THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 18, 1941.
BRAVERY OF BRITISH A.R.P. WORKERS ARMOURED
BRAVERY OF UNPAID A.R.P. workers and ci-
CARS FOR
vilians during the widespread raiding and sleepless- MINISTER”
ness has cheered the authorities throughout the country.
At the sound of the siren men and women have walked or cycled two or three miles to their posts while enemy aircraft were cruising overhead. After -they have been dismissed on the "All clear" signal, many part-time workers have reached their homes only to hear the siren again.
But few of them disregarded the warnings. The majority set off again for their warden's post or A.F.S. station to stand by till the next "All clear.”
Lord Dudley, Midland Commis- sioner for Defence, has sent a special message to people in the Midlands for their high spirits.
In the London
area, workers, clerks and factory workers have Just had enough time to get their breakfast after all-night duty be- fore catching the early trains tu the City.
re-
"We need still more volun- teers, an official at the Ministry for Home Security told a porter. "Then it would be pos sible for these workers to ar. range a rota--some would an- swer the siren warning one night, others the next night, so that all can get their rest.
"It is impossible for these vo-
lunteers to work night and day without sleep, so when conditions
permit it they are allowed to re- turn home to stand by."
BRITISH
CYCLISTS
ATTACK ON CONTINENT
Britain already has be- gun to invade the contin-
False U.S. Report
WHITEHALL HAS FOUND A
BUSINESS OF
LITTLE LIGHT RELIEF FROM THE SERIOUS
WAR. IT WAS PROVIDED BY
THE AMERICAN REPORT THAT THE
FREQUENCY OF AIR RAIDS ON LONDON HAD COM- OF MEMBERS PELLED ALL
BRITISH GOVERNMENT THE TO USE ARMOURED MOTOR- CARS.
The statement was made by Mr. William Hillman, European manager of Colliers Magazine, on
New his arrival
York after flying the Atlantic with Mr. Ken- nedy, the United States Ambas- sador to Britain.
The fact is that no members of the Government use armoured motor-cars. Most of them have never seen such a car, and it is doubtful if one could be found in London.
They travel like ordinary mo- torists in ordinary cars. It is by no means an uncommon sight in London to-day to see a member of the Government paying off a taxi-cab.
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Want To Work On Meanwhile, although they do not lose any pay while sitting in shelters during raids, hundreds of correspondent. girls working in Midlands muni- tion factories are determinedly pleading with their employers to let them carry ou
Before leaving England three weeks ago I learned from reliable quarters that the British carried out at least nine daring motor- At a big factory the directors cycle raids within German-occu- were discussing a scheme to let pied France. Squadrons of 50 ma- volunteers carry on during a raidchine-gunning motorcycles under the supervision of men who carried across the English Channel will immediately close down theby trawler at shops and stop the machines when uniformed "suicide cyclists" were they hear the enemy is near. to do these three things:
An official said:
night time.
were
The
First, harrass the Germans who
are thinly strung out over a 1,000
"The girls can sit in the shel-mile coastline; second, to capture ters and amoke and read as prisoners and gather first-hand in- much as they like, but they formation concerning the German want to be at the benches. They lines; and third, to commit sabots don't mind how much they work
during the day and night so long as they can have their Sundays free."
A special housewife service branch of the Midland Women's Voluntary Service is being form- Ed.
Women have enrolled to help and cheer Invalids. children and nervous women during raids.
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The raiders frequently do not return but the mere ralds de- monstrate German vulnerability and tend to keep the Nazis in
a state of apprehension.
Germans have begun building de- British military chiefs said the
fortifications along fensive channel to ward off an
the
English
Some
Cooperating with air-raid ward- offensive on the continent. ens, they are going out during of the French Maginot Line big raids calling at homes to give any guns have been moved up to the assistance they can.
coast.
QUEEN AMONG LONDON'S SIX BRAVEST WOMEN
ASKED BY Ralph Ingersoll, editor of. “P.M." the New York daily news-magazine, to name London's six, bravest women, the London correspondent of that paper c cabled:~
The Queen (whose calm shar- ing of danger has been an in- spiration to the nation).
Mrs. Scanlon, wife of the American General, Martin Scan Jon, who is attached to the Em- bassy in London.
Hilde Marchant, "Daily Ex
press reporter.im
'home to find the house-levalled. | Both turned up af work at 6- p.m. They were now living in a rest centre.
"We have a good old chip, and play cards each night," Ivy-says
We miss our home, but so have many others."
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