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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 4; 1940.

KENT TOWN'S SIX AIR RAIDS IN A DAY WHITE

FEATHER enemy made three daylight bids in force to GIRLS

A KENT COAST TOWN had six air raids when

the pierce defences in the Thames Estuary and the south-east coast.

R.A.F. fighters tore into enemy formations, fly- ing in wave after wave of forty to fifty 'planes, and inflicted losses early estimated at twenty-four. Twelve of our 'planes had been lost, but the pilots of four were known to be safe.

The sirens sounded in the London area again slightly ahead of Hitler's scheduled time for "nui- sance raiders."

In one of the six raids half a dozen bombs were dropped. Business property and a terrace of private houses were damaged.

Broken glass and shrapnel lit- tered several streets of the town, but there was only one casualty.

In one street a bomb made a direct hit on a hairdresser's shop and almost demolished a confectioner's shop nearby. A jeweller's shop on the op- posite side severely damaged and all the

AGAIN

The first suggestion of a "white feather" cam- paign, similar to that in which hysterical "women indulged in the last war, has come from Doncaster, the Yorkshire town which prides itself that two out

zens are serving their

SHOT DOWN of every seven of its citi- 9 'PLANES

AT 19

An R.A.F. pilot, of the street was nineteen,

who

country in the Forces.

chemical plumber, aged twenty-four, told a reporter:

"Many of the women' here seem to have no idea of what being in a reserved occupation means.

"Their attitude to young fel- aged

lows like myself, who are reserv- hased at eighteen, is that we

'are and

windows in the vicinity blown brought down nine enemy sheltering behind our jobs,

out.

At a restaurant where the pro-

prietor was the only casualty

customers had just taken shelter when a bomb wrecked the pre- mises.

Lunch Ruined

The proprietor

restaurant sent

of another his customers

down

to shelter In his cellar when the raid began.

While they were in the cellar a bomb brought

the ceilings of the restaurant and covered the tables where the customers had been lunching with dust and debris.

Another south-east coast town was the victim of a second "re- venge" air raid within four days.

'planes, has been awarded the D.F.C

Pilot-Officer James Eric Stor- rar, of Vicar's Cross, Chester, whose same appears in a list of awards for gallantry, joined the R.A.F. on leaving school, and got his wings a few days after his eighteenth birthday, His is Chester's first D.F.C. When his father, Mr. James Storrar, veterinary surgeon, visit- ed him at his station he asked what was in a letter lying on a table.

"Oh, that's only the D.F.C.," replied Jimmy.

The list of awards contains six D.F.Cs to officers and two D.F.M.s to sergeants.

been

David.

The other D.F.C.s have When waves of German alr-won by craft passed over they wore Squadron-Leader John greeted with heavy anti-aircraft Drought Collier. He led a success- gunfire. They retaliated by ful low-flying attack on an enemy dropping a stick of bombe in oil refinery and storage tanks. In the business centra. of the spite of his aircraft having been town.

hit in many places. He continued his attacks until the main attack was completed.

Pubs Destroyed

Nine public-houses were de- stroyed or damaged, but there was only one casualty, a restaur- ant keeper who was slightly wounded by flying splinters of glass.

Davis: He has been engaged on Flying-Officer Cart Raymond operational flying since the start of the war, and has destroyed six enemy aircraft and severely dam aged several others,

Three women-oño a cripple|

Flying-Officer Anthony Eyre: --who did not go to shelter Has shot down seven enemy air- inflicted damage on during a raid at a south-east craft, and

several others. were trapped

Max- and killed bomb struck their

.

market town under a staircase when house, A victim of an air raid on a south-east coast town, a messen- ger boy, was being burled, while anti-aircraft shrapnel fell near the cemetery.

Richard Flying-Officer well Mine: Has destroyed seven enemy aircraft; and seriously damaged a number of others.

Pilot-Officer Archibald Nigel Charles Weirs. Took part in the fighting over Dunkirk, and has since played a highly successful Leaving the gravealde, min-part in numerous engagements later, mourners and coffin bear.

over the Channel. Has destroyed at least five enemy aircraft, three era temporarily took shelter under bushes in the cometery of these in one day, ground,

3 Attacks Fail

As soon as the noise of battle had ceased the service was re- sumed and the all clear sounded as the coffin was being lowered into the grave,

The three mass. bids to pene- trate the South-east Coast" - de- fences in daylight ended in the

The two sergeants who get the D.F.M. are Sergeant Eric Know- les and Sergeant Clifford White- head.

GAS ALARM

- IT WAS ONLY OIL

flight of the enemy after fierce Wardens in a London area battles with R.A.F fighters. sounded their gas rattles and

Six raidore, said the Air Min-people put on their masks. letry, were bagged in the first It was a false alarm, however, battle which raged from the and wardens gave the All Clear middle of Kent to the Thames to householders within fifteen Estuary.

minutes.

Four of these-one a bomber were shot down inland by British fighters. They belonged to the two strong formations of raiders. They reminded me of a flock of sheep trying to get through a

hedge into a turnip field (writes

a reporter.)

Nazi On Cologne

They made at feast olx at tempts to get inland, and each time anti-aircraft gunners and Bpitfires turned them and sont them hall for leather flat out across, the Channel;

That is, all but six. Threo enemy airmen baled out and were captured.

An official of the local A.R.P. organisation said that the war- dens found an olly substance in the street, and at the same time noticed a peculiar smell,

that it is lack of inclination that

keeps us in 'civvies.'

"The women do not realise that even if reserved class men left their jobs they would not be allowed to join up..

"A clear conscience is not much consolation when you see your best girl going down the street on the arm of a uniformed man."

£70 RED CROSS

KITTEN

The Dowager Duchess of De.. vonshire, president of the Der- byshire Red Cross Society, who

is

seventy, auctioned a grey Persian kitten at the local branch of the National Farmers. Union,

When the kitten, had reached ita final purchaser £70 58. had been raised for the Red Cross.

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