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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 23, 1940.

NOISY NIGHT IN LONDON AIR RAID

MORE LONDON children were killed and more families made homeless by Nazi ́bombing from the air. The raids were heavy, but after the "raiders passed" signal had been sounded early in the morn- ing there was a quiet spell for an hour before an- other alert period began. The raiders approached London from different directions, and from time to time were coming over in steady streams one after the other.

It was a noisy night, but much of the noise was due to our own heavy and long-continuing A.A. fire. A black night at the beginning, before the moon had risen, was lit up by flashes from the guns, by searchlight concentrations, and by what seemed to be a new flare used by the raiders, which cast a yellow glow lasting some seconds. Later there was bright moonlight, but still the continuous flashing of London's guns was not eclipsed.

It is said that people are get- ting used to the heavy gunfire suf- fciently to be able to sleep on un- disturbed, and probably an ad- vantage of Tube nights is that the noise does not penetrate to these deep shelters.

Londoners arriving in town for a new week of work looked cheer- ful and fresh enough. Some of

an

age in a neighbouring stract. Another woman was rescued after being imprisoned for hour and a half. Two workmen were trapped for an hour in a small building which caved in on them, but

escaped with

abrasions and shock.

The statue of the horse Pegasus fell to the ground from the steeple

that

the girls who work at stores which of the Inner Temple Library. A have been damaged in recent raids German bomb recently struck the were on their way to prepare for, clock tower, over which Pegasus the latest thing in bargain hunts stocd, ripping a hole in its side, for shoppers salvage sales.

Being out for the night on war-the

and the authorities decided den's duties

lower must be demolished. (writes reporter) When workmen pulled down the

structure Pegasus fell clear

the statue of and was

of the debris, damaged.

picked up almost un-

I saw much of last night's activity upper in one sector of London, and, if one could forget that death and destruction were being aimlessly let loose, the sky, with its chang- ing pattern of flashes, piercing searchlights, and bursting shells, was thrilling to watch.

SALVAGE OF CRASHED AIRCRAFT

When the red glow of a fire started by the raiders appeared in the distance it seemed as if the gunners put 3 specially heavy barrage round this possi- ble attraction for further raid. craft. ers. Before long the firemen hadi done another good job of work and the tell-tale glow had gone. ing from serious injuries in the

"Like An Express Train"

Mr. E. V. Bowater has been appointed by the Minister of Air- craft Production to take charge of the salvage of all crashed air-

A building in Central London was hit during the second warn- ing. The bomb.exploded on a parapet, and threw massonry into the basement area. People in the building heard the whistle of this and other bombs, and roof wat- chers said that the blast was like an express train tearing through a tunnel. There were many peo-

Mr. Bowater is chairman of the Bowater

paper campanies. He entered the businese after recover-

last War.

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Later the

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hurt. They were taking shelter, and, having listened to the rum-for Hitler's attempt at invasion. Now many of the ble of the explosion, went drinking tea.

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At any rate the Army is fully had left the house it was level the men have orders to sleep fully Most of led to the ground. Civil da-dressed, so that they can be ready fence workers were quickly on at a moment's notice, and the the scene, and they found that civilians go to bed each night. many people were pinned down prepared to hear the church bells by wreckage."

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I climbed up on one of the aliffe outside Dover and with

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