THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 11, 1940.
BOMB KILLS 3 LAME DUCK TRACED
IN CELLAR IN NORTH-EAST
MORE THAN a hundred German 'planes took part in the widespread raids on Britain which ended in the All Clear signal in London just as dawn was breaking. Fifty planes, operating singly, ap- proached London from the south and circled over the Metropolitan area. The others concentrated on a north-eastern district which they raided for several hours, dropping heavy bombs.
Three people sheltering in a cellar were killed by wreckage when a high explosive bomb hit some business premises in a north-east town. They were Mrs. Sarah Thomson, her son, Leslie, and her sister, Elizabeth Ingle.
POLISH SLAVES IN GERMANY
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Air-raid warden R. F. Hobley was electrocuted in a south-east
town.
He was using a stirrup pump on a fire when an electric cable burnt his hands badly. He died in_hospital.
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Two wardens who went to investigate a light in the London area were injured by a whistling bomb which fell near One had a broken arm, the other had a piece of shrapnel in leg.
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Five Nazi airmen who had been raiding London were caught after A.A. guns hit their Dornier 17. The plane fell on two bungalows, but the oc- cupants were in shelters, A farm hand, aged sixty- seven, was the only occupant of a farmhouse which was almost wrecked by a heavy bomb. He was unhurt..
BAGS 3 NAZIS
LOST SON BY PHOTO
Tifteen years
ago Ashley
son of Moore,
last his father heard or saw of
A "lame duck" Spitfire, Moore, fifteen-year-old lagging behind its fellows Lieutenant-Commander because of a rough run-R.N., left home. That was the ning engine, scored a hat- him until last January. trick against German Then Commander Moore saw a
photograph. In the press of raiders over Britain.
group of young men being me- dically examined for the Army. One looked like his son.
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It shot down a Dornier 17 bomber in flames over London; Set a second Dornier 37 on fire;
Sent a Messerchmidt 109 fighter diving vertically towards the ground with smoke pouring from it;
And carried its pilat safely down to make a forced landing In Essex.
Here is the pilot's own account of his adventures: "I climbed, be- ing left half a mile behind the rest of the squadron, and looked for a straggler, I found a Messer- schmidt 109 with a white cowling.
dived down and opened
fire, giving two bursts and closing in.
Dived Vertically
"After a second, the Messer- schmidt turned slightly to star- board and then dived vertically with glycol or white smoke ap- pearing:
"I followed him down to about fifteen thousand feet, a drop of ed no signs of pulling out. four thousand feet, but he show-
ono
"Later I attacked the last of a formation of enemy bombers giving a few seconds burst.
Poor Food And Wages
German men and wo- men farm workers are for- bidden to treat Poles as equals, eat with them at the same table, fraternise -with them, or go to church with them, according to information which has reached the International At one time four bombers were Transport Workers' Fed-caught by searchlights in
ferent parts of the sky. One of eration in Britain.
them, immediately he was pick-came from him. I followed him ined up, jettisoned all his bombs.
dif-
Plastered 'by anti-aircraft fire this 'plane went finally Into a vertical dive and dis- appeared,
"He rolled over on his back, with flames coming from him, He dived almost vertically and I followed him down for about five thousand feet..
"I climbed up again and repeat- ed the process on the next bom- ber in the line, Smoke and flames
down as before and then made towards my base."
By this time the Spitfire was damaged, although its rough-run- ning engine was still running, and
Tried To Escape - Died the sergeant pilot brought it down
A leaflet was distributed Berlin last month, saying: "Ger- mans, the Pole can never be your comrade. He is inferior to every German. Be just, as Germans are, but never forget that you are a member of a master people." Many of the 300,000 Polish. pri- soners of war employed in Ger- man agriculture have been re-air in one town and seriously leased from captivity on condition that they remained where they were as civilian workers.
The "Polish Mark” They must, however, wear the "Polish mark" on the right side of the breast of every article of clothing. This is a large "P" in a violetedged square, Their wages are almost as low as that of the prisoners, of war.
A lorry driver named King was machine-gunned from
injured.
the
Four men were injured by bombs which fell near hutments in a field on the outskirts of a village.
Four bombs. fell in a residen- tial district of a London suburb breaking windows and blowing in doors of several houses,
Charles White, sixty, was kill- ed when a heavy bomb struck a house, but his wife and two other occupants were dug out alive by A.R.P. squads.
White had, only left the Essex coast a month ago to live in a London suburb in the hope of avoiding the ordeal
of continuous air warfare, A Midland town had its third
Germans and non-Germans paid mostly in kind receive different treatment. Non-Germans in Wage District No. 1 of Danzig-West Prussia do not get even half of the allowances of cereals which i the Germans get, and monthly cash wages vary from 18.5 to 27 Reichsmarks for Germans and 12 air raid on successive nights.
to 14 Reichsmarks for non-Ger- Waves of bombers dropped high in- mans. (Before the war 12 Reichs-explosive and hundreds of marks equalled £1.)
cendiaries. A number of fres were started,
Discrimination
Sang Their Way Home
.
German free workers, paid in kind to a small extent only, got
Many Londoners sang them- more generous allowances than selves home to bed with the dawn non-Germans, The latter re-
after they had been caught in the celve neither wheat nor milk City during
the six-hour raid and much less of other cereals alarm, and coal. Hourly wages are When the raid began many also lower.
people went to the shelters, but. drivers
vehicles, of passenger where possible, took people lis near to their homes as they could.
Farm workers receiving board and lodgings are also paid in cash, but non-German men get even less than German women.. The wives of German farm workers are called upon to take part in work as much as possible, but for the wives of non-Germans work is compulsory. Discrimination ex- tends to the children of non-Ger- mans. They not only get less pay, [...... but fewer holidays.
There were stil 3 great many people loft in the West End theatres and cinemas. Some took, shelter, but the others "stayed put" and, jalned. In Impromptu concerts and dances, p
After an hour or two, when In Wartheland two per cent of the novelty wore off, many peo- the Poles wages is deducted for ple began to walk home, in the the Labour Front, as it was felt, hope that the All Clear would
Though they were footsoro
to be unfair that the Germans be sounded. had to pay contributions while the Poles wore exempt merely because they were not members.
DAY'S "LEAVE" TO MAKE UP SLEEP
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Eventually he traced the man in the picture and found it was his 'san but. he had to wait nine months before he could meet him.
"For a few hours my leave and his coincided, and we had a lit- tle while together. When we will meet again I do not know. But I feel a deep debt of grati- | tude to the press for its help in
tracing him.
"If I had not picked up the paper casually last January 1 would not have seen him," said the Commander.
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