1940-12-30 — Page 4

SHOWING KING'S

TO-DAY

AT 2.80,

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WAS THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 30, 1940.

SCRIPPS'S CHAMBERS BY DINGHY

WRECKED BY BOMB

THEY'LL SCUTTLE YOUR BLUES TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA!

Your favorite funny men are here..in their funniest comedy. Go along with them on! the swells of laugh. ter that reach a tidal wave of hilarity!

Hal Roach

STAN

OLIVER

LAUREL & HARDY "SAPS AT SEA

Directed by GORDON DOUGLAS * Released thru- UNITED ARTISTS

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DEANNA. DURBIN "SPRING PARADE“

A UNIVERSAL

PICTURE

STAR THEATRE

I STOOD OVER the ruins of Sir Stafford Cripps's chambers in the Middle Temple, writes a London correspondent. Here before he became Ambassador to Russia he had sat preparing the law cases which gave him his reputation.

At my foot was a damp, dust-covered copy of "Laws of England." There was a smell of escaping gas, and brick dust was still in the air. A monument of England which a German bomb had wrecked.

TO SAFETY

The crew of a Royal Air Force bomber recently had

narrow escape from drowning after making a successful attack on Ber-

in. The Captain, a Cana- dian, who was recently awarded the DF.C, said:

"We found ourselves in difficul- ties when we were off the Frisian This is no job for demolition Islands. It became obvious that parties. Here the craftsmen whö

Famous names lay dust-cover- formance of "Twelfth Night."; ed n the ruins. The. Earl or Blikenhead, Sir Robert Aske, Sir Thomas Bethell, and Slc John Pratt (of the Foreign Office), and ! Mr. Justice Hallett. All their chambers had been rained.

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But their clerks still clamoured round the surveyor's office' looking for rescued papers-papers casts which might otherwisé held up for inepths,

be

Have just completed the mo- we should have to come down on dern panelling of Church Housel the sea. Westminster, will be at. work!.

for months sorting out debris.

"We lightened, the aircraft as From it they will collect · the much as possible by jettisoning remains of the famous old carved all surplus weight and nursing the oak screen, presented by Flemish engine. We hoped to find a con- refugees from the Inquisition in voy and came down somewhere gratitude for the hospitality -óf near to it, bút, no ship-was sight- The saddest damage Was tu the benchers of the Middle Tem-Léa. In the meantime, we wer the Middle Temple Hall, where' ple.

gerting nearer to England. .Soon |Queen Elizabeth saw the first per- Carved by modern hands, it we saw the coast and our hopes would cost-thousands of pounds, fran 'a-little chigher, but, unfor- With such a history it is priceless,tunately both engines spluttered

When the cherubs' wings - and and then stopped:- suchlike pieces have been recover-

70 BOMBS ON THAMES TOWN

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ed trom the wreckage; the debris."1 pancaked on to the water, and will be put through a Bat-nch landed a quarter of a mile from riddle.

the coast. The navigator, and the rest of the crews had launched the dinghy by the time I had munaged to scramble out of the cockpit.

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Golden Hind Table

It will be like riddling for gold in the Klondyke. The mallest "It was just as well the naviga- A force of 100 bombers find might be worth pounds. tor had left his position because which attempted a sur-

Fortunately the stained glass when we hit the water, which was zwindows, had been removed at rather like hitting "concrete, the prise raid on a town near the beginning of the wat.

first decke were smashed and water the mouth of the Thames. The double-hammer beamed oak just rushed into the aircraft: It roof-with the exception of one did a kind of subinarine dive and accomplished little be- part-the 281-long benchers then came up again; 17 We were “ HANKOW RO. KOWLOON DAILY AT 2-30-5-20-720-920 TEL.57795 yond the destruction of a cable made from a tree from soon about burninghy and number of small dwelling table made from the Limber of We paddled the dinghy propelled Windsor Park, and the famous reached store. In about 45 minutes. TO-DAY ONLY

houses, and a working the Golden Hind, Drake's ship, it shorewards with our hands and men's club. Only a few presented to the Inn by Queen swam behind it to push along, and

Elizabeth, are safe.

finally we reached safety.". people are reported to have been killed.

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A barrage of anti-aircratt fire gave the

first warning of the aiders' approach. As people ran for shelter about 70 heavy bombs fell. Between 30 and 40 dropped right across the heart of the town.

At the outset the raiding forec had consisted of at least 100 bembers and fighters, but a small; rumber of Hurricanes fatercepted them so effectively that the force was split into two. One formation turned tail, with the Hurricanes chasing it out to sea.

The other portion made a wide c'rcle before approaching the

town.

With the sun -behind them they started a gradual dive towards their objective, which was appar- ently some of the docks. Long before that objective was reached, the A.A. barrage caught the raiders, which began to drop their bombs haphazardly.

Shelter Intact

Four of the enemy 'planes used a new technique, diving below the barrage to attack.. At the end of The dive, they dropped their bombs and then sprayed buildings with machine-gun bullets. One bomb hit a shed, but the rest fell on waste land causing neither damage nor casualty..

Anderson shelters justified themselves completely. One had emained intact, although · within two feet of it was the edge of a great crater. The people inside the shelter were suffering from shock, but were otherwise unhur:. A few yards away, however, one of the little shelters had. re- ceived a direct hit, and two girīs. were killed.A man who had declined to take cover and then

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at the last moment had changed IF YOU SAW “SNOW WHITE” OR “PINOCCHIO”

'his mind was killed as he was coming down the stairs, for the front of the house was blown away.

ATTEMPT TO RAM HEAD-ON

A Junkers 68, pilot became so desperate after a Blenheim fighter had chased him for over 50 miles that he attempted to'ram his pur- suer, head-on, Suddenly, turning at the end of the chase, he drove his Junkers straight at the Bien- heim. He nearly succeeded," the bember passing only ten, yards underneath the fighter LAGI M

The Blenheim · pilot had pre- viously opened fire, nhd demøged the bomber.

- When last scen the bomber was fying slowly, with off pouring

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