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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 29, 1941.
LONDON TRAMS BOMBED: GIRLS TO RESCUE REUNITED
GIRLS TORE their clothing into strips to band- age the victims of a German bomb which wrecked three crowded trams in a London street. Soveral people, including a tram driver, a conductor, and a woman passenger aged about thirty, were killed. Others were injured.
AFTER
22 YEARS
A few seconds after the bomb had fallen, a score
War is having one un- of rescuers, mostly women, were tearing at the expected result on social wreckage to free the trapped passengers. By the
life in Wales - it is bring- roadside, amid broken glass and splintered wood,ing together again mar-
girls knelt giving first aid.
When first aid squads arrived the voluntary "nurses" had ban- daged a dozen casualties.
A police officer told a reporter: "Injured people were scattered all over the roadway.
for
"Others
were screaming help from the wreckage of the
trams."
"A Fine Job"
A small army, mostly girls who had been on their way to work
"Alert" when the
sounded and had taken cover, were helping to treat them.
"The girls did a fine job of work. As soon as the first-aid parties arrived, most of them picked up their handbags and went on to work.”
The trams were drawn up close together near traffic lights. The bomb hit the rear of the first tram and the front of the second. They were crushed like concertinas.
Windows and woodwork were
blown out of other trams. Bro- ken seats were huried into the roadway,
Blast shattered the windows of buses in the same street. Passers- by were injured by flying frag-
ments.
"The raider must have been in a hurry to get rid of his bombs" said a passer-by "At least three were dropped in this area.
GRACIE
WILL STAY BRITISH
Gracie Fields has lost her unwanted Italian citizenship.
an
of
ried couples who been separated
have
for as
long as two decades.
One very unusual reunion story has just been brought to light in a Glamorgan coal valley.
During the last war a
soldier in a Welsh battalion came home on leave In 1918 to find that his wife had left home, taking with her their two children, two sons.
After the war, when he return- ed to civilian life, the man got in touch with his wife and asked her to return to Him. She re- fused, and, until a few weeks ago, Her husband, Monty Banks, they lived apart the husband received his final American elti- in Wales and the wife and two zenship papers. They were
sent
sons in London, to him under his real name
Some weeks ago the husband Mario Blanco.
received a letter from his wife, Monty's naturalisation, under In it she asked him if he would American law, does not make provide a home for his daughter- Gracie
American citizen.in-law and three children, the Gracle has the option of
of his eldest maining British.
son, who was in the Forces.
his The man had not seen Bon since he was a baty, and did not know he was married and the father of three children. For several days the man thought about his wife's request. Then he went to London, saw his wife, and brought her and their daughter-in-law and her children to Wales,
re-wife and children
Returning from her Canadian tion for the moment of becom- tour, she said: "I have no inten-
ing a United States citizen,
She said she was contemplat- ing having a Broadway musical show early in the spring, 75 per cent, of the profits of which would go to British war charities.
After this show she will be at the disposal of the British Gov- ernment, and will do whatever it thinks best for the British cause. She will devote all her time to war relief work.
ANXIOUS FOR FRIEND
-KILLED
Since then his soldier son has visited them, while the other son, employed in Birmingham, spent several week-ends them.
WELSH TENOR RAID VICTIM
The well-known Welsh
has
with
tenor,
Too Enthusiastic
"Fortunately, a lot of people had taken cover when they heard gun- fire near. But several were still about and there were a number of injuries from flying glass.""
Post Warden C. E. Ephgrave eight, went to the house of athe London area. said: "The public were splendid. friend nearby to see if she was But they were so enthusiastic safe. that after a time they proved a While she was there a bomb hindrance and we had to cordon fell on the friend's house off the ares.
After a number of bombs had Mr. Edeyrn Jones, member of the dropped near her home B.B.C. Men's Chorus, and a na- in a south coast town,tive of Edeyrn, Caernarvonshire, Miss Lilian Brown, twenty has been killed in an air raid in
“PARTING" "SHOT
and Man at Highgate Police Court: wrecked it. Miss Brown was I can pay now, but I do hope you "Many of the passengers the found dead in the ruins, and her will let me have the comfort of trams were practically full of friend was taken to hospital in- the money in my pocket for workers →→ suffered from shock jured. and were treated for this and minor injuries at first-aid posts."
As the bomb hit the trams an- other demolished a shop with flats above.
In a short time one body was recovered from the debris.
Pazzers-by were Injured by flying glass and several cars wore severely damaged. This happened during London's second "Alert" of the day.
About a hundred ralders, fighter-bombers, crossed the coast during the day's raids but few -- singly or in groups of two or three -managed to elude the British fighters and reach the capital.
There were fights over several districts in London's outskirts.
Two bombs were dropped in a London district in quick succes- sion and demolished two houses. There was only one mitior casualty.
Dawn Attack
20,000
little while longer.
IDEAS TO
WIN THE WAR
SINCE THE WAR started more than 20,000 in- ventions designed to win the war have been sent to the Air Ministry and Ministry of Aircraft Produc- tion. Mr. D. R. Pye, Director of Scientific Research, Ministry of Aircraft Production, made that dis- closure in a B.B.C. talk.
a
He revealed that it was partly due to a sugges- tion made to him a few months ago by a private inventor that the incendiary leaf was evolved.
But not all the suggestions sub- And there were the mitted had such a practical appli-varieties of death rays all really
nothing more than plous hopes.
Two little girls had only Justication. left their house, which was hit, and were waiting at the bus stop timist who wanted to freeze the There was, for example, the op- outside on their way to school. clouds and mount anti-aircraft Three bombs fell close to a sporting building. Glass was scat- guns upon them, tred over 100 yards in all direc-Then there was the wonderful helleopter, worked by a perpetual motion engine, for carrying search lights, guns and men to colossa heights.
tions.
Several people are believed to have lost their lives.
When H.E. bombs were dropped in another London area during the afternoon, four men are believed to have been killed.
...
One bomb fell, nour a canteen where girls were having lunch, All escaped injury.
London's day began with a dive-bombing attack on an area on the outskirts at dawn. Zit was light ano morning works plane clearly ta
load of six bombs,
Part of a commercial building was wrecked, and houses were damaged. ⠀
Night Raiders
many
The most numerous group of deas, said Mr. Pye, was that sug→ gested by the need of the moment,
few months ago it waa ethemes for coping with the parachutist, Just "now the pro- blem was how to tackle enemy, bombers after dark.
Now that the air war was really ason ús ideas were pour. log in at the rate of about 3,000 per week. They came from peo- pis all over: Britain and the Dominior, and other countries abroad sa well.
One of the houses collapsed. Rescue workers searched for a man and his wife and child who Every letter and memorandum are thought to have been afɑop- | that came in had to be scrutinized to ese the Ing: In a downstairs room, cams-down | They may, however, have been
Chelispending the night with friends.
to see whether it contained an Idea or the gerin of an idea which might help to win the war.