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HITLER FLEW OVER LONDON- NAZIS SAY!

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 30, 1940...

TWO

LONDONERS "FLEW" IN AN IRON BOX

Prize lie of the Nazis is the one recently issued in the limited quarters where it had hope of be- ing swallowed that Hit- ler himself, in one of his periodic flights over Løn-

The tank was blown into the air. It came down don, personally observed

on top of the wrecked building. The two people the King and the Prime were still inside it and very much alive.

The other bomb-a thousand pile of. bricks and dust directing Minister dashing for shel-

pounder -- landed opposite a wardens to them. ter in a state of abject building in which Old Bill is night panic!

By A Special Correspondent

TWO BIG BOMBS crashed in a London street. This is what happened: Two people were sheltering in a disused water tank standing inside a building which received a direct hit.

This, the Duke of Devonshire told the House of Lords, seemed intredible, but to simple-minded people, as in the Near East, where it was disseminated, it did gain a certain amount of credence, and special steps were taken to deal with it.

The Government did not

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special department of the Ministry of Information.

a

watchman.

Bill, his spell of duty over, was asleep when the explosion wreck- ed the front of the building and shattered every piece of glass around him.

ar-

When anxious wardens rived to rescue BI he told them to go away.

"No Hitler to

or anybody else is going apoll my sleep," he said. And turned over in his bed of broken glass and debria.

Girls' Bravery

In a house which was alrnost levelled to the ground three young girls were buried by debris. They were dressed only in thin night clothes and lay between a heavy

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"They were extremely brave, said a warden who helped to rescue them. "They kept call- ing out 'A little to the left or 'A little to the right' until we reached them.

we

"All they asked for when got them out was a cup of tea."

Baby's Escape

With a doctor standing by with oxygen. A.RP. wardens worked desperately in darkness for three- quarters of an hour to dig out a three-month-old baby from the wreckage of a house in a London suburb.

They reached

found it unhurt.

the baby-and

Over the child rafters had formed a protective barrier which took the weight of tons of crashing debris. The other occupants house were unhurt.

of this

Blind Folk Bombed Seventy blind men and women in an institution at a South-West town were being led back from their shelters when one bomb hit a shelter and another the bed- rooms to which they were be- ing taken.

Only two men were injured, both by flying glass.

"There was no panic," the ma- tron told a reporter:

"Some of the

the men were thrown on floor, but they picked themselves up, and the attendants and my- self led them to another shelter that had not been touched...

"I could not find an old man, but just as we were going to the shelter he came along the corridor saying: 'It is all right, matron. I have got my gas-mask and over- coat.'"

RAGGED BODY OF RAIDERS

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By A Special Correspondent

The first bombing squa- drons came over Dover high during the morning, taking advantage of huge cloud-banks, which roof- ed the Channel, and which, except for a large blue gap over the Dover area, stretched for miles inland.

'A.A. fire met them and forced them to change course into a lane, at the end of which our fighters awaited them farther inland, Barely had the noise of their engines died away than it began to swell up again, as many, at least, of the bombers started coming back coastwards.

Soon. in a great open blue..patch of sky they came swarming back in a ragged body; of about 50: Spitfires tackled them; split them. up further, and dispersed, the mob of bombers east and west, along the const

Terrific Dog-Fight

A terrific dog-fight followed. A burst of cannon-fre, succeeded quickly by a whip-like crack and crackle of machine-gun, fire out of sight in a ck rainycharged cloud, and a

dived

down from dy the Fou a few Hundred feet above the cliftstop where Li

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smoke and” lui! had: no time stočba

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plane

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