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"THE CHÍNA MAIL, NOVEMBER 19, 1940

SAFE

WARM &

SHELTER IN TUBES

ARE YOU ONE of the hundreds of thousands who, going home in the Tube at night, have looked out of the train window and pitied the people who make their beds there every night? Have you said to the man or woman next to you, "Poor wretches. It must be perfectly frightful?”, writes a “Daily Mail" reporter.

Well, you are wasting your sympathy. I was one of the 10,000 "poor wretches" who spent the night in the Holborn Tube. And it was not nearly so frightful as it looks from the train window.

Never have I felt so safe since the bombing of London started. It was not comfortable-in fact, my.couch was hard. But it was warm-and that is going to become important as the nights grow colder.

There is an atmosphere of com-, form edge, bunched my pillow and radeship passing all night through said "Good-night" to the Santos that stifling air. Neighbours who family. Within half an hour quarrelled before now reserve must have been asleep. places for each other.

The men play cards, the women knit and gossip, and the children play.

beer

They bring down their bottles, but when they open them you see they are filled with milk.

There

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At 12.55 am. I felt a soft hand It was Auntie on my should. Rolli.

"You too near de edge,” she told me. "The train, it come very soon." I rolled obediently nearer safety.

1 next awoke, The English at the other and were dressing. The Gibral- tese at my end were still añor. | | ing, but not for long. Domigo!

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NAZI BULLETS KILL GIRL

A nine-year-old girl, Sheila White, Was machine-gunned by a Messerschmidt and killed at a South-East Coast town. The girl was attempting to reach the Anderson shelter in the garden when she was struck by a bullet and died almost immediately.

The Messerschmidt machine-gunned large area of the town from

of a height about 500 feet; It was so low that the mark- ings could easily be.. seen. Many other peo- ple, including women and

had children,

narrow escapes.

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woke first, then John, Ernest, 000000000000000000.

It was 6 a.m. when are the "old originals" who occupy the same sites night after night. There are the covet- ed corners, the "classy" stations.

Down in Hackney, for instance. the people who like to pick and choose say that "all the nice people go to Holborn now," and those who cannot get in there go

Together we carried our crazy- farther west, for they don't ap-looking bundles of night comforts prove of the crowd in Bank or St. up the moving staircase. To be Paul's, and they say Liverpool lifted upstairs in this way seemed Street is bad for their "rheuma- an absurd luxury after the un- ties."

civilised way we had spent

and Rosa, and finally Mr. Santos and his "missus."

the

The "best seats" in Holborn are night, and I found myself laugh- along the walls of platforms one ing.

and two. To get one of these you But once out in Kingsway I have to arrive soon after p.m..could think of one thing only--the otherwise you have to make dojair. with the front row and nothing to Jean against.

Escalator Fun

The children have to be amused until nine or ten, when, tired out,į they can sleep through the din of passing trains.. Most of them have their

now.

favourite games

Not even the Swiss mountain air has ever smelt as sweet as the air of Kingsway smelt to me at 6 o'clock in the morning.

HOME GUARD DRESS

TRADE BOAST OF AXIS

"Germany and Italy- ivill divide Europe into two economic spheres under the sole guidance and control of Berlin and Rome," writes Count Volpi in 'the "Po- polo d'Italia."

"In view of the increase of her population, Italy will develop her industrial output and

her

export trade, which is essential to her existence.

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"Nevertheless she will continue to pursue the policy of securing her necessary raw material from an enlarged, colonial empire, · · by The War Office states that ex- "Gold

and is unnecessary, officers and others "must wear either the present holders of gold Home Guard-uniform while will acknowledge the new. Ger- carrying out Home Guard duties, man-Italian economic system in and not other uniforms which Europe, or the: Axis Powers will! they may, on other occasions, be refuse to recognise the gold stand- entitled to wear.

in European markets."

-Four-years-old Nita Sorrim, of Amhurst Road; Hackney, for in- stance, likes to be taken up and down the moving staircase with her daddy. Mr. Sorrim, an active young tailor's assistant, told me, "I have to take her up and down two dozen times a night before she is willing to go to sleep, For- tunately, I like it too."

The man you may have seen propped up at the extreme end of platform one, looking like the King of the Holborn Tube, is Mr. John Vancliff, a Whitecha pol taxi driver, and one of the Hold originals.”

He knew the Holborn Tube be-

fore: It grew overcrowded, Now every right, he sits, there playing solo with three other men, while the four wives. sit near by darn

ing socks and gossiping of this and that

Refugees

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ard

RAIDERS BOMBED "BY THE CLOCK"

THICK CLOUD caused the German raiders over London to adopt the system of "bombing by the clock." This results in an area being bombed in- discriminately, with the idea that certain objectives within it will be hit. `

"Bombing by the clock" is carried out in two stages. The first stage is the flight across the At the other end of platform one Channel in the direction of the target. This is car- the Gibraltar refugees now find shielter Mr. Johm Santos, a Gl-ried out above the clouds on a fixed course, at a fixed

braltar" "taxi driver was there with my missus and four of my five? He invited me to join the family for the night, and as they had a space 611; by 3ft. vacant, which was more than I could find elsewhere, accepted:M

Theres were. Rosap aged 11; John, -aged 9 Domigo, aged 6, and Ern

est, aged 64

"My Jeetle baby Garmen, she luisarde mehsles," explained. Mr.

speed; for a fixed flying time.

of

Thon: the 2 raider descendaj regarded generally as a com- :botów, the clouds ima-glide...pletely unsatisfactory- way

to observe a landmark-20.or attacking targets, pan 30% = miles, outside » London. Any air force that adheres to Having found this, the pilat the method: "blindly is obviously neta out on the second tager not concerned with accuracy: 174

Newly-Fixed Courae

This entails going above the Santos. Then there were grand-clouds, to fly rapidly on a newly -ma and so many sisters and fixed course, while watching the

brothers, and in-laws that I lost hands of the clock closely.

count:

Ernest had ear-pohe, so we set- tled him early, and except when John unwound his bandage.to play with it, he lay undisturbed. John did this eight times during the evening. But his, only other toy In England is a ping-pong ball, so It wasn't surprising,

Bed-Time

Goering was using his best-

| trained blind-flying pilots. These men fly through the top: dayers- of cloud with no natural horizon- to guide them.

More Noise.

As soon as, say, 5min. 10sec.

Their eyes are, fixed on. instru- have passed, the bomb-almer releases his toad-and hopes inents which tell them whether that the bombą, have faiten they are flying straight and. within the selected area of level," and at the correct height. London.

This type of flying ignores wen-

The air crew cannot know ther conditions. whether the area, had been hit, Londoners thought that the because they cannot see through bombers were flying: particularly the clouds. And they dare not low. This impression", "resulted descend again because of the from the higher speed-and balloon barrage : and London's therefore louder engine noise At 11.30 p.m. Auntie Rolli took huge nest of anti-aircraft guns. of the aircraft," "and- from

tho charge She could hear the English Meanwhile, the bombers great echoes that the clouds were senda snoring at the other end of the speed, the crew hope, will make ing down to the ground. platform and thought it was time the aeroplane a difcuit-target for The raiders were somewhat we followed suit. I folded mythe anti-aircraft gunaka

lower than usual, but not us rug in three a fool from tho.plate. Dambina, by the, olpokalows, they seemed.

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