1940-12-10 — Page 24

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Announcing

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 10; 1940,

NAZI FIRE-BUGS FAIL IN RAID ON LONDON

ADVANCE CREWS of German crack. airmen were unable to start early any big, tactically im portant, fire in London to guide squadrons waiting in North France.

LIFE IN BRIXTON

Admiral Sir Barry Ed- ward Domvile, who has been detained in Brixton

Result was that the fourth consecutive all-night raid on the capital was on a smaller and less- damaging scale, although Goering's bombers roam-Gaol since July last under ed over the area for eight and a half hours

:

The two previous nights the full force of the at- tack was delayed until the fire-raisers were able to radio "Success" back to their bases. Bombing dur- ing the next night did not grow more severe as the hours passed by, suggesting that the first attacks could not be followed up in force this time.

But bombs, caused damage in — extricated the last of the dead Central, East, North-West, South-about seven hours after the ex-

plosion. East and South-West London.

Meanwhile, raiders were over the Midlands, Wales and South- East; South-West, North-East, and North-West England.

Risked Life in Church

the

Section 18b of the De- fence Regulations, has had a daily minimum of 19 hours' solitary confine- ment, it was said in the High Court.

Applications for writs of habeas- corpus were being made on be- half of Sir Barry and four other people,

A caretaker dashed down the

Mr. Justice Hawke and Mr. narrow stairs of a blazing Cen-Justice Macnaghten adjourned the. tral London church, with the applications and gave leave fur windows crackling in the heat notices to be served on the gov and timber falling from the ernors and gaolers of the prisons roof, to rescue the communion where the people are, and the cups and plates.

Home Secretary.

"I made two trips to the rooms

and plate to safety," he said.

A five-storey block of workers flats in north-west London was while the fire was raging over my cut in two by a bomb, and peo-head, and carried the silver cups ple were pinned beneath wreckage but about 1,000 peo- in ple who had taken refuge trench shelters nearby were un- hurt,

One woman said: "We had been singing in the trench shel- ters, but when the crashes came and we heard. the flats falling, one woman started a prayer and we all joined in.

Rescue parties toiling among the 30ft-high piles of debris bricks, plaster, woodwork and furniture

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Hospitals Bombed

Mr. Gerald Gardiner for Sir. Barry Domrile, read Sir Barry's. affidavit in which he.. com- plained of the 19 hours' daily soli-'. tary confinement-lengthier still during air raids,

Mr. Justice Hawke: Part of the The chief engineer and the as-19 hours a day mentioned includes sistant matron were killed and a sleeping, time? number of nurses injured when a heavy calibre bomb hit a Central London hospital..

None of the twenty-six patients on the premises was injured.

A large maternity hospital in East London was hit for a sec ond time,

The_bomb - an incendiary →→ started a fire which caused some damage to the top floors, but all the patients had been evacuated and there were no casualties among the nursing staff still re- -maining.

"No Charge":

Sir Barry said that no charge had been preferred against him.

His affidavit, saying that he had, heen in the Royal Navy for 44 years, went on:

The court will understand how much I resent the allegations against me in view of the fact that the public safety and the de- fence of the realm are the very things to which I have devoted my whole life."

Four high explosive bombs, be- lleved to have been followed by Bir Barry added thäti he was incendiaries, burst in a warehouse allowed to send out and receive - and, business area in central Lon- | ; only two letters a week. don and caused fires.

́ ́Firemen at work in 'one street

The other applicants were Mrs. where the blaze was most in...] Ritá - Kathleen Shelmerdine, of' tense clambered to the upper Greenway, Wilmslow, - Cheshire; floors of burning" buildings to | Harold Henry Alexander de Laes- direct their hoses on to premios soe, D.S.O., M.C., Miss Emily more seriously threatened,

Dorothea VavasourDurell, and William Edrie Sherston.

Dogs Safe, But

Mrs. Shelmerdine; said Mr. Gar- Between 150 and 200 people diner, was 27. She had two chil escaped when, a quarter of andren and had been in Holloway hour before the "All-Clear! was Prison since July 11. She was given a heavy high explosive British.·· bomb struck a building in a south-|:

east London street, wrecking · · Her affidavit: said that she had nearby houses. The occupants had been an "inactive member of all gone to a shelter which was the British Union, and added: "1- undamaged.

have never done anything to hurt my country,'

A mother and daughter were killed when a bomb dropped on

•some email residential houses In a south-east' district of Lon- don. Their bodies were ́ro- covered after. A.R.P. - workers and demolition squads had dugi, throughout the night to release them.

Two small wire-haired terriers were brought up from the big hole made by the A.R.P. men." They were covered in. dust and very frightened, but otherwise un- hurt:

CONCERT PARTY FOR

ICELAND

ALBERT ROAD FIRE ALARM

WITH SELLO CEANGING, EN- | GINES RQARING-AND-GEARS · | CLASHING, UITWO: FIRE, SEN-" | GINES ROARED; UP-GARDEN AND UPPER -ALBERT ROADS THIS MORNING TO PUT OUT A. FIRE" WHICH NEVER EVEN GOT AS FAR AS THE PUFF- OF SMOKE STAGE, ---

"Ensa," the organisation which Its turned out to be that bug- provided entertainment for the beer of the fireman's daily routine. troops, is to provide two.concert the false alarm. kur nors parties and two sing-song units The, "fire" actually started late for the Forces in the Middle Etist, last night, Labcording to a coolie, in addition to mobile cinema vans, who says that a European polica A special, concert party and a sergeant on a motor cycle crash- number of cinemas are being sented into the alarin with his ma- to Iceland following the recent thing and bont. It consider- statement in the House of Com-

mons, by the Secretary of State

for Warawa

Around 10 o'clock this morn-

In the Army, garrison theatresing apparently, some one decided and R.A.F. station theatres in the to investigate the damage, touch- aiturin the Shakespeare Memoried the alarm and bells, and things al Theatre Company will present started ringing furiously in Cen-: a series of condensed versions of tral Fire Station, which promptly Shakespearean comedies, under turned out two machines. the direction of Mr. B., Iden Payne, the Stratford-on-Avon-director,

Still, it was a nice morning for a rido