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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 8, 1941.
HOW PLYMOUTH DEALT WITH BLITZ
YOU HAVE PROBABLY all seen pictures of bombed Plymouth. Certainly everyone has read stories of the seven days during which that city had to endure a super blitzkrieg as severe as any city in England has been subjected to by the Nazis.
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I want to tell you more than this: I want to tell you how Plymouth "Took it." How the people en- dured the ordeal, how they refused to regard the destruction of so much of their city and the killing of so many of their fellows as a beating in any sense
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SAW SEE?
"Rain before seven, shepherd's pie by eleven - old saw, Hawkina."
"I, Sir. Old sam, Sir.”
"And here in a new saw, Hawkina. Hose's before bed, no ache in the head.
Very clever, Sir. Very apt indeed. You should send it in to come of these advertising people, I understand they pay very handsomely for such — — `slogans.**
"Yes, Hawkins. I believe I have a sort of flair for that sort of thing. It
Just comes to me in my bath.”
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Plymouth is the city of Sir Francis Drake and in her latest ordeal showed the inherited spirit of defiance and attack that is traditional in the birthplace of that great Englishman.
Plymouth is not very large, the population at most is a little over Two hundred thousand, including Devonport. The only industry is the Docks and otherwise it is al wide clean residential place.
nights they came, but the work and the organisation
went an
IN BED
WITH BOMB
Half-waking early in the morning, Mr. John Farrell, an East Coast town detective, be-
came
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pleasing feeling of warmth in his feet. But it soon became too warm to be com- fortable. Jumping out of bed he found an incendiary bomb burn- ing there.
was perfected. Lady Astor took on the job of evacuating the children and find- Ing them homes. She telephoned to literally hundreds of people,,000000000 found the homes and delivered
the children safe and sound. BLIND HE
The Best Tonic
IS BEST WARDEN
Blind Charley Biggs, 37,
For the rest of the inhabitants Down in the town there were twenty-five ancient churches in- there was no question of evacua- cluding the famous fourteenth tion, but all big buildings which as hospitals or century Church of St. Andrews were not in use where Katharine of Aragon re-feeding centres were made into turned thanks for a safe return rest centres which are open all from Spain and where Sir Francis night. Anyone whose houses was Drake was welcomed back from hit or who was at all shaken in p Nombre de Dios.
raid could go into one of these is the best A.R.P. warden shelters where there would be in the village of Tunley, lot of other people to mix with and talk to, the best tonic for up-near Bath, because, as he in the experience of puts it, he has had
Five Times In
One Week
At the edge of the sea is the Great Plateau called the Hoe where stood the statue of Drake and below, still untouched, the Tablet commemorating the de- parture of the Pilgrim Fathers from England to the New World in 1620.
You can imagine what hap- pened to these monuments of Plymouth's greatness when two hundred Nazi bombera cach carrying a thousand pounds of
set nerves the people of Plymouth.
Getting together, giving each twenty-three years' ex- other courage and showing perience of the black-out. their definance of anything the He lost his sight in an accident enemy could do to them, was at the age of 14. But he can find the way the people of Ply. his way anywhere without grop- mouth met the blitzkrieg.
One night Lord Astor got d Military Band to play on the Hoe and everyone came up to listen
and to dance.
Magnificent Challenge
explosives flow over the city!
There was a group of Weishmen and rained down their death there and Astor got them to sing: and destruction. This happen- ¦ one of them had written a song ed not once but five times in that afternoon and they sent thel a week. After the first raid the town was set on fire, but the flames were got under control by the firemen plping water from the reservoir constructed in the six- teenth century by Drake.
An Inferno
The next night the raiders came back and again the night) following that
pouring down thousands of incendiary bombs which made an inferno of the town. Twenty three of the old churches were ruins, hospitals were burned. St. Andrews with its memories of the part was a smoking shell. Everywhere were the killed the dying and wounded.
the
voices over the sea in a magni- ficient gesture of challenge to the enemy whose worst blows had been taken with a smile. Here is a typical verse:-
We'll be coming back to Ply-
mouth by-and-by, When old Adolf's in the sweet
by-and-by, When we've made a mess of
Goering and Goebbels is in mourning.
ing.
