1941-05-13 — Page 25

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 13, 1941.

MANCHESTER LEARNS LESSON FROM THE BLITZ

(By A Special Correspondent)

IN EVERY TOWN I find the same reaction to bombing — a proud, even passionate, conviction that nowhere else in England have people been through such hell. Manchester is no exception; and the city really has been hit much harder than most Southerners imagine.

There are large areas of rubble and many skele- ton walls jagging the skyline like bad teeth..

If one adds that most

of the damage was due toļ TERRORISTS

sheer slackness in fire.) watching, the obvious re- ply is that a few months ago precautions were no more satisfactory any- where else.

Nearly all the

damage

was

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Muni- yesterday

The Shanghai cipal Police

done on two nights. After heavy handed four Chinese ter- bumbing with high explosives the rorists and a woman into

aders launched the real attack; incendiaries fell like hath

fire-watchers were active did little damage.

V. C. HERO - BUT AUDIENCE SCARED HIM

Sergeant John Han- nah, of the R.A.F., Bri- tain's youngest V.C., won his decoration by his courage and cool- ness. But, when he visited an aircraft factory he could not make a speech.

He had been pre- sented to the workers by Mr. Handley Page, managing director of the firm, in the lunch- time break at the canteen. They want- ed him to speak, but all he managed to say was "Thank you. I am very glad to be with all you boys and girls."

TREASURE

Where the custody of the Japan ISLAND

these ese military.

Exchange Destroyed

The step followed the terrorists' confession that they had taken part in the bombings of the Nan- Reserve But some of the finest build-king-sponsored Central ings, such as the Royal Exchange, Bank on February 28, when four said to be the biggest commercial bombs were hurled inside the bank

a bodyguard premises in

world, the

were premises and occupied by scores of offices and shot dead.

Further investigations are pro-

shops which did nut watchers. They soon

employ

was

caught reeding by the police in an effort fire and the flames spread fast, to round up the others. Interna-

When day broke the pillar of tional News Service. fire by night dulled inte a pillar of smoke. With darkness The Bres that had seemed dying glowed red again, and the bom- hers came back. this time

a shorter period.

for

the

By the second morning blitz was over, and Manchester could take stock.

Tall

com-

mercial buildings behind Picca. dilly had gone; so had rows Miller along Corporation and

Streets, and that quaint old

market area, the Shambles.

ACTION

AGAINST S.M.C.

The

judg-

FACED

Page

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FOOD LACK WHITE HORSE

People of Martinique, French island in the West- Indies, have been facing starvation while £240,000,- 000 in gold lies in their vaults.

This heard is probably one of the factors which enabled Marshal Petain to resist Nazi demunds. A big slice of the reserves of the Bank of France, it was taken to the island on the warship Bertain after the French collapse.

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touched, because the United Tull Shanghai Consular States had frozen French credit. the yesterday reserved

Meanwhile, the plight of Eight churches were destroyed. | Court

Clothing Starvation more were damaged so seriously ment in the city's $1,000,000 fan-islanders was desperate.

case, Wed against and food were scarce. that they cumot be repaired dur-tun land tax ing the war, and a large manber the Council by four Chinese fan- stared them in the face.

Now relief has come to the owners, disputing suffered m,nor damage.

or tan land the places badly hit was Cross Council's right to claim rates on people, but their vast fortune is Street Chapel, a cradle of Non-their properties dating back near-still useless to them,

ly 100 years, as their ancestors are conformity.

Eight hospitals were hit, and of considered exempt, being owner:

land prior to the is of

Council's the Free Trade Hall

admustration. Interna nothing leit but the invade.

Uonal News Service,

One

there

Cathedral Damaged

The Cathedral was damaged, but not seriously. The picturesque 15th-century Chetham Hospital nearly opposite, housing a blue- coat school and the oldest Tree public Ibrary in England, escaped altogether; and so did the John Rylands Library, with its 300,000 Volumes.

or

And how does Manchester take it all? The average

is

man

the

United States and France have made an

whereby agreement Martinique keeps the bullion safe In return Ske from the Nazis. gets shipments of food.

GERMANS FAIL TO BREAK NORWAY'S RESISTANCE

it.

NORWAY'S WILL TO RESIST — passively but the mixture of blandishments and stubbornly brutalities by which the German authorities seek to govern the country is not breaking under the strain.

move-

# certain

worn

make

with

uncanny

Norway

of

the greatest time became

it philosophic enough, but would be wrong to deny that, over two things, there is dis- satisfaction. One is fire-watch- ing; the other is communications. One observer told me that he Professor Jacob Worm-Mueller, King produced a crop of national travels 10 miles each way daily late professor of modern history emblems engraved with his figure When the Nazi online not affected by bmbing at Oslo University, who made a in the lapels of thousands of loyal

even

traffic. The journey remarkable escape with his wife, countrymen,

from Norway, has given

an police ordered these emblems to takes from 90 to 105 minutes.

E the be removed some other symbol- "Manchester people will put up interesting picture of life in

u coloured pencil in with any amount of danger and occupied land.

The professor left his country pocket, or a handkerchief hardship, where necessary," said

way-would pre- in a certain my friend. "To keep tired men in circumstances he is not

appearance and made his its and women hanging about in the pared to divulge,

a unanimity. cold and rain needlessly is just, way to Stockholm with only

Audacious Escapes moral sabotage. People are be- vague idea of his future coming coldly angry, and if the ments, but with a determination.

Escapes by sea from railway companies won't do any-to reach England even if he had

do to Britain, undertaken under thing about it the Ministry of to travel round the world to

circumstancea Transport should."

This, in fact, he did. A normal audacity, at one peacetime trip of some 36 hours frequent occurrences.

sald into was converted

Worm-Mueller a journey Professor taking nearly two months.

that he was surprised, to meet in His route lay by air from the centre of London one day a Stockholm to Moscow: by train Norwegian in the uniform of the across Siberia to Vladivostok; Oslo tramways. It appeared that from there to Tokyo by boat; the man had left his tram, made the usubl thence to the United States and his escape "through Canada; by ship to Lisbon, and channels" and had had no chance thence by flying boat to England. to change his clothes!

who Another mari Passive resistance to the Nazis,

got away the Professor said, WEB- the brought with him an amusing best weapon the Norwegians account of the German prepara- had in their:armoury. It show-tions for the invasion of Scotland. ed itself in many, waya and in Outside Oslo a students' hostel had been converted into a bar- ́all, cinsecs of society. School-children became aware racks, and in the quadrangle Ger-. kilta that their lessons smacked of a man soldiers in Scottish strange philosophy, and decided, marched up and down to a some- that strike action was called for what amateurish skirl of the

The love of the nation for its bagpipes.

GAOLED FOR DOG CRUELTY

Sentence of three months' hard labour was

passed at Enfield, Middlesex, on Thomas Henry Oak- man, of Lavender Hill, Enfield, chairman of the for what

the Bench described as a "terrible case of cruelty" to a dog by fail- ing to give it proper care and attention. Oakman was', dis- "qualified from keeping a dog for

five years. -

His dog was found tied to a chain so heavy, that it caused the animal's head to sink towards the ground.'

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