1940-10-30 — Page 25

THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 30; 1940′

WARDEN BILL MIDWIFE IN BOMB CHAOS

As bombs burst all round, the windows of a little house blew in and the roof collapsed, a young air raid warden acted as midwife to a mother in the East London raids. A thirteen-year-old boy acted

as nurse.

Without a light to see by, the warden, Bill Wat- son, who is unmarried, brought the baby girl into the world.

The boy; Richard Hannaway, ran to the nearest horse trough for water, which was boiled to wash the baby in.

The mother, dark-haired Mrs. R. Foster, lay on her bed sur- rounded by shattered glass as Warden Bill attended her.

At the same time a heavy bomb crashed across the road - about eighty yards away - and blew the roof from the house.

Now mother and child are both doing well and a few hours after the ordeal, Bill, who had had a wash and brush up, went along to visit them.

Thirteen-year-old Richard was busy, too. He was fetching and carrying buckets of water from

bours.

HITLER

SACKS

AN ARMY PRINCE

Prince

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the nearby horse-trough for neigh-Lippe-Biesterfeld, brother "I've never done anything like of Prince Bernhard of the this before," Warden Bill told

a reporter," but there wasn't

time to hesitate.

"The bed was covered with

glass. Mrs. Foster was lying in

Netherlands, has been ex- pelled from the German Army by the special order

it and I was worried to death | of Adolf Hitler, that it might cut her or the baby.

"I rushed to the house when I was told that Mrs. Foster had been taken ill. There was no light, and I could hardly see. When I heard the baby crying, I knew it was all right.”

Richard, standing proudly by, said:

"Mum says storks bring babies, but I didn't see no stork, and I knew it was urgent, Mrs. Foster

looked so ill,"

He's Uncle Bill

Mrs. Foster, who was waiting for an ambulance to take her to hospital, said:

He has been put under domi- ciliary arrest at the family castle near Bomst, in Silesia,

. None of his friends is allowed to see him even if the friend dared to incur the suspicion of the Gestapo by doing so. The motive for Hitler's order is his ! fury with Prince Bernhard, who, though born a German, in Nazi fashion betrayed the oath of loyalty to Holland which he swore when he became naturalis- ed before his marriage to Prin- cess Juliana.

has not

Under Hitler's direct orders a flood of scurrilous newspaper at- "The warden Uncle Bill the tacks was let loose against Prince kids all-calf-him was won-Bernhard-both-in- Germany and- derful. My husband is also an in the German Controlled Press. A.R.P. worker, too. Ha' didn't Now Hitler, unable tq: gat at think baby would be born o Prince Bernhard/himself, has tried soon and he dashed out to help to punish his brother. when, the bombs started drop- ping. It was a surprise to him when he got home,

"If it hadn't been for the war den I don't suppose we'd have had a baby now.

"I hope the hospital people come and fetch me soon as it is very draughty here with no win- dows and no roof.

Mrs. Foster was lying in a room on the ground floor.

200 MILES IN 20-FOOT BOAT

Two Norwegians have reached north-east of Scotland port after a daring crossing of the North Sea in à 20-foot motor boat. They

He has degraded and put under arrest an officer who, for his heroism as a lieutenant of mo- torised shock troops during the Polish campaign, was decorated with the Iron Cross.

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BALLOON BARRAGE DOUBLED

Dive-Bombing Attacks Frustrated

made the 200-mile voyage in 51 In England, as earlier in France. hours. On leaving the Norwe-the balloon barrage is proving its gians had some difficulty in avoid-worth. In neither country has an ing patrol boats along the coast enemy dive-bombing attack ever of Norway, but afterwards the been made within an area protect- journey was uneventful.Eighted by balloons, nor have the Ger- y: miles from the Scottish coast they mans over succeeded in breaking were seen by a trawler and the combination of balloon bar- escorted to port.

rage and anti-aircraft fire.

LOYALISTS TO DIE

The balloons have done precise- ly what they were expected to do.. The fact that they have brought down a number of aircraft - is merely incidental. The object of the barrage is to keep the enemy machines at a height at which they can be attacked by the A.A. guns and R.A.F. fighters and to prevent dive-bombing: High-level bombing is not, of course, their

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Five men who were prominent in the defeated Republican gov ernment of Spain, were sentenced to death in Madrid by a court martial Those who were told concern. they must pay the supreme penal- The frequency of the German ty are: Cipriano Rivas Cherif, fighter attacks of late on our bal- noted author and brother-in-law loon_barrages, shows what the of Manuel Azaná, former presi- Germans think of them. Although dent Julian Zugazagotif, a mem- many balloons have been shot. ber of the Republican cabinet; An- down, a sufficient number to leave. tonio Cruz Salido, once under-the way clear for the dive-bomb- secretary of war, Miguel Salvador, ers has never been destroyed. minister of government at the Week by week, more balloons are outbreak of the civil war; and now being employed. Since the Antonio Montilla; Soclällst deputy start of the war the numbers of and a diplomat under the repu the barrage, both in balloons and blic.

personnel, have been doubled."

HIS PRIZE HOME

A 45-year-old sol- dier, Mr. Robert Read, did not like the way people looked after

his three-roomed flat in Bedford Street, Brighton:

So every morning, whistling while. he works, he polishes the windows and the brass.

In the evening. he goes dancing, or dis- mantles his radio to improve the set.

"He is better than any woman at house- work" his landlady said: "He's an amaz- ing man.'

Yet the only person who cannot see this "prize home" is Mr. Read. He's blind.

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