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HELL & HORROR HITLER FAILS TO CRACK MORALE OF
LONDONERS
LONDON, Sept. 12-Five nights of horror and five days of hell have neither reduced London to a shambles nor cracked the morale of LondonETE.
..
I have seen women and children with cuts and other injuries come out from blasted buildings and shelters, and their only reac Hon has been to curse Adolf Hitler
CAME THE DAWN
The only complaint I heard was whistling bombs soon made me fee from "one woman who declared,, to the relative tranquility of the "we have had four nights of this outer bomb-stricken world. and we won't stay another single night. We have nowhere to go but would sooner star in the streets than this district." It
the Wis much-bombed West End.
BRITISH SUBMARINE OVERDUE
LONDON, Sept. 19 (Reuter)-The Admiralty announced yesterday that HM. Submarine Narwhal (Lt-Comdr, R. J. Burch) is over- due and must be considered lost. A sister-ship of the Grampus and Rorqual, both well-known in Hongkong, the Narwhal was bullt
and by Vickers-Armstrong
com-
At dawn yesterday when the last missioned in 1936: German raider had barely recross-Lt.-Comdr. Burch was formerly ed the channel after the bombing in command of the Parthian in of London. I gazed across the city Hongkong and was married to a
Russian lady. from the rooftop of a tall building.. There was little to show from such
SLIGHT DAMAGE Traveling through the ravaged districts, one does not always no- a vantage point that the world's WEATHER REPORT tice the terrifle damage wrought greatest capital had just under- by the German bombers because "gone the fourth night of the most the great majority of the buildings Intensive bombing which German Barometer, (at sea level), 29.95 Ins. are still whole or damaged only propagandists claimed would re- Temperature, 83 F.
Hongkong Royal Observatory
10 am, Sept. 19.
to the extent of broken windows duce it to the game shambles as Humidity. 75 per cent. and loose rooftiles,
Every so often there is a house gouged from a row, with its neigh- bors cracked and splintered. Every so often there is a side-street choked with debris or a fire-truck playing a hose on the embers of some blaze.
In one place I saw the towering wall of one big warehouse toppled precariously over the courtyard.. When it falls it will almost inevit ably smash more houses. Some. times there are little piles of belong-
Warsaw and Rotterdam.
The dome of St. Paul's Cathedral glistened from" the rays of the rising sun, Union Jacks fluttered bravelf at the four corners of the Tower of Doric London. The finted column of the London menu- ment-built to commemorate the great fire of London of 1666 still rose in the air, 202 feet high.
Intermittently in the early morn- ings on the sidewalk waiting to being, traffic rumbled across all of moved to a new home, somewhere "AS USUAL"
Looking at some of the scenes it was hard to understand how any-
one had any spirit left to face
days and especially mor nights of this sort of thing.
Incre
"
Yet one small merchant, whose glass and window- frames had been blasted oat of existence, had a cardboard sign: "Business as usual des- pite certain alteration to pre- mises."
London's famous bridges. Factory towers belched smoke,
MERELY SCRATCHED "
Wind Direction, E/S
Wind Force (Beaufort), 4. Temperature: maximum yesterday.
81 F.
Temperature: minimum last night,
79 F.
Rainfall for 24 bra: ending 10th
today, ll.
Total rainfall since January 1st,
112.44 ins. Against an average of, 74.34 ins. Sunset tonight, 6.23 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 6,11 a.m.
4 pm.. Sept. 19.
Barometer (at sea level). 29.89 Ins. Temperature, 83 F. Humidity, 74 per cent. Wind Direction. 5.
I knew from my own personal Maximum temperature, 85 F. observation that many areas of the Minimum temperature, 79 F. metropolis had been blasted by Rainfall, nil.
HONG KONG TIDE TABLE From 20 to 28 Sept. 1940
bombs, but this rooftop observation assured me that so far, London's mighty surface has been merely scratched. The city has been badly wounded, but only in sections. During a taxi tour, I sometimes travelled miles where there was not a sign of destruction.
4
HIGH WATER.
Month.
Date
In these miles of tranquil normal London, peace as it prevailed be Fri 20 fore war reigned, Children played
A flaming "broad-basket" fel Japan & San outside a liquor store in one Lott
don district, spreading burning oll along the gutter, but ghters
in the streets. Women gathered ab Sat. quickly put out.
the
flames. the stores. Passers-by exchanged although bonbs were still falling.
112h
Height.
Low WATER
Hong
Kong
Standard Time
Height,
27
Hong
Kong
Standard Tize.
b m.
fin.
h. m.
Mt. 10.
03-14
23.04
8 5
17 06
130
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11 05
54
05 56
128
Friday,
18th Oct.
23 27
8 8
17 97
3 4
Wednesday, 2nd Oct..
Saturday, Friday,
28th Sept. 11th Oct.
in adjoining streets. Two houses pleasantries. There was no horror in a nearby street were damelished in these districts. simultaneously by a direct hit, but: But I wondered what the forth- the families were safe in a shelter coming night would bring them, Tues 24
San
22
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12 37
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17,42
Mon. 23
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8 &
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four-story whether if I toured through here Wed. 25
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02 69 8 6
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Wednesday, 25th Sept. Friday,
4th Oct.
18 32 147
20 38
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Friday, Friday,
11th Oct. 18th Oct.
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