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"THE CHINA "MAIL NOVEMBER 19, 1940.
NIGHT WITH THE ABBEY WINDOWS
FIRE-FIGHTER HEROES OF LONDON
(MISS HELEN KIRKPATRICK, of the London staff of the Chicago “Daily News," sent the follow- ing message to her paper:)
Our first alarm of the evening had been caused by a handsome combination of a few high explosives. and a "Molotov breadbasket," and it was a pretty good blaze even in the eyes of the A.F.S., who do not consider anything less than a five-alarm fire worthy of mention.
Strictly speaking, it was not the first alarm that had been sounded, but it was the first our fire-fight- ing friends in the gigantic control room, feet under- ground, thought we should bother with. So we piled into a fire car and dashed off to a well-known Central London street. About 30 pumps were working on it when we got there, after making our way along the glass-covered street.
A building opposite to the one | opening fireplugs for pumps which alire had been razed by explosive came up one, every few seconds. and we had to climb over heaps I again retreated across the street. of bricks to get up to the front line where hoses were playing on the top of an office building.
"Watch it. Hose coming up," and we jumped aside as another powerful stream leapt into the air. The accumulation of hoses, fire- min and police in the small area suggested that We had better
But to-day, when every other citizen in this city is pretty close to beint á hero, the fire fighters stand out. There are no words to describe their fearlessness.
Or all this vast organisation a mere 2,500 are regular peace-
and time Bremen,
BROKEN IN RAID
The window of Westminster Abbey was slightly damaged during a recent air raid.
"The damage was very slight, and only a few small squares were broken,” said an official. "They "côn easily be replaced, and if that is all we have to trouble about we shall be lucky.”
The window dated . from the 18th century. and depicted the Pro: phets.
GERMANY'S WAR AIMS
Small Countries To Disappear
The "New York Times" they think publishes what purported their volunteer comrades pretty to be a memorandum of Germany's war aims, stat-
make way, So we stood on the splendid. No one could disagree.
steps of an adjacent building. Just then came the now familiar whizz of an approaching bomb and scmeone yelled. "Down flat, everybody."
A Useful Piece Of Soap
KNIGHT DEAD IN
Our fireman guide stuck out STREAM
PROFESSOR
ing only that it had "reached New York from sources regarded as guar- anteeing its authenticity." The memorandum says that a month ago the "Ribbentrop his foot to trip me up, but 1
bureau" completed its plans for was already flat by then inside
SIR HAROLD CARPENTER, the reorganisation of Europe. The and a door. A thud
boom
F.R.S.,
OF ME-plans, which the Germans admit tounded down the street and
TALLURGY IN THE ROYAL depend for their fulfilment on the everyone, picked himself' up. It was well under control and SCHOOL OF MINES, LONDON defeat of Great Britain, provide FOUND DEAD IN Afor the annihilation of Switzer- only smoke with an occasional WAS
VALLEY, land, the Netherlands, Norway, flicker poured from the top floors. STREAM IN CLYNE
SWANSEA.
Poland, and the Baltic States, It occurred to someone that an old-fashioned gas street light was Sir Harold, who was sixty-five and the disappearance of Rumania Belgium and going as merrily as in peace-time: had been at Swansea University and Yugoslavia.
'Anyone got a piece of soap?" College since the early days of France are to be partitioned.
party A policeman disappeared into the war, and the search
Another element of this gran- the building and returned with a who found him included some of diose plan is that Germany should move into the Balkans in the cake. As it smothered the gas his colleagues there.-` out he called: "Hey, mate, don't He was one of the world's most spring and attack Russia, with the In confident intention of restoring forget to return it. I might want distinguished metallurgists. to wash me hands."
March Japan awarded him. the the German-Russian frontier as
time There wasn't much more to be Honda Prize the Drst
alaid down in the Treaty of Brest- seen there, so we moved off to foreigner had been chosen to re- Litovsk. The postscript is that the nearest fire station to find out ceive it-of a gold cup and a Germany in 1942 should compel if there were any more outbreaks, sum of money.
Italy to make "adjustments" in requiring a visit. As we drove up Sir Harold had been honoured, Germany's favour in northern to the station three distinct and i too ́by Germany and. America, and eastern Italy, so that Ger- successive whizzes sounded. We Last year he received a medal many will get Trieste and Italy. three back-sealers buried
will be left under the domina- our of pure platinum from the
tion of the Third Reich. · heads in our hands, but not the stitute of Metals. frcmen, who never turned a hair,
1
Explosions Rock Car
When the explosions sounded, hours later so it seemed to us, they were 50 yards away, and the car rocked like a ship in a storm. As we came out of our ostrich posi- tions a sharp blow on the back of the car sent us to the exit with unparalleled speed. But it was only a bit of hot shrapnel, which dented the fender,
Behind us we saw a deep red
In
HITLER LEADS WAY TO SHELTER
EVERY NIGHT: when the air-raid alarms
glow, and without waiting fur-Scream in Berlin, Hitler, "as an example to the Ger- ther information two roared man people," retires immediately to the spacious through the night towards it."
not: heeding the traffic lights aid shelter under his palatial new Chancellery and and one way streets. We made remains there until the all-clear.
- pretty good guess at its
fecation and arrived at a second. The biggest headlines in the New York papers group of pumps pulled up. it are devoted to this Associated Press" message from was another office, building on Berlin.
--the fringe-of-a-resklential:arba/-|
Our guide took charge of the It is printed; in “some", "papers j hoses, and we ran them up side by side, with a- London. through the building to the roof message' containing the statement and clambered up after them that Mr. Churchill causes: "Lon- two firemen› and myselfz-Twelve stant worry, to this friends" by feet away the roof was a roaring his Itabit of putting on his “tin inferno, and the hose was kicking hat" and sauntering out into the or like a mustang as the pressure in streets to watch the nightly Ger- ness creased. It was a narrow ledge man attacks and the barrage. and: I thought retreat downwards more interesting.
Keeping Up Morale
Berlin corre-
New York
dramatic
he wag
in the roof
ffice
caugh
In the Government- district. He
saw a lone British mo "by "mearry a dozen scar over: Northern Berlin."
Not Hit
"For more than a quarter of an
The World-Telegram: headline "Pretty Splendid”!
In the Berlin message is:" "Hitler An elevator was still running Goes To Air Raid Shelter To to the top floor, with a woman. Keep Up. Morale Of His People": warden bearing a tray of ten for Nazi relicence about the re the firemen." "No sooner had my sults of the R.A.F. raids on Ber~ fire officer guide established hoses lin is emphasised in the news hour. A.A, hattorics poured in position and seen the fire was columns of the "Herald-Tribune" veritable hall of fire directly controlled than another broke out "As an example of the strin-avulait, no writes, 500 yards down the street, 21 gency "it is stated, "a atory from "The searchlights... were » 'in- Of we went, and reached it the Berlin Bureau of the Asso exorable, moving. slowly around before any pumps arrived. Belated Press was 5 hours 54 tum noru) zó nörth-west as the It was one of London's loveliest minutes in transit of New York flier, attempted to escape from and oldest historic churches since facilities were shut down the rup. It was impossible to Flames were eating, the centuries tight. London communications certain whether the plane old beams like paper, and, the and facilities have been operate ghally was hit kela beautiful stained glass windows ing regularly throughout the hit the British; machints re- were cracking like chestnuts in a continual, raids on the British
turned safely, roaster. My fremen.took charge, I capital'
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