THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 7, 1940
GIRLS SING, TRAPPED IN SHELTER
GIRL EMPLOYEES are feared killed and injur- ed when two bombs straddled a factory and struck its underground shelters in south-west London dur- ing a daylight raid. When a bomb penetrated one section of a shelter, girls in another section sang "Roll Out the Barrel" and other songs.
A water main broke. While the casualties were being removed another warning was sounded and there was heavy gunfire overhead. As some of the injured were returning from hospital a third warn- ing sounded. Houses and other buildings were shattered and others damaged in this district, raid- ed by a strong formation of bombers.
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The casualties included milkman, who was pushing his barrow along the road, and a girl who came to the door of a shop.
Delayed-action bombs were also
dropped.
Many of the shops in a busy thoroughfare had their plate- glass windows shattered and have temporarily closed.
Shoppers walked about trying to find out where they could get their rations.
The landlord and staff of a pub-
BIG MOUTHS ARE THE FASHION
Rosebud mouths and
lic-house in another South Lon-Cupid's bow lips are out- don district had a narrow escape definitely finished.
when about a dozen high-explo-
sive bombs fell.
One of these
demolished the
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part of the premises.
Murder Raid
The landlord said: "The front of the pub collapsed before my eyes, and I rushed upstairs again to see what had happened to my staff.
"They had just finished break- fast and left the room.
A few seconds later the ceiling fell in." Raiders being chased by fighters dropped a number of bombs on another south-western district of London.
The bombers seemed to swoop and make a deliberate attack on this mainly realdential dis- trict.
Bombs struck the outside wall of a church, damaged a furniture depository, and other commercial buildings, and also house proper ty.
There were a few.casualties, one of which is believed to have been fatal.
A.R.P. Girl Dies
About twenty bomba by the raiders
dropped
South London.
were
over
Four of them-straddled a road and destroyed buildings, killing four people outright and badly injuring ten others, who were trapped in debris.
One of the dead was an A.R.P. girl who was walking along the road.
An A.T.S. girl was killed in 4 canteen.
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you haven't, you'll just
Where conditions allow a con-
have to enlarge it or be ductress can occupy a vacant seat dated hopelessly.
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in the bus, provided it does not It's easy enough. You need interfere with her duties, Sir John only a big enough I1p-stick, Now Reith (Minister York and Hollywood beauty ex-
of Transport) perts are advising their clients. stated in a written Commons an- Westmore,
Hollywood beauty genius, Perc swer. mouths are generous mouths, such
says; "Fashionable. On many vehicles the provision Grable and Linda Darnell. Al- form would be structurally diffi- as those of Alice Faye, Betty of a seat on the conductor's plat- though the mouths of Ann Sheri- cult. they are being accentuated. dan and Carole Lombard are full,
"The idea to-day is that thin lips make even the prettlest wa- man look too stern in expres. slon, and stern women can't be feminine women.
make-up
expert, Guy Pearce, says: "Mouths
And the Hollywood
and bigger. A tiny, curved mouth on the screen are getting bigger is no longer fashionable."
MASKS TO FIGHT EPIDEMICS
infection
Masks designed to prevent direct are suggested by the shelter. wear. "Lancet" as a recognised public- vision of henting, disinfection, and It urges, the pro- sleeping bunks.
"Gross: overcrowding" in deep of sanitation and sanitary super- shelters and the tubes with lack
coupled with lack of sleep, ner- In-vision, of heating and ventilation, vous strain and improvised danger of typhoid and dysen- meals," it adds, "have brought the -tery.":
About sixty enemy 'planes at- tacked a south-west town. tense A.A. gunfire rocked the town, and British fighters broke up the formations.
It is believed some bombs were dropped.
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