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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 5, 1940
LAND MINES IN NAZI RAIDS ON
BRITAIN
THE LATEST WEAPON being used by Nazi raiders over Britain, the "land mine," is vividly described in a letter received in Shanghai recently from home. The terrible effects of this weapon, the. sole purpose of which is the destruction of houses. and small buildings, result from the fact that there is a tremendous horizontal explosion when it hits the ground, and poorly-built houses are simply blown down like a pack of cards. The land mine, which is dropped by parachute, floats down noise- lessly, and cannot be accurately aimed, since it drifts about before landing.
Extracts from the letter follow:-
On
"As I write this letter an air-mine falls a short distance, raid is in progress and the Ger- its nose are said to be a number man 'planes are met with some of of prongs, and on hitting the earth our anti-aircraft fine which is go- these monsters go off-Bang.' ing off with bangs which shake Noiseless Descent the house.
"The Huns come over in waves "The idea of the parachute is at night and one of their routes to partly to allow the descent to be London seems to be right over our noiseless and so take the unsus- house. They have a most annoy-pecting population unawares and ing hum or drone which is. irre-murder them before they can fall gular in tone and volume and the flat or take to their shelters; part- closest (one's going over now)ly to prevent the mine from bury- The parallel I can give is the purring ing itself before exploding, of a cat, the hum of an oscillating diabolical effect on exploding is, fan, or a car running on three therefore, to create a terrific hori- cylinders.
zontal blast which, on poorly con- "Last Saturday one .of the structed houses, hits them at their bombers was caught in a network foundations and down they come, of searchlights just over our a whole row of them, like a pack house and was said to have been of cards.
chased by a couple of Hurricanes. "There is another idea about However, following the character-the parachute to the mine and it istic indescriminate practice of the is this. The German swine, comes Hun, the swine just let go his two along--shuts the engine off, drops 500 pound aerial' torpedoes which the parachute and is off in suf- went off, one four doors away, ficient time to escape detection... and the other six doors away.
"D., C., and I were in the din- ing room at the time and we just hurled ourselves on the floor. There was a terrifle woomph of rushing air. The windows crash- ed outwards, scattering glass all "The parachute is a most inac- over the shop, and three of the curate affair, capable of being ceilings came down whilst doors blown hither and thither by the
"The introduction of this par- achute mine wipes out all ar- guments which the Germans ma; advance to support the supposition that they only bomb military objectives.
Distinctive in styling, trim in look is this sports outfit worn by Deanna Durbin, star of Universal's "Spring Par- ade."
The dress is of sheer beige wool with tailored top. and flared skirt gathered to front fullness, Deanna's casual coat is a shepherd's check of beige and brown.
GERMANS
and windows just snapped them-wind, and from my own exper- RATTLED
selves like bits of rotted wood, ience, and with my own eyes, I "Then before we had time to can say that if they do hit a mili-
recover the next explosion shook|tary objective it is more by chance BY R.A.F.
the house and we rushed in to than by any desire upon the part the children in the next room, of the bomber. But if the de- and, believe it or not, they were, fenceless homes of sleeping men, by a miracle, unharmed—and, women and children are a military still asleep!.
target in the eyes of this German. For a week or two previous to Luftwaffe, then they may claim a the experience I have just men- 99 per cent, accuracy tioned I had been trying my hand bombings. at mending ceilings, filling in cracks and so forth, and generally making a mess with the plaster, cement and whitewash,
Remembers Shanghai
Bombings
in their
Evidence Is Clear
RAIDS
Travellers and seamen arriving at Baltic ports from Germany bring re-
"I never felt it possible for me ports, which
are ever
to find myself capable of harbour- more persistent, of the ef- ing so much white-hot hate for fects of the British night
the German as I do now, When
civilians have been, killed I have, raids, especially on the "With young G. it has been in fairness, tried to see the mili- temper of the German rather difficult, as he still sub-tary object which was missed, and consciously remembers the Shang- have, against my will, shrugged people, who are growing hai bombings and is most highly my shoulders and put it down to more and more impatient. strung. We explained that bombs bad shooting on the part of the
had been dropped and they made Germans. The evidence now is Even among the troops in. a big typhoon which seemed to clear. A little. Surrey town Holland and Belgium war. satisfy his curiosity-up to a point, passed through the other evening enthusiasm, it is said, is
"Hitherto wé had considered was intact. Next morning when
ourselves perfectly safe and would I went through it a great part of declining. often walk into the garden at it was in ruins. Except again that
night and watch London's terrific one considers the homes of de- Apparently the relative inactivi- welcome of A.A. guns which form fenceless civilians to be military ty and the delayed invasion of a curtain of bright starlight ex-objectives there was not a mili- Great Britain," although it is re- Im- plosions In the air some many tary objective hit, just the ruins of peatedly announced to be miles away.
simple homes of simpler people-pending, has gone a long way to "With this feeling of confidence (over 200 homes wrecked.
undermine the spirit of the sol- our next door neighbours' agreed "And this afternoon a German diers, and the belief is growing, on the fateful night to let their 'plane, right outside our house,
not only among the rank and file, youngster, who is about eight, stay came down to about 400 foot but also among the officers, that up and watch the barrage, and and machine-gunned C, and the they have bitten off more than no sooner had he put his head out two children as their first tar- they can chewin challenging of the window than did the two get. Again, by the luck of our Great Britain across the sea. This torpedoes go off. He was un- family, they rushed · Into the belief is strengthened by the harmed but suffered such a shock house and escaped unharmed, many German bodies washed up that he was fairly hysterical after- C, being very much shaken by on the shores, wards.
the experience.
These casualties are reported to "We are trying to get a shelter "Let them blow up military ob- be due to experimental exercises built but there is such a demand Jectives-railways, factories and in embarcation in preparation for and in addition government, res- so on, but to strike indiscrimin-invasion as well as to the activi trictions on cement, that we sim-ately as they are doing is just plain ties of British submarines and the ply do not know when we'll have murder, and when this war is over Norwegian phantom ship Sleipner. and won, there must be a mur-
It,
Some of the lives lost off the coasts of Holland and Belgium are..certainly due to the recent bpmbing by the RIA.F, of heavi ly laden craft which had been: Lassemblod for an attempt at
invasion:
"As you have doubtless read derer's fate for every German, In the papers the Germans put There are honest to goodness de- all our main stations, Victoria, cent Germans, much as there are London Bridge, etc., out of ac- honest to goodness decent Jews, tlon-they started to function but as the Nazis 'don't believe the again the other night—and latter case, why should we make was opending 61⁄2 hours a day an effort to believe the former? In travelling and coming home "There is a growing demand for with a raid on at nights. - reprisals against Berlin. It will Seamen say the most extensive "We get used to anything in come. Every day we are gaining havoc has been wrought by Brit- time, but the Germans have now in strength. Their invasion has a Ish airmen, especially at the ports
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