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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 31, 1941.
SEVERE CASUALTIES IN BISMARCK FROM SHELLFIRE
(By Reuter's Naval Correspondent)
RESCUES 2 IN RIVER
A GIRL AGED EIGHTEEN RESCUED A CHILD AGED FIVE AND AN R.A.F. SERGEANT AT
TAW AT BARNSTAPLE, DEVON. The girl was Lilian Shaddick, of Cyprus Terrace, Barnstaple who dived fully clothed.
PROOF OF THE tremendous hammering FULL TIDE FROM THE RIVER the German battleship Bismarck received from naval, surface and air craft before she was sunk, is provided by the small number of those who survived, and it is unquestionable that casualties aboard the Bismarck were very severe.
t
Among hits received by the Bismarck were some from H.M.S. Prince of Wales, which herself suffered slight damage, though casualties on board the new British battle- ship were very small.
The hits Prince of Wales scored are considered in naval circles in London to have played sour part in the final destruction of Hitler's greatest warship, since they slow- ed her down by two or three knots; and enabled the shadowing citi
and Suffolk. ers, Norfolk easily to keep up with her.
BILA
The shadowing work of Noy folk and Suffolk also greatly contribut end to the British success.
Cruisers' Fine Show
DEMOCRACY
SHOULD HAVE 5TH COLUMN
Counselling the United! States to take the propa. ganda initiative in Europe and "out-fifth-column the master fifth columnist. Hitler himself," visibility, is described by naval Adolf experts as a masterly perform Robert H. Jackson, Attor-
The team work shown by there two cruisers. working in varying of
tricky
ancc.
conditions
Barbara Elizabeth Cudlip. aged five of Barnstaple, had fallen into the water.
An N.C.O. of the R. A. F. Douglas Robert Hall, who was passing, jumped into the river. fully clothed, and caught hold of her. Not being a
swimmer he got Hampered by his uniform he was soon in dif-
out of his depth. nculties himself.
LEFT SHELTER, SAVED LIVES
Six people were killed and six injured when a shelter at a school in a West of England town re- ceived a direct hit during an a raid.
fell "The bomb
when the raid seemed worst part of the to be over." said Mr. H. Cromp
"and a ton, who lives nearby. number of people who had been decided to risk sheltering had
it and had gone home. Other wise the casualties would pro- bably have been heavier."
aliens
are
happiness under free institutions that would stir new vitality for democracy in every occupi
of Europe. Loyal not intruders to They High tribule is a'so paid in Loney General of the United ed country
merely tolerated.
assets for the don to the work of Coastal Com-States, at a dinner of the be
priceless Council Common
for are mand planes in check ng the Bis-
defence of democracy if we have marek's position and to ulanes from the aircraft-carriers Victor-American Unity, urged the wit to cultivate them."
Ark Royal, which foreign-born Americans to write to the millions of terday that there is no officer of their former fellow-coun- high rank among the 100
ostrymen now under Hitler's survivors of the Bismarck.Reu-
domination describing the ter.
in benefits of democracy America.
Tous
and brought her to bay.
It was learned in London yes-
KILLED ON BIRTHDAY CYCLE
FOR WEEKS BEFOREHAND. PETER PULLEN, AGED ELEVEN, OF THE ROCK GARDEN HOTEL.
HAD BOGNOR REGIS.
BEEN AWAITING HIS ANXIOUSLY BIRTHDAY. FOR HIS MOTHER HIM A NEW HAD PROMISED BICYCLE.
he
He had always envied the other
theirs. but now boys with would be able to go for rides with them.
At last the grea' day arrived and his mother proudly presented the bicycle to him.
His school was closed as there was a holiday, and Peter rose early to go for a ride.
During the afternoon he was Colliers Avenue, cycling down Bognor Regis, when a bus came along. There was a collision.
Peter was killed.
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Jackson
Louis Adamic.
That Americans of Yugoslavian origin have already been busy at precisely the propaganda offen- sive suggested by Mr. was asserted by author and editor of the quarterly magazine "Common Ground," or- gan of the council.
believe that we had "We hand in what occurred in the sairl Balkans
he
छ
Mrs. Roosevelt, at the close of the dinner, said
recently," Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt "We sent hundreds of cables to resistance. urging presided at the dinner. attended Yugoslavia,
1.300 by
representing Some of those cables were pub- persons
lished over there because they muny racial groups.
Eight speakers emphasised that came from America and because majority of aliens it is a rare family in Yugoslavia The great
the
that hasn't someone in the Unit- U.S.
loyal were
ed States." American ideals of democracy.
"The real vulnerability to the fifth column is Hitler's, not ours,"
"I should like to send you all Mr. Jackson said. "His over-ex-
home with the fee ing that we includes tended domain now
cannot compromise with fear and and unwilling millions of alien
cruelty. We are Americans al'. subjec s, full of revenge and on They
working together for the new world." 'th- the greatest the verge of insurrection. constitute
Other speakers were United column opportunity in history."
The same national groups in States Senator Harold H. Bur- Archibald Mac- of Ohio; the
Gen-ton. Attorney America.
of Congress; eral continued, are now devoted Leish, Librarian
New A: Carter, of the to the free institutions they have Eimer
York Unemployment Insurance voluntarily adopted.
"Given the help of our Immi- Appeal Board; Edward
of Immi- grants from the recently oppress- former Commissioner ed countries" he concluded, "we gration; M. F. Wegrzynek. pub- could send in Europe's own ton- lisher of the Polish paper "Nowy gue from her own native sons Swiat," and Read Lewis, execU-
progress and tive director of the council.
messages of their
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