1941-04-03 — Page 39

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 3, 1941.

CHINA MAIL

"WINDSOR HOUSE

FINISHING THE JOB

The great storm of war which has burst more furiously over Signor Mussolini, smashing his fleet in the Mediterranean so that it is exceeding doubtful if it will venture. to sea again, wresting Keren, Asmara, Harrar and Diredawa from him in East Africa so that the doom of his African Em- pire is clear writ, was not just an accident of a chance meeting or even superior mobility. No! more was the blitz raid upon Emden, the effect of which shook even Joseph! -Goebbels into admitting "comparatively large damage."

"Give us the tools," said Mr. Churchill, with his formidable emphasis, "'and we will finish the job."

Germans having spent a week digesting the Yugoslavian coup and the news of Italy's defeats, and the leaden knowledge having sunk well home, their skies were torn to fury with the night and the finishing of the job was under

way before their eyes and above their heads.

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calling to each other and to the occupants, "Are you all right?"

Just what the phrase "London one of the most beautiful and one building and men can be heard had its heaviest raid of the war of the most terrifying spectacles last night" covers in the way of imaginable, damage is something that cannot,

and will not, be known in detail outside England for weeks,

Reading the dispatches, know only that the physical dam- age was considerable and that the

we

ties, both dead and wound- ed, were numerous.

For it seems apparent that the arrival in Britain of giant American bomb-

The only yardstick by which to ing planes of the Con- with the other heavy raids on judge a big raid is a comparison solidated Liberator type London. contributed significantly est on the metropolis up to that In one raid, probably the heav- to the crash about Emden time, the Germans claimed to of bigger bombs than had have dumped several hundred thousand pounds of bombs on the ever before fallen upon a city. Both German and British German city. Buildings sources put the number of 'planes were lifted bodily from night at between 1,000 and 1,500, their foundations;

be and they didn't get their money's worth in vital damage done. cause celebrated and dreaded long-range bomb- ers were droning over- head,

which hovered over London that

Sky Pockmarked:

With Fire

Sometimes there is an answer -sometimes there is only silence, Even as they call, shell bursts far i away in the night sky give warn- ing of more 'planes and bombers' engines. again comes the uneven note of

once

London defences, the sky is pock- As the 'planes approach the

marked with reddish points of fire where the anti-aircraft shells That in general, is a picture of long white channels through the is in progress. are bursting. The searchlights cut what goes on when a heavy raid

darkness, and from the ground the

By Frank R. Kent, Jr.

Armageddon, Then

The Dawn

Sometimes the raiders may be concentrating on a relatively small area, sometimes they spread "out" and several districts will be un-' der fire at the some time. In the thick of the noise, with the re- flection of fires glowering in the sky in several quarters the gen- Strike In Series,

sullen glare of several fires starteral impression is that Armaged- ed1 by incendiaries outlines the don finally has arrived and ́ Lon- Of: Waves

antlike figures of the AFS men don in the morning will be a sea working heedless of explosives to of blackened walls. Contrary to a popular miscon- subdue the flames.

With morning, after the all clear ception, this does not mean that 1,500 German planes were over most

The barking of the guns is al- has gone, however, you wake up one continuous roll, and to the famíliar sound of buses London at one time. The Germans high above is that where where rumbling through the streets and wave comprising only a small gines. come in a series of waves each } whrrr-the beat of a bombers' en- see the people on their way to

work. number of planes.

These bombs shook al people who have been told that no air attack would be allowed to reach them, that Britain is beaten and Ech wave however, no sooner virtually out of the war that American aid will gular beat of the next wave's.en- gines can be heard approaching.

has unloaded its burden of de-

struction than the ominous irre

The Climax And

· The Lulf:

.

They may and many of them probably have spent the night int} shelters, but they are up and go- ing back to business as usual. You visit the scene of 'your own parti The sound of the engines gets cular raid of the night before.

pack of deep-throated. watchdogs Can Stand A Lot baying furiously at an intruder:

The observer holds his breath More Of Them waiting for the last note in the symphony of totalitarian war; and

There will be holes goping in then it comes.

the solid rows of buildings. There will be fre-blackened shells of There is a sound like an express what once were dwellings or busi- train getting louder and louder ness houses. Here and there a and there is a dull “krump.”.

lucky building may be standing Sometimes there are two more with the adjoining structures on sometimes there is only zone. The both sides reduced to a tumbled sound of the plane fades off, and heap of rubble. there is a few minutes of com- · Undoubtedly, the: raiders did a

not be allowed to reach I have stood in the street while a closer and the guns sound like a the British Isles. Yet rald was in progress and it seem

red from the ground that the while this latter part of planes were coming in with the the fable was being drum-regularity of subway trains, but

far more often. med home, the RAF. struck its most devastat ing blow, and with it, gave promise of still heavier blows to come.

The general practice is for the first planes to drop showers of incendiaries near whatever ob- The initiative, plainly, Jectives they happen to be hunt- is slipping from

Incendiaries Then Explosives

hands. If only. America Bun for the vicinity of the fires men can be heard shouting to each the traffic, seething, through the ¦

with high-explosive bombar

perately to extinguish the flames

can provide the tools To the more or less innocent" by atander it quite often seems to promptly and in suffi- develop into a race with the Auxi cient quantity Britain Bury Fire Service working: dese will finish the job, even before they can guide the next Booner perhaps than could wave of bombers to that objec- at one time be imagined.

heavy raid is at once

tive.”

other as thèy-woi

Sometimes Only Silence

streets the stream of lita catry? ing on "business as usual! RES

And you realise that in spite of the thousands of pounds of bombe; in spite of the fires, -the-gray stout-hearted old city can stand 11 the bomb-has fallen very holdt more of the heaviest, ráida close, you can also hear the clump of the war without having the pf heavy; siDER BRAVKIZAKLAR, EACH MORE LOZFIRES +Which, is «LATRAKS police run toward the stricken seriously impaired.

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