1940-11-29 — Page 17

THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 29, 1940.

NOW AT

PALACE

300 SAFE IN NAZI WORK ON

BOMBING OF BRIGHTON

CINEMA

·HIGH ̈· EXPLOSIVE BOMB CRASHED THROUGH THE ROOF OF A BRIGHTON CINEMA

Roof spotters have been intro- duced at Buckingham Palacé; where until then, the air-raid alarm has meant cease work for most departments of the Royal Household.

The Court post officer and the Palace telephoniats have gone to an underground shelter, high-off)-- their work with them under the

Palace.

INTO THE AUDITORIUM, WHERE 300 PEOPLE,cials of the household have taken INCLUDING MANY CHILDREN, WERE SITTING. Yet only four children and two adults were kill- `ed and twenty injured. The cinema is near a large hospital..

BELGIANS AID BRITISH

An eye-witness said: "How the bomb injured, so few is a mystery or perhaps a miracle, There was hardly a vestige of panic."

Among the dead was the fif teen-and-a-half-year-old son of a local doctor. Everyone, told of the determination and heroism of war- dens, A.F,S. men and rescue workers.

A warden, aged about seventy, was told that his son and wife had been killed, but he stuck to his post, saying it was his duty!

Flats Telescoped

According to the Ger- man wireless in Brussels, The bomb which hit the cinema soldiers of the British Ex-was one of twenty dropped by a

lone raider. peditionary Force who A double-fronted shop and have evaded capture are several fats above were razed. still in Belgium and nor- A house crashed down on thern France, where, with several families.

Houses elsewhere and a row of

The flats were telescoped.

drawn from the Palace police, and

Now volunteer roof spotters

A.R.P. personnel go up on to, the roof when the warning sounds and the work of the Palace con- tinues until they send down the signal "Raiders in the vicinity"

NETHERLANDERS' GIFT FROM H.K.

Q

The Hong Kong Committee of the Netherland Relief Fund has remitted $9,744 to the Prince Bernhard Fund in London as contribution for purchasing mill- tary aircraft for the Royal Air Force and the Royal Netherland Air Force, while $1,072 has been sent to the Committee for Welfare of the Netherland Fighting Forces in Great Britain.

the complicity of the po-cottages came down like crush-lands has acknowledged the re- pulation, who supply ed match-boxes..

them with civilian cloth- ing and help them in every way, they succeed in escaping the notice of the German police.

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Prince Bernard' of the Nether- ceipt with the following telegram, Two two-year-old babies are which among four unidentified victims "Netherland Consul General Hong has just been received: of a dive bombing attack on a Kong. Please convey to Nether- recreation club pavilion

at lands Community my grateful north-west town. A number of appreciation for splendid dona- people were killed and sixteen tion our Fund. Bernhard Prins are in hospital injured,

Der Nederlanden." A small card bearing the name "Albert" is the only clue to the identity of one baby. The other is a girl. The parents of both are believed to be among the injured.

The German authoritics, ex- asperated by their inability to lay hands on them, have warned the Belgians that severe penalties will be imposed on persons who know Tea was being served at chil- that one or more British soldiers dren's party in aid of the mayor's are in a locality and who fall to Spitfire fund when the 'plane dived notify the Germans, As this at the pavilion. warning was broadcast from

- Brussels in the Flemish pro-

NAZI AIR FORCE

gramme it may be assumed that N The British soldiers in question are hidden in the north-west of Belgium.

Other threats made by the German wireless show that the Belgian people do not limit the expression of their pro-British sympathies to assisting any Bri- tish soldiers they come across. The secret army of patriots who

IS STILL EXPLAINING

carry out sabotage against Ger- While Goering is blam- many is still active,

The "Brusseler Zeitung," a ing the weather for his newspaper started in Brussels failure to raze London to chiefly for the benefit of

authorised

the occupying

the ground, German troops,

print a leading article on Nazi sources are at the acts of sabotage "which have just taken place in the pro- same time trying to sug- vince of Liege," and mentions gest there is method in punishment inflicted by the Ger- their air-raid tactics. man authorities on the population

of regions where military cables They are threefold, it is stated: have been cut. Liberated Belgian Keeping London from getting its soldiers in these areas, it states,

have been made prisoners again and sent to a fortress. The Ger- .. man newspaper adds that the oc- cupying authorities have at their disposal "other means of guaran- teeing order. peace, and the se- curity of the troops and the installations which they need."

German Petrol Destroyed

This surprising phrase shows

breath;

Interfering with British war production; and

Preventing overenss supplies from reaching the British Isles. Meanwhile, according to a_sug- gestion made by Mr. Gault Mac- the "New York Sun," the Ger- Gowan, London correspondent of

mans have begun systematic bombing of the British country- side. in the hope of causing pres- sure on the Government to make pence,

that the sabotage effected by No Military Objectives: Belgian patriots Ismore impor- tant than was hitherto thought, for the occupying authorities, instead of announcing simply. that military cables have been cut, admit that the spirit, the well-being, and even the life of the German troops is endangered,

Mr. MacGowan says that -maps-found in German bombera which have been shot down

• show no military objectives".in many places which have been attacked.

And on top of all this Goering Clearly (the German: newspa-consoles the Germans for the per continues) it is primarily many failures of his air force In the interest of the popula with promises of more intense tion Itɛeir that these acts should raids on Britain:

cease, for the Belgians will

derive the greatest profit from

a loyal attitude towards the deterrent effect. In addition, the! Croccupying authority. The mó- German wireless admitted yester- deration shown by the German day that other acts of sabotage May military authorities up to now had been committed in the Water- must not be taken for weakness, Joo area; These must have been Up to the present the Germans important, as the Burgomaster have announced the perpetration of Waterloo was compelled by the of sabotage in the provinces of Germans to mobilise · all the in- Liege and Luxembourg, as well habitants between the ages of 10 Fins mysterious fires which destroy and 50. to prevent a repetition ed petrol installations, at Antwerp of such incidents, for which the and a rubber factory in Brussels, whole population is held respon- It may be assumed that the sévere sible. Collective penalties of this penalues imposed in: Liege pro-sort are a favourite weapon of vince last month have not had a German terrorism,

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