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THE CHINA MAIL; NOVEMBER 29, 1940.
300 SAFE IN NAZI WORK ON'
BOMBING OF
BRIGHTON CINEMA
HIGH EXPLOSIVE BOMB CRASHED THROUGH THE ROOF OF A BRIGHTON CINEMA INTO THE AUDITORIUM, WHERE 300 PEOPLE INCLUDING MANY CHILDREN, WERE SITTING. Yet only four children and two adults were kill- ed and twenty injured. The cinema is near a large hospital.
BELGIANS AID BRITISH
According to the Ger- man wireless in Brussels,
An eye-witness said: "How the | bomb injured so few is a mystery or perhaps a miracle. There was hardly a vestige of panic.”
Among the dead was the fif- teen-and-a-half-year-old son of a local doctor. Everyone told of the determination and heroism of war- dens, A.F.S. men and rescue workers.
A warden, aged about seventy, was told that his son and wife had been killed, but he stuck to his post, saying it was his duty.
Flats Telescoped
The flats were telescoped.
A house crashed down on several families. Houses elsewhere and a row of
The bomb which hit the cinema soldiers of the British Ex-was one of twenty dropped by a
lone raider. peditionary Force who A double-fronted shop and have evaded capture are several flats above were razed. still in Belgium and nor- thern France, where, with the complicity of the po- "pulation, who supply ed
them with civilian cloth- ing and help them in every way, they succeed in escaping the notice of the German police.
NOW AT PALACE
Roof spotters have been intro- duced
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at Buckingham Palace, where until then the air-raid- alarm has meant cease, work for most departments of the Royal Household.
The Court post officer and the Palace telephonists have gone to clals of the household have taken an underground shelter; high"off".
their work with them under the Palace..
Now volunteer roof spotters drawn from the Palace police and
A.R.P. personnel go up on to the roof when the warning sounds and the work of the Palace con- tinues until they send down the signat “Rülders in the
NETHERLANDERS' GIFT FROM H.K.
The Hong Kong Committee of the Netherland Relief Fund has remitted $9,744 to the Prince Bernhard Fund in London as A contribution for purchasing mill- tary aircraft for the Royal Air Force and the Royal Netherland Air Force, while $1,072 has been sent to the Committee for Welfare of the Netherland Fighting ForcES in Great Britain.
my
cottages came down like crush-lands has acknowledged the re- Prince Bernard of the Nether- match-boxes.
ceipt with the following telegram, Two two-year-old bables are
which among four unidentified victims "Netherland Consul General Hong has just been received; of a dive bombing attack on a Kong. Please convey to Nether recreation 'club pavillon
at a lands Community north-west town. A number of
grateful people were killed and sixteen tion our Fund. Bernhard Prins appreciation, for splendid dona- are in hospital injured.
Der Nederlanden." A small card bearing, the name "Albert" is the only clue to the identity of one baby. The other is a girl. The parents of both are believed to be among the injured.
The German authorities, ex- asperated by their inability to lay hands on them, have warned the Belgians that severe penalties will be imposed on persons who know Tea was being served at chil- that, one or more British soldiers dren's party in aid of the mayor's are in a locality and who fail to Spitfire fund when the 'plane dived notify the Germans. As this at the pavilion. warning was broadcast from j Brussels in the Flemish pro- gramme it may be assumed that the British soldiers in question are hidden in the north-west of Belgium...
Other threats made by the German wireless show that the Belgian people do not limit the expression of their pro-British -sympathies to assisting any-Bri- tish soldiers, they come across. The secret army of patriots who carry out sabotage against Ger- many is still active.
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NAZI AIR FORCE
IS STILL EXPLAINING
While Goering is blam-
The "Brusseler Zeitung," ing the weather for his newspaper started in Brussels failure to raze London to chiefly for the benefit of
the occupying German troops, the ground, authorised
print a leading article on Nazi sources are at the acts of sabotage *which have just taken place in the pro- same time, trying to sug- vince of Liege," and mentions gest there is method in punishment inflicted by the Ger- their air-raid tactics. man authorities on the population
They are threefold, it is stated:
breath;
Interfering with British war production; and
of regions where military cables have been cut. Liberated Belgian Keeping London from getting its soldiers in these areas, it states, have been made prisoners again and sent to a fortress. The Ger- man newspaper adds that the oc- cupying authorities have at their disposal "other means of guaran- teeing order. peace, and the se- gestion made by Mr. Gault Mac curity of the troops and the Gowan, London correspondent of installations which they need." the "New York Sun," the Ger-
German Petrol Destroyed
This surprising phrase shows
Preventing overseas supplies from reaching the British Isles. Meanwhile, according to a sug-
mans have begun systematic bombing of the British country- side in the hope of causing pres- sure on the Government to inake peace,
that the sabotage effected by No Military Objectives
Belgian patriots is more impor-
tant than was hitherto, thought, for the occupying authorities,
Mr. MacGowan saya, that maps found in German bombers
instead of announcing simply ...... which · have been shot down
that military cables have been cut, admit that the spirit, the well-being, and even the 'life of the German troops is endangered,
show no military objectives: In --many places 'which have been
attacked. T
"And on top of all this Goering Clearly (the German newspa consoles the Germans for. the per continues) It: is primarily many failures of his air force In the Interest of the popula with promises of more intenso. tion itself that these acts should raids on Britain. cease, for the Belgiang|will deriva, the greatest profit from
"a loyal attitude towards the deterrent effect. In addition, the occupying authority. The mo- German wireless admitted yester- deration shown by the Gorman day that other acts of sabotage military authorities up to now had been committed in the Water- must not be taken for weakness, loo area. These must have been Up to the present the Germans important, as the Burgomaster have announced the perpetration of Waterloo was compelled by the of sabotage, in the provinces of Germans "to mobilise all the In- Liege and Luxembourg, as well habitants between the ages of 18 as mysterious fires which destroys and 50 to prevent a repetition ed petrol Installations at Antwerp of such incidents, for which the and a rubber, factory in Brussels, whole population is held respon- It may be assumed that the severe sible. Collective penalties of this penalties imposed in Liege pro- sort are a favourite weapon of vince last month; have not had a German terrorism.