THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 11, 1941.
LONDON DIARY OF RACE AT
2/2 HOURS
CALLED BY HITLER banging on window at 2.30 a.m. sharp. Crashing glass, rending wood, and muffled roar. Window fell out this time. Last time it fell on to bed.
Snapped on light. Instantly cursed myself for a fool, and snapped it off again. Felt way to passage and into street. All window frames in all houses dangling out. Cloud of dust at end of street.
Passed dust cloud (il tasted furry on the tongue), saw reek- ng gap in live-storey block of flats and half-shattered small houses.
Να sign of life till stoutish middle-aged man crawled out of cellar hole and stood swaying on Hile of rubble in road.
He kept muttering, know how I got out.
know how I got out
"Don't don't Asked
him, "Anybody else in there?"
"Yes; landlord,
He said,
wife and daughter."
"Down There!"
his
Turned towards cellar, but he ing with shock, muttered. "Do me a favour, will you, mate? Go
pabbed my arm and, still sway-
down there and fetch my cout and waistcoat.”
"Down there" was a mass of rubble. At that moment anuther man with Are watches's auniet heaved himself out.
"It's no use," he said. "I've got one of them so far, but I'm afrald his back's broken, and he's in the way of the others." Luckily, rescue men began to arive almost as he spoke.
Went over to fire in smashed blocks of fats. Beginning to be dangerous.
Could see gutled shop fronts all way down, and helpless shop- keepers pottering about with small belongings. Old man near was standing fo doorway hugging framed oleograph.
were
suffering
from
Rescue men from heat, wiping sweat faces. One, carrying limp girl. shouted "Door!" There were no Someone found
stretchers yet. door to lay her on,
Under Fire She was hurt, but smiled and
Thought said, “Funny,
I must have a cold all of a sudden. Then found it was blood from my nose."
'CHUTE
MAN IS
TOUGH
Driving along a coun- try road in his car, an RAF officer pulled up at the sight of a khaki-clad figure waving him to a standstill.
It was
a strange man who ran round to the door of the car. Though obviously a British sol- dier, his uniform was hardly standard pattern, and he had traces of parachute harness still on him.
The officer was even morc amazed when the soldier sharply ordered him out of the car. He was angry, and refused to obey the order, and was just about to give the soldier a lesson in dis cipline when he was met by a beautiful
right-hand punch to deposited In a
the
and jaw hedge. His car vanished.
A Tough Bunch
When the officer reported the
5 M.P.H. FOR 410 MILES
One of the most excit- ing annual races in the world is being prepared. Speed: 5 m.p.h.
This is the All-Alaska Sweep- stakes, in which sledge dogs race 410 miles, from Nome to Candle City and back. They traverse snow, mountains of ice, forests, rivers and plains, and the record is 74 hours. As long as 120 hours has been taken by the winning team.
There is no limit to the number of dogs in a team. Eight is usual, but as many as 18 have been used.
Excitement can only be lik
tho ened to the Derby. In all towns and villages anywhere near the course large boards are erected to show the pos). tions of the toomo at well. the known landmarks along noute. These are thronged all day.
As reins cannot be used, most competitors train an old dog, or
two dogs, to lead the team, with the younger dogs harnessed be- hind. A good leuder has an in- stinctive knowledge of the best
route to lake.
CLEARS WIFE OF
ADMIRAL
After a
five-day hear- ing in secret, Mrs. Chris- tabel Sybil Caroline Nicholson, 50, a doctor. and wife of a British Ad-
found miral, was
not Old Bailey incident, he was told that it was guilty at the
Britain's parachute only one of
the other day of offences army carrying out a manoeuvre.
Told that on landing he had under the Official Secrets to reach a given spot by a certain
Act. time and prove by phone that he he had comman- had got there, deered the first car that came his way.
committed Dr. Nicholson was from Bow Street two months ago, but according to the prison calen- Britain has more would-be dar she had been in custody since parachutists than she knows what May last year. Firemen now busy. The jets to do with.
from their hoses
In some units more She is the wife of Admiral looked punny than 50 per cent. of the men Wilmot Stuart Nicholson, who is against that furnace, Nuw and volunteered for these duties. then half a wall would cuilapse.
German bomber was droning about, trying to improve fire. We flattened ourselves against wall Eeveral times, but his aim was wide.
Omneis
When rescue men hund rought out half a dozen or more alive,
took over. fresh parly stood about, wiping faces.
"Better hang around," they under said, "There'll be peuple that lot when the firemen get the flames out."
One of them chased away a small dog running over a gluss- strewn street. "You'll get your paws cut," he said.
By five o'clock, flames had almost died away, and
bomb crater was like boiling cauldron with steam hissing out.
Now, as 1 unish writing, there's hardly a sound except a thrush and several sparrows telling me it's a ne une morning.
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FILM STAR BREAKS 3 RIBS
Film actor George Raft broke three ribs and bruised his stomach in a fall from a 30ft. pole while playing the role of a power lines- man in a rainstorm-Reuter.
OLDEST CHORISTER
KILLED
Mr. John Nutting,
86, former- ly headmaster of Munster Road School, Fulham, S.W., killed dur- ing a recent air raid on London, had been a chorister for seventy- five years and was believed to have been the oldest in Britain..
MOVE TROOPS FOR RACING
have
Pioneers and Infantry been temporarily removed from their quarters to permit racing during the summer, stated the Financial Secretary, War Office.
“JOHN DEARI DO WISH. YOU KNEW HOW NERVY AND "TIRED I FEEL": THESE DAYS:
I KNOW DARLING,EY REASE FOROIVE ME: FOR ACTING LIKE A
·BRÜTE, BUT YOU ARE HOT YOUR OLD SELFE BETTER SEE A DOCTORS
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