1941-04-19 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 19, 1941

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ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL BOMBED

Famous London Buildings Destroyed In Nazi Blitz

PEER KILLED

IN LONDON

AIR BLITZ

The Earl of Kimber- ley was killed during Wednesday's raid on London, it was reveal- ed yesterday.

As Lord Wodehouse he was one

of Bri tain's best polo play- ers and played against the United States the Westchester Cup

series.

He

Was 57 years old --Reuter.

TRAGEDY OF ONLY GIRL

CITY TEMPLE AND MAPLE'S BURNT OUT

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL HAS AGAIN BEEN BOMBED, THE CITY TEMPLE THE FAMOUS FREE CHURCH HAS BEEN GUT- TED BY FIRE, AND GUY'S HOSPITAL AND THE WORLDWIDE KNOWN DEPARTMENT STORES OF SELFRIDGE'S AND MAPLE'S ARE AMONG LONDON BUILDINGS WHICH, IT CAN NOW BE REVEALED, HAVE BEEN DAMAGED IN RECENT AIR RAIDS.

A bomb which scarred St. Paul's fell in the north transept, where it hurled tons of ma- sonry into a fantastic pile of broken columns and stonework.

Another bomb fell in a nearby street and the blast swept. round the Cathedral. Almost every pane of glass some

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dating back to the time of Sir Christopher Wren,į who built the Cathedral

have been blown out.

Mert of the fatt WAS UH- barmet but The north fratrepi

deep hole. ported with

Centring their lives on their only daughter, a lamplighter and his wife: stinted themselves to give, the girl a good education,. The gied done and the win- a good start in life.

1 pasting gallery are not affected

Guy's Fire

The your fatice went by. but they were happy years, be cause their daughter did ordinarily well Her sucre -

extra

The Cathedral,

de- already sverated by a homb which dan-

BERLIN WORST

NAZIS BOMB THEIR OWN 'PLANE

During the German raid on Portsmouth on Thursday the Ger-

mans actually bomb- ed one of their own had planes, which been brought down by A.A. guns and burning 0177 the ground. The crew of tour were killed.

WOS

The Germans op. parently thought it was a British 'plane

Reuter.

GETS

RAID

MORE BOMBERS, CARRYING MORE

VICTORY ASSURED IN A YEAR

That victory, perhaps in another year or 18 months, is assured, was the view expressed by General Smuts, South African Premier, in a speech at Capetown yes- terday.

A section of South Africans wES lagging behind the wan effort be- cause they were outpaced by the country's development, but they would be there m the end, he be- hieved.

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A great job had been done record time in the development of South Africa It cou'd not be the same country agam. Reuter.

MENDED 18 BIKES WITH REMAINS OF TWO

From two hupelessly stashed motor-cycles, enough spare parts were salvage to put eighteen partly damaged motor-cycles

This

was one of the recent achievements of the Ministry of Supply, which is developing sal- vage to a ne art.

BOMBS THAN EVER BEFORE, WENT TO | back into making condition. BERLIN ON THURSDAY NIGHT, AND WHEN ONE OF THE LAST AIRCRAFT OF THE BOM- tinted She reached the age of aped the High Altar, has had toj BER COMMAND TURNED FOR HOME THE Considerable CITY WAS CHEQUERED WITH FIRES, FOR THE MOST PART IN THE HEART OF THE CAPITAL, STATES THE AIR MINISTRY NEWS SERVICE.

Twenty-tom.

Then tragedy tell an her parents, wreeking their he's work The girt became insane She was taken! away to a mental insutution

From that time the lamplighter and his wife shunned other peo- ple. They became morose, More! years passed, and their daughter remained in the institution,

the

For as this story of sacrifice was told at Manchester, husband sixty-six Thomas Hilton-stood in

year-old

the

dock accused of killing his wife

Mary and attempting suicide.

Thomas and Mary Hilton had been married thirty-seven years.

pro-

Dread Of Hospital Said Mr. H. C. Riches, secuting solicitor: "In their daughter, perhaps, lies the begin- ning of this tragedy

She re- nains in the mental institution."

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time

lon .t

Chelsea Old Church, scene of

mary fashionable weddings,

which contains the tomb of Sir

Thomas More and many an

a

cient monuments. suffered direct hit and is now in ruins. Showers of tire bombs fell on Guy's Hospital.

those threatening While occupied blocks were bruk.

mothered, others fell on

2001 487- necupied three-storied wing. 100! teet long, which was gutted. Oldest Pensioner Killed fences of the German capital were!

The weather was difficult and the R.A.F. bombers had a hard journey of over 1,200 the miles there and back. Nor was it easy to see

from above what each bomb had done.

But bombs were dropped by the light of Bares while all the de-}

working at full strength. Many more bombs, both high explosive! and incendiary, were dropped than

in the previous ruid when the

German

communique admitted very heavy damage to the capital. The tumbers flew high on top

BABY SAVED---

IN MID-AIR

Spare parts are often difficult fo get. They are expensive, and to make new ones uses up raw material and labour which could he better employed, besides wust- ing time.

