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LONDON BOMBING

South Coast Towns Badly Damaged

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MONËSEY, JULY 1, 1940.

ORDERS OF THE COMMANDANT

THE GERMAN FORCES

IN OCCUPATION OF THE

ISLAND OF GUERNSEY

The front page of a Channel Islands newspaper. Never be. fore has a British paper had to carry this headline. But then they had to give it away!

FREAK EFFECTS OF BOMBINGS IN LONDON

WIDESPREAD DAMAGE IN INDISCRIMINATE BOMBING OF PORTSMOUTH, HAVOC IN CERTAIN AREAS IN RAMSGATE AND |DOVER, AND THE ROPING OFF OF A LARGE AREA IN LONDON WHERE RAIDERS HAD DROPPED HIGH EXPLOSIVES, WERE FEA- TURES OF THE WEEK-END AIR RAIDS ON ENGLAND.

Several were killed when a bomb hit a Portsmouth cinema during a performance.

| Whole rows of seaside villas were demolished

in Ramsgate.

In a single attack upon a Dorset town, German raiders lost 24 machines in a furious battle. It is fairly certain that German losses during Saturday and Sunday, when finally checked up, will prove to be well in excess of 100 'planes.

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There was only a small dience at the Portsmouth cinema which was hit but several peo ple, including two women and a child, were killed.

THERE IS EVERY indication that Saturday's week-end London raid was a dismal failure.

The inhabitants of one thickly populated area where a number of fires started, remain unshaken by the experience, and their reaction is one of anger against Hitler rather than fear.

ESCAPE FROM

DEVIL'S IS.

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

LONDON'S FOURTH AIR

RAID ALARM

London had t s fourth air raid warn- ing in two days-when the sirens wailed

again last night. 108 INCHES The hum of planes

OF RAIN

.

The streats were filled with

shoppers when large force of bombers escorted THE DOWNPOUR by fighters appeared

EARLY flying THIS MORNING: PRODUCED' very high..

ANOTHER 1.56 The few

INCHES OF got RAIN, MAKING THE YEAR'S

raiders that

through encountered intense anti- TOTAL 108.03 INCHES, OR 42.90 aircraft fire and, splitting into ABOVE NORMAL. small formations, dropped bombs indiscriminately, mostly on shop- 300 miles south-west

The typhoon is situated about! The outlook is typified by the ping and residential districts:

of Tokyo comment to Reuter of a middle-

moving east-north-east; In addition to the

another olnema, typhoon is situated in the Pacific aged woman who remarked: "It bombs fell on, a

recreation to the north of Yap, and is pro- will take more than Hitler to ground, a golf course, the shop-bably moving west-north-west. frighten us. His fire bombs leave ping centre, a bandstand, allot- us cold.

A weak He can come as often as ments, and a hotel.

anticyclone covers he likes but we

North China: shall not get afraid of him."

Bursting bombs caused some peculiar freak effects.

Father Hero

One of the heroes of the raid was a man who was found bend- For instance, parts of a mo-ing over his son supporting the torcar were seen hanging fes- wreckage of the basement on his tooned in trees.

Risking the danger of falling Incendiary bombs, four men

Nearly. 5,000 convicts in dashed from shelter to tackle a

France's famous prison ten feet and fought the

fire in a works. They climbed

island are facing starvation, ac-

- Devil's Island

cording to eight fugitives

flames! with sand until the fire-brigade} arrived,

Incendiary Bombs

shoulders.

During a tour of the damaged arga, the Lord Mayor of Ports- mouth saw a woman outaldo her demolished house: triumph- antly holding up a dish of meat she had saved the Sunday joint. At Ramsgate, whole rows of seaside villas

demolished and many people rendered home- less but casualties were com-

who have just reached Six hundred residents of two paratively few.

were

Florida, in a 30-foot sloop. and shortly afterwards a number returned to machine-gun

blocks of flats went to shelters After the bombing the raiders

casualty

fire-

The fugitives want to go to of incendiary bombs fell outside men dealing with an outbreak Europe and join the fight against the flats and some at the entrance of fire at the gasworks, '. Germany.

to an occupied shelter. The guards at Devil's Island Striking feature of the raid was have not been paid; they state, the fact that only one

Square Roped Off They don't care who escapes. No was caused in this thickly po-| ships have called there with food pulated district, He was a war-excluded from the area damaged The public has been strictly and medicine for a long time, den who suffered a burnt hand in the night raid on London: Conditions are very bad and while helping to deal with incen- much worse than anyone could diary bombs. belleve..

Leador of the party, is a 47-

MAN largo equara, has been! [roped: off and buses: · word: diverted; oven tenants of: búel- nose premises in the vicinity. had to secure- police "permits boing to visit them. GR

peaceful except for the incessant! They sailed straight from Porto ringing of a number of burglar; Rico to Miami, going for three alarms which were set off They did not learn until August days without food. They,

by 4, when they reached Porto. Rico being detained in Miami until it Comparatively few sightseers are the force of nearby explosions. that France had surrendered is decided what is to be done tried to visit the scene. They also found out, however, with them-Havas,

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year old Breton saltor who that a French Army is served in the Great. War, while formed in England and they want: The whole atmosphere was another naval veteran in his to go across and join it. second In.command.

could be heard in the outskirts.

Search-

lights swept the sky and people in the

streets heard the- sound of gunfire. Reuter.

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winds, fresh; cloudy, showery, probably Improving.

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