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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 9, 1940.

FELL TO

ADMIRATION OF DORNIER

THE SPIRIT OF LONDONERS

LEWIS GUNS

Duel Ovår Beach To-day I saw & Dornier · i bomber, which was en- gaged in machine-gun- ning gun emplacements and other military works on the cliffs not far from Dover, shot down by a Lewis gun team belong- ing to the Royal Artillery, writes a correspondent. attacking an air field, was "stral-

The bomber, which had

been

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“I CANNOT help but express my amazement at and admiration for the people of London who can be so calm and composed under such strained cir- cumstances. Everything goes on as usual,-the trains, the trams, the buses and the office." Thus writes a special correspondent of the "Asahi" in a despatch from London. Describing his visit to the British capital the writer says, contrary to anticipa- tion, his arrival at London by 'plane from Lisbon air-ing" its way along the beach port was marked by neither thrill nor adventure.

a last light-hearted fling before striking across the Channel for The reporter experienced his first disillusioned headlong only a few feet above its home base. Suddenly it rush- ment when he arrived at the waiting room of the Lisbon airport where he saw a young lady with her four-year-old daughter looking as calm and uncon-machine-gun fire were exchang- cerned as if she were waiting for the next train at a country railway station. The little girl was playing glided on to the beach with smoke with a doll with the happiest expression that a child could have.

BOMBS DROPPED

AT RANDOM

Many of the which fell in the

All expectation and illusions of thrill and devastation vanished when the reporter saw this scene. The quiet entrance into London is described in the correspondent's own words as follows:

ground level at the post manned by the R.A. men. Here it met n swift fate.

Three or four long bursts of

ed between the bomber and the post and then the Nazi 'plane

Fouring from it only a couple of feet from the water's edge.

Troops ran up and helped the occupants from their scats amid flying hullets from the 'plane's machine-gun belts, A moment later the Dornier was a mass flame. The pilot, who is aged twen- of ty, told me that this was his first flight over England. He and his

I took the. 'plane at Lisbon, companions were all badly shaken which is the centre of all air and two of them were wounded." transportation in Europe. There A gunner sergeant in the 'plane were 11 passengers including my-was wearing the Iron Cross, self. The motors of the huge ship suddenly roared, and we were already sailing through the air at a terrific speed. Wet clouds hung low.

bombs

outer Iberian peninsula I kept my eyes "As soon as we passed over the

districts of the London open for a British convoy, or for

area appear to have dropped at random,

again the showed that damage surprisingly slight casualties few.

been

a German U-boat. But the At

EMBARGOES ON RICE

Indicating that it would be

antic was calm with no sign of but anything not even a speck. I asked the boy our position, but dawn he knew noth g

was knew nothing until he announced rice to Shanghai for the time be- In fact he very difficult to transport native and atterwards, the blinds were low- that,

that we had arrived. Shortly ing at least, Chinese reports state besides the embargo ered and I learned back and fell measures carried out in Nanking asleep.

and other occupied districts by new Chinese authorities, Chung- king has also issued a new order occupied districts forbidding people to send rice to

illuminating

voice,

or

or areas near

Inmates of an institution in an outer London district were taking refuge, in their air raid shelters

No Signs Of Bombing when incendiary bombs fell on the building. The morale of the sea with a bright orange glow as those districts. Chungking, how-~~ "The setting sun illuminated the inmates was excellent and the four plane touched the waters of ever, encourages bombs were soon extinguished by an unknown harbour.

merchants and the local fire Brigade.

We saw a provincial authorities to allow tree' nun:ber of big ships anchored as movement of grain in places un- A north London area suffered we sped to shore on a launch that der Chungking's control. badly from many high explosive had come, to meet us. But no and incendiary bombs. A block of sign of bombed buildings 1

The order issued by the Execu- council flats was hit but most, of, burned houses.

tive Yuen at Chungking is pub- the occupants were sheltering.

lished by the Those

"Owing to the delay-in the cus-which the Government complains "Shun Pao," in who remained in their toms inspection, homes, however, escaped serious oark when I arrived in the port policy of having self-sufficient it was already of the wrong interpretation of its injury. Part of the building was town. Motor damaged.

cars and buses, supplies of the commodity in all with lights ns Incendiary bombs fell on an from a cigarette, sped past each control. It is pointed out that offi- dim as the glow provinces and districts under its emergency hospital, but little other with no congestion. damage was done,

The cals in some districts restrict the and there boy from the hotel took me to transport of rice to such an extent were no casualties.

the police station As demolition workers search-gistered my arrival. He held my

where I re- that prices are being increased.". ed the wreckage of two houses arm all the way. I struck by a bomb in another dis-searchlights

All provincial authorities have saw three trict they heard another bomb fall clouds, and asked my companion from one place to another so as

therefore been ordered the

to allow merchants to transport rice freely near by and the raider circling whether a raid. was expected to- overhead. They continued to dig night. He answered in a

to have among the debris, however, for nonchalant tone of

the supplies well dis- most

tributed. It is emphasised in the women and children whom they have them most every night, but order, however,

"WC believed to be trapped. With the you don't have to worry."

that provincial authorities should see coining, of daylight they found

that mer- chants do not send rice to places the bodies of two women and a small boy. For several hours after-

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in the vicinity of occupied areas so as to prevent it from falling wards they continued their search for a baby. They found fragments

"Shortly after this i heard the into the hands of the Japanese: first shrieks of the airona-my of the baby's cot and toys, but

The Central' Press. Service" first experience of a real rálá. reports that a public sale of 30,- there was no trace of the child. But nothing happened. After 000 piculs of Saigon rice will soon a good rest, I took the second be held in Nanking to allow peo- Buried But Unhurt

train to London the next morni ple to buy cheaper rice, under tf- ing. Seventeen-year-old

On the way I saw twoficial supervision. Five districts Geoffrey Offord, who was asleep in àti ̧ up-

trenched, but no sign of where near Nanking have been marked Istairs flat, had an amazing escape.

bombs might have dropped. out as supply centres and rice is When the building collapsed he

said to be pouring Into the "capi-" "Before long I sighted the tal" from those districts. was completely buried in the towers of Westminster Abbey and fusion in the ride market in Nan- Cón- wreckage. His brother, living some the Parliament buildings, distance away, was going to see train arrived on time.

The king in the past is attributed to him when the raiders dropped the taxi was passing over the Thames, Chinese officials forbid private in- When my manipulation and smuggling, New bomb. Hearing the whistle of It I heard the first sirens since my crèise of rice prices and also he took cover Behind a wall. arrival in London. The roads smuggling.

After the explosion he ran to were congested, and the

In the latter case... cars severe punishments besides total: the house calling out. "Are you seemed to take their time. The confiscation are threatened. there; Geoffrey?" In the dim light he saw his brother's hands colhe up out of a pile of brick and mor- Offord was completely strip. ped by the explosion, but was "On the second day after my uninjuredi

arrival,. I took a walk to see the An air raid warden who was evidence of the German bomb-A new goldfield stated to be standing in the street was killed ings. The buildings that had been one of the largest in Central Asia, by the bomb, and another A.R.P. struck were completely destroyed,hus been discovered on the River worker was badly injured. bomb which fell in the centre of but the buildings remaining were (Aslatie Russia).

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people on the streets showed no signs of excitement. They practi- cally seemed to ignore the sirenis. Na one ran into the shelters. Everything went on as usual.

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