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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 5, 1940

THE CITY CARRIES ON-A cafe damaged by a bomb in a recent raid in the City area, had its gas supply cut off. The enterprising proprietor then served City workers with cups of tea on a stove in the street amid- smoking debris. (Copyright, Fox).

COMMONS CALLS

FOR DRASTIC ACTION

THE HOUSE OF Commons, resuming the Debate on the Address yesterday, heard a series of speeches from back benchers, al- most all devoted to urging upon the Govern- ment more drastic action to mobilise the en- tire resources of the country for victory.

Earl Winterton expressed disappoint-

SABOTAGE IN GERMANY

·In

the German newspapers, cases of sabotage are being reported! Formerly there was a strict bon on such information. Presumably pub- lication is intended as a warning because of the increase in these incidents.

WEEK-END PILOTS BAG 29 IN 10 DAYS

ment at what he considered the failure of Government spokesmen to give a convincing answer to criticisms voiced earlier in the de- bate.

A squadron of R.AF. "week-end pilots" has brought down sixty-three enemy 'planes twenty- nine in ten days-without the loss of a single pilot.

It name is the City of Glagow 602 Fighter Squadron Auxiliary Air Force.

There was a general desire, he the full industrial strength of said, to see Britain take the of the country was yet being thrown fensive in the field but a real into the struggle, offensive mast first take place in factories and shipyards.

Lord Winterton urged also the vital importance of harnessing the resources of India and Africa to the provision of supplies for the Middle East campaigns.

At Home he advocated compul- sory measures for control of re- sources and 'transference", and training of manpower.

Strip To Waist

One of the pilots in a letter to Lord Provost Dollan, described a recent air fight.

"I had a grand tussle with a Messerschmidt 109, which lasted for about four minutes, but I managed to get him in the end." he wrote.

"It was a magnificent specta- ale Up to 20,000f", the air was full of a whirling mass of air- craft. So many Jerries were baling out and coming down by - parachute that it looked almost- like an Invasioni.

"One of our pilots who came down by parachute when his air- craft was hit and burst, into flames was cornered on a farm by crowd' of angry farmers all armed

with pitchforks.

a

They thought he was tra Jerry."

SHIELDED BABY WITH HIS BODY

little daughter with his

A young father shielded his

body. when a bomb fell in the London area, lifted their Anderson shelter out of the ground, flung it five. yards, and then buried it under earth.

The father is Mr. Bradshaw and the child. is four-year-old Maureen.

The rescue, workers who re- leased them members

from the shelter found the child unhurt, but both her parents had to be taken to hospital for treatment.

Speaking for the Gavern- ment in the course of the de- bate the Lord Prealdent of the Council warned against Booking. Immediate re sults at the expense of the sys; tematic development of pro- ductive capacity by which the fall weight of” Britain's offort would in due time be brought to bear crushingly. enemy.

on.

the

of

Taking up Lord Winterton's point, he called attention to the Mr. Seymour Cocks (Labour) the Eastern Group at Delhi. The

| recent successful conference- agreed that on the home front

recommendations had just be-

to the

govern-

they must strip to the waist for come available

Asleep

"Undoubtedly the father saved the child from being hurt. She was; asleep when the bomb fell only a yard from the shelter and tore, a big crater there," sald a warden.

Six. people were killed in the

victory. He echoed the demand ment which, would come to a de-same street when a bomb wreck- frequently heard in the course

of debate for a constant vigorous cision with the least possible de- attack against Italy.

lay. British Wireless,

Mr. George Buchanan, one of the threớ 1. L. P. members, only group. In the House not giving unreserved 'support `to- the war effort, expressed the vlew that a military victory by Germany was Impossible and by Britzin -also Impossi- ble and said the sooner there. was negotiated peace the hap-

DIED FOR

A KISS

When his father crossed the

pler he as a Pacifist, would be road to catch a bus, three-year-

ed three houses on the opposite side of the road!

In another part air raid shel- ters at an A.F.S. station were. partly buried by debris, includ- Ing. heavy concrete pillars flung on them by a bomb.

The firemen all unhurt released themsolves.

kiss.ine.'

Her Birthday

"My two little girls, Bernard

Mr. Vernon Barlett (Indepen-old Bernard Shaffery, of Mal- and I, went to the bus stop with dent) said there had never been mesbury Close, Bristol, run after my husband when he left for a war since the Crusades in him for a good-bye kiss..... which moral factors were so much on one side and material The father boarded the bus, factors on the other..

then saw the child-in the path of a lorry..

He stressed the importance of making sure they secured the support to which they were en- titled by a clear declaration of war aims

Importance Of Allies

Sir J. Wardlaw Milne (Con servative) was not satisfied that

HoIdapt off" and "raced to, save him. But he was just too. lato... The boy was. Knooked

· down. He-diod?" In hospitati yesterday, 0

business, as I thought I would buy a birthday cake as a treat for the children. It was my bir- thday.

"My husband, left us to the road to the bus and thỏ đid. not klan Bernard. The next momentumlabad my baby. He must have clipped after his Daddy to give him ́a-good-bye

Mrs. Shaffery told a reporter: "A few moments later I saw, "Bernard adored, his father, him.. lying in my husband's arms and was always saying, “Daddy, I on the other side of the street."