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A.T.S. GIRLS RESCUE RAID VICTIMS
TEARING WITH their hands at the debris, A.T.S. girls helped to free people trapped beneath shattered masonry when a high explosive bomb hit a London cinema in a night raid.
Although light streamed from the cinema. through the broken wall and there was constantTM danger of further bombs falling, the girls insisted on helping with the rescue work.
were
Two more bombs fell in the dis- were intercepted by our Aghters. trict, but the girls still carried on. It is believed 110 bombs
One pretty, fair-haired A.T.S. dropped. girl pillowed the head of a man trapped by debris. She gave him
cigarette and tried to comfort him by talking to him.
He was in pain, but he smiled at her as he said: "This is almost worth being bombed." Not until demolition squads and ambulances arrived did the girls Even then they consent to leave. pulled broken doorways from the heaps of rubble to form stretchers
for the injured.
Men who were in the cinema when the bomb fell helped to pre- vent a panic.
They led women into the streets and then returned to re-
their friends lease
trapped beneath the debris
Injured Helped Too
A Roman Catholic priest hurried to the cinema and helped in the Covered with brick rescue work. dust, he spoke to the men as they lay buried under masonry.
the
Within a few minutes of the bomb dropping most of the injured had been freed and had been taken to hospital. Some of men who had been injured carried on, helping to free those who were still trapped, refusing to have their own injuries dressed.
Soon after the night alert in the London area, enemy 'planes flying at a great height dropped a num- ber of flares over the capital. A heavy barrage of AA. guns broke out, several of the flares were shot down, and the 'planes fied without waiting to drop their bombs.
Italian 'Planes
Six Italian
bombers are be
lieved to have taken part in the daylight ralds.
After a machine had been seen from a South-East Coast town to go spinning down out of control, an airman descending by parachute | >◄ was watched by crowds of people.
The airman had baled out at a great height, and as he drifted down two 'planes circled round hlm. His machine crashed into a field near Stanford, a village, | and he came down many miles! away, just behind Folkestone. A lone raider which dropped bonbs
East an village is reported brought down in the cast coast.
over
Anglian
to have been
NEW MASTER
"The new order only
means new master, declares the semi-offi- cial Istanbul newspa- per, "Ulus"comment- ing on an Italian plan for European eco- nomy:
"In this plan," says "all the newspaper; the nations are sub- ject to slavery. It is just not only to recall the greatness of anci- ent Rome, but also its death."
DOCTORS PROBE
BY RADIO
The wireless set is the sea off the newest ally of surgery.
SOS FROM 3 GIRLS
When the salvage campaign be- gan, Rita Knapman, aged twelve, her five-year-old sister, and а friend, saw their chance to help in the war effort.
They borrowed an old pram, chalked on It: "Save All Your | Paper to Help Your Country" and started A round of their village-Basildon, in Essex.
At every house, they collected waste paper and cardboard, carted it home, and stacked it in the back
A low circling 'plane dropped | garden." three oil bombs on one London Then satisfled that they had district. One fell between large | stripped the village of its waste blocks of flats and started a fire paper, the little girls stopped visit- which was quickly put out, but it | ing. is feared that some people were hurt.
A Dornler that was chased across a south-east coast town by а Spitfire, Jettisoned
Its bombs, hitting a church, a cine- ma, and other bulldings. As it fled the Dornier sprayed the promenade with cannon-gun shells.
While a Hurricane pilot attack- ed a Dornier bomber only 50ft. above the sea, A.A. gunners shot down a German fighter-bomber flying nearly five miles high over
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The salvage stood ready for the dus' man,
That was early this sumamer.
Then, a pathetic note from three disappointed little girls arrived at the "Daily Mirror" office.
"Mummy has asked the dust- mân every week If he would kindly take the sacks away, but he still hasn't taken them, and Daddy is going to burn it all if It isn't collected," wrote Rita. The "Daily Mirror" immediately telephoned Mr. A. D. Cheshire, Clerk to Billericay Urban District Council, which covers Basildon. After a few rounds at a white
"I'm sorry the little girls have speck in the sky the battery scored had this trouble. I will see that it u direct hit and the M.E. spiralled | is collected immediately.” down in flames from 24,000ft. into the sea.
Dover.
sca.
The Hurricane pilot, a sergeant, had been patrolling off the east coast when he sighted the Dornier below him, skimming over the
ten Chasing the bomber for miles, the Hurricane pilot caught it up and fired several bursts at close range. When the sergeant, had to make for his base, the Dor- nier was out over the North Sea limping for home severely damag- ed.
Spitfires shot down a Junkers B7 dive bomber, the first to visit Britain for six weeks, into the Thames Estuary,
Crowds Cheer
Enemy.activity was mostly by fighters. Two formations entered the Portsmouth area, others head- ed for London, an Air Ministry and Ministry of Home Security communique stated."
Bombs were dropped at several points in the London area, in the Eastern Counties, south-east Eng- land and Lincolnshire:
Hundreds of onlookers in the stracts yesterday – gave cheer after cheer as two enemy planee of a formation which unɛuçcese- fully tried to reach London went spinning to earth, ma neige During an afternoon rald Arty enemy planes crossed the copst at Dungeness and about twenty got through to London, where they
Hardy
story bi
Doctors are using them in hospitals where people in- jured by bomb splinters are being treated.
The surgeon has only to con- nect an insulated "probe" to the wireless set, "tune in," and the presence of bomb fragments in the body can be detected rapid. ly.
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When the "probe". touches bomb fragment in the body it pro- duces a loud click or scratching noise in the loud-speaker, easily distinguishably from the sounds made by bone fragments, or non- metallic objects.
Dr. James S. Hall, of Victoria Infirmary, Deal, describes the pro- Medical cedure in the "British Journal." He writes.
No Music
"Take any valve-operated wire- less set to the patient, switch it on, and open out the volume con- trol.
"If a programme is heard, tune it out, leaving the set in a sensi- tive condition, Connect a few feet of wire ending in an insulated probe to the aerial terminal or socket, and the apparatus is com- plete.
"As the noise heard is due to capacity changes in the aerial cir- cuit of the sei, touching the pati- ent's A.R.P. badge or tie-pin would give no result, while a ring on his finger or a piece of bomb in his buttock yields a loud and the distinct click, the noise in speaker increasing with the size of the metallic object touched."
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