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GIRLS

RESCUE RAID VICTIMS

TEARING WITH their hands at the debris, A.T.S. girls helped to free people trapped beneath shattered masonry when a high, explosive bomb hit a London cinema in a night raid.

Although light streamed from the cinema through the broken wall and there was constant danger of further bombs falling, the girls insisted on helping with the rescue work.

Two more bombs fell in the dis- triel, but the girls still carried on.

a man

One pretty, fair-haired A.T.S. girl pillowed the head of trapped by debris. She gave him a cigaretle and tried to comfort him by talking to him.

He was in pain, but he smiled at her as he said: "This is almost worth being bombed."

Not until demolition squads and ambulances arrived did the girls Even then they pulled broken doorways from the

consent to leave.

heaps of rubble to form stretchers for the injured.

Men who were In the cinema

CHINA'S

WAR ON OPIUM

In a message to the na- tion Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has an- nounced the termination| of the Six-Year Opium]

when the bomb fell helped to pre- Suppression Programme vent a panic.

and warned

NEW MASTER

"The new order only means new master, declares the semi-offi- cial Istanbul newspa- per, "Ulus," comment- ing on an. Italian plan for European eco- nomy.

"In this plan," says the newspaper,

"all the nations are sub- ject to slavery. It is just not only to recall the greatness of anci- ent Rome, but also its death."

NAZI

KULTUR IN FRANCE

that the Systematic attempts are the death penalty may be im- being made by the Ger- streets and then returned to re-posed on any opium pro- man authorities in Paris

They Jed

women into

lease their friends trapped beneath the debris.

Injured Helped Too

A Roman Catholic priest hurried to the cinema and helped in the Covered with brick rescue work. dust, he spoke to the men as they lny buried under masonry.

Within a few minutes of the bomb dropping most of the injured had been freed and had been taken to hospital. Some of the men who had been injured carried on, helping to free those who were still trapped, refusing to have their own injuries dressed.

ducer, addict or trafficker

arrested hereafter.

to stamp out French cul- ture, according to visitors now in the United States

The Generalissimo stated that, according to reports submitted by different provincial and municipal from Switzerland and governments, the opium suppres-quoted by Edgar Mowrer, slon work provided in the pro- gramme had been brought to a Washington correspon- conclusion, and all licenced oplum dent of the Chicago supplying organs have been closed down.

"Daily News.”-

"Beginning from New Year's Three Germans, Kruess, director Day," the Generalissimo enjoined, } of the Berlin State Library, Beck-

all Chinese should march on the er and Fuchs, also librarians, he road of glory and rejuvenation says, constitute a commission in spiritually and physically, and Paris under whose orders all should redouble their efforts for books felt to be contrary to the from the elimination of the last trace Nazi spirit are removed of the opium evil."

public and private libraries and trom bookstalls. At the same time, bookseller's have been forced

works.

Soon after the night alert in the London area, enemy 'planes flying at a great height dropped a num- ber of flares over the capital. A measures will continue at all to display German propaganda heavy barrage of A.A. guns broke, out, several of the flares were shot down, and the 'planes fled without walling to drop their bombs.

Despite the termination of the six-year programme, suppressive

times and in all places.

"Chinese in enemy-occupied Catholic documents have also

should areas

fight against the been seized, and according to Japanese policy of narcotisation | Mowrer's informant the "Ger-

A low circling 'plane dropped in the same courageous spirit as mans tried with physical violence three oil bombs on one London in the battlefield," Generalissimo to wrest Vatican correspondence

One fell district.

Chiang instructed. between large

from the hands of Cardinal Lien- The National Government have art, Archbishop of Lille." blocks of flats and started a fire which was quickly put out, but it also issued a mandale announcing

de- Opium Sup- total elimination of opium. is feared

that some people were completion of the

pression Programine and in-claring that in this campaign lies hurt.

national re- muni- the foundation of structing provincial and cipal governments to ensure the juvenation.-Central News.

A Dornier that was chased across a south-east coast town by a Spitfire, Jettisoned its bombs, hitting a church, a cine. ma, and other buildings. As it fled the Dornier sprayed the promenade with cannon-gun shells.

While a Hurricane pilot attack- ed a Dornier bomber only 50ft. above the sea, A.A. gunners shot down a German fighter-bomber flying nearly five miles high over Dover.

After a few rounds at a white speck in the sky the battery scored

a direct hit and the M.E. spiralled down in flames from 24,000ft. into

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The Hurricane pilot, a sergeant, had been patrolling off the east coast when he sighted the Dornier below him, skimming over the

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WHIP BOYS, J.P.S TOLD

MAGISTRATES IN Leicestershire have been asked to whip boys and girls to check juvenile crime. But they don't seem to like the idea.

"We have been erring too much on the side of sentimentality, and instead of probation many of these offenders should have been birched," says Mr. Victor Pachin, of Barkby Hall, Leicestershire, chair- man of the probation committee of the county.

Chasing the bomber for ten His committee, which comprises be jeopardised, and they allowed miles, the Hurricane pilot caught | half a dozen magistrates, has cir- | the birching clause to remain. it up and fired

several bursts at cularised the rest of the magis “Sneer At Probation"! ¦ close range. When the sergeant trates pointing out the increase in had to make for his base, the Dor- juvenile crime in the county. :::: nier was out over the North Sea limping, for home severely damag- ed.

Spitfires shot 87 dive bomber, Britain for six Thames Estuary.

down a Junkers the first to visit weeks, into the

TWO ROBBERIES ON

THE PEAK

The circular reminded the magistrates of their powers to or- der whipping and asked them to consider these powers to stop crime waves.

The probation committee were unanimous In their decision to issue the circular, but their re- quest has so far met with little response.

Magistrates have been con |sidering this new request to order whipping in the light of that Par- lamentary attitude"

Mr. Pachio, said: “The "work of probation officers In Increaï» ing to such an extent that. makes one wonder if the system of probation haustalled.

"It is possible that we shall have to revert to taking note of the old adage, Spare the rod and spoil the child "NEME

AN Alderman J, W. West, of Cast-

ville, told a raporter: "We ¬did In many cases children now. consider ordering the birch in sneer at probation. They some Mr. D. G. Way, of No. 353, The Cone or two casoɛ, but we have times commit an offence while on

probation: Peak, has informed the police of not done so yet....

mé“ that. {to them la the theft of a marble block," "Before the Act was passed the all thats valued at $180, from his resid- House of Lords three times, in- that the ence on Sunday, Ma

serted the birching clause and be Mr. R. H. Woodman, of No. "588. | twice the House of Commons The Peak, has informed the knocked it out.

police of the theft of clothing At the third time the House probat and a telescope from his house of Commons considered that other [dtiwira?lant night,

"useful" provisioria in the Bill tight

fewer than were put on

ing, de