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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 7, 1941. LONDON RAID · TRAGEDY
BOMB HIT THE ONLY WEAK SPOT
ON SHELTER FOUGHT TO
SCORES OF FAMILIES WERE SETTLING
CLEAR
DOWN IN A BIG UNDERGROUND SHELTER IN HIS NAME
AN EAST LONDON DISTRICT, WHEN A BOMB HIT THE ONLY VULNERABLE SPOT IN THE POWERFULLY PROTECTED STRUCTURE.
The hit was on a ventilator shaft measuring only about 3ft. by 1ft. The rest of the roof was protected by 3ft. of brickwork, earth and other de- fences. But over the ventilator shaft were only corrugated iron sheets.
Mothers were killed before they had a chance to protect their children. Babies were swept from perambulators. Three or four roof support pillars were torn down and about fifty people lay in stun- ned heaps.
About fourteen of them killed and some forly injured and rushed to hospitals.
With bombs still falling and in the glare of the East End flres. Civil Defence men coolly worked among the debris of the shelter, seeking
wounded, carrying the them to safer places, and giving
1hem first aid
work was had been sounded. were
resumed in parts of the factory.
Several hundred people were They Evacuated from one area. took with them what belongings they could carry, and spent the night at schools and institutes. Though bombs dropped nearby, an old peuple's home escaped un- damaged Among the inmates is an old woman of ninety-nine.
"She 10 quite chirpy this morning." said the matron.
Doctors Worked By Torchlight, Save Lives
Nine doctors answered an SOS lives by improvising and saved tourniquets They dressed wounds by the dim glow of carefully held torches.
family three children were killed. Their parents escao- ed,
In one
A man, when the smoke and noise died down, searched for his wife. found her lying on the ground and turned her over. was dead.
She
of
Sang Songs - Bomb
Fifty Yards Away
As bombs were dropping only 50yards away, people in a public house joined in community sing- ing.
They sang on, though at times the noise of explosions and gun- And fire drowned their voices. the landlord went round with a
Spitfire Fund collecting box. Hundreds of people had arrived for a greyhound
houses.
A beautiful widow figured in a dramatic epi- sode in the life of Major William Augustus Adam, a former M.P., who has died aged seventy-five. after having fought the War Office for thirty-four years to clear his name.
Major Adam and several other officers of the 5th Royal Irish Lan- cers were asked to resign their commissions in 1906. Major Adam was appointed a staff officer the War Ofer.
nt
War
He contended that the
their action because Office took an informer had reported that be owed money to a woman,
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"I was engaged to the woman, beautiful widow," he said, "but I had to break off the became engagement when
that she - was
was
as
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STOR IN AT OUR SHOWROOM NOW AND TAKE OUT A
STUDEBAKER CHAMPION
FOR A REVEALING, CONVINCING 10-MILE TRIAL DRIVE.
For - .
HONG KONG HOTEL GARAGE
Stubbs Road
"IT'S SUCH A RELIEF
TO PHONE MY ORDERS
THESE HOT DAYS!”
GROCERIES, BUTCHERIES, FRUITS, GREENS AND
SUNDRIES.
THE ASIA COY.
YOUR FOOD HEADQUARTERS
Of Kwan Building.
an
Des Voeux Rd., Central
for
aware inebriate. In January, 1910, Major Adam
ret:"ned
Unionist M.P. for Woolwich, but lost the seat at the election in December.
He brought an action lihel against the late Sir Ed. ward Ward, Permanent Secre.
the tary of
War Office, for publishing a letter about him. and was awarded £2,000 dam ages. Appeal Judges decided the occasion was privileged and Major Adam lost his £2.000. He took the case to the House of Lords, which upheld the find- ing of the Court of Appeal,
GERMANS SURRENDER
Two German airmen. believed
Hours afterwards a woman, her at a stadium head and arm swathed in band-meeting when a bomb was drop- ages, was in the refuge room of ped on the track, almost in front the shelter, waiting for news
Three of the totalisator board. her two children. She did not other bombs were dropped in the know that both were dead.
vicinity of the stadium, striking to be the pilot and observer of the bomber which crashed at Hornchurch, Essex, surrendered They haled oul of the next day.
when their machine was hit. The pilot had leg injuries. The bodies of two other airmen were found in the debris of the bomber.
