1940-12-19 — Page 53

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 19, 1940

WHY HE BOMBS LONDON

ONE LEGGED, ONE-ARMED

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OUT BOMB FIRES

(By A Special Correspondent)

AN OLD SOLDIER with one leg and another with one arm saved two houses from destruction and, possibly, several lives. They were Mr. E. J. The intensive bombing Walton and Mr. Robert Russell, both of a South- of London is partly a West London suburb, where a large number of fire- measure of our ability to bombs were dropped. Both the men lost their limbs wreak destruction in Ger- fighting in the last war.

many

and

occupied Walton,

though one-legged, climbed to an attic and, after pull-

France, and partly a cloaking himself up a ladder, managed for the withdrawal of to put out a bomb before It could

do any harm. German

squadrons

for

the Near-Eastern cam- paign.

Germans who see their factories crashing round their ears, their

With one arm Russell broke through a blazing bedroom door of another house. Within a few minutes he had ended all dan. gor of fire. About 200 incendiary bombs

NEW INDUSTRIES DEVELOPED

Prime Minister Robert Gordon

SOLICITOR ASKS FOR NEW BENCH

An allegation that magistrates had decided an application in private instead of in open court was made at Maidenhead by Mr. T. Alan Stuchbery, a solicitor, The Mayor (Mr. C. T. Kitley) refuted the allegation and refused an ap- plication that the bench be récon- stituted.