THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 3, 1940.
BUS BOMBED AND GUESTS KILLED IN
WRECK
BAFFLED BY THE general weather conditions and the precision of our defences, Nazi boinbers called a halt to their night raid much earlier than usual..
The "Raiders Passed" signal came earlier in the morning than at any time since the start of the aerial blitzkrieg against London or the Merseyside. London's Tube shelterers, however, decided to remain underground until the resumption of normal morning traffic.
Over 35 districts in the Lon- don area and the South-East
were bombed during the night.
Raiders employed their usual tactics up to midnight, and Lon- 'don had to face the brunt of the attacks. Bombs were again dropped at random, a few fres being started, but all were soon under control.
He saw
the photograph as he ran from his house after bomba had fallen nearby, and picking it up he hurried to- wards his sister's house, a hundred yards away. He found that. It had been demolished and that his sister,. Miss Mary Rees, and her mald, were dead. The photograph had been blown Casualties were fewer than by the bomb 'explosion from Miss usual. The most serious in-Rees' home on to her brother's cident was when a trolley-bus doorstep. was struck and a number of casualties caused, some fatal.
Blown Over Road.
The bomb which hit a bus was one of two that fell in one district.
Three buses were approaching the spot when a bomb fell direct- ly on to one of them. This bus, in which most of the casualties were caused, was blown across the road into a shop- window.. The other two vehicles were badly damaged.
wrecked
Lon Chaney, Jr. in "One Millioh "B.C.," now showing at the King's Theatr.
'ALL CLEAR" "YOU WILL
AS RAIDER
GUNNED
TRAIN
Swooping
from the The second bomb
clouds some time after some shops, and a building near- the "All clear," a Junkers by was damaged by blast. water main
Abomber, lone rearguard of was burst, and trolley-bus wires were brought the night raiders, ma-
down..
Doorman's Luck
The trolley-bus which was wrecked was outside a cinema, and this building was extensive- ly damaged. :
The doorkeeper there, Mr. Norman Thompson, said he did not hear any gunfire or the 'plane overhead before the crash.
chine-gunned
a train
DIE,' NOTE THREAT
..
"If you don't carry out this order you will be dead very shortly.".
This was an excerpt from a let- ter, headed "I.R.A., 2 Branch," read at Maryleborne, when James
Jefferies, 51-year-old. night porter, of Bayswater Road, W. 2, was charged with maliciously causing standing in a south-east to be received, a letter threatening London station.
The 'plane soared in a cirela aver the train. Some of the bul lets smashed their way through the roof, but no one was injur od and little damage was done to the train.
A single raider was seen to. "The pilot must have swit- fight with a Hurricane. The en- erash-near Redhill,-Surrey, after a -ched his engine off", Mr-counter occurred about, ten min- Thompson Bald. "My hat was utes after the train was attacked, blown off, and I think 1 amand.It is believed it may the lucklost man alive to have been the same machine.. escaped with only a few cuta on the head and left leg."
Dorniers Down
A high-explosive bomb which| fell in one London district par- tially demolished a church and caused some damage to Y.M.C.A.; premises..
A family of four, including an elderly woman, were buried in debris when two high-explosive bombs fell on villas in the Lon- | don area. They were dug out by neighbours, and, apart from superficial injuries and shock, were unhurt..
have
In one area the raider machine- gunned two streets.
The only person in the vicini. ty was a milkman, and he saved himself by dashing Into a house. His horse escape, but every milk bottle on had a remarkable the front of his van was smashed.
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Night Patrol
British -'planes patrolled the skles over London during the night.
The result was that although bombs were dropped in twenty. seven areas on the outskirts and the suburbs, and in eight: Home Counties towns, Central Lon. don had a comparatively "quiet" time;
A direct hit on one of London's most famous streets wrecked three
the
In addition' to the raids over the London area, attacks were widespread, covering the North- West and North-East of England, the East Coast, the South-East, and the South. Bombs were also houses. dropped in a North-East of Scot- The caretaker of one of land town and in Wales.
houses who was with his wife in the basement, was killed.
The woman, after being trapped for six hours, was saved by a rescue squad.
During two ralda on the Liverpool district damage was done to commercial property and Some casualties were paused. Three ralding Dorniers were shot down over Wales on thair return journey.
In a north-west London area a bomb scored a direct hit on two bungalows where twelve people were, living: · Seven were killed, Trapped By Debɩis including two small children.
Fifty-seven people in the base- When a Liverpool hotel re-ment of a laundry in the eastern ceived a direct hit by a heavy outskirts escaped when the build- bomb, customers and staff were ing was wrecked, though tons of trapped' under tons of debris. dépris made escape, impossible
Rescue parties had, to tunnel until rescue parties arrived.
through an adjoining basement
before, they could reach the peoplo, several of whom were rescued..
One man, still trapped after three hours, told rescuers. He could put up with it while they dug a hole through which to pull him. He was extricated half an hour later and taken to hospital with a leg injury.
Warning Picture
£100-A-WEEK
OWES £10
Teddy Joyce, the dance band leader, was at Westminster Coun- ty Court ordered to pay £10 owing to a sound studio, within a month,
Miss Gwendolino Rogers said A photograph of his father, that the summons was served at found on his doorstep in Chiswick Empire, where Mr. Joyce North-West town during one of was at the time topping the bill the week's air raids warned Mr. with his band. Lowls Rees, a former well- When ho is working I should known Welsh footballer, of think his average earnings are family tragedy,
£100 a wook,”-sho added.
to kill or murder John James Tibbs, a day porter, of the same address..
Jefferies was a night porter at the Embassy Hotel in Bayswater Road, and Tibbs. was the day
son, prosecuting. porter there, said Mr. R. L. Jack-
“Leave, Or —”
On October 4 Tibbs received
a letter purporting to come from one O'Donnell.
This read: "We order you to leave this place next pay day, or you will be found dead in Edg- tell no one you are going. Book a ware Road. Give no notice and
bed in, the Church Army in Edg ware Road, and there you will be met by someone and told what to do
Tibbs had no connection with the IRA, said counsel, bat he was nevertheless somewhat frigh- tened and put the matter in the hands of the police.
Jefferies, who admitted having sent the letter, was remanded with a view to being committed for trial.
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