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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 1; 1941.

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RAINED KIDNAP

BOMBS RAINED ON STREETS OF SHEFFIELD

SHEFFIELD, walking to work, picked its way through damaged streets and smiled grimly at the Berlin claim that the German bombers "accurately aimed their bombs at the important armament factories of Sheffield.”

The concentrated fury of high-flying raiders was directed on the town for many hours. Com- mercial and shopping districts were severely dam- aged.

Several buildings are gaunt fire-blackened ruins and some streets were made almost impassable by piles of masonry and ruined trams and buses.

Buses, trams and ears could not; gel through the jumble of train- times, bricks and twisted iron poles carrying overbead electric cables.

Cinemas, stores, shops, houses and churches were hit or dainag- ed by blast.

A hospital was ringed by bombo, but escaped A church was de

molished.

The total of killed and injur cd. while considerable. was amazingly low considering the length and ferocity of the at

to be recovered.

UNREST IN ITALY

Ruined Industry

And Trade

A diplomat resident in

tack, but many bodies have still Italy states in a letter that there is an atmosphere of excitement and discontent everywhere in the

The tard Mayor of Shefield and me:bres of the Council were

in contatiual conference with Min- istry of Health representatives.

"All dr fires are estinguished or under control," the Lord May- or told a reporter.

Wanton Destruction

try.

coun-

"I do not expert the regime to endure more than a month." he states. "It is likely to be replaced by either a parliamentary system German-controlled goverit-

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A prominent neutral industrial-

and

"We are busy caring for thement ** homeless and tetoring transport The raid was one of wanton deist who has just returned from a struction."

business trip to Haly said that dis But Sheffield went to work as Sutisfaction with the war among determined as ever

though here the middle classes and many Fas- and there were gaps among the

eists is nothing compared with the annoyance workers

of industrialists big business men, All see them- Mared in the afternoon, Air-selves ruined, craftman Alfred Haynes twenty-seven-year-old Miss Wini fred Truman were on there way to their honeymoon Rat in a Mid- land fewn when they were ser fously injured during an air raid,

They are now in hospital. The bridegroom's sister, Mrs. Maggie Whitehall who was a bridesmaid. was killed.

Mr. John Truman, the bride's father, said: "We had just wound up a very happy wedding party and all the guests had wished the couple good luck and said good- night.

"Mrs. Whitehall and other guest had gone out to walk down the road with them. The party had only just left the house when there was an explosion.

"They had known each other for six or seven years, and fred had seventeen days' special leave

his wedding,” the bride's father added.

for

German offein's in Berlin as- serted that the Sheffield raid was heavier than that on Coventry from the point of view oLstriking power.

WARRANT FOR PORT OFFICIAL

"If it were for some useful pur- pose," he said, "I do not think they would mind, but all are conscious that the war is beng senselessly waged from the Italian viewpoint.

demon-

"To give you an example of how people are thinking, I wit nessed some of those strations in Northern Italy or ganised by the Fascist party to

up discontent, mora! and send telegrams loyalty to the Duce,

cover

increase

of

At two of these meeting sever- al dozen people shouted, as Fascist speakers inveighed against Eng- land, "What did England intend to do against as?" The crowd took up the response, "Nothing."

"One of the foremost shipping traders in Italy told me that it was useless to load eargoes as they dare not send a ship two miles from the Mediterranean coast."

EXCHANGE

OF WIVES

"THIS 16 A CASE IN WHICH BOTH HUSBANDS HAVE BEEN LIVING WITH EACH OTHER'S |WIVES FOR A CONSIDERABLE TIME," SAID THE PRESIDENT, BIR BOYD MERRIMAN, IN THE DIVORCE COURT.

the

He had before him a petition by Mr. Derek Brian Lyne Chudleigh, of Bude, Cornwall, for divorce from Mrs. Evelyn Cecilia Chud- A warrant has been issued for leigh on the ground of her adul- the arrest of William Robert Nocery with the co-respondent, Mr. ton, sixty-one, of St. Augustine Richard G. M. Darwall. Avenue, Grimsby a well-known The sult was not defended. but Grimsby business man who holds Mr. Chudleigh, who is now serv- a responsible position in the porting in the army, asked for

Army and Navy officers were in court's discretion to be exercised court when Nocton was due to ap-in his favour. pear on the charge that "he did an Mr. and Mrs. Chudleigh were act calculated falsely to suggest | married at. Plymouth register of- that he was acting in the service tice in May, 1937. The husband's of his Majesty," and "did un case was that in the following lawfully publish a statement ro year they made the acquaintance lating to matters connected with of Mr. and Mrs. Darwall, and Mrs. the war which was likely to cause Chudleigh became friendly with alarm and despondency the co-respondent, After-a-quar¬ When Nooton's name was call rel Mrs. Chudleigh loft her hus- ed, Mr. Entwistle, for the pro- band and went to live with Mr. secution, sald 'an extensive | Darwall in a flat in Knightsbridge, search had falled to discover S.W. the whereabouts of Nocton.

The husband was granted a de-

On his application a warrant cree nisl, but an application for was issued by the Bench.............. / costs, was, refused

GUARD ON INVENTOR

Identity of the inventor of America's No. 1 military secret.... the jealously-guarded, high nc- curacy "Norden bombsight" is being shielded carefully by U.S. officials in case his life is endan- gered.

Although not a Navy man, this "Mr. X" worked closely with the Navy Department for fifteen years in perfecting the bombsight. Noth- ing more is known about him.

Another secret is the location of the factory where the sights are | manufactured, says Associated

Press.

be

"Deadly Pattern"

"Do you think an effort might made to kidnap the Inven

tor and extort the Recret?" an official was asked.

"It might

be,"

he replied.

Officials also decline to discuss the degree of accuracy which U.S. bombers achieve with the sight.

One familiar with the bomb- sight's performance, said it was an exaggeration to say

it could "drop a bomb in a barrel" from 20,000ft., but asserted that small

group of bombers, equipped with

the instrument, could spread

from a great

deadly bomb "pattern" over small target tude.

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