THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 3, 1941
CHINA MAIL Death In
-WINDSOR HOUSE
AIR MAILS
One of the apparently news minor items in the
THERE was not much pattern to
back upstairs and felt much better,
The
warning, but a red light flashed |
of us and an air raid
in front warden stuelt his head in as we stopped. He said, "There's a crater just ahead. It's just happened. We Better, be
At the end of a block we all at once saw two small lights flush
my days in London. The dif-
The point about being afraid neully of making and changing during a bombardment in which arrangements by telephone and you know the chances of being the fact that from the second day killed are minute is this: that after
the day before
few haven't found it yet. frightened I left I was you've been waiting on my appointment with times you know that being fright-careful." We said we would and the Prime Minister-its time and ened is just an unreasonable tem- drove on. yesterday, announcement place was not set until a font nur that in a little while you Hysterics In The Dark
1 saw him meant and will commercial that I could make no commitments feel all right again. Like getting that three
in advance. Each day I simply unreasonably mad at a telephone -air-liners of the Clipper made and kept as many engage girl giving you the wrong number. in the Dorchester type are to be purchased ments as I was able. Ben Robert- The time when I was alone with
son, who slept with me the first the gun noise
was the only time I felt panic, but in any given for the purpose of main-ight, simply stayed on.
four or five times taining Empire communi- back making people really under- cations, will attract keene take sleeping anywhere they interest in Hong Kong. happen to be when the black-out No indication was provid- ed of the routes on which
I have had difficulty since I got
stand how entirely casually peo-
comes in London. Possibly it's be- the phrase sleeping with rause someone has connotations in our
is so foreign to everyone's experi- ence here.
I asked everyone I met in and out of the Government how many shelters and Lontoners slept in how many slept in their homes.
No one had any idea. There are
no statistics whatever available.
night, even though they were re-
·By-
Ralph Ingersoll
latively quiet. I was scared and each time after a while the fear would piss and I'd feel all right Apain. Because I was always with people who if they were scared
didn't show it and we went about what we decided was our business
the fear passed.
is a fair assumption thatally, night after night, in their It's "Behaving Well"
of res- it is the problem toration that has been en-
tion.
of
No consequence Italy's entry into the war has been felt more severe ly in the East than virtual destruction of the air mail of services. The value such elements of the ori-
tives,
most
I talked this over with a num-
ber of people in London and they
greed with me.
ute we began to run over rubble. with the pavement. The next min One of us said, "It's right here. You can always tell when you be- gin running over rubble." Another few feet and we saw what the lights on the street were. They were the still burning sidelights of a car that had just run into the crater. A woman came toward us out of the black and said, "Where are you going?"
The driver said, "To London." She said, "No, no, no, I mean what part of London?"
The driver said, "The West End."
Her voice was rising. It sounded She said, "No, no, no, hysterical. that won't do at all. That's not at all where I want to go," and ran off behind us. We think she had
been in the car.
We a main.
had
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