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LORD ROTHERMERE À
THE death of Lord Rother- mere removes from the world one of the most striking and re- markable figures in the history of journalism. Without the flamboyance of his brother, the late Lord Northcliffe, he made equally important contributions to the development of modern journalism, playing a particu- larly notable part in his early days in the successful produc- tion of "Answers" and other world popular Harmsworth periodicals. His was the finely imaginative, delicately poised business brain behind the
Harmsworth ventures, which, allied with the creative genius of his brother, turned almost everything they handled into
success.
While Lord Northeliffe was alive, Lord Rothermere identi fied himself comparatively little with their nowspapers, devoting practically the whole of his at- tention to the Harmsworth publications; nevörtheless, it was largely through him that the Harmsworths secured the "Times," and it was Rother- mere who produced the first fully illustrated Sunday news- paper in England-the "Sun- day Pictorial." Rothermere in fact, was tho first of the newspaper magnates as they are known to-day. His attempt to obtain a virtual monopoly of the leading daily newspapers from one end of England to the other, and the manner in which he was thwarted, constitutes one of the most dramatic chapters in the history of English newa-. paperdom,
The political campaigns carried on through his newspapers were founded on a thorough-going hatred of Social lom. At the same Ume he was a fair and scrupulously generous employer, and had the same sympathy towards the legitimate activities of the trade unions as had been shown by Northcliffe.
His writings were not marked by scholarship, but they were pleture- sque, vibrant, and compelling. He won a certain amount of respect and a great deal of popularity for his papers, and he will be remembered as a man who, through his Harmsworth magazines, probably did more than anybody else to bring to the home of the working man, a form, of popular education which is still capable of supplement- Ing and broadening the scholastic training - received in the", schools of England' to-day,
Bombs Over London
A WOMAN LOOKS FROM
Looks
HER BALCONY
In the calm light of morning, when London looks just like herself, it is difficult to realise that this is a city which has been subjected to intensive air bombardment.
Gay crowds surge through the streets, shop- ping is in full progress and there is not the slight- est sign of panic. In the small shops people are heard joking and passing the time of day, saying, "How did you get on last night?" or inviting one another to share their cellars or basements for the night.
Offices are running as usual. the big West End shops have their usual display of autumn tweeds and autumn fashions and everything is normal. Only the tired faces of people going to and from their work give some sign of the ordeal through which the city is passing, and in the evening. everyone hurries home before the nightly raids begin which last until dawn.
The night raids are very unpleasant. Intensive raiding began on September 7th, when more than 300 people were killed and the Germans lost. more than 100 aeroplanes. Each night rald has been dif- ferent from the Inst, but all have lasted 7 or 8 hours from start to finish, From my balcony on the fifth floor, the whole of London is spread at my feet, and the aeroplanes sound as if they are very near, though actually they are thousands of feet up.'
On Monday last, I watched -fascinated for periods all through the night. When bombs fall near, you hear them a long time before they arrive, it seems like 3 or 4 seconds, and if the scream or whistle grows louder, you
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By Janet Leeper
yards away. Sometimes the building rocked, which was rather alarming, like a mild earthquake.
I could see three huge firea that night, one near St. Paul's and two to the south-west, and it seemed as though no- thing could put them out, I actually saw the great flam- ing incendiary bomb fall that set a furniture store alight. It fell exactly behind a largo roof visible from my balcony. The whole place must ap- parently have gone up in flames, as this roof was im- mediately silhouetted against
flames as the bomb landed, You could hear the roar of the flames and the shouts and words of command of the fire- men as they struggled with the fire.
Yet an hour later, when I looked out at about 3 a.m., there was not even a red glow, so the Fire Brigade must have mastered it.
The fire near St. Paul's was at ane time so brilliant-for half a minute or so that every balloon in the sky was silhouetted dark against the pinkish glare reflected from the clouds. It was an awe- inspiring, apocalyptic sight. This fire burnt all night, but was out during the following day. Dozens of searchlights, looking for targets, mode criss-cross patterna in different parts of the sky. The serene beauty of the scene In a curly hours of the morning, the thin pointers of light against a starlit sky, with litle drifts of white cloud it up by moonlight, was unforgettable.
As I write, the noise from the guns is terrific. It is a new heavy barrage, heard for the first time on Wednesday. There are no searchlights to-night. There is so
not
much shrapnel bursting in the sky, yellow stars overhead, flashes from big and little guns, that it is very wise to look out, and occa- stonally there is a reminder of the fact in a rattle of shrapnel on tho. roof..
