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IMPRESSIONS OF

UMBING ATTACK

MR. ALLAN TODD, former M.P., who is now an air raid warden in the Midlands, broadcast last night| a few of his impressions of the recent raids on that area, raids which have brought residents there their first real taste of bombing from the air.

It would not have surprised him, he said, had he had to announce that the damage done has been very great, because the Midlands-are very large in- dustrial areas which, one would think, made an easy target for the enemy.

As a matter of fact, the dam-, lage has been extremely small

In one town, a famous

hall has been destruyen, and INJUNCTION

there has been a certain amount of damage to houses and, in one or two cases, to factories as well. The really big thing about the raids has been the noise, noise caused not only by falling bombs. but also by the roar of the very effective anti-aircraft batteries) which put up a tremendous bar- rage in this area:

There have been a certain num-

MOTION

DISMISSED

Describing. proceedings ber of fires from incendiary bombs in the Supreme Court this and in the dark of the night these morning as bad from be sometimes seem to be very big!

ones, but an examination of the gining: to end, the Chief actual damage the next day shows Justice, Sir Atholl Mac-|

that it was actually quite trifling. Gregor, dismissed a mo-|

Delayed Action tion by Mr. Percy Chen,

action bombs, which do not ex- da Silva, for contempt of There have also been delayed- instructed by Mr. M. A. plode for some time after being

obtained in

dropped. A few of these have an injunction been dropped and have exploded, Chambers on August 2 but thanks to the extremely effi

cient methods of dealing with by Wong Chung-oi. and

most

surprising Wong Siu-kan.

SHOT DEAD

IN SHANGHAI

(SPECIAL: TO "CHINA-MAIL")

In Shanghai yester- day a lone gunman seriously wounded Fong Chih-ching; for merly connected with the French paper, "Journal de Shang-

hai

the

The assassin. was following his victim along an important thoroughfare in French Concession,

Moret, Chief of thei French Special Police, and Sergeant Pierre chased and killed the gunman.-Havas.

RAID

SAFETY-..

UPSTAIRS DOWN

Housewives are turning:

tham, hardly any damage has Wong Pak - hee against their homes “upside- been done..

down" because of the new1- Perhaps the feature has been the smallness of The injunction restrained Wong "no sirens to be sounded the casualties. One would imagine Shi-kan from interfering with unless real danger is that in a highly industrialised and intermeddling in, and col-

area hundreds would be killed lecting and possessing; of further threatened" order. Bed- when the bombs fell, particularly money payable to the Wong Wal

areas.

This has not been. so.

Business As Usual .

the

land..

ME The Ministry of Home Secur

in the bad streets and the poorer Tsak. Tong, of Cheung Chau is rooms are being, switched to the ground floor or There

Defendant was also ordered to basement, and · living÷. have been very few casualties hand over the chops of the Tong and this is largely due to excellence of the shelter proTong to first plaintiff.

and books and documents of the rooms and dining-rooms

are going upstairs. tection provided and the fact

Applying for a motion of con- that the publio have carried. out the advice given them to tempt of the injunction, take shelter whenever hostile Percy Chen, presented an affida it encourages this new precau

vit alleging that defendant, did. tion. planes are about,~

not. comply with the contents of "Many casualtics could be. avoided if everyone took: the the injunction....

Mr. Eldon Potter, instructed trouble to move into their down--

and by Mr. Peter H. Sin, appeared stairs rooms for sleeping,

kept the upstairs; ones for the In a large number of cases for defendant.

Mr. Potter submitted that there daytime," a Ministry official told where houses were destroyed; their owners were not harmed was no endorsement on the ins a reporter.

This upside-down precaution because they were in their shelt-junction of defendant having:r

ceived the warning. There was is especially good where there ers when the bombs dropped.

Mr. Todd said that he had often no, allegation, in: the affidavit, are; elderly people or small chil- wondered what would be the produced by Mr. Chen and filed dren living "But everyone that should do it," says the Ministry effect of bombing, when it did in support of the motion,

Mrs Alice Pemberton, who is start; on..the people of the Mid- the memorandum was endorsed: lands. In point of fact, they Therefore, there was: no evidence aged eighty-four and has lived seem to

go about: their work that the memoradum-was served in the West End-of-London-since she was a child, refused to be on defendant. exactly, as they did before.

The motion was dismissed Levacuated on the outbreak... of The only noticeable. reaction is

war and is one of the hundreds the extreme anger- always ex-with costs for defendant,

to move: to: the floor below.. pressed against Hitler and his). cronies, when they disturb people so often in the middle of the night!

As Mr. Todd's old gardner put, It: "He's getting a bit of a| botberl!

The raids so far have had little or no effect on the ordinary lives of: the people, Mr: Todd .conclud- ed, and it will take a. great deal more than this to have the slight-

AN-IMPORTANT PRECEDENT

“I'm Staying-Here"!

sho

"No: German is going to get me to: leave my home," cald. "I lived here through the fast war and I am going to live-here- through this one. "It's funny sleeping down- stairs, but I can't get about... as

Reuter's diplomatic correspon-quick as I used to, and I

am

est effect on the Midlands. Reu-dent learned yesterday that new near the shelter here. Expect [ter.

BANK DIRECTOR HEAVILY FINED

developments in America's de-I'll get used to it."

fence as indicated by the forma-A young Tottenham, wife: said: tion of the United States-Canadian. The children are getting a great Board

is being sympathetically deal of pleasure from our new

sleeping,, arrangements. followed in.London where it is re-

garded as a precedent which will

"They, sleep. In what used... to

the

her

be followed increasingly not only be the dining-roomm. and In the relations between the Unit-youngest Insists on making ed States and Canada but in those bed under: the table," between the United States.. and Britain..

NATHAN ROAD:

MOTOR MISHAR

Leon Pandeli Argenti, former! The formation of the Defence director of a merchant bank, the Board is considered to be a de- name of which has been kept velopment which inny have re- accret; was fined £15,000 at Bowmarkable results on the economy Streete police court yesterday for of the British Empire. Thisi de- failings to offer for sale to the velopment was assisted consider A nine-year-old boy, Yeung Treasury two gold burs, worth ably by, the British Prime Mine Yuk-pui was treated at the Kow £6,400, 400 sovereigns and 2,000 ter's spontaneous offer to Ameriloon Hospital.. for slight injuries Swiss francs, Reuter..

ca for bases in British possessions sustained when knocked down' by in the Western Hemisphere. Reuter.

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Chr No. 5181 in Nathan Road near the Mongkok: Police Station,: yes- terday. The car: was driven by Mr. G. S. Rutherford.

President Roosevelt yesterday] bignod legislation authorising him In Washington: yesterday, Pres. A number of grease caps were to call out 300,000. members of the dent Roosevelt signed the Bill au- stolen from the, Hong Kong Elec National Guard and Army Re-thorising American vessels to en-tric Company Power Station, serves for 12 months' active duty, ter the European combat zone to North Point, during Tuesday

inight. -Reuter.

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