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OODPECKER CIDER

CIDER-MAKERS

• BY APPODITINNT

TO H.M. THE KING,

THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 22, 1940

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man destroyers, is now being repeatedly bombarded. Damage is believed to have been very slight.

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A lone 'plane flying at a height of over 20,000

FROM

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There was only one fatality of ringed by bursting A.A. shells. the German shelling, a" young Watchers on the coast saw a BULMER way."woman in a house which a shell British fighter pounce on the

destroyed.

escaping raider and shoot it down Another shell fell in a field and in mid-Channel. killed a horse.

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An old volunteer recalled that The shell which killed the wo- 50 years ago there was a gun on man completely demolished the the heights above Dover near the Castle which bore an inscription: "Load me well and keep me "clean

drop a ball on back and I'R Green."

house.

A five-months-old baby girl, asleep in a pram in the garden, was unhurt, and another girl, aged six, inside the house, also escaped injury.

Rescue workers found her crouching under the staircase. They asked her if she was all right, and she replied, "Yes, 1 am all right now."

The mother of the dead woman was away from the house when: the explosion occurred.

Calais

He adds that he belloves the gun is still there to-day.

CAPTURED

GIRLS TO

COME HOME

The house was a six-roomed: building in a residential quarter. of the town. All that remained of

News has been received in Lon- it were the ivy-covered brick, don that Miss Bessie Myers and framework of the front door and Miss M. Derby, ambulance drivers

While their mothers are working in munition fac- tories turning scrap metal into shells and bulléts, children in Government- sponsored day nurseries will soon be playing with toys also made from scrap.

A well-known London archi- tect has succeeded in producing toys from empty cotton reels, or- violin strings, ange boxes, old used strawberry punkets, fig, date, and cigar boxes.

Mrs. A. G. Lanchester, wife of the architect-toymaker and oc- ganiser of the Nursery Supplies Depot of the National Society Day Nurseries, told a reporter:-

"Our aim is to provide an adequate supply of toys for the existing and future day nur ceries which are being planned? and constructed at this moment, "Orange boxes, when prepar ed, will make ideal lockers for each child; strawberry and mush- room baskets can be transformed

a. back upstairs bedroom-2x-of the Mechanised Transport posed like a room in a film set. Corps, who were reported to have

A picture hung at a grotesque been captured by the Germans into dolls' baskets, empty cot angle on one of the remaining near Orleans

on June 14, are ton reels become battleship fun- walls, a china jug stood unbroken now safe at Vichy and are re-nels and house chimneys, while on a washstand, and a wardrobe turning to London. was undamaged. The bed Was

collapsed under partially

the weight of a torrent of bricks and slates from the shattered roof.

Cats Safe

that A strange feature was windows of an adjoining house

were not broken.

The shelling was described to n Press Association reporter by Mrs. Sarah Castle, a white-hair- cd75-year-did widow, who lives alone, next door.

She was led protesting to the safely of an air raid shelter.

Betraying not the slight trace of panic, Mrs. Castle was stil! wearing carpet slippers when in- terviewed at a friend's home.

"I had just prepared my break- fast and was starting to read a paper," she said, "when there was, a blinding flash of flame and a deafening explosion. My house shook, and the room was filled with smoke and dust.

"I ran out into the hall and found it piled high with mortar and broken bricks from pg hole in the partition wall beside the staircase. I tried to open the front door, but the handle had been torn off.

"An ARP. man opened it, and when he saw me standing there smiling he said, 'You are a lot brighter than I am." He assured me that my cats were quite safe, and he took me to a shelter.

"The brother of the woman who was killed had just gone to a shop to buy some newspaper wrappers for me. It saved his life, because when he came back he found his house blown up."

The two girls were serving with the 16th French Army when taken prisoner.

pill and cigar boxes can be turned into intrigt ng occupational toys

"The society hopes to recruit toymakers from the women who are neither knitters nor sewers."

Together with three other girl drivers. they were led into a trap by a Fifth Columnist,

Miss Ursula Lloyd Bennet, án The others, Miss Marjorie Juta, English girl whose home was in South African authoress and air- Paris, escaped by swinging thei woman, Miss Penelope Otto, of vehicles round and racing away

Oxfordshire, and in the opposite direction... Kings Sutton,

ARE THESE PEOPLE

TO

STARVE?

