THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 13, 1941.
MANCHESTER LEARNS LESSON FROM THE BLITZ
(By A Special Correspondent)
IN EVERY TOWN I find the same reaction to bombing a proud, even passionate, conviction that nowhere else in England have people been through such hell. Manchester is no exception; and the city really has been hit much harder than most Southerners imagine.
There are large areas of rubble and many skele ton walls jagging the skyline like bad teeth.
If one adds that most DYING MAN
of the damage was due to
sheer slackness in fire- MYSTERY
watching, the obvious re-
ply is that a few months Although a patient at a ago precautions were no mental home has been more satisfactory any-charged with his murder,
where else.
Nearly all the damage was
it was stated at a Salis- bury inquest that the dy-
dotie on two nights. After heavy ing nurse maintained he bombing with high explosives the had injured himself by
raiders launched the real attack;
incendiaries fell like buil Where falling.
Bre-watchers were active these did little damage.
Exchange Destroyed
But some of the finest build- ings, such as the Royal Exchange, said to be the biggest commercial
the premises in
world, Were
soon
occupied by scores of fees and shops which didl not employ watchers. They
caught fire and the dames spread fast. When day broke the pillar of Are by night dulled inte a pillar of smoke. With darkness the fires that had seemed dying glowed red again, and the bom- bers came back, this time a shorter period.
for
Dr. S. E. Martin, Inedical superintendent at the home, how- ever, said that the injury could not have been caused by a fall,
The inquest was on Reginald Edwin Trubridge, aged fifty-one, died from laceration of the brain of Culver Street, Salisbury, who six days after he had been found
with head injuries in a locked
pantry at Salisbury Mental Home, where he had worked for thirty-
one years.
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Earlier in the day Norman William Ashton, forty-five. ]
patient at the mental home since 1927, was remanded charged with murdering Trubridge.
have
V. C. HERO - BUT AUDIENCE SCARED HIM
Sergeant John Han- nah, of the R.A.F., Bri- tain's youngest V.C., won his decoration by his courage and cool- ness. But, when he visited an aircraft factory he could not make speech.
He had been pre- sented to the workers by Mr. Handley Page, managing director of the firm, in the lunch- time break ot the canteen. They want- ed him to speak, but all he managed to say was "Thank you. I am very glad to be with oll you boys and girls."
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FOOD LACK WHITE HORSE
People of Martinique, French island in the West Indies, have been facing starvation while £240,000,-- 000 in gold lies in their vaults.
This hoard is probably one of the factors which enabled Marshal Thomas Henchey, an attendant Petain to resist Nazi demands. A at the home, told how he found big slice of the reserves of the By the second morning the Trubridge in the pantry. Tru-|Bank of France, it was taken to blitz was over, and Manchester bridge told him he must
the island on the warship Bertain could take stock. Tall com fullen. A piece of iron grating after the French collapse. mercial buildings behind Picca.
was found in a bucket in the ward. dilly had gone; so had rows along Corporation and
Miller Streets, and that quaint old market area, the Shambles. Eight churches were destroyed, more were damaged sa seriously that they cannot be repaired dur- ng the war, and a large main.bet suffered minor damage. One of the places badly hit was Cross Street Chapel, a cradle of Nou- conformity.
Questioned by a doctor Ashton admitted breaking the grating, and when asked if he had hit Trubridge, replied, "Yes, that is right."
The inquest was adjourned
7,000,000 STEEL HELMETS
More than seven
million steel types have helmets of standard
chiefly to the supplied. is been
Fighting Farres, the Home Guard and the Civil Defence Services.
Eight hospitals were hit, and of the Free Trade Hall there nothing lest but the facade.
Cathedral Damaged
The Cathedral Was damaged, but not seriously. The picturesque 15th-century Chetham Hospital nearly opposite, housing a blue- coat school and the oldest public library in England, escaped altogether; and so did the John Rylands Library, with its 300,000 volumes.
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And how does Manchester take it all? The average man is philosophic enough, but it that, would be wrong to deny
over two things, there is dis- satisfaction. One is fire-watch- ing; the other is communications,
But the money was no good to the islanders, It cou'd not be touched, because the United States had frozen French credit, Meanwhile, the plight of the islanders was desperate. Clothing and food were scarce. Starvation stared them in the face.
Now relief has come to the prople, but their vast fortune is still useless to them.
United States and France have agreement whereby made Martinique keeps the bullion safe In return she from the Nazis. getshipments of food.
GERMANS FAIL TO BREAK
NORWAY'S RESISTANCE
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NORWAY'S WILL TO RESIST passively but stubbornly the mixture of blandishments and brutalities by which the German authorities seek to govern the country is not breaking under the strain.
from
it.
Norway, has
When the Naz!
an police ordered these embleins to the be removed some other symbol-
a coloured pencil In certain
move-
worn
way-would make appearance with uncanny
a unanimity.
Que observer told me that he Professor Jacob Worm-Mueller,, King produced a crop of national travels 10 miles each way daily late professor of modern history emblems engraved with his figure on a line not affected by bmbing at Oslo University, who made a in the lapels of thousands of loyal or even traffic. The journey, remarkable escape with his wife countrymen.
given takes from 90 to 105 minutes.
"Manchester people will put up interesting picture of life in with any amount of danger and occupied land. hardship, where necessary," said The professor left his country pocket, or a handkerchief my friend. "To keep tired men in circumstances he is not pre-in a certain
and made his its and women hanging about in the pared to divulge, cold and rain needlessly is just way to Stockholm with only moral sabotage. People are be- vague idea of his future
Audacious Escapes coming coldly angry, and if the ments, but with a determination
Escapes-by sea from Norway railway companies won't do any to reach England even-if-be-had-
do to Britain, undertaken under thing about it the Ministry of to travel round the world to
circumstances
the
greatest of Transport should."
time became This, in fact, he did. A normal audacity, at one peacetime trip of some 36 hours frequent occurrences.
Worm-Mueller
said was converted into а journey Professor taking nearly two months.
that he was surprised to meet in His route lay by air from the centre of London one day a Stockholm to Moscow; by train Norwegian in the uniform of the across Siberia to Vladivostok; Oslo tramways. It appeared that Sentence of three months' hard from there to Tokyo by boat; the man had left his tram, mude "through the usual labour was passed at Enfield, thence to the United States and his escape
and channels" and had had no chance Middlesex, on Thomas Henry Oak- | Canada; by ship to Lisbon, man, of Lavender Hill, Enfield, thence by flying boat to England. to change his clothes! for what the chairman of the Bench described as a "terrible case of cruelty" to a dog by fail- ing to give it · proper care and attention, Oakman was dis- qualified from keeping a dog for five years.
GAOLED FOR DOG CRUELTY
Hls dog was found tled to a chain to heavy that it caused the animal's head to sink towards the ground.
Passive resistance to the Nazis, Another man who got away the Professor sald, was the brought with him an amusing best weapon the Norweglans account of the German prepara- had in their armoury........ It show-tions for the invasion of Scotland. students' hostel med itself in many waya and in Outside Oslo a
had been converted into a bar- all olasses of society. School-children became aware, racks, and in the quadrangle Ger- Kilts that their lessons smacked of a man soldiers in Scottish strange philosophy, and decided | marched up and down to a some- that strike action was called for. what amateurish skirl of the
The love of the nation for its bagpipes.
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