THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 9, 1941
Berlin Aflame In Bright Moonlight
A PICTURE OF BERLIN AFLAME IN MOONLIGHT SO BRIGHT THAT STREETS AND CROSSINGS COULD BE SEEN FROM THE AIR WAS GIVEN BY THE CREWS OF BRI- TISH BOMBERS WHICH ATTACKED THE GERMAN CAPITAL ON SUNDAY NIGHT.
One pilot described how he saw bombs burst in the middle of the city and start fires. "There were flashes all round,” he said, “and buildings were lit up or silhouetted against the glare.“
According to the Air Ministry News Service, crews coming in from the West saw the first chain] of lakes bright in the moonlight and then the River Spree and the streets of Berlin.
Over much of the chemy country we were flying at about 5,000 feet and had to pass through a large belt of search. lights, Later we had to como down even lower."
Eventually after the crew had
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Bill.
"You could see the streets and jettisoned everything possible, the 0000 street-crossings," said one gun-bomber landed at the first
drome after crossing the English
ner.
"You could easily identify the bigger buildings. It was so bright that you
could even make out traffic moving along some streets. I expect most of it was fire-en- gines. Soon raging fires made even beiter landmarks as the bombers came in thick and fast.
"Buildings and streets away from the fires were glowing red in the light of dames."
A Battle Scene
A rear-gunner told of a battle between a twin-engined British bomber and a German fighter. "We spotted the bomber caught in; the searchlights," he said, "it was on its way back. Then we saw the fighter with its tracer bullets going into the cone of the search- lights from the darkness outside. "Then the fighter dived down in dames. We saw it hit the ground and blow up. Last we saw of the bomber it was going on with ons engine on fire, flying straight and level. I hope the crew made it."
"We flew right over the city," said an observer. “Flak was there but we have been shot at worse in other places.
"One of the new high explo- sive bombs went off as we were going in and another
29 were
off with a terrific red flash
aero-
coast-with very little petrol to
spare
The bomber was pierced with shapnel holes and the dinghy was shot away.
MORE JUVENILE
Good Night OFFENDERS
The observer of a Wellington who has been on 42 raids had very different story to te'l describ- ing it as "one of the best nights
I ever had."
He added: "You could see
A 41 per cent. increase in the number of children under 14 found guilty of
everything perfectly and we had indictable offences during we the first year of the war
no troublo with fighters. went straight in and found what WO were looking for and came straight out.
is disclosed in a circular You couldn't ask issued by the Home Office for anything better than that." and the Board of Educa- with 12 holes in the fuselage and tion. wings. The rear-turret controls
Another Wellington came home
were cut by flak one turret door. Mr. Herbert Morrison, Home was shot off and the rear-gunner's Secretury, and Mr. H. Ramsboth- parachute harness and life-savingjam, President of the Board of sult, tunic and shorts were torn Education, state in an introduc- by shell splinters.-Reuter.
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MINES KILL
COUPLE
A woman failed to hear
coming out. Both of them went a soldier's warning after which seemed to hang in the air a military land mine had for a few seconds."
The navigator said that when his own new bamb went off. "Everything went up. After that we cane out very calmly peacefully. Nobody took notice of us at all."
Immense Fire
and
alty
Many crews asked whether the Russians were over Berlin as well. "We should like to meet them there," said one pilót. "I went in from the East so the Germans may have thought was Ruslan;
I hope they did. Any way Ber
killed her man friend.
measures
tion to the circular that the off- ences are mainly those of steal- ing and looting. ·
**Suitable
must be taken to secure the future wel fare of these young people," they add, "and to save them from the rish of entering a criminal car- eer.'
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Preventive Measures
Giving advice based on
the re- commendations of a conference of magistrates, educationists and re- The soldier shouted to her to presentatives of Government de- stand still, but she walked on,partments, police and voluntary touched off another mine, and organisations, the circular urges: was killed.
Stricter enforcement of school They were Sidney Dale, 28, a attendance, closer supervision of hairdresser, whose address was conditions of employment of stated to be Broadley-terrace, school-children and more compre- Marylebone, London, and Sophie hensive organisation for employ- Naomi Rosenthal, 24, an evacuee ment of leisure as preventive living in the West of England
measures. › where the accident occurred.
Ration Book Found
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Extended use of the "probation machinery and increased: provi sion of remand homes by local At the inquest the jury return-authorities as the principal mea lin was under such heavy fire that ed a verdict of Death from mis-sures for treatment of offenders.
adventure and asked that the. The need for younger magis- the Germans may well have notice of the military authorities trates in the juvenile courts is thought there were two air forces be drawn to the matter in an emphasised. "In petty sessional going for them."
effort to prevent any further divisions where difficulty arises. Reports from many other similar occurrences. stations give a more general pic- ture of the success of the attacks book and identity card of the man sentations should be made with- A police officers said the ration from the absence of younger jus- tices," the circular states: “repre- There was an immense fire near were found, but nothing belong-out delay to the Lord Chancel the Alexanderplatz, smoke from which stretched miles to the Easting, to the woman
Private Ernest Joseph Glover, Bombs were seen to hit buildings a soldier on leave, said that the factories; warehouses and rail-
young woman appeared as the
groups of
lor."
It is stated that there has been a substantial increase in the num ber of boys under 17 sent to
ments:
way yards. One crew reported
50 small fires send smoke of the first explosion clear ing up a column of smoke stay still, but she could not have prison. - and the circuilar z
ed away... He shouted to, her to
several thousand feet hight An- heard him, other crew" reported three large fires which they saw for 25 min utes after leaving the city and even then they were lost sight of be- cause of a cloud. “Nor
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There were fires in all parts of AND HEAD
the city, in the industrial suburbs
as well as in the centre.
Five Fighters
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crews had to face was gives by Al
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which avolded five enemy fight- self
ers on their way to Berlin Them
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It is feared that, finding re- mand homes full, some courts have been led to give the certifi cate required (by the Children and Young Persons Act, 1933) without sufficient reason and with- out realising the serious results their action may have for the boys concèrned.
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we were hit by flak, said 'a pilu blind ch fan' "but I went on and bombcd. Or Const
"I found that the port engine. One night a German bomber was rapidly getting hotter and to came over.
prevent its seizing, I stopped the Their home was wrecked, their engine". There seemed little cots buried under thy debris, and chance of making the long journey three of their nurses killed. home but we set a course and hop- Alf:asked what had happen ed' for the best.
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