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October 12, 1940.

By Ernie Bushmiller

WE DIDN'T DO

SO BAD FOR.

OUR FIRST

AUG-20

TRY

All night long now we hear the roar of anti- CHARLES WATNEY

aircraft guns in London. In the last war it was

pretty much the same, though the targets HERE

were

usually Zeppelins and we had a

DESCRIBES

war ends, but between 18,000 and 20,000 men of the London reneue parties working in shifts, and many cthers employed by the large con- tractors, are engaged In hitti- xpeed effort to clear away debris and re-estabilah normal Donditions Ln

AIR RAID ON LONDON

variety of guns, many unsuitable. Perhaps the tensibly passed by a Censor to-day most noxious was one whose report sounded as Anyway, here if a large corkscrew was being drawn out of a London, and some indication, niso in too-small metal funnel. Now the guns are more

the Censor may cut out to-morrow. ROCB with a list of one of the buildings damaged In

the newspapers, of other damage:

businesslike and effective, and from the “alarm" Damage they go on incessantly for hours.

ቤ fresh burst

OFC ul erhoea ringing across London,

the middle. At one time a couple

new

Wan

Nu

Details

2

Hall of the Fourth City Livery areas which have been affected by Company-wrecked.

the bombing. Cinemas several.

As regards making good damage Hospitals-8.

to buildings still standing, the Local Churches four or five-only one Authorities are working excellently. historic value--St. Ĝiler', They all in' and repair temporarily any damage which does not entirely invalidate the use of the building— they debit the tenant with the cont to be collected post-war, though it

with

Cripple.

everal. of a a Famous Market. As the Germans are bombing in

Buckingham Palace: A me discriminately now, any qublic you ask me "Is this fair?" I reply Rent It takes an expert to dis- The

Guns

bonib dropped into the Terrace on buildings may get hit. St. Paul's "Wait and see payment is ultim the North Wing just outside the Cathedral had a narrow escape on ately demanded." tinguish between the thud answered one another its a thunder-

King's witting room. The King and

Without hesitation I suggest we and Monday night when bomba dropped cus chorus as group after group of Queen who have used the Palace near the historic Bow Bella Church, ace to have very shortly a senle sys- of a bomb and the bursting

planes erine 311. Great shafts of regularly throughout the raids, were Fortunately the wind helped the tem ol compulsory Insurance of of one of our own shells. blue light swept across the horizon

srom each side, sometimes meeting tray for the night. It exploded at themen to save the Church from the buildings-at 37 to 31-% on value

from the sum 1.30 on Tuesday morning. Both the Are which broke out while at present

of money raised would, 1 Often the sounds are

sparlights fitted neruss the sky Ktry and Queen spent the night in St. Paul's Cathedral in safe and un- think, be adequate to meet all losses. Any event, the State already the country, and members of the damaged although the structure ap- In mixed up together.

minutes but woon went off Palace staff were sleeping safely in preciably trembled when the heavy agrees to pay 100% of the cost of

rhelters well away

bombs

furniture shed replacing darnnged from the spot high-explosive

demolished

and The

buildings in the immediate vicinity. $101mming Sleep-not much till dawn un-

clothing and working tools when the After one of the ferrest bursts of Noe was injured,

By the time

time this night bombing sufferer's Income limit is £400 with less you have cotton wool in gondre there was a full and in the pool and corner of the terrace were

wrecked. There

practically no finishes a great

vanished-we realise As temporary measure we la the your cars, which you daren't distance a trum could beard. The glans left in the buck of the Palace marks will have ny historie Innd, dependants or £250 without.

Nazi marauders were nonplussed and on the explosion brake windows on that. At the same time it is worth London aren are also asked in hararsed by the gunfire and changed the