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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 1, 1940.

SIDELIGHTS OF RAIDS ON BRITAIN

STRANGE THINGS, many unrecorded, are "happening_every day in air-raided Britain. Here are some of the minor events which show how the British civilian is dealing with war-time ” emer- gencies.

A Dornier, riddled with a spitfire's bullets, fled south over the Thames estuary. Suddenly its tail snapped off and the bomber crashed — in a field near some houses. When householders hurried over they found two of the crew badly injured, the other two unhurt..

They took the uninjured men to house and decided that they had better be separated. So one of

the Germans was invited to take bath. He accepted and was locked in the bathroom until sol- ciers arrived,

FUNNIEST

STORY

In south-east England a Naz FROM ROME

fighter landed in a freshly cut cornfield. Railwaymen working on the line went over and took the pilot prisoner.

But of course they had to get on with their own job. So they left the airman in the cornfield after taking away his boots and socks. The Nazi did not even to escape.

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Rural Council Solemnity

TO.

"IF THE BRITISH PEOPLE COULD EXPRESS THEIR VIEWS BY A PLEBISCITE, FROM SEVENTY-FIVE

EIGHTY PER CENT. WOULD ACCEPT THE HAND WHICH HITLER OFFERS," SAYS THE "POPOLO D'ITALIA,"

"If Britain were ruled by men of the calibre of Henry VIII, Cromwell, Pitt, Disraeli, or Glad- stone, she would accept the salva- tion offered by the Axis.

"Under the present regime the to

A meeting of the rural council was being held in a south-eastern district when raiders were report-English people are unable ed in the vicinity.

manifest their real feelings.

"The silence. of Lloyd George Solemnly the chairman rose and is an indication of his disappro- proposed: "That this meeting_do | val.“ adjourn to an air-raid shelter."

Solemnly a councillor rose: "I beg leave to second the motion."

Solemnly the councillors rais- ed their hands. The chairman declared the motion carried. And solemnly they walked to an air. rald shelter where the business of the meeting was continued.

Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Smith were walking through the streets of a -south-eastern town, when a raid began. They carried a jug and a saucer and they were going to their old home, destroyed by bombs a month ago. They went on walking during the raid because they were expected by Smuts, their cat.

British United Press.

\FOUND LOVE AT

A.R.P. TALKS.

Ann: Rutherford, takes ad- vantage of the studio gymnas. lum for a two-hour work-out before reporting to the set for her dance routines. Stretch- Ing on the bars keep muscles Grand Bupple and relaxed. exercise of

to help maintain poise and grace.

A.R.P. has brought about the marriage of Mr. Charles Ingman- Price, thirty-nine of Park Road, Twickenham, and

Miss Joan.] Hounsfield, twenty-seven, Richmond Hill Court, Richmond. They met at A.R.P. lectures. when they had passed their ex-

aminations they were sent to TOWN LOST

the same A.R.P. warden's post, where Mr. Ingman-Price became post warden and Miss Hounsfield became deputy post warden.

HALF ITS

SHOT HIS MAJOR, CHILDREN

GAOLED

A Pioneer Corps corporal, who

Although Mr. and Mrs. Smith

EASTEBOURNE. LOST HALF ⚫ have a new home, Smuts refuses was said to have nursed a grie-ITS CHILDREN WHEN FIVE

to leave the bricks and wood

his SPECIAL TRAINS TOOK 2,709 vance, gone on drinking till

where he always lived. They "molehills became mountains," OF THEM AWAY UNDER THE have tried everything to get him then shot and wounded his com- VOLUNTARY EVACUATION sway. Now they are resigned to manding officer, was sentenced at SCHEME faking the cat his food every day the Old Bailey to three years' The Mayor and Mayoress saw among the ruins of their own penal servitude.

them off, but parents were ex- cluded from the station.

The children were distributed Hitchin, Bal- between Bedford,

home.

He was Corporal Waller Ernest Dewberry, aged thirty-two, who Downed During Funeral was found guilty of wounding Ma-

jor Cyril Ernest Butler at Bore-dock, Bishops Stortford, Welwyn

Garden City and Watford.

Overhead on the south-eastham Wood. coast raged a terrific air battic. Below, а funeral procession wound its slow way to the come-' tery. Men in R.A.F: uniform carried the coffin. An R.A.F. chaplain conducted the service. Above one of the Nazl 'planes fell in back smoke. Below, the mourners lowered into its grave the body of a young German ...airman. brought down four days

earlier,

During the Ransom murder trial. at Tonbridge, Kent, raiders were reported:

L.D.V. TRAPS 3 NAZI AIRMEN

THREE GERMAN AIRMEN were captured by a

Local Defence volunteer when a Dornier bomber “Very inconsiderate people over- head" remarked Mr. G. R. Paling, was shot down by three R.A.F. fighters after a battle prosecuting counsel. With that the witness continued his evil-over south-west England. The LDV.'s son, an R.A.M.C. private, attended to the wounds of two of "the crew.

dence:

WOMAN. BECOMES

MAJOR✨

For the first time a woman doc- for is to hold senior Army rank, Dr. Ama Roaveloy Glover, of the RAMC has been appointed De puty Assistant Director of Medical Services for, the A.T.S. Eastern Command.?

She will rank as a major, wear a major's badges, and receive the ordinary pay and allowances of on RAMC, major. But she will Bill be addressed as “Doc

"There was nothing in it," Cap- tain Philips told a reporter. later.

lewas motoring when I saw :the bomber shot down by our fighters. 1 hurriedly put on my my revolver ran towards where L.D.V. armlet and. flourishing

the plane was lying.

"Two of the crew were wound- ed, and they had already beer. pulled clear by the third German nirmanaba

"The men offered no resistance and I disarmed them.

"My son, who is 'n private in

crew until a military detachment arrived and took them away...

"I was driving home when I saw the fighters on the Dornier's tall.

"The German bomber dived to 2,000ft. twisting and turning,

"The planes were only Just above the tree tops when a final burst of machine-gun fire-from our fighters brought the bombor down.se

A local farmer said:

biggest job was to stop. gera trampling down, my.

had forgotten the Gov

the RAMC., was with me, and crnment making this offence lable The attended to the injuries of the

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