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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 30, 1940
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“FATHER, FATHER, say a prayer for us.” The priest, helping to dig out twelve people buried un- der a mass of wreckage caused by one of the biggest bombs that has yet fallen on London -a bomb that heard the faint nearly demolished several streets
voice through the debris.
He stopped digging, and with sweat still trick!- ing down his face knelt amid the ruins of a home and offered a prayer for those trapped below.
“Thank you, thank you," came the faint voice again.
Before getting to work with his shovel again the reverend father shouted: "Keep your chins up, folks; we will get you out."
He had worked all through the night and was still at it the next day. The huge bomb that wrought such havoc had nearly wrecked his church.
had also
her brother-in-law, his wife and their two children.
Rescue workers spoke to the brother-in-law, Mr. Joseph Mont- gomery, but he could not say whe- ther or not baby Kathleen was still alive.
"I shall not be satisfied untir 'I see her myself," Mrs. Montgomery said: "If it means staying here for
"My Baby, My Baby" week I shall stay. I cannot be
mother
For hours a young stood by the wreckage on which the priest worked, "Kathleen," she kept calling. "Kathleen, my baby.
be-
Three year old- Kathleen Montgomery was buried neath hundreds of tons of de- bris. Her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Montgomery, left her in charge. of friends the night before while. she went out to get some air.
lieve my baby is dead.". "
Asked For Evacuation
Mrs. Montgomery has two other been evacuated to Ireland. children-little boys who have
"Three times 1. have asked för: my little Kathlean to be evacuated too," she told. “I was told she could not go alone, but if things got really bad the eva. cuation authorities would see what they could do."
"I do not know how I shall tell She was gone only a few min-my husband. I have wired him to utes. When she returned she found rome home, but it will break his her.home had been levelled to the heart when he knows, that our ground. Also in the house were baby is underneath all that."
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LONDON "PEOPLE
LIKE A CUP OF HOT TEA"
How to make a single bike .. into a tandem is illustrated by Robert Cummings and Nancy Kelly as they pedal to work on the set of Universal's “'Pri- vate Affairs,' comedy pro- duction
Roland
Young and Hugh Herbert.
HIS LOST LOVER
Joseph Marley made 10,000-mile voyage as stowaway to marry sweetheart in London.
But he will find it hard to reach her. Her home is in. a ghost street. Nearly all the houses their windows broken; curtains blowing. out in the breeze--are deserted.
The residents have gone to safer.
areas.
..
A woman who lives near his sweetheart's home told a reporter she thought the family had gone.
friends in another to live with
suburb.
That was all she knew.
Sympathy
The King has made a gift to London of four mo- tor ambulances and eight mobile canteens. At Buck- ingham Palace, he hand- ed over the ambulances, and two of the canteens, He appeared before a magis- to Mr. Emil Davies, chair-trate, pleaded man of the London Coun-away in a ship from Fremantle, Australia, and told his love story. ty Council.
Twenty-five-year-old- Joseph
was in Liverpool.
guilty to stowing
The magistrate was sympa. The other canteens will be dethetic. He said justice would be livered during the next three weeks.
Each of the grey-painted ve- hicles bears the inscription: "Pre-
met if Joseph wore discharged under the Probation Actres
"On leaving the court Marley) who gave his address 23 -Lane-
sented by his Majesty the Kingdowne Road, Tidal Basin, E
to the London County Council for the civil defence of London, Octo- ber 1940"
The King has :
has made the gift out of hla privy purse because,. It was learned he has been so Impressed during his touro o "the bombed areng, by the mag
nificent work being done by ambulances and - moblie --can- teens.
The King, with the Queen, in-- spected the ambulances and can- teens in the quadrangle, of Buck- Ingham Palace and talked to some, of the men and women drivers and servers.
The King asked two women
said:
-: ༄, ་་་
"I don't know what has hap- pened to my sweetheart as she lived in the raid-ares.' In "Lon^, don. She is a young widow. "I am going to London, at once to find her. If she has been evacuated 1. shall not rest night or day until I find her,"
GERMANS
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servers in one canteen It. they had The Germans are believed tea rendy, and when they told him be trying to copy Britain's that there was coffee in their cret incendiary devico, kus. catiteen and tea in another he The Nazis recently boasted that said
Sarah Manthey had secured samples That is what everyone seems British incendiary: bomba, which to need after these dreadful ex-[apparently had been dropped perlences. People like to have a over. German territory. cup of hot tea or coffee.
BEGAN CAREER WITH IRVING
[Sinice" thon incendiary"...ma; terial, known in Britain- da "spider's web," has been drop? -ped by German planes in
various parts of Britain. Police and other special -de- |fence-organisations have been George S. Stevens, a Londoner instructed to look out for it who began his career as an actor: "We- don't know exactly what with Henry Irving and Ellen it is an ARP. official said, but. Terry at the old Lyceum Theatre, we believe it is chemically-treat- has died in hospital in Brooklyn eu material and looks like spid-' at the age of 80kg balak atera web when descending,
He was born in London-in 1809. "It ignites ons: contact" and His last engagement wag-in “She- causes fires which "can". be; mörg' Stoops to Conquer, at the Now serious than those resulting from Amsterdam Theatre in New York, «Incendiary." borbaatje
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