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THE, CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 3, 1940

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With Raid Damage Observer

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He lives some 10 miles from one of the most extensive Indus- trial areas. What have the Ger- man bombs done there?

There were a te sporadic

REPORTS FROM all parts of Britains two or three weeks ago but

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it is only in the past two or have really tried to attack the been to residential areas. really amazing how far away the

three days that the Germans

Jarca. Most of the damage has It, is

bombs have fallen from anything (which · might be considered a

military objective.

Nowhere Near

showing exactly how much the Germans have actually managed to achieve in the way of George SANDERS Margaret LINDSAY| damage during their raids were presented in

special broadcast from London yesterday.

The unnamed compere, a Canadian or an American, mentioned the heavy losses the Luftwaffe has sustained. There are few im- portant places in Britain the raiders have not ties in the past visited some places have been raided 100 times and the one question is:-How much damage has Hitler done in return for the 1,000 'planes he has lost?

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There have been some casual- few days, and many have been children.

The wrecking of houses has been serious enough; but the total amount of damage: Is negligible and the loss of life small. He doubted whether the total death-roll was as much as that caused by. hollday traffic in a normal week-end.

No names or actual clues are over 100 raids since France: col- given, the

compere pointed out. lapsed. Night and day. the Nazi They would like to give the names bombers cross — or try to cross During the worse raid, when of every town, street and factory)— our coastal defences from their bombers came over in waves and

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or loss of life but the enemy day they draw opposition of the raid warden, knocked on the door would also like precise details. kind they obviously don't like... and called out: -- "All right there? People in London who study. But although they have done Take cover from anti-aircraft the German statements side by some damage, the great majority shrapnel. Cheerio!" side with our own secret reports of their high-explosive and in- The Germans have not got any- know from this study how much cendiary bombs have exploded where near any military objec- the Germans would like this pre-harmlessly in fields, swamps and tives in this area. cise information. That is why no so on.

The compere added a footnote names are given.

Some lives have been lost, pen-that this observer did not live in The other day, for instance, the ple have been injured and homes the country. His "beat" of 60 Luftwaffe reported it had destroy-|destroyed, but the slight extent of miles includes plenty of first class ed the docks of Liverpool.

the damage is out of all propor-bombing targets shipyards, Asked for a statement about]tion to the large number of raids docks, factories and so on.. what damage had been done, the by the enemy.

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Ministry of Home Security sald:--! It is unofficially estimated that

The claim is not based on know-up to the end of July 1,100 bombs: ledge."

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had been dropped on Wales on targets ranging from docks and Ifactories to farm-houses and

hay-ricks..

The Ministry pointed out that the German claim might be in- tended to, help the Nazis in two ways propaganda value or to! provoke the British into giving de-. Rails about the damage done.

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Naturally some bombs were bound to find their targets, but "elther Wales has been lucky]

Police Chart

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The fourth survey, is by BBC' man who is in a coastal àrea of England and has had much help from the police and other authorities in making out his.report-

A police inspector, he said, er Papa Goering neada:to give showed him a huge chart which tils pilots some bombing. prac-has been kept up to date. since ticel"

last December; and which shows where the raids have been, where Jombs were dropped, and so on. The chart- looked shocking.

Houses Hit

If the truth was told, the Ger- mans might adjust their strategy accordingly and bomb another port. If they did not tell the Two nights ago, German bomb. They set off to see for them- truth, they would be merely in-ers were over docks and fac-selves. Heavy raids had been viting the Germans to comet with violent anti-aircraft op- but the Germans will have to try to come, and tories in South-West Wales. They made on shipyards and docks-

So, no names are given in these position, and their high-explosive again. The nearest bomb. fell accounts, which are all by mensbombs caused no damage of mill-one and a half miles away! who know their respective areas tory: significance..

Industrial plants were not even intimately, and in each case, the Que or

two houses were hit scratched. A few houses - were men asked to make the reports and the rest fell across.... open wrecked. were the men best qualified to ground. That incident seems to The most damaged part was know.

ibe a general. indication of what badly wrecked. The greater part The first, a report on the the Nazis, with their hit and run of a block of five streets was Midlands, comes from a man tactics, are doing in Wales. damaged, with hardly a single employed with the Ministry of The third report, from an in: house habitable--but these houses Information whose job it is to dustrial area in the north-west were practically slum property. check reports and stories— of England, is also by a news- In this attack, there were only

paper man who has lived two deaths. there for a long time--

In Midlands

A friend telephoned him the other day, he began, and asked. him if he was all right. His reply] was that he travelled through the Midlands area five miles or mora daily, and had visited, the parts: that had suffered the most. damage on that particular occasion his. friend was

The asking about. streets are not shut off and he never had to make a detour.

The damage he had seen, con- sisted of: A block of three houses shattered by a bomb, with 20 or! 30 houses bearing scacs in the shape of splinters; 100 yards away, a shop gutted by an incendiary homb.

That was all.

From his office window, he can sce the open roof of a factory, ind production was halted there temporarily. They are getting on with the job. ⠀⠀

Two miles off his normal route he found six battered houses, but), no more factories damaged. There are some, of course, but they re-i. present only the smallest fraction of that area's industrial activity, and he has a letter, on: his des written by a nightworker to a local newspaper in which he says.

Neto, hell with the sirens! Are Sowd-night-workers; going, "to be. herded into shelters overy timö Jerry.comas over?". Let's carry man with; full-time production?! That concluded this report, und, as the compere pointed out-You get a pretty good idea:from' that lofter what the Midlands-thinit of the air raids!!!

100 Raids On Wales

"The "nóxt,report: le by a com portar on the "Western- Mal," Which is issued in Cardiff; but Ccovers the whole of Wales:

Unofficial: estimates," said the reporter.ard that Wales has had

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