt as sweet as the air of Kingsway smell to me at 6 o'clock in the morning.
they can sleep through the din of HOME GUARD DRESS passing trains. Most of them by have their favourite games now.
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 immédiately.
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
will
"Germany and Italy divide Europe into two economic spheres under the sole guidance and control of Berlin and Rome," writes Count Volpi in the "Po- polo d'Italia."
her essential
"In view of the increase of her population, Italy will develop her industrial output and export trade, which is to her existence..
"Nevertheless she will continue to pursue the policy of securing her necessary raw material from an enlarged colonial empire. The War Office states that ex- "Gold
and is unnecessary, officers and others must wear either the present holders of gold. uniform while will acknowledge the new Ger- Four-years-old Nità Sorrim, of Home Guard Amhurst Road, Hackney, for in- carrying out Home Guard duties, man-Italian economic system in stance, likes to be taken up and and not other uniforms which Europe, or the Axis Powers will down the moving staircase with they may, on other occasions, be refuse to recognise the gold stand-
ard in European markets." her daddy, Mr. Sorrim, an active entitled to wear. 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, lõoking like the King of the Holborn Tube, Is Mr. John Vancliff; a Whitecha peli taxi driver, and one of the fold originale."
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- ing socks and gossiping of this
and that...
Refugees
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 At the other end of platform one Channel in the direction of the target. This is car- the Gibraltar: refugees now find shelter, Mr. John Santos, a Gried out above the clouds on a fixed course, at a fixed braltar taxi driver was there speed, for a fixed flying time.
with "my missus and four of my five." He invited me to join the family for the night, and as they had a space oft by 3ft. vacant, which was more than I could, find elsewhere, I accepted. an
There were Rosa, aged 11, John, aged 9, Domigo, aged 8, and Ern est, aged 6 · ·...
regarded generally ad a.com pletely unsatisfactory ways of attacking targets, pa
Than the raider descends below the clouds in a gilde: -to observe za landmark: 20--or
„„30 miles outside... London. Any air force that adheres to Having found this, the pilot the method blindly is obviously sets out on the second stage.not concerned with accuracy,
Newly-Fixed Course trained blind-fying pilots. These meh ly through the top layers of cloud with no natural horizon to guide them.
My leello baby Carmen, she, hasa de-measles," explained Mr.This entails going above the Santos. Then there were grand-clouds, to fly rapidly on a newly ma and so many sisters and fixed course, while watching the brothers and, in-laws that 1. lost hands, of the clock closely. count,
Ernest had car-ache, so we set- tled him early, and except when John unwound 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.
Bed-Time
Goering was using his best-
More Noise
As soon as, say, 5min. 100c. have passed, the bomb-aimer. Their eyes are fixed on instru relcasos his load-and hopes dents 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 weas
The aircrew · cannot know ther conditions.cz whether the area has been hit, Londoneri thought that the because they cannot see through bombers 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 Jouder engine noise At 11.30 p.m. Auntie Rolli took huge nest of anti-aircraft guns. of the aircraft, and from the charge Sho 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 aeroplane a difficult target for The raiders were somewhat we followed suit. 1 folded my the anti-aircraft guna me lower than usual, but not rug in three a fool from the plat- Bombing by the clock”, is flawan: they mosmiod:
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