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RAIDS ON

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A WOMAN DIED in an air raid shielding, with: her body the seven-year-old evacuer Boy who was billeted on her. The boy was badly injured, but he

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sang while rescuers worked to extricate him from IN

the debris of the house.

The boy told the police who rescued him: “I prayed that I should be saved. I shall love you policemen always."

People of a bombed street were cheering

bedridden man of seventy-five, Mr. Albert Edward Wood.

Unable to leave his bed, he persuaded his wife to go to the shelter and lay by himself while the raiders attacked.

A bomb dropped on the bunga- low next door. The windows of his house were shattered.

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When they went to see afterwards someone asked: "Are you all right, dad?" Dad smiled There wasn't anything to worry about," he said.

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One man had dived into the garden when a German, 'plare andi crashed into the garden

burst into flames. As: the man lay there among the roses bul- lets were flying above' him.

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When the alarm was given, one pilot was in

His pyjamas. He threw a scarf around his neck and rushed to the 'plane.

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three yards from the entrance, but no one was killed.

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A marriage ceremony was car-

ried through at a church during the raid. "This is a good start." said the bridegroom to the driver of his car.

"They're playing the 'Wedding March' before we get to the church."

"I was standing in the kitchen shelling peas and when I looked up there he stood....'

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In these words a housewife told her neighbours of her un expected meeting with a Ger- man airman. He was one of the crew of

bomber German a which crashed in a fleld near the woman's house. He walked in the back door and gave him- self up.

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Second Lieutenant Colin David Hugh Wemyss, praised for his gallantry in Norway, told a general court-martial that he was guilty of signing worth- less cheques. Then he asked if he could enlist again as a private:

is Second Lieutenant Wemyss

the thirty-three and belongs to

of the cfficer-producing centre

were thirteen. RASC. There

al with charges in connection leged' worthless cheques, and one funds alleging misapplication of belonging to a regimental. account.

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prosecution dishonoured

he To some of the charges pleaded guilty, and there alone were proceeded with,

According to the Another woman found a wallet [eight cheques were belonging to a German airman between January and July 1940: who broke his leg when he land-Having had the first cheque dis cd by parachute. He thanked her honoured, he was, of course, warn- profusely when she returned the ed, and he should have seen the wallet to him. It contained

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A bomb demolished a chicken | photograph of his wife, гип. Although the owner was up the injured, he gathered birds: which had been killed by

sold them blast and neighbours.

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A young married wontan, who only a fortnight.ago gave birth to

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A ninety-two year old woman was too stout to enter the Ander- son shelter in the back garden of killed her house, and she was when à bomb demolished her house

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One-German airman came, down

a baby, was killed when her cot-low over a hill and machine-gun-

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Then in April he was posted to Norway, and while there, hla account re- overdrawn bank

But when

· He returned "the same old thing started again."

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Served In Norway

A. colonel under. whom Wemyss served in Norway said that his unhurt.

in bravery and gallantry when. Enemy 'planes fired machine-charge of a petrol dump which Two hundrett people who took refugerin. a shelter near a theatregun volleys ir. the street and a had been fired caused him to re- bus driver had an escape when a commend Wemyss for promotion, had a free show.

When the sirens sounded every-bullet passed through the window "As an officer he performed his one in the theatre - cast, proda- close to his head.. cers, artistic direttors and author

shelter,

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So which had plenty of room. they carried on with their rehear-

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their A family emerged from cellar to find their home- almost two an entire wreck. But the young daughters rescued the lunch of chicken and dumplings from the oven and the family ate it in plenic fashion on the back: lawn.

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A prisoner. has made a daring at escape from the police cells Blackpool.

He was James Heator (18); who Another famly stayed for severat diminuters after the air earlier in the day had been com- raidswarning had been given to |mitted" for trial" at Preston Ses finish what they were eating sions on three charges of shop They had just got to the collar breaking." when a Bomb exploded, wreck- Ing their home,

"It's a good job we didn't wait for the sweet course," said the father.

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Four high explosive bombs feit im back gardën by stA¤2 derson shafter, Ohe exploded

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Police-Constable Charles Paur, who went to attend Heaton in the Cells, was found with severe heat injuries and with his keys miss- ing..

Passing through the open cell door, Heaton had opened a barred gate only a few feet away from the charge office, run alỏng” ́a corridor, mounted a spiral" stair-- court: case; gone through two rooms and, descending the stairs, had forced the main street:en-. trance to the courts and escaped into the street under cover of the black-out/

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duties in an exemplary manner."

Captain N. Jukes, for Wemyss, said that in civil life Lieutenant Wemyss; wagsengah- ed in the oil industry in Canada, to and gave up his busimaay enlist in the ranka.

The first cheques were givert in good faith, and some of the bank letters about his "overdraft, never renched Wemyssi

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After an unsatisfactory- start to his career as an officer, ha wiped aft that out by-his-con- ho duct im Norway. - When cama"" back: her had no-kit at all, and" was given - leave to go to London to get some.. He eventually found himself under open arrest, and under the humiliation; and worry of this he committed further offences...

The findings of the court will be made known....

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Immediately after a”. German bomber had bombed a landing field in the West of England, two Spitire pilots, took off from the field, determined on revenge: For nearly 100 miles they fallosted the bomber, losing it from times to time in cloud and then picking it up again,

Eventually they got on its tall near Southampton. One of the fters made a beam attack at 200-yard range; firing short bukts Until smoke poured from the

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"Am I pulled away! I saw that the enemy nireruft was... losing” beirkt, rauidiy," this pilót said. Nine couples took part in Tân - Them Number Two took up the go, Fast and Slow Fox Trot, and ältäcks from astern and expended Waltz events, while Mr T C. Katt all his, ammunition."

and Mas Tang oveľa demonstra" 56 tion of the Tango,

“The enemy. Bomber fewes over the sea-¡ird, a' gouth- First prize, will awarded to Mr,direction for a few minut Wong Man anti Misa. Chans-se-, it, turned, and flew, paral cond to My Tše Kim-hung and the coast... Immediatels Miss Tang, and third to Mr. Chol wards I saw the bomber dive into Tung and Miss Wong,

the sea and disap