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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 20, 1941.

BRITISH PARACHUTE TROOPS GIVE DISPLAY FOR HIGH COMMAND

MANY GENERALS and R.A.F. officers

and their staffs, including General Sir John THOUGHT SHE COULD Dill, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Gen- eral Sir Alan Brooke, Commander-in-Chief of

NOT SWALLOW, STARVED TO DEATH

the Home Forces, Air Marshal Sir Arthur Bar- ratt, Air Officer Commander-in-Chief, Army Cooperation Command of the R.A.F., and General Viscount Gort, were present at para- chutive exercises on the moorlands yesterday, throat, and that states the Air Ministry news service.

Over a bleak stretch of moorland an R.A.F. troop carrier emerged from the clouds and suddenly the officers saw parachutists dropped from it one after another.

Before the 'plane had disap- peared into the cloud again all the men had landed, unharnessed the'r parachutes and silently pre- it remote and

pared to attack

vital enemy objective, which was

a small imaginary factory, where it was known that a high per- sonage and some of the most senior officers of the enemy High Command were to watch a private demonstration of a new weapon being made there.

While this gathering of Britain's leading Army and Air Force com- manders was waiting on

the

moor an R.A.F. troop corrier un-

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A woman of seventy-four be- came obsessed with the idea that something was wrong with her she could not

swallow.

She ate so little that she died. Al an inquest at St. Pancras, London, medical evidence showed that there was nothing wrong with the woman, Nellie Taylor, of Bel- mont Street, Camden Town, Lon- don. N.W., and the verdict was Dealth from self-neglect.

HAPPY FAMILY

SLEPT ...

(By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)

THE BLAKES WENT to bed happy. They'd

had a family party to celebrate the end of a tiff. One of the sons-in-law had doubted the safety of the clouds in bad weather. demon- basement shelter.

obtrusively came through the

<trating the surprise nature of the attack.

He thought it would be better if the family went In accordance with a prearrang- by charabanc to sleep in the country as they had

ed plan, the troops, weapons ready for action, rushed to the factory which, though isolated, was guard- ed by suntries and employed about 50 civilian workers,

Most Impressive

been doing.

with steel girders, was not auf- ficient protection.

"Let's make it up over a bottle of port," said the mother-in-law. Twenty-two- of the family--in.

Mr. Blake, after his son-in- cluding six grandchildren--turned law had found it impossible to up and a good time was had by get petrol for the charabanc, de- all.

cided to use the shelter again. Two of the happiest were two Mr. Edwards strongly disagreed brides and their husbands who with his father-in-law and they had been married together nine had words until the party was months ago,

arranged.

The grown-ups drank a toast. Glasses clinked. "To а united family," they smiled-and went to their bunks.

They Died As One

It was assumed, for the purpose of the exercise, that the greatest care had been taken by the enemy to preserve the secrecy of the rendezvous, and it was the duty of the parachutists to surround The objective until the arrival of more to act as demolition parties in the destruction of the factory machinery and military personnel. The exercise was most impres- sive and showed the potentialities) Only survivors of this tragic! Mr. and Mrs. Blake's daughter of this method of attack. It also family are Jack Blake, his wife - Diana; her husband and their two proved the efficiency of coopera-and child who weren't able to go little girls, Bill. Blake and his tion between the R.A.F. and the to the party. Aimy-Reuter.

GAVE HER CAKE TO LONELY SOLDIER

It was the silver wedding of Mr and Mrs. Alec Townsend, of the Greyhound Inn, Brighton, but their iced cake was eaten instead by half a dozen lonely R.A.S.C. drivers in a billet miles from home.

Mrs. Townsend had treasured the icing sugar she had saved for her cake.

Then she heard of a lonely sol- dier with nobody to make him a cake for his twenty-fourth birth- day, which he had planned to celebrate in his billet with Army pals.

[Mrs. Townsend brought out the icing sugar, made the birth. Jay cake and packed a 15lb. parcel for the party.

"I just saved a little of the ic- ing sugar for a cake to celebrate when my own son Terry gets his first-leave," Mrs, Townsend said.

20 LONDON FIREMEN ARE CITY'S GUESTS

...

At the suggestion of the Nor- wich Chlef Constable, Mr. J. H, Dain, twenty London firemen are due to arrive in that city fór n week's holiday. A similar number of Norwich firemen have volun- teered to take their, places.

The London men are to stay for | the week at a hotel as the guests

"of Mr. H, P. Gowen,^«!

Added Juden acizlet cun pavaj

Soon afterwards a bomb hit the basement and killed them all.

Had No Petrol

Mr. and Mrs. Blake were there and their son 9am, Bessie his wife and two girls aged about nine und four. Lew Blake and his wife Micky and their two little girls,

wife, the daughter Nellie and her husband and the son Pat and his wife.

The ages of the children ranged The dead were; Mr. and Mrs. W. from four to nine years. Pat Blake Blake, their five sons and their and his sister Nellie had been mar wives, their two daughters and, ried only-nine months, their husbands, and their grand- children.

Only during the last few days had they been using the 'shelter. : Previously a son-in-law-one of those who lost his wife Mr. William George Edwards, twenty- six, had driven the family into the country at night in a charabane.

For weeks he had felt that the basement,

When the bomb fell Mrs. Edwards, mother of the Blakes" son-in-law, hurried around,

She heard her son faintly cry- ing out, "We are over here. Get us out." Then the voices became muffled.

Sitting in her home nearby, Mrs. Edwards told me: "They. all died as one, and I am glad they although patoformed had settled thei- diffaránnée 11

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