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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 21, 1940.
NAZI 'PLANES DIVE TO GUN WOMEN
MORE CIVILIANS were deliberately machine- gunned in the streets as the Germans, finding mass} attacks too expensive; launched · hit-and-rumraids: on England by single machines or small groups. As, women were shopping in the main street of a south- east coast town a raider dived out of the clouds and fired four bursts at them. Bullets pattered on roofs and slashed through bushes: But there were no casualties.
Machine-gunning of a "residential area" was put on record in a communique by the Air Ministry and Ministry of Home Security. In one of two raids on a south-east town an aerial torpedo is believed to have been used. It smashed eight of a row of work- ing-class cottages to pieces.
INVASION TEST ON COAST
Phantom Nazi Armies
(By A Special Correspondent.)
Phantom German arm- ies have been trying to "invade" Britain. Hidden in a small wood on a roll- ing expanse of moorland near the coast I found a group of soldiers with field wireless station in operation.
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A brisk
officer grey-haired standing beside it said to me: "I am in command of this German brigade which landed at down at
We
into are trying to get It was officially stated that thir-, A.A. and machine-guns, the plane | X.
de-
circuits, dropped ten touch with some parachute troops, teen
made two 'planes enemy
two but I understand they are very stroyed. Two R.A.F. tighters were high explosive bombs and
Its exhausted, and have been com- showers of incendiary bombs. lost; but one pilot is safe.
surrounded some miles machine-gun bullets pattered onpletely but the streets away." roofs and walls, were practically clear.
were
Two single raiders attacked the south-east town where the aerial torpedo was believed to have been used.
out of the Diving suddenly clouds, the first dropped two heavy which of one screamer bombs, blotted out an allotment garden the other making a huge crater in a fleld.
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Direct Hits
Bombs scored direct hits on two surface shelters, causing deaths in each.
As he spoke everybody took rover for British aeroplanes roar- Ing low over the moorland began the dive-bombing, attack on roud,
All these "German" Invaders were detachments of our British defence troops, playing the-part of the enemy to give the fullest possible practice in repelling an attack.
Guard Maintained-
The Rev. James A. M. Gavigan, of Hollywood-Place, Bristol, and Later came the second raider. his step-son Kenneth Clay, were What is thought to have been an killed when two raiders dropped aerial torpedo hit street of seven bombs near a station in the After the south-west the previous night. working class houses.
attack our smoke had cleared all that could Mr. Clay's wife was seriously in- "During to-day's be seen of what had once been jured.
forces are guarding the coastin one familythe usual way," a senior officer several cottages
Three members of
me. They explained to
"These test crater full of debris,
were among others killed. Many other houses
were, Mrs. Heath, aged sixty, hermanoeuvres are being carried out daughter, Mrs. Winifred Adams, by men in reserve. If the Ger- of thirty, and grand-daughter Dilys, mans attacked now the phantom
aged six.
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It is feared that a number people lost their lives.
Blew Her Over Wall
Three bodies had been recovered wreckage and several from the people taken to hospital.
MAYFAIR'S CABBAGE PATCH
Six West End garden squares are to be converted into war-time allotments. and by this means, Kensington alone hopes to have 1000 plots producing 400 tons of food.
German army would immediately become British and help in repell- ing invaders.
do
"These tests on the actual ground where fighting might take place are very useful in- deed. Our defence forces not know the
plans of the 'German commanders,! and have to scout and reconnoltre In the usual way."
bomb blew The blast of the one woman who was in her gar. den clean over the wall, but she escaped with bruises and shock,
Just then I saw a British mo- One man fifty yards away crouched against a wall as pieces
tor-cyclist captured by "German" soldiers in ambush: beside the road of debris flew round him. When
As he got up he saw his shape out- Owners of unoccupied West End down which he was scouting. lined on the wall
with brick houses have given their gardens to they leapt out with rifles at the
allatmenteers. Among cultivators alert and took him to headquar dust.
victims was an are a retired brigadier-general, a ters he looked rather embarrassed, eighty-year-old woman who had University professor, a policeman so realistic was his capture: Driv- ing:: ahead through "No Man's Just been put to bed in her up-and-a.....postman.. stairs bedroom by her son.
One of the
As A famous figure in the world of Land," I found the British troops he reached the foot of the stairs finance. has.. vegetables. growing in full.possession of the German the house was blown to places. where once was one of the best positions, and about to execute a
flanking,attacki: He crawled through the debris lawns in London... unhurt except for bruises.
A young girl was playing a plano in a house opposite when the blast blew in all the windows. But she escaped injury.
Parachuted Into Street
shelters
People leaving their after an alarm at 'another south- eastern town looked up to see five German airmen descending by parachute from their blazing 'plane.
One of the airman came down In the middle of a street and was captured by a dustman who was busy carting-victory salvage, Another of the Germans was a youth of eighteen. Said a special
"The poor
kid was constable: scared stiff. When I reached him a Home Guard was trying to cheer him up."
"When -a raider dropped bombs on shops in a south-west town re- aldential aren" ARE: men who rushed to the spot were horrified to see it strewn with the bodies of men, women and children. Then they realised that the bodies.were tailors dummies.
School's Escape::
Mr. Frederick William Landray, aged thinty-one; who was in his gardens, was killed in the raid. He leaves a wife and two childrena i A few a people were slightly in- Jured.
One bomb blew a school shelter to ploce-but all the children had
gone home some hours before.
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Earlier, a single raider bombed and 'machine-gunned in÷gouth-east town-In spite of intense fire from".cömut.
and James. Stewart, posed for this portrait bbford-Idavli
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