THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 8, 1941.
HUGE FIRES
FIRES STARTED IN RAID ON MUNSTER
FIFTY FIRES IN MUNSTER ALONE WERE COUNTED BY AIR CREWS TAKING PART IN SUNDAY NIGHT'S POWERFUL
BOMBING
THREE "LAWRENCES"
ATTACKS ON GERMANY AND GERMAN- 46 OCCUPIED TERRITORY.
Enemy resources were attacked on land
and sea.
One force went to Western Ger. WORK FOR
many to continue the disorganisation of
traffic and the break down of industries. BRITISH
The other went to North-West France to at- tack the German warships at Brest.
CAPTAIN TRICKED U-BOAT
The King and the sea captain met on a bustling wharf in Glasgow, and the captain told the King that his ship had been torpedoed in the Atlantic. This was his story. "A U-boat broke surface a hundred yards
wway.
"I went hard to starboard as quick as I could. But the U-boat
and was quick, too,
a torpedo struck the ship on the port side.
"We put up. a smoke screen, and Mr. Johnson, my chief engineer, kept his engines at full speed, although at one time his 'shop' was full of water. Although she was listing to port, she was trimmed, and
an even keel."
brought back on
In West Germany, Munster
--junction of many railways-was
altacked vile it was still smould- ering after the heavy bombing of the night before. Again the city was made a mass of flames. In one railway yard, there was an enor- mous fire and the railway sheds were rent by terrific explosions.
Though Munster is the capital largest town and the great centre of the heavy industry
of Westphalia, Dortmund is the
Here a so there was widespread destruction.
of which one report stated: huge factory building was were fires also in docks."
"A seen ablaze with fires all around. There
Count Byron de Prorok, who has just returned to New York after twenty years' work in Africa as an archaeologist, believes that he knows the names of three new "Lawrences: of Arabia" working in the British, Africa for writes the correspondent of the "Evening Stan- dard."
From scraps of Information re- Cologne. Dusseldorf and Emden
communi- wherevealed by the Cairo were among other towns
attacked industries ; ques, and from knowledge he has our bombers
picked up in Africa, he believes and supplies.
they are:
In Holland, where various ob- Jectives including the docks at Rotterdam were attacked during the night, blazing warehouses lit up an enemy supply ship on the Zuider Zee not far from Amster dam. The ship was Reon one of our bombers, scored a hit on it..
from which
Warships Bombed
Major Ralph Alger Bagnold, leader of desert expeditions, veteran of the last war, and one of the greatest authorities in the world on the movements of sund dunes;
a
Mr. William Boyd Kennedy Shaw, a former member of the the Sudan Forest Service and Palestinian Department of Anti-
botanist kuitles,
noted
and At Brest, very heavy armour- London Gazette Last night's
archæologist;
Hillier, ex- announced that Captain Rice, of piercing bombs were dropped on
Captain Norman Holden-way,
the berths of the three German Upminster, Essex.
of a trading and Chief Engineer Albert George warships, Scharnhorst, Gneisenau plorer, author, veteran of the last
war, and organiser
operated across Johnson, chief engineer, of Beres- und Prinz Eugen.
The increased strength of the company which
the Libyan Desert, using light ford Avenue, Bebington, Cheshire,
werc are to be additional officers of the defences is proof, if proof
cars instead of camels, value which the Order of the British Empire for needed, of the
enemy attached to these warships valuable ship' most saving "a without the help of any other and of the anxiety to get them
ready for sea. vessel.
Bombed
And here are two more reasons why the King is proud of his
sailors:-
Count de Prorok declared that
"two other probable heroes of Britain's North African campaign" are Major John Glubb In the course of last night's at- tack, a liner of about 10,000 tons known to the Arabs as "the man was sighted at anchor in the har-Bedouins in the twenties to fight with the scar," who organised the bour at Brest. Diving down to at- tack and flattening out at about Saudi Arabian raiders; and Ma- 50 feet, one
British aircraft hit for James Maxwell, former com- A ship commanded by Captain the ship with a powerful bomo, mander of Kurmuk, a friend and
adviser of many Ethiopians. John Joseph Robinson, of Runs- the explosion of which was seen,
"For years he has been study- dunes. was raked fair and square,
sterning trails wick Bay, Yorkshire,
through sand He must be the man who found the way to get light tanks through to attack Sidi Barrani, the Italians were so confident it could not be done that they did not even post sentries over the dunes.
by machine-gun fire and hit by a British Wireless.
whole stick of bombs. She began
to go down by the head.
