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THE CHINA MAIL; JANUARY 4, 1941–

BOMBS STRADDLE

5 ITALIAN AT TRIPOLI

CRUISERS

DEATH FOR

TWO HEAVY RAIDS on shipping in Tri-HIDING

poli harbour were carried out by the R.A.F. during Wednesday night, said a communique issued at R.A.F. Headquarters in Cairo yester- day.

BRITONS

Norwegians who hide During the first attack bombs straddled Englishmen, or who give the south-east mole and five cruisers moored information to the Nor- there, other bombs hitting the custom jetty London, are to be punish - wegian Government in and a ship and starting several fires near sea-ed with death, under a plane hangings.

Explosions and fresh fires fol- lowed and the seaplane hangar started burning.

During the second raid direct hits were registered on the cus- toms jetty causing fires and three explosions, probably en ships moored alongside.

Two large motor vessels were Hit clouds of heavy smoke re sulting. The fires were visible for over 60 miles.

Bardia Raided

Bordin was again subiccted to series of raids the same night, large fires hainn. started among stores and buildings.

To further aids were made on Thursday, mainly on a motor transport Concentration and an nenmoment west of the town, using considerable damage, the extent of which was confirmed by photographs.

Numerous reconnaissance flights were carried out in Italian East Africa but there is nothing out- standing to report.

From all these operations all British aircraft returned safely to base. — Reuter.

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POSTMAN HERO

When bombs are falling in one of London's worst hit areas there on duty who is always a man needn't be-John Moyce, postman aged forty-two.

Night after night he keeps y gil in the garden of the house where he lives with his mouer-n-law and father-in-law.

new law of Major. Quisl- ing's ersatz Government of Norway.

The law is necessary, the Gov- ernment say, because of increas- ing activity by British "Secret Service agents," who are said to have furnished all kinds of in- tormation to Londón, particularly concerning movements of troops and ships along the Norwegian coast.

The real reason for the new

law is quite different. In the last few weeks the British Navy has been operating most successfully off the Norwegian coast, and Nor- When anything drops Jack, as wegians have been able to see for he is known to his friends, is al-themselves the power of British ways one of the first on the spot. arins. Already he has saved many lives.

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"British Spies”

A report from Oslo says that British bombers which attacked German convoy off Hauge- sund sank at least one transport of 5,000 tons.

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Anxious to prove to the Nor- wegians the "incidental" nature of such happenings as the Hauge- sund attack, the Germans are ble through the help of "British claiming that they are only passi-

spies."

When a "bread-basket" of in- cendiaries burst over the dia- trict, Jack rescued

woman and her baby who were trapped, He was first on the scene when three houses were demolished by a direct hit. He got one man out alive and helped in the rescue of he was over- two o hers before come by gas fumes,

He came to on a stretcher. He heard voice say: "Get him to hospital as quickly as possible.”

That was enough for Jack. He scrambled off the stretcher. "Not for me", he said. "I'm going back to help with the rescue work". And back he went.

"If ever a man deserves the All Jack George Cross it is Jack Moyce," "My mother-in-law and father- said a neighbour.

in-law are nervous, and it seems Councillor T. E. Evans sald: to give them confidence if I am the D.C.M. in the keeping watch. Maybe I've been last war for rescuing a wounded able to help a few people, but I colonel under fierce machine-gun reckon that is what we are all fire. He was only seventeen at here for, so I just do it."

HOT BOMBS "Moyce won the DC.M. IN FIRE

When a wagon of high explosive bombs was fired bv a German raider a shunter and other men re- moved a sheet and the topmost laver of bombs, which by that time were hot.

This is only one instance of courage, gallantry and initiative shown by railwaymen, who ar: often under fire in air raids.

In one raid hundreds on incen- d'ary bombs were dropped on a railway siding with high explosive bombs. Wagons were set on fire, but the staff worked for several hours putting but the fires,

A wagon of ammunition fusca on fire wae unloaded and saved by a checker and his gang and a train of ammunition and pe- trol was promptly moved from a blazing building by a yard Inspector.

Save Explosion

After wagons had been set on fire at a large goods centre, fifty. horses were saved, and at another station' more than eighty horses were removed.: "·

An engine drive. and fireman. were sheltering under the wheels of the tender of their engine when: It was struck by a bomb.

- But they climbed back on to the footplate while other bomba" were dropping, flooded the bol- lar to reduce.... steam "pressure, <extinguished the fire with the injector hose pipa and by throw- -ing ballast into the firebox, and so prevented a boiler explosion. Men at docks and on rallway. steamers have also shown great bravery.

One ship's officer picked up a large bomb which fell on the deck "and" threw. it overboard: juste in

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