THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 27, 1940
SIX DIE IN GERMAN AIR RAID ON SCHOOL
SIX CHILDREN, all about seven years old, were killed when a German 'plane swooped down over a Midland town and bombed a large elementary school.
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Fortunately the attack came so suddenly that there was no time to move the children into sandbagged shelters in the playground which were badly damaged.
About 400 boys and girls, some of them evacuees from London and the East Coast attend the school, and three girls, who arrived in the town only a fort- night ago, and a crippled boy were among the killed. Many of the children were probably saved by the
fact that just before the explosions they were told
to lie on the floor.
The teacher showed great cour- age. She played a conspicuous part in the rescue work, and help- ed to take à roll-call.
"It's Thunder"
In one classroom near the one which was " wrecked, a small boy heard bombs falling and cried, "Hark teacher."
The
LOVE IS
NEW U.S. CRAZE
HE WAS PUNISHED BY HIS WIFE
"My wife bit me," was the explanation offered by a native when he hobbed into court on crutches at Bloemfontein charged with assaulting his wife.
He told the Judge that his fiery better- half had bitten him: on the thigh..
The Judge took the view that to be bitten by a wife is punish- ment enough and dis- charged him.
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M. P. GIVEN 2 MONTHS' NOTICE
Captain A. S. Cunningham Reld, M.P. for Marylebone, has been given two months' notice Marylebone Conser-
After pole sitting, push-by the St.
teacher, after looking ing peanuts with the nose, vative Association to indicate
out of the window, told the
class, "Yes, it's thunder, but I'd and jitterbugs,
put your heads under the desi if I were you."
a new
[movement is on foot in
which sets itself up as the America, a movement
champion of love.
The raider flew low and releas- ed high-explosive and incendiary bombs in a row across the town. A factory and the school were hit It is Carry-The-Torch Club and some damage, was done to of America, founded in New York other buildings.
by Mr. Noel Meadow.
Casualties, including it is be- lieved, one or two killed, cccurred in the factory.
assist these for whom the course Its aims are to encourage and
of true love does not run smooth-
It was the town's first raid ofly. the war.
Two Trains Gunned
The phrase "Carrying the Torch" has been defined as "the time when your heart stops ticking and starts talking."
“'I Love Love""
A main line trair from London was bombed and machine-gunned as it passed through a small Mid- lands town. Over a dozen bombs "The world is full of so much were dropped. Three casualties unhappiness," Mr. Meadow said were taken to hospital.
gloomily to the British United Press, "that time is ripe for love to bring a little sweetness to peo- ple."
The bombed train was stopped a few miles further on, but as in- jured people were not seriously hurt they were taken on to the next large town to receive hospi- tal treatment.
One of those taken to hospital was Mr. Harry Crawshaw, of Har penden, Herts, who was wounded in the thigh.
Mr. Meadow's last official po sition was as president and founder of the Society of Screw- balls.
Another leader in the move- ment is Mr. Edward Jaffe, who in his odd moments acts as publicity man for a batch of what he terms "God's loveliest people, strip tease dancers."
Mr. R. Robinson, a passenger on the train, said: "We were travell ing north when a German plane dived over the train dropped Acting president of the organi- bombs and began to machine-gunsation is Miss Cynthia Kent, red- headed, pretty and 21. "I"love love," she says.
its.
"I was asleep at the time A bullet came through the window and missed, me by Gin. picked it up later and am keeping it as a souvenir."
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Another train was machine- gunned when entering a station in an S.E. England village.
U.S. ARMS POUR INTO GERMANY
American industrialists secretly supplying
The plane came from across. the Thames," said a bookstall clerk.
"It was very low and passengers put their heads out of the windows. 1 neard, "the rattle of a machine gun. No one Germany and Italy with
Was
Funeral Gunnéd
are
£2,500,000 worth of vital war materials a month, according to an investiga.
Grave-diggers and mourners tion made by the dived for cover beside tombstones York "Daily News. when a German plane ma- chine-gunned funeral party. Vast quantities, of ore includ- at a cemetery during a day-ing copper);; machinery and cot- Ught raid in London,
goston, which is essential in the
Women mourners remained in manufacture of explosives are the coaches which were following entering Axis territory through: the hearse as machine-gun bullets Arctic Ocean ports, Spain, spat a few yards away, Portugal and Russia. Some
Gunfire was heard intermittent-goes via Cuba and Mexico. ly in Central London throughout These five nations are cooperat the day-over the longest perioding with American business, men, in daylight since war began but who have made profitable contacts buses, cars and taxis, as well as with Axis agents in all parts of pedestrians, carried on as usual,the world.
The Daily News" reveals that
A school in "a. North London. powerful"Axis friend Juan. March suburb was hit by a bomb.and who was Franco's financial It is feared that a number of backer — has a desk in the offices A.R.P."-workers were buried of Francis Du Pont, which has under the debris: -/
connections with the huge :Du Pont arms and gunpowder Arm nt. Wilmington, Delaware 2
In an East London district the barrage was described as as heavy as night gunfire. Planca, it was reported, were-heard passing over overy few minutes;
Another desk in the same offico is occupied by Avelino Montes who is an expert at getting secret shipments through: Mexico;
when it would be convenient for him to defend his position, "if he desires to do so."
Honolulu
Trip
Recently the Association passed a resolution to the effect that, the constituency, was not being pro- perly represented and called on
resign. Captain Cunningham-Reid to
Last month he accompanied his, two sons to Honolulu.
'Sir John Fitzgerald was ad- opted as his successor to con-
test the seat,
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