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"We fire-watch in pairs," he told the "Daily Mirror". "And they like having me because can phone. in the dark a lot quicker than a man who can see.
"I have lived in this village nearly all my life and I can find my way immediately to any - body's house.
Gave Fire Alarm
When the village institule-
playing the where he had been drums at a dance an hour before -caught Are Charley was roused by his wife.
Within a few seconds he had dashed through the street to telephone the brigade.
"As I was running to fetch the secretary of the institute," Charley "I pass- told the "Daily Mirror." ed a man who had started long I was ten minutes in giving the
We'll be coming back to Ply-
mouth by-and-by. We'll cheer our Winston Chur-before I did.
he before everyone chill by-and-by, when makes our skies more clear alarm." by-and-by,
We will welcome Franklin Roose-
velt and thank him for his help to smash the blinkin” Nazis from the sky. But the citizens of Plymouth Thousands danced and thou- were not daunted by this ter- sands aang until it grew dark. rible experience. Their weapons They knew the raiders would were the intangible weapons of come back, as indeed they did, but courage, strength and ingenuity and with weapons they started
to fight back. The first problem was food and the Mayor of Plymouth, Lord As- tor, commandeered schools and
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"HUNCH" GOT HUN
neither bombs nor the fear of Feeling lonely after bombs affected their spirits or their squadron had left for an Atlantic patrol, a wing commander and a
their determination,
"Fight On"
public halls; any buildings in fact The skies of Britain are more squadron-leader had a large enough that had escaped clear now. We read of one aero hunch to "pop out and destruction. as feeding centres. plane coming over the coast and
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That "hunch" saved a British
Thirty centres were immediately nights without raids; but the peo-join the boys.' established and the emergency ple of Plymouth and other towns rations that every town has avail- in Britain have not forgotten ship from attack and cost Ger- able safely hidden away, were what happened once and what many & Heinkel 111. brought in. These consist of milk. may happen again.
Flying an old Hudson used corned beef and tongue soup, and Plymouth has her traditions and chiefly for training, they saw other tinned goods of various she had her monuments to the large British ship twisting to avoid sorts. Cooks. volunteered and glories which made those tradi-attack. everyone had enough, to eat.
Soon afterwards. came from London some of the mobile, can- teens that Americans have 50 generously sent in large quanti- ties to England, also steam ranges and stoves which were set up at different places outside the town. The Minister of Food; Lord Wool- ton,, rushed supplies, to Plymouth and soon there were enough re- gülar supplies, to make emergency rationing unnecessary, Food was cooked at these points outside the town, put into containers' able keep it hot for two hours, and rushed to various centres where I was needed. Anyone who could A Bit. Welsh Guardsman was BABY VANISHED FOR
SABDAYE pay gave eightpence, or, a lift among successful applicants at over two dollars Mex. for a meal Bow County Court for money held of which a typical example wou'd under the Workmen's' Compenso Hilda Rooney, 3 weeks old, who Zewna tälten from her parambulator be vegetable: Boup, beef stew, rice tion Act pudding, bread and tea or coffre. He told the Judge that since outside a Liverpool store one after
During the time, that these his accident he had been called noon, was found unharmed on the emergency arrangemen's were up, and he liked Army life so doorstep of a public-house in being organised Plymouth was much that he had decided to re- Whitechapel. Liverpool, after being
Imissing for thirty hours. utils-being "blitzed;" Tires more] main 'after the war,
tlons. The monuments have been Soon they spotted a Heinkel shattered, but they will be re- 111: manoeuvring for fa
run': paired; in the meantime they re up to, bomb; › member that when the roll of Unseen, they came up behind Drake's Drum is heard as it was on the German machine. At 150 the first night of the "Blitz," it is yards the gunner pressed the but- a signal to them to "fight on." ton, and the effery, with its, star- Other towns have their own | board engine on fire, crashed into traditions, but one and all give the sea.... "the" message "fight on.
LIKES ARMY IS GOING TO STAY
Seen anything? they asked the others of their squadron avhen they.. got home.
the reply.
was