SIR, The following cable has spite of the War! The American been received from Canton: "RE- Advisory Committee for Civilian LIEF CENTRES FEEDING ONLY Relief in China has received cor- CHILDREN FROM THE FIF- respondingly large sums from TEENTH FOUR THOUSAND America. The Foreign Auxiliary OLD DESTITUTE MEN AND to the National Red Cross Society MUST BE TURNED of China has been the principal WOMEN AWAY PRICES ARE TEN TIMES agent for the distribution NORMAL RATE MANY MAY these funds in South China, and STARVE UNLESS YOU HAVE has itself raised large sums fo PITY ON THEM PLEASE TRY a similar purpose.. TO CABLE TEN THOUSAND HONG KONG.”

Although it is true the Chin- ese Community in Hong Kong I crave space to write three has contributed large sums for things.

national purposes including re- (1) I want to make sure that lief in China, yet the needs of the facts are known by the starving cities, of which Cantor general public, and in particular is an outstanding example, havı by the Chinese community, in not been presented in such Hong Kong. Ever since the oc-way as to

elicit contribution cupation of Canton, relief work commensurate with the cost o has been carried on by the the relief which it is necessary: A German bomber and a. Mes Committees of the Canton In- to provide. serschmidt fighter were shot downternational Red Cross with the In the Straits of Dover during financial support of the

I am aware that Canton is an series of fierce air battles fought Relief Committees in Hong Kong to be the concorn of the

-various “occupied" city; its relief is said

Gov out over the South-East Coast, and elsewhere. Such criticism ernment which has assumed con Most of the fighting was at a as has been offered has been trol, and I have been told agai:: great height, in the dazzling glare that the food given was insuffi- and again that the Chinese peo of the afternoon sun, but A.A cient for the maintenance of an ple in Hong Kong are unwilling guns were repeatedly in action adequate standard of health; what to support relief in "occupied against enemy planes which ven has been given was one tured within range of their shells. meal of just over two

daily, arcas. I feel, however, that Chinese the Government concerned Shot Down

ounces of rice gruel. flavoured unable or unwilling to organist with beans, Large

of relief, sums

then the responsibility moncy have been expended but must pass to the Chinese peo now NO RELIEF SOCIETY HAS plc, here or elsewhere," to d the need which still exists in the situation are not my ENOUGH MONEY TO MEET what they can. The politics o Canton.

corn; common humanity is calling the British Fund for Relief in can should respond with aid.

The Hong Kong Committee of from its need, and those wh China has had to indicate to (ii) I therefore make thi those responsible for 'relief in apponí. ARE THESE PEOPLE IN Canton that the most it can hope CANTON TO STARVE OR NOT the support of destitute children $100,000 would suffice to the en to do from now on is to attempt If not, then Iorge gifts are needed in that City. The Committee of 1941. If they must starv was aware that numbers of men then your readers, as well a and women must be left to starve. 1, must go about day by day A cannon shell from the crash-

A sidelight on the situation, is knowing that people are dyin ing bomber landed in a field on this-surgeons are finding it im from starvation top of cliffs, and soldiers found a possible to operate because the Gifts, could be sent, earmarke goat kicking it with his hind legs: patients are not strong enough to for. Canton relief, to: The For Luckily for the goat the shell stand the strain of the operation. eign Auxillary to the Nation failed to explode.

Late in the afternoon, a Ger- man bomber, attempting to es• oape over the Channel, was chot down by a Spitfire high above cliffe to the cast of Dover. The machine blow into plecos in mid-air and fell into the water just outside Dovor

Hanbour.

One of the crew. was hurled

out of the wreckage and his parachute, torn by the explo slon, opened out and carried him to mid-Channel, where he dropped into the sea.

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Half an hour later, a Messer (11): The British Fund for Re-Red Cross Society of China, schmidt 100 swooped out of the lief, in Chinn, formerly known as First Floor, Gloucester Bulld sky and opened fire with its con- the Lord Mayor's Fund, has col-ing.

than non gun on a barrage ballooniover Iccted in England more Dover. The balloon felt in Dames | £220,000, -and igifts on a smaller "and the-raider streaked out to ven | scale are still being received in

Yours faithfully,

FRANK SHORT.