The roar of the guns, some of which bre very big and very near,- is positively encouraging and no-.. body minds this nearly so much as the beastly drone of the aeroplanes. Often it
It is only one, a kind of tiresome super-mosquito, cruising round, and round and dropping. disgusting cegs at intervals, when
.
sounds. The whole thing is like u. monstrous firework display com- bined with a thunderstorm.
The crater clearing squad slows up for a minuto as Their Major- ties inspect the bomb wreckage': in Buckingham Palace grounds after a recent raid.
De Gaulle's Men Help Show Girls
By RITCHIE CALDER
London is absolutely calm amid all these exeltements. Everyone in
Show girls bombed out of amazingly stoical, no sign of panic theatrical boarding houses anywhere, least of all among the and clubs, have been victims poorest familles, many of whom have lost their homes. After a
of the neglect of the home. daylight raid there is
less. rush on the Undergrounds, much as it is after a football matchs. During the day- light raids, many buses run as usual, and no one-sooms-to-take- caver unless the 'planes con actual- ly be heard overhead.
Occasionally machine-gunning is heard and then it means an air- baltie is in progress, but I have only once seen an enemy 'plane, n tiny, tiny speck with cotton-woo! puffs near it, going in and out of the clouds. Some of the small shops close, and one has to be alppy getting, the shopping done between warnings.
effect on the
There are so many that one quite loses count, about four, five, six or seven a day. They really have very little population except as a nuisance, I have, for instance, more than once started out after the warning has gone and found the Under- ground working normally.
All the transport, officials are Inost courteous and considerate and ready to help everybody to find their way, for many routes are diverted or curtailed. This is of the time bombs which of streets being railed off until the bombs have exploded. One went off this morning, not for away with á shuttering explosion. After work, groups of sightseers go to see the damage done on their way home.
tenure whole blocka
The casualties, considering the number of bombs dropped, are very low: this is because the popu lation has learnt to take cover,
We have a shelter in the build- ing here and everyone goes down now for the night, sleeping in chairs or on mattresses. There is a new neighbourliness, ก new friendliness, and a determination not go, be rnguled by
by anything that may happen. Bombs fal #21
round us and we laugh and chatter
In spite of it. And this is true of
This time it was not the East End, but Central Lon- don, where lack of facilities. surely cannot be the excuse."
Badly shaken by the bombs, which had wrecked the houses and imprisoned many of them in shelters from which they had to be rescued, they found themselves helpless.
Shelters Full
of
The raid was still on, but the neighbouring shelters were full.
No one Intervened to help them until French soldiers
De- Goulle's Army
come to their rescue,
They
found
them temporary shelter in their club.
Every kindness was shown them by the Frenchmen, but presently hey were ordered to get out be cause there was danger of this house itself becoming unsafe..
Aguin the girls had to go out into the raid. Again there was no prospect of shelter. Agala Piero was no organised effort to help. thern,
In Museum.
Finally, they found sanctuary. among the specimens in a museum, which was thrown open to them. out of compassion.
After the rald they had to find food. ns best they could.
During the same bombardment people escaping from bomba in a crowded North London district tried to get refuge in the well-pro- lected and equipped shelter of a big firm.
During the day this shelter accommodates comfortably about 5,000 workers, but it was barred to people seeking shelter from the night bomber's
How Deaf Man Made Fortune
Ellis P. White, a Glasgow Jew, every section of the population, is deaf. He wears a deaf-ald
appliance which uses up battery a day.
But while some theatres and restaurants with deep shelters have managed to keep open, most places of entertainment have closed. An: enquiry at the Queen's Hall about the abandoned Promenade Con corts elicited the characteristic reply: "We hope to resume the concerts next week and to give this week's
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To Mr. White this seemed waste- ful. He therefore decided to start an industry which nennt collecting old torch and wireless batteries;
Now his London factory is turning out materials for cartridge
wads, brass buttons for uniforme, copper
know it is coming nearer, it feels inclined. The eggs' whistle S. of the o programmes at the end for shells, carbon for the steel of
Many fell in the streets on either sido a few hundred
as they arrive, or burst in mid-air like huge fireworks with swishing
www sa bayonets, graphite for soldiers boot That is the spirit with which black; zinc for, camp Luterale, and/ London carries on.
plích" for Army, tarpaulina, sva
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