So the Ministry of Supply estab- nished their own salvage depots. The stockyards of Chicago boust or using everything of a plg ex- cept the squeal. The salvage au- thorities

Use every thing of a smashed var, even its hooter.

HOTEL WALK-OUT

of the City of the bad weather. Three times) When Michael, sixteen- SETTLED

one bomber crossed the path month-old baby son of

Messerschmidts, The Mr. and Mrs.

Thomas

Chelsea Royal Hospital his- toric London home for military pensioners. was severely dam- aged by a bomb and among the 13 kiled was the

oldest pen- sioner, who was 101.

Only the walls Temple, which is the only Eng- lish Free Church In

the Cityprowling of London,

standing.ca-gunner remain

trained his sights The interior is a mass of char towards the enemy's headlights MacIntyre, grows up he red wood.

but not once did the fighters at will be told how he lay in burned out and tack. Maple's was Seifridge's also damaged by fire,

a piece of his cot clamped the but trading continues husband

in mid-air between two Christie's, the world-famous

ice heavy rafters that alone auction rooms, also suffered dam-

farming on the R.A.F. aircraft, stood out from the wreck- -Reuter. age in a recent raid.

crackling faintly, even above the age of what was his home.

He said that last year Mrs. Hi- ton fell ill with heart trouble.

"For sume

time her had little or no rest." said Mr. Riches.

"Both Hilton and his wife had a dread of hospital and when an ambulance was sent to take Mrs. Hilton to hospital the house was locked and apparently no one was there.

"The doctor who had advised Mrs. Hilton's removal to hos. pital

husband, lator saw the who, it is alleged, said: 'I killed her at six o'clock this morning and tried to cut my own throat, but was not able to go on with

It was a love pact.'"

it.

Mr. Riches said that Hilton, in a statement to a police inspector, said: "We both thought we would like to get out of it.”

GERMAN TRIBUTE TO BRITISH

the

Describing the fighting on "Greek front, a German officer yes- terday spoke of the "accurate and deadly firing of the English" and of "vigorous counter-attacks by henvy British tanks," states the

· German radio quoted by Reuter.

lower floors.

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ONE LEG, GOT BACK TO ARMY

A man with a wooden leg and another who

Wanted was blind

to get back into the Army as Pio- neers. They were "old sweats" and knew a thing or two And. they did get into the Army. This is how.

Clouds Break

It grew intensely cold,

and the crow could hear it

roar of the engines.

As they came over enemy coun- try the clouds began to break and here and there a landmark could be seen.

an

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

WITHIN 24 HOURS OF THE APPOINTMENT OF A NEW

MANAGER. THE CATHAY HOTEL STRIKE IN SHANGHAI

WAS SETTLED YESTERDAY,

While terms of the agreement are not revealed, the workers originally asked for a 100 per

Meanwhile the labour situation in Shanghal remains critical. International New Service.

Michael

cent pay increase plus a high cost was sleeping in

of living allowance. His cot was cut in upper room. half. Part of it fell and was crash- ed to bits under crashing walls.

The other part, with the baby The long procession of bombers

boy in it, was flung upwards and, still had many miles to gu and

was caught by the rafters, firm- many towns to pass, each marked

though ly yet gently held as by its pyramid of scarchlights or cluster of shell bursts in the sky.

caught in a pair of chopatleks. searched for hours, The roof had been torn off.

"I could not find him and went Over Berlin they had to work Hours later. а their way through

chance-heard away. But I had to go back, tear- the defences whimper led his

father to com- | ing with bare hands at the rub- an uneven course, then plete

this miracle, Here is the | blé. straighten and fly steadily for father's story: bombing or a practice run.

on

The bombs went down, and

as

our aircraft turned for home the Felt It Hopeless

A man went to the recruiting office gave the name of a man crews watched the fires increns- with an artificial leg. The Bounding, eventually to be lost in the man was examined and passed distance: Reuter. pe fit.

P.T. Gave Him Away

leg had his first physical jerks.

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house when.

was walking toward my the bomb crushed. The blast tossed me like a leaf through the front room window of The same method applied to the a house and then pulled me out blind man,

again. Unhurt, I ran to my own house and found it a pile of bricks and woodwork.

Ho walked out with his The story was told by

the papers and travelling warrant, Minister of Pensions In the House went to a pub round the corner of Commons. He was replying to handed over the papers to the suggestions that pensioners of the man with the artificial leg and lust great war should be paid was rewarded with 108.

more. He said that all such ques- The trick was not discovered tions must wait until the end of until the man with the artificial' this war.

"And then I heard a small cry. It came from above me! I thought I was going mad, heard it again—a whimper like a child gives when it is uncom- fortable.

"I called to men of a rescue squad that my child was up there

somewhere in the sky. They must have thought I was mad.

"But I got a ladder, balanced it shakily on the debris and up "I found my wife in the debris against the two rafters. I climb and handed her to à stretcher | ed up, and there I found Michael. party. Then I looked for my baby.

"I felt it was hopeless. He must have been crushed to death be- neath that mound of bricks, But I

"He was unhurt.

"You can imagine how I felt when, going to my wife in hospi- tal, I could say 'Baby is s

is safe!!!

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