1940-10-22 — Page 6

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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

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house.

in mid-Channel.

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: A five-months-old baby girl,"Load me well and keep me clean asleep in

back and I'll a pram in the

drop a ball on garden, was unhurt, and another Green." 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, I am all right now."

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

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

it were the ivy-covered brick, framework of the front door and

posed like a room in a film sét.

Calais

He adds that he believes the gun is still there to-day,

CAPTURED

GIRLS TO

COME HOME

News has been received in Lon- don that Miss Bessie Myers and Miss M. Derby, ambulance drivers

While their mothers are working in munition fac- tories turning scrap metal into shells and bullets, 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- ange boxes, old violin strings, used strawberry punkets, fig, date, and cigar boxes.

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

"Our aim is to provide an adequate supply of toys for the existing and future day nur- cerles which are being planned and constructed at this moment. "Orange, boxes, when prepar- ed, will make ideal lockers for

a back upstairs bedroom-3x- of the Mechanised Transport each child; strawberry and mush- Corps, who were reported to have room baskets can be transformed A picture hung at a grotesque been captured

empty cot- by the Germans into dolls' baskets, 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 pill and cigar boxes can be turned into intriguing occupational toys.

"The society

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

turning to London. was

on a washstand, and a wardrobe was undamaged. The bed

under the partially collapsed weight of a torrent of bricks and glates from the shattered roof.

Cats Safe

that

A strange feature was windows of an adjoining house were not broken.

The shelling was described to a Press Association reporter by Mrs. Sarah Castle, a white-hair- ed 75-year-old widow, who lives alone next door.

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

Betraying not the slight trace of panic, Mrs. Castle was still 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 at deafening explosion. My house shook, and the room was filled

"I ran out into

with smoke and dust.

the hall and found it piled high with mortar and broken bricks from a o'g hole in the partition wall beside the staircase. I tried to open the front door, but the handle had

been torn bff.

An A.R.P. 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

The two girls were serving with the 10th French Army when taken

prisoner.

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

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

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

ARE THESE PEOPLE

TO

STARVE?

SI, The following cable has spite of the War! The American been received from Canton: “RE- | Advisory Committee for Civilian LIEF CENTRES FLEDING ONLY Relief in China has received cor- from CHILDREN FROM THE FIF-respondingly large sums TRENTH FOUR THOUSAND America. The Foreign Auxiliary MEN AND to the National Red Cross Society CD DESTITUTE

TURNED of China has been the principal WOMEN MUST BE

the distribution of AWAY PRICES ARE TEN TIMES agent for NORMAL RATE MANY MAY these funds in South China, and STARVE UNLESS YOU HAVE has itself raised large sums for PITY ON THEM PLEASE TRY a similar purpose. TO CABLE TEN THOUSAND HONG KONG."

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a

of.

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 Hel in China, yet the needs of the facts are known by the starving cities. of which Canton general public, and in particular is an outstanding example, have by the Chinese community, in not been presented in such Hong Kong. Ever since the oc-way as to elicit contributions cupation of Canton, relief work commensurate with the cost house blown up.".

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 I am aware that Canton is an In the Straits of Dover during a financial support of the varlous "occupied" city; its relief is said series of fierce air battles fought Relief Committees in Hong Kong to be the concern of the Gov- out over the South-East Coast;

Most of the nighting was at a great height, in the dazzling glare of the afternoon sun, but A.A guns were repeatedly, in action against en my planes which ven tured within range of their shells. 'Shot Down

.

the water just outside-Dover

Harbour.`

Canton.

make this

and elsewhere! Such criticism ernment which has assumed con- as has been offered has been trol, and I have been told again that the food. given was insuf- and again that the Chinese peo- cient for the maintenance of an ple in Hong Kong are unwilling adequate standard of health; what to support relief in "occupied" has been given was one meal of just over two

daily areas. I feel, however, that if Chinese the Government concerned is ounces of rice gruel flavoured unable or unwilling to organise Large gums of relief, then, the responsibility Late in the afternoon, a Gar-with beans. man bomber, attempting to es-money have been expended but must pass to the Chinese peo- to ·do' cape over the Channel, was now NO RELIEF SOCIETY HAS ple, here or elsewhere, shot down by a Spitfire high ENOUGH MONEY TO MEET what they can. The polities "of above cliffe to the east of the need which still exists in the situation are not my con- Dovor. The machine blew into

cern; common humanity is calling The Hong Kong Committee of from Its need, and those who places in mid-air and fell into

the British Fund for Relief in can should respond with ald. China has had to indicate to. (iii) I therefore those responsible for rellet in appeal, ARE THESE PEOPLE IN Canton that the most it can hope CANTON TO STARVE OR NOT? to do from now on is to attempt not then large gifts are needed. the "support of destitute children | $100,000 would suffice to the end Committee of 1041. IT' they, must 'starve in that City. The was aware that numbers of men then your readers, as well as and women must be left to starve, I, must go about day by day, A cannon shell from the crash-

A sidelight on the situation is knowing that people are dying ing bomber Tunded in a fold on this-surgeons are finding it im from starvation. top of cliffs, und soldiers found a goat kicking it with hits hind legs, possible to operate because the Gifts could be sent, earmarked Luckily for the goat the shell patients are not strong enough to for Canton relief, to: The For- failed to explode.

**** stand the strain of the operation. | eign "Auxillary to the National Half an hour later, à Moaser- (ii) The British Fund for Re- | Red Cross Society of China,

First Floor, Gloucester Build- sthmidt 109 swooped out of the Hor in China, formerly known as sky and opened fire with its can- the Lord Mayor's Fund, has col | Ing. non gun on a barrage balloon over lected in England more than Dover. The balloon fell in-flames £220,000, and lifts on a smaller -and the raider streaked-out-to-500 } scale are still being received in

One of the crew was hurled out of, the wreckage and his parachute, torn by the explo sion, opened out and carried him to mid-Channel, where he "dropped Into the bea.

Yours faithfully,

Frank ShonT..