A.R.P. and A.F.S. workers said that despite it all there was no panic.
work magnifi-
"The women cent," they declared, The Civil Defence men sel superb example,
But the spectators stayed to cheer as they watched two the raiders crashing. During the night raid a bomb front of ચ a fell immediately in
crowded bus, and many
passen "Angers were injured by flying glass,
Air Warden Sales said; A.F.S. man ought to get a mo. dal. He flung off his tunic, or- ganised everyone who was un- hurt, whether in uniform or not. "He seemed to know exactly what to do and what to say, and it was largely owing to his com- manet that all the dead and wounded were cleared out of the shelter in about twenty minutes." The fireman was Mr. H. Beare, an ex-soldier. He was searching for a purse which his wife had lost in the wreckage.
bothered
"I am not so much about the money inside it as the ration cards," he said,
Considering the large number! of people in the shelter, A.R.P workers consider that the toll was very small.
About 150 people had amazing cscapes when a bomb scored ถ direct hit on the railway, line in a London area.
The sides of the walls of the shelters in which they stood cracked and dislodged bricks fell in on thom. But apart from minor.cuts, and bruisek „there were, no casualties.. · +
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was
...
⚫ Nearly seventy bombs were dropped in three south-east Lon- don districts, and about twenty- five working class homes were damaged and shop fronts blown out. One damaged house occupied by a First Division foot- baller.
In another area, the Mayor and Mayoress were in a shelter look- ing after about 500 residents. Their house was damaged. The Mayor called for volunteers and men helped him to assist injured persons to safety from damaged houses..
A salvo of bombs was dropped on some productive buildings by fifty bombers which it is suggest- ed had followed a train to its destination.
Men and women workers were trapped in a shelter and
·wera · released after-- about an hour's work by rescuers, Men who reported at the factory for the night shift were turned back at the gate.
They watched at least eight of the raiders shot down... In the morning, aftér: the “All ́alsar'
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Here's Luck!
EWO
"STAY-AT-HOME WIFE'
missed all the fun.
(THINKS)
JACK WILL BE SO DISAPPOINTED WHEN I TELL HIM THAT, I DON'T FEEL LIKE GOING TO THE RACES TO-DAY
AT THE DOCTOR'S SIX WEEKS
IN YOUR CASE ALSC THIS: HAS: LED TO ÁN EXCESS: -OF ACID WASTE PRODUCTS IN THE BLOOD. RÉCÈNT TESTS. HAVE PROVED
THAT HURLICKS AT BEDTIME
IS WHAT
YOU NEED.
LATER HORLICKS RECULARLY SOON GAVE. .... HER NEW VITALITY
JACK DEAR -DO YOU MIND GOING ALONE?
I FEEL
DONE UP
WHAT, AGAIN DARLING. IT IS TIME YOU SAW
A DOCTOR ABOUT THIS
TIREDNESS.
NEXT RACE MEETING
JACK DEAR THAT'S THE THIRD WINNER WE'VE PICKED THIS AFTERNOON,
CLEVER OF YOU DARLING!
YOU'RE A DIFFERENT PERSONÁ SINCE TAKING
HORLICKS
DO YOU FEEL WORN OUT, DEPRESSED, OR NERVY? DO YOU EVEN AWAKE TIRED ?
BEER
AT THE DOCTOR'S
...J EVEN
WAKE
TIRED
YOUR TROUBLE- IS NIGHT
STARVATION. YOU SEE,WHILE YOU SLEEP, YOUR HEART, LUNGS AND OTHER AUTOMATIC
PROCESSES”. CONTINUE USING. UP ENERGY..
DOCTORS AND SCIENTISTS USE MORLICKS
IN HOSPITAL TESTS
RECENTLY teats were made in great
on men and women
plained of always feeling" tired.
who
It was found that these people had an excess of 'aeid waste products in their blood during sleep.
This seld waste kept the brain and nerves. ton edge all night even though the rest of The body
was sound, asleep.
But when
licks was given to these peopis fast thing at night, this excess acid waste was completely neutralised. They woke refreshed, with increased energy and vitality,
Take HORLICKS
THEN YOU WILL SLEEP SOUNDLY- WAKE REFRESHED AND HAVE EXTRA ENERGY ALL DAY
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