Captain Robinson had his right hand torn; all the boats were damaged. But he got the port Having lifeboat into the water. first made sure that no one was left on board, Captain Robinson, with twenty-seven men, stood by waiting calmly for a rescue ship.
Captain Robinson is also made an officer of the
British Empire.
on the
LETTER OF FIREMAN'S WIFE
1,000ft. Hills
where
Barrani the Sidi "Behind dunes form hills 300 to 1,000ft.
Order of the SEVENTEEN FIREMEN FROM high, the height of the Eiffel
THE CATFORD AREA OF Tower.
They change, constantly. John Henry Cook, of St. Andrew LONDON AND THEIR WIVES Major Bagnold knows, the winds. Road, Gorleston-on--Sea, was HAD TEA YESTERDAY AFTER- of those parts; he knows how the WITH MRS. WINANT, dunes would change, and with master of an unarmed lightship NOON
U.S. AMBAS- his records and data and personal which was bombed and machine- WIFE OF THE
SADOR.
knowledge, he could very well gunned.
FATHER
The
and
A third of his crew was out of This was the outcome of a let-have keept track of the changes action, but Cook kept his ship on fer received by Mrs. Winant from until the exact moment when the station as a good sea-mark," and the wife of a London Areman in dunes would pass and light cars "showed great courage and devo- Catford. writer said she could fly along on the rock sur- tion to duty." He receives wanted Mrs. Winant to know her face beneath.. the
"In the Libyan desert that rock .medal.. of the Civil coming to England to join the
Ambassador. had "roused
-the is as hard and flat as a billiard Division, O.B.E.
admiration of all wives and table, mothers in, London, especially: "Mr. Shaw..could have been tho those who know what an un-link between the British comfortable experience it is to Free French forces-coming up. endure the Blitz in order to keep from Lake Chad. He used to spend the home fires burning.".es
his time mapping the desert spaces She added the hope that Anglo-in winter and then going to Eng American cooperation would en-land in the hot weather to lec- dure, r
ture and write,
auto do, bank "Captain Hilller+ was without a job after the last war. With his experience of the desert he or ganised the Western Desert Transport Company.
GUARDS HEROES' NAMES
Clydeside was the main objective of Nazi raiders on recently and casualties were heavy.
Belfast and other Ulster ports were also attacked,
Liverpool had its fifth succes sivo raid. Damage was wide- read, but casualties were few. A weary-eyed many of about sixty-five, frayed war ribbons on Breast, stood watching : a
Expressing appreciation of the spirit underlying the letter, Mrs. Winant sent out the Invitation. British Wireless.
name!
"His headquarters were at that lot." he said. "They were Mersa Matruh where the British in the A.R.S. The building caved drive Into Libya started, and in on top of them as they were Siwa; the great Qasis of Jupiter, trying to rescue an injured fre- In the heart of the desert,
He had rest houses and de- watcher from the flames,” p
posits of water and food placed The man refused to give his strategically all over the desert The Senussi, who still call Graziani "the Butcher," are be hind Hillier, They are behind anyone who is against Graziani.
"Hillier helped hundreds of the trblesmen to escape from the Ita- Food convoys from, other north-llans through the barbed wire ern cities went to the Blitzed fence Mussolini had set up along
the Labyan-Egyptian frontier:
-“This is a – war of nameless heroes," he explained, “The lads would sooner have it that
way.g
of rescue, squad tolling
amid charred ruins Kitwo lada pre beneath | area..
"I can tell
WHITE
Page
HORSE blindfold
... it's equal to a fine liqueur”
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