1940-12-03 — Page 9

THE CHINA-MAIL, DECEMBER 3, 1940.

BUS BOMBED AND GUESTS KILLED IN

WRECK

BAFFLED BY THE general weather conditions and the precision of our defences, Nazi bombers called a halt to their night raid much earlier than usual.

The "Raiders Passed" signal came earlier in the morning than at any time since the start of the aerial blitzkrieg against London or the Merseyside. London's Tube shelterers, however, decided to remain underground until the resumption of normal morning traffic.

Over 35 districts in the Lon- don area and

the South-East

were bombed during the night.

of

Raiders employed their pišual tactics up to midnight, and Lon- don had to face the brunt the attacks. Bombs were again dropped at random, à few fres being started, but all were soon under control.

than

He saw the photograph as he ran from his house after bombs had fallen nearby, and picking it up he hurried to-. wards his sister's house, # hundred yards away. He found that it had been demolished and that his sister, Miss Mary Rece, and her maid, were dead. The photograph had been blown! by the bomb explosion from Miss Rees' home on to her brother's

Casualties were fewer usual. The most serious in cident was when a trolley-bus doorstep.

was struck and a number of casualties caused, some fatal,

Blown Over Road

a bus

The bomb which hit was one of two that fell in one district.

Three buses were approaching. the spot when a bomb fell direct- ly on to one of them. This bus, in which most of the casualties were caused, was blown across the road into a shop window. The other two vehicles were badly damaged.

The

second bomb wrecked

some shops, and a building near- by was damaged by blast. A water main was burst. and

trolley-bus wires were brought

down,

Doorman's Luck

The trolley-bus which was wrecked. was outside a cipema, and this building was extensive- ly damaged.

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The doorkeeper there, Mr. Norman Thompson, said he did| not hear any gunfire or the

Lon Chaney, Jr., in "One Million B.C.," now showing at the King's Theatrɔ. -

'ALL CLEAR' 'YOU WILL AS RAIDER GUNNED

TRAIN

DIE NOTE THREAT

"If you don't carry out this order you will be dead very shortly.".

This was an excerpt from a let- ter, headed "I.R.A., 2 Branch," read at Maryleborne, when James

Swooping from the clouds some time after the "All clear," a Junkers bomber, lone rearguard of

Jefferies, 51-year-old night porter, the night raiders, ma-

of Bayswater Road, W. 2, was chine-gunned а train

charged with maliciously causing standing in a south-east to be received, a letter threatening London station.

to kill or murder John James

The 'plane soared in a circle | Tibbs, a day porter, of the same Cover the train, Some of the bul- address...

lets smashed their, way through

the roof, but no one was Injur-

Jefferies was a night porter al

ed and 'little damage was done the Embassy Hotel in Bayswater to the train,

Road, and Tibbs was the day

A single raider was seen

to

'planc. overhead before the crash crash near. Redhill, Surrey, after a į porter there, said Mr. R. L. Jack-

"The pilot must have swit- ched his engine "off", 'Mr. Thompson said. "My hat was blown off, and I think I am the lucklest man alive to have escaped with only a few cuts on the head and loft leg.".

Dorniers Down

A high-explosive bomb which fell in one London district par- tially demolished a church and

" caused some damage to Y.M.C.A.

premises...

A family of four, including an elderly woman, were buried in debris when two high-explosive bombs fell on villas in the Lon- don area. They were dug out by neighbours, and, apart from superficial injuries and shock, were unhurt., 6.

In addition to the raids over the London area, attacks, were"] widespread, covering the North- West and North-East of England, the East Coast, the South-East, and the South. Bombs were also 'dropped in a North-East of Scot- land town and in Wales, .

During two raids on the Liverpool district damage was done to commercial property and some casualties wero caused. Three raiding. Dorniers wore shot down over Wales, on their 'return, Journéy.

fight with a Hurricane. The en- counter occurred about ten min- utes after the train was attacked, and it is believed it may have been the same machine.

In one area the raider machine- gunned two streets.

The only person. In the vicini. ty was a milkman, and he caved himself by dashing into a house, His horse escape, but every milk bottle on had a remarkable the front of his van was smashed.

Night Patrol

'British 'planes patrolled the skies over London during the night.

The result was that although bombs were dropped in twenty: seven areas on the outskirts and the suburbs, and "In eight Home Counties towns, Central Lon- don had a comparatively "quiet" time.

A direct hit on one of London's most famous streets wrecked three houses.

The caretaker of one of the houses who was with his wife in the basement, was killed.

being

was

The waman, after trapped for Bix hours, saved by a rescue squad. In a north-west London area a bomb scored a direct hit on two bungalows where twelve people were living. 'Seven were killed, including two small children.

Trapped By Debris

Fifty-seven people in the base- When a Liverpool- hotel re- ment of a laundry in the eastern ceived a direct hit by a heavy outskirts escaped when the build- bomb, customers and staff were ing was wrecked, though tons of trapped under tons of debris. debris made escape impossible

Rescue parties had to tunnel until, rescue parties arrived.

through an adjoining basemont

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before they could. reach the people, several of whom were rescued

One man, still trapped, after three. hours, told rescuers, ho could put up with it while they dug a hole through which to pull him. He was extricated half un hour later and taken to hospital with a leg injury. /

Warning Picture

£100-A-WEEK-

OWES £10

Teddy Joyce, the dance band leader, was at Westminster Cour- ty✅Court ordered to pay" £10 owing to a sound studio, within

a month.

Miss Gwendoline Rogers said A photograph of his father, that the summons was served at found on his doorstep In Chiswick Empire, where Mr. Joyce North-West town during one" of was at the time topping the bill the week's air raids warned Mr. with his band,

Kay B Lewis Rees, a former well- khown Welsh footballer, of family tragedy,

"When ho is working I should think his average carnings are

£100 a week," she added.

son,

*

prosecuting.

“Leave, Or:

On October 4 Tibba received

come letter-purporting to

from one O'Donnell, This read: "We order you to leave this place next pay day, or you will be found dead in Edg- tell no one you are going. Book a ware Road. Give no notice and

bed in the Church Army in Edg- ware Road, and, there you will be met by someone and told what to do."

Tibbs had no connection with the 1.R.A., said counsel, but he was nevertheless somewhat frigh- tened and put the matter in the hands of the police,

Jefferies, who admitted having sent the letter, was remanded with a view to being committed for trial.

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