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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 23, 1941

V.C.

BIG SHELTER IS HIT 1914-18 BUT FEW ARE HURT REJOINS

MANY PEOPLE escaped unhurt when a bomb made a direct hit on a public shelter during the night in the raids on London.

The shelter was divided into eight bays. Some people were killed and others injured in one bay, but in the other bays people suffered nothing worse than shock, and were able to spend the rest of the night in the shelter.

An Air Ministry communique says that the raids were 011 2 larger scale than on recent nights They were at their height dur- ing the early hours of darkness

- when three main attacks were in

FUGITIVE SWAM

TWO RIVERS

V.C. OF THE LAST WAR, CAP-

TAIN GABRIEL

COURY HAS REJOINED ARMY.

GEORGE

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Me has been gazetted as a Ileutenant in the R.A.M.C.

Captain Conry was a second lieutenant in South Lancashire Regiment when he won the..V.C. In 1916.

During an advance he was in command of two platoons ordered to dig a communication trench from the old firing line to the

Before an escaped German pilot position won.

progress—against London, against | was recaptured he swam Two the Midlands, and against towns in the north-west.

and in

Many high explosive cendiary bombs were dropped in London and its suburbs. Damage was done to a large number of houses and other buildings,

Double Escape

Elsewhere bombs fell at a num- ber of widely separated points in England and Wales, doing little damage.

A second public shelter in Lon- don was hit. It was demolished. but there were no serious casual- ties.

In the other bombed shelter ono man had a remarkablę escape. He had left to get a cup of tea in a cafe. The cafe was wrecked by a bomb, but he dragged himself out of the debris.

He was being given treatment for minor Injuries and shock when a bomb hit the shelter. The part in which he was being treated was not affected.

A social centre used for resting and feeding the homeless families was damaged.

Hospitals Bombed

Three London hospitals were bombed. A doctor, five nurses and A porter were injured at one. There were 131 patients. All escaped with little moro than a faw scratches but they have now been evacuated.

A heavy bomb in a road on the outskirts of London wrecked six houses. All the occupants, several of whom were under kitchen

tables, escaped unhurt.

A direct hit ou an Anderson shelter in a London as a killed a family of seven,

Seven people escapen when a hravy bomb demolished a three. storcy house and damaged

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number of others in a narrow

ittle street recently visited by the King and Queen near a market place.

The people were in a basement shelter next to the demolished

house.

"Gasworks Hit"

raids,

Berlin's version of the quoted by Reuter, says "In last night's attack on London, German 'planes scored hits on two large gasworks at Greenwith and Ful- ham. Several fires could be ub- served in Greenwich. A largo ex- plosion devastated the gasworks.

"The Fuiham gasworks was destroyed by bombs of the heaviest calibre. There was a vast explosion with flames ceveral hundred metree In height.

"The lines at Watering Station were destroyed."

MAN, 64, PLAINTIFF IN BREACH CASE

A NOVEL BREACH OF PRO- MISE ACTION BROUGHT BY A MAN OF 04 HAS BEEN SET DOWN FOR HEARING BEFORE A SPECIAL JURY IN THE KING'S BENCH DIVISION OF THE HIGH COURT. DURING THE CURRENT SITTINGS.

The plaintiff. Mr. Frederick William Mitchell, Russell HID Road, Purley, Surrey, is claiming damages for alleged breach of promise of marriage against Mrs Winifred Mary Richards, of Lako Road East, Cardiff. He is also su ing for the return of money which he alleges he paid to Mrs. Richards in various amounts conditional on her promise to marry him/wmg.

The allegations are denied in the defence.

The action la the first breach of promise case for many years in which a man has been the plain- tiff.

rivers and wandered for six days ever rugged moorland and swamp. Franz von Werra, twenty-six. Heutenant in the German Air Force, offered no resistance to the police at Esk Fell, a lonely spot on the moorland near Ulpha, on the Cumberland border.

Exhausted through hick of food, he was taken to the prison from which he had escaped.

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By his utter contempt of dan- ger, he kept up the spirits of his men and completed his task un- der intense fire.

Later, after his battalion had suffered severe casualties and the commanding officer bad been wounded, he went cut in front of the advanced position in broad daylight and in full view of the enemy rescued his commanding

officer.

SEE AND TRY THE