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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 12, 1940

AIR DAMAGE TO BRITAIN'S INDUSTRIES NEGLIGIBLE,

SAYS AMERICAN

"THAT WAS YOUR SON"

An

who, after an exploit one Sunday, was shot down and had to bale out, wrote home a few hours later a note of four sentences. in place of his usual

THIS IS THE FIRST of a series of cables by Miss Helen Kirkpatrick, of the London staff of the Chicago "Daily News," to her paper describing the effects of the German bombing blitzkrieg on the industrial and shipping centres of England.

- Industrial England, which took the brunt of the Nazi bombing attacks many weeks before the blitz- krieg on London began, is virtually untouched.

eight-page letter. HisINVASION

note ran:

"My dear Mother and Father, Just line, since I have not

a

THREAT MAY

much time for writing, BE REVERSED

to tell you that the old firm is still merry and bright. They seem to have made quite a show on the six o'clock wireless news to-night. Did you hear the long description of the Hurricane and the two Dorniers over Buckingham Palace and Victoria Station? That was your ever- loving son.

Its factories, the majority of which are converted to warlime production, are turning out essen- tial supplies at a rate which car- tainly makes a quick Nazi victory impossible and any kind of Ger- man victory pretty uncertain.

One of Britain's biggest ports is crammed with tonnage from all over the world and ships unload thousands of tons of food and war materials daily, despite persistent German attempts to disrupt this vital work.

extent.

The following account| I spent six days touring the of how Britain is standing res, inspecting war factories and most important Industrial cen- the German air attack, visiting damaged areas. Full and written by William Me-confidential reports of all damage dona were available in every Gaffin, of the "Associated place I visited, and, while it is Press" staff in London, impossible to make these public,

it can be stated that air raids. was published in Amer-have not so far impaired the Bri- ican newspapers recent tish war effort to any marked ¡ly:-

Effect On Production .Whatever. "surprises" the Axis dictators may have prepared for

While nightly alarms and spor- Britain at their meeting on the adic day raids have affected pro- Brenner Pass, military circles induction, it has fallen off only by London are looking to a rapidly-a slight amount, and there is con- approaching winter with what idence throughout the industrial 00000000000, cautiously term "reasonable area that this is only temporary. confidence," and a feeling that the Once roof spotting systems are worst of the air onslaught is over fully working production is ex-

By the spring they expect to pected to be maintained. Gee Britain ED much stronger

While the morale of Londoners. that the Invasion threat will has been the object of great ad- have been completely, reversed, miration, that of Industrial Eng- leaving the Nazis much more land is fully equal, and in many concerned-over how to repel an cases for surpasses London's. And Invasion rather than how to unquestionably a good deal of the .... make one.

Midlands and the North of Eng- land is far tougher than anything that can be found in London.

“Tougher - - - Angrier”-

"

STABILITY IN FAR EAST

tember.

Battered But Unbowed:

dren, have found themselves sud-

The air attack; supposed to The Australian Minister knock out London, was unleashed to the United States, Mr. against the city exactly in Sep- Casey, in an interview

The effect of the raids so far has been to infuriate the popu broadcast by Station

Jation as a whole and workers. WMCA, said that Austra- The citizen, his wife and chil- Ein particular. And the farther

north, you go lia and the United States

the tougher and denly pitched into the front line. angrier, they get.ktnke had a mutual desire for without the means of fighting, The North is pretty adamant on stable conditions in the base cluzen's home. They have heard it once I heard it ten times back. Nazi raiders have destroy- the subject of the war. If I Far East.

bombed hospitals and schools, set in different forms: "We finished Such stability, he said, would fire to churches, and machine- the last war too soon. The mis- enable the building up of closer

gunned streets.

take, we made was in not march- Blattened economic

They have relations with China,

whole ing to Berlin. This time we are East-end tenements, not stopping until we have beaten. Japan, the Dutch East Indies, and blocks of other parts of south-east Asia..

smashed up Central London office the Germans and know they

know it." Australia was determined to de-buildings.

Peaceful Countryside added.

ed but unbowed-"business as usual,"

miles The interviewer asked whether Neutral.correspondents.

Driving hundreds of and northward, from London it was Australia would welcome Ameri- military experts agree that a difficult to realise that not only is can assistance, in the event of war month of Blitzkrieg, such as no there i war on, but that big cities spreading to the Pacific and in people in the world has ever be of this country are being pounded volving. Australia, to which Mr. fore had to endure did not impair nightly with high explosives and Casey replied: You will agree Britain's war effort by more than incendiary bombs. that the United States, Australia'

a small percentage: and New Zealand

The countryside, presents the are all con- cerned about their own security admit that a month's Blitz" has and only the presence of soldiers Authoritative circles frankly most peaceful aspect imaginable, and that none of them is terri confronted.. Britain with some along ads which are punctuated torially ambitious. Therefore staggering problems, but those with tank traps recalls that a anything by way of cooperation same circles believe that. British battle is going on. Again, going that we are able to contribute morale is fough enough to bear into big industrial cities it is to this security we will gladly do any threats.

fend herself against attack, he Yet London still stands. batter-

It would not be one-way traffic. Australia does not feel defence... Hess

East Indies Value

To U.S.

"May

Sue For Peace"!

¡dificult to find any trace.of dam- age, and it is necessary to know where to look for it.

As in the case of London most The British are counting on the of the damaga had been done in RAF whose brilliant day-thne the residential' area, and most of victories are already axiómatic," thắt đo workers – houses on the growing ever stronger from inces- fringe of factories.,

^ "Mr. Casey said that the East' sant, acceleration of "aircraft: pro- * The organisation:" of civilian Indies were valuable to the Unit- duction here and in, the ↑ United defences, and, firat, ald, servicce ed States. He quoted the warning States.

Freems excellent, and the only given by the US Secretary of They are counting on the wea-a-criticism: that could-be-made in Slate, Mr. Cordell Hull, a month ther, which will soon be bad that the construction of shelters ugo, to: Japan, not to alter the enough to cause the German ma- Je much too far, behind, 2 status quo of French Indo-China chines to ice over if they try to There has been damage to fac- or the East Indies, which Aus- go above the range of the balloon | tories, in some cases serious, but tralia and. BritainTM welcomed - and barrage and A‚A. guns.

the number of factoriés demolish- endorsed.

They are optimistic "over the ed or badly hit is so small as to He recalled that the late Prime | prospect of finding an answer to make.no appreciable: difference to Minister of Australia, Mr: Lyons, night bombing before the winternational: production. This is in 1937, proposed a regional un-ends.

mainly due to vast decentralisa- derstanding and non-aggression It is admitted that what might tion. pact between Pacific countries. *. The interviewer, asked whether the prospect of closer association with the United States alarmedj Australians. Mr. Casey replied: "Australians do not think of the United States as a foreign coun try to be watched suspiciouslystacles which the Italian com: We differentiate between' Ameri-]; manders find themselves facing. cans and foreigners. All sections There exists the opinion that if of political opinion are united in his 'Invasion falls the Duce might a desire for very close relations sue for a separate peace with Bri- with they United States."!

litain by the ring,

happen. In the. ·Mediterranean Vital war supplies such as: this winter could have' a serious machine tools, aeroplanes, guns hearing on the battle of Britain. and ammunition are being prox :It.....Ja_felt, however, that, Mus- duced in so many different face

polini's delay in pushing the Interior, each with many subtir. vasion of Egypt' is a tacit ad- mission of the tremendous ab. |

diary plants to call on, that the destruction of any one of them cannot cripple production."

/ Many areas of industrial Eng- land are more prosperous than they have been for years and un- employment has shrunk to the Jowens figur för 29 yeni