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300 SAFE IN NAZI BLONDES FORM

BUMBING OF

BRIGHTON CINEMA

HIGH EXPLOSIVE ·

BOMB CRASHED THROUGH THE ROOF OF A BRIGHTON CINEMA INTO THE AUDITORIUM, WHERE 300 PEOPLE, 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.

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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 andrescie 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 The bomb which hit the cinema

was one of twenty dropped by a lone raider.

A double-fronted shop and

The flats were telescoped.

DUCK R.A.F.

OFFIC

GUEST

AT RITZ

His name is probably not in the hotel register, but the Ritz, Piccadilly, W.1-pied-a-terre of mil- lionaires and England's home from home for

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several flats above were razed. visiting royalties has

its strangest visitor: A house crashed down on common or farm- pond

several families.

duck.

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Houses elsewhere and' a row of He is the guest of Pilot Officer, cottages came down like crush-Robert Ullman, of the Royal Air ed match-boxes.

Force. Pilot Officer Ullmann has named his guest Lord William, and hopes, when he returns to duty, to make Lord William his squadron's mascot.

Two two-year-old babies are among four unidentified victims of a dive bombing attack on a recreation club pavilion at a This is how Lord William found north-west town. A number of himself sharing the luxuries of one people were killed and sixteen of the world's "high spot" hotels: are in hospital injured,,

Pilot Officer Ullman was recov- A small card bearing the name ering from a shapnel wound in "Albert" is the only clue to the the right arm, received on Coastal A girl friend identity of one baby. The other Command work.

is a girl. The parents of both are wagered him £5 that she would believed to be among the injured, buy a more original pet than he Tea was being served at chil- could. She bought a mongoose. dren's party in aid of the mayor's Spitfire fund when the 'plane dived at the pavilion...

CHARGE HEARD IN CAMERA

Won A Fiver

THEIR OWN PROTECTION

SOCIETY

A society to defend the honour of Ameri- ca's blondes from wisecracks and slan- der has been register- ed by its chief, Joan Blondell, at Sacra mento, California.

Denying that it was a mere stunt, Joan, with her blonde friends, and lawyers, gravely appeared in court and registered: the society as Blondest · Preferred, Inc..

In legal language, the society "seeks to eradicate harmful, erroneous impressions, hearsay, gossip and slander circulated. throughout the world regarding the female presence adorned with blonde hair."-

BOMBED, HE SLEPT ON

A céntury-old church in North-East London was wrecked by a bomb. The grey-haired vicar and his wife were sleeping only twenty yards away when

"When I asked for a duck," said Pilot Officer Ullman, at the Ritz the bomb crashed down. "the staff thought I meant a dead Their home was exten- duck served hot. When they real- sively damaged.

ised that I wanted a live duck they spent the rest of the day on the phone.

"But Lord William arrived by taxi that evening, and he won me the fiver. I took an Imine- diate fancy to him and, as a treat for winning me the bet, 1 let him have a swim in my bath, "He's been living since, like After hearing in camera, a

Lord Richard, in the pantry, but murder charge against three men I have an uneasy feeling that for two days, Wallasey Magis-every time the chef looks at him trates discharged two of the men, he sharpens his knife. So I shall and the third was committed for take him and introduce him to trial to the Chester Assizes,

the squadron..

"We are only allowed to carry

They were charged with the murder of Joseph Alfred Reid' (55), shipping agent, of Caven- Pigeons while we are flying on ac- tive service, but I am hoping they dish Road, Wallasey.

At the conclusion of the evi- will make William an exception." dence the Press. were informed that Ernest Murray (26), sea- man, of Wright Street, Wallasey, had been committed for trial.

MANDARIN

He pleaded "Not guilty," and re- CHOIR

served his defence.

The men discharged were James Alfred Clarke (24), soldier, of Clarendon Road, Wallasey, and George. Etherington (25), seaman, of Guildford Street, Wallasey,

PEDIGREE PUP GIFT TO SPITFIRE FUND

TO SING

Lovers of music will be pleased to know that there will be a spe- cial evensong service in Christ. Church, Kowloon Tong, on Sun- day, at 6.30 p.m..

In his windowless study the vicar, sitting among the debris and puffing away at his pipe, said:

"We got out off bed and shook the glass off the coverings and then, when things quletened down a bit, we went back to bed again. What else could one do at that time in the morning?.

"We slept part of the time, al- though, with the windows and phutters gone, the holes of the guns was terrific. We got up at seven o'clock this morning chlefly because a whole"queue of demolition men kept coming Into our bedroom-the front door had been blown off-to ask for instructions.

-Tribute To A.R.P.

The Vicar paid a tribute to the A.R.P.. workers.. "They were magnificent," he said. "They were on the spot in a few minutes and they called down, 'Are - you hurt?" I replied, 'No, we are all [right".":

The Vicar of another church In the neighbourhood' recently. -bombed has been staying at the vicarage which was damaged but had gone away for the night..

A splendid programme of sacred

The high altar of the church music has been arranged. which will be sung by the choir of the now lies beneath a huge pile of tumbled-down masonry, but it is Mandarin congregation, a choir believed that a small chapel con- which has already made itself. taining the Blessed Sacrament has well-known throughout the Co-

escaped serious damage,

Donations will be received by The South China Morning Post. Cheques should be made payable to "War Fund-South Ching that Chidren of local school. The bulk of the service will be 2nd, there will be a change in the

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A pedigree red setter puppy, lony for its excellent work, and Houses around the church were engagement rings,. iron

ration ranks as one of the best choirs in damaged, but nearly all the in- containers of the Boer War, and the Colony. Mr. Y. K Sze, who habitants were in shelters and es- a plece of tapestry which took ten since his arrival in the Colony has caped injury. Other damage in years to make are among gifts delighted large and numerous au- sent to the Lord Mayod of Bir-diences by his fine.bass voice, and the neighbourhood was the des- truction of three small houses. An mingham for him to sell for the wonderful technique, will sing oil bomb landed on a public-. city's Spitfire funda

solo, and will assist the chair in house, which was open as usual "A woman' exhibitor has given choral works.

the next day. the dog, whose mother is valued Dr, C..T. Wang, former Chinese at £500," a reporter was told at Ambassador in Washington, will the Lord Mayor's office, give a short address in Chinese

"To-day the Lord Mayor heard and English. SPLEN As from Monday, December

were so thrilled by a 'Spitfire over in English, and the hymns for hours of broadcasting ZBW pro- the city that they immediately congregational singing are chosen grammes, The evening #pro- started their own Spitfire fund. so that the words, and verses can gramme will begin at 0.30 instead The junior, children collected be sung together in Chinese and of at 0 o'clock as at present. £75 and the senjor boys £40, English,geto; well-known tunes. There will be no change in the The Lord Mayor has written to taken from the Chinese hymn- them that he will go and book, Hymns of Universal programme on Sunday get the money from the children Praise" and "from the "English, which will start, as at their school next we

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Hymnal."

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evenings,

usual. at 7