THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 28, 1941.
CHINA MAIL
WINDSOR HOUSE
NAZI SCENARIO
The German propaganda film "Victory in the West," which was last heard of at ‘Ankára, 'turned up this week at where
the German
Chungking
community
exultantly showed it for the en- joyment of a number of Chinese officials. This is apparently its premiere in this part of the world.
Its object, as nearly as can be determined, is to prove that nazism. is best for mankind because it kills so many people and knocks down so many buildings. What the Alm can accomplish in China, which is still a long way from Germany, is a problem for
experts.
It is to be hoped that the film will be brought up to date before it is shown again. It seems to end now with the surrender France. IL should show
of
such
things as the Germans mustering last autumn for the invasion of Britain; the great September air battles over London; the Libyan, Ethiopian and Albanian cam- paigns; and the signing of the Lease-Lend Act. It might show a few American aircraft, tanks, guns and ships, It might include Hess flying to Scotland and # close-up of Herr von Ribbentrop assuring the Yugoslav delegation: "Germany herself I declare this formally here-has neither territorial claims nor political in- terests in this area." This could be followed by a flash-back to previous statements in similar vein made by Herr Hiller and his associates.
We can hardly wait.
CENSORSHIP
NOT
FOR YOU
NEPTUNE
NEPTUNE AND THE ROYAL NAVY.
Between Walls of Flame,
With Trucks Of Explosives
Down in the London Docks one! day during the Battle of Britain
were get (Round One), things ung hectic.
in plain clothes, on the occasion when, as a bomb- ed house dissolved, he heard cries in from somewhere above. the Up what was left of the front wall of the house clambered Crump and the bricks crumbled beneath him, cutting off his way of retreat,
They screamed for help. They, duty, and was tried in vain to scale the smooth walls to a ledge.
Then a policeman crawled The Luftwaffe squadrons had through a hole. He helped come over in full force, and the people to the ledge onte at a time. H.E.s and incendiaries were rain-Above him the roof creaked ing down.
ominously and threatened to give
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Setting his shoulder to it he wedged and held it till other helpers had passed up the people to safety.
The flames were spreading, | way. despite the fire-fighters, and lapping dangerous near naval ammunition magazine. To- wards it raced five policemen. Inspector Mike McHugh, of the Police, knew he could P.L.A. count on his men, P.C.s Jimmy Fletcher, Doug. Barr, Bill Tur- ner, and Harry Odall,
A ten-foot fairway between the searing flames and a corrugated iron shed, Itself growing hot, was their only path, and across this devil's toasting fork they went.
The peculiar censorship rule, copied from the last war but now even more stringently enforced, that no mention is to be made by name or designation of English units while Australian, New Zea- landers, Scottish, and even Irish, if there are any, can be freely referred to as such seems again to
Inside the magazine the heat be giving rise in the minds of
from the interior walls was so many people to the strange intense that they could smell their notion that the troops of the uniforms scorching. named portions of the Empire, At any moment, they knew, the and particularly of the Dominions, building might catch fire and ex- are carrying more than their plode. When that happened the fair share of the burden of fight-lives of scores of families in the large blocks of tenernents à stone's ing.
throw away might be forfelt.
Nothing could be
in- more accurate
When or unjust.
the
Smouldering
vell is lifted it will be found, as. Wheeling a locker's truck, into it was found in the official his-position, scorning the danger, the tory of the last war, that invalu- able though the services render- ed by the troops of the Dominions have been, they have by ho means outstripped those of the English units who have had për- force to fight anonymously.'
Split seconds after he had re- leased his hold and scrambled out himself the roof collapsed. He is Sergeant Fred Burgess, of J Division, at your service.
Eighteen feet from the ground he found an old woman precar- iously perched on a chair on a small section of flooring.
"Don't you worry!" he told her, "I'm a policeman, We'll soon
have you down!"
Yet the police reinforcements Another time, in the official in the street below could at first! to their į phraseology "two dwelling-houses find no way of coming
wall up were demolished by a bomb and assistance. The entire Police Sergeant Albert Martin, which Crump had daringly climb- now collapsed. Bombs accompanied
inspector ed had proceeded to the scene of the were still falling and the remnants of the building shook to every ex- plosion.
incident."
by
an
What really happened was that Martin heard a
volce crying for help, and unhesitating-
woman's
By Harold A. Albert
to
gallant five began to load up the ly wriggled under the debris ammunition cases and whisk them her assistance. to safety.
No sooner had he started than
wreckage Every minute the heat grew the
of the adjoining more unbearable as the roasting house collapsed with a roar over air tightened their lungs.
his head. Still he went on, un- woman and Every trip, as they handled ti he reached the
a large the cases through the ever-nar- found her held fast by rowing gangway and went back block of concrete. for more, threatented imminent. death. Their uniforms began to smoulder.
Still they had no thought for
+
Hysterical
They were both buried
alive.
There are obvious military reasons why English units can- not be designated. Each designa- tion would give an identification their own safety. For half an hour though Martin hever allowed the which might enable the Germani they carried on, until all the woman to guess it.
out of harm's Sweat streamed down his face Intelligence to locate, a particular ammunition was British division. It is these way and the peril of explosión as he tried to signal his where-
was past.
abouts to the inspector standing somewhere above him.
Crump steadied the woman in to his un- her chair. Thanks shaken reassuring conduct, she never knew her real peril. Soon a ladder was brought and he carried her safely down.
On a par with this is the her- oism-similarly recognised by of Sergeant the George Medal -
He, too, in a Jackson Davison. hailstorm of H.E:s clambered the précarious wreckage of a build- ing and found a trapped casualty: in this case, a man pinioned face downwards.
He was out of normal reach but the quick eyes of the "Sarg' spotted one way of getting him.
It would be by a feat to make experienced mountaineers quail, by a desperate, unsteady path along a narrow, crumbling ledge. Roping himself as best as he could for safety, Sergeant Davt The stones broke son set out. and slithered away beneath his feet. The watchers caught their breath, sure that every instant. must bring him pitching down, It was a miracle that he reach identifications that are always so
ed the trapped victim. Clearing Their high heroism is typical of eagerly sought by the General the police exploits that have gain-
The Woman was becoming hys- the debris a' difficult fent itself Staffs. It would be far better if ed the George Médat,
terical and the wreckage threat when more was likely to collapse -he at last secured the man's re- our own General Staff could. There was Harold Hardwicke, ened, a still further collapse. have had its way in this part ought his way down a blaze culty, at last, did he make his Then he climbed again to an
of the Warwickshire Specials, Only with the greatest diffi- lease and got him to safety. cular and enforced the complete staircase, carrying an injured presence known. The rescue other part of the building, roof- anonymity of all units in action. man from certain death: Inspec-squads got away part of the debris less, lacking walls, The quick tor McDonough, of the Metropoli and passed down a rope and gasps of someone in desperate It is understood that this was tan, who worked a stirrup pump saw. Pushing and straining, the pain gained his attention. There the wish of General Headquarters while molten lead drenched his of the BEF. in France and Flan- shoulders. And dozens of others, ders, which sternly refused per-The police have been in inission to correspondents to everywhere," Mr. Churchill mention one particularly praise- worthy feat by an English county regiment of the New Army. Had Ono térrible night eight people 1t been performed, as it well were imprisoned in a basement might have been, by a Dominion shelter. ór á Scottish unit. Its fame would Water from a bomb-shattered main was pouring in and every instant the flood-tide rosa higher and higher.
have rung, and rightly, round the Empire.
Shelter Flood
sergeant henved at the concrete. in the midst of the crumbled
Now in wild hysteria the ruins lay a girl in bed. woman struggled herself, makinig She was well out of his reach the wreckage ominously creak beyond a solid wall of fallen tint- and groan, and it required all aber but once again the resource- policeman's tact to calm her as ha ful P.S. turned the tables on the made the rope fast around the devil. : concrete and signalled for it to be brought to the surface.
Then as she still fought and screamed like a tigress, he fac cd up to the task of dragging her through the hole to safety. P.C. John Crump wasn't even on
Clambering down, he obtain- ed a saw. Then up he went again of that nightmare climb bf sliding footholds and decap- tive shadows. and began to cut his way sheer through the
• tumbled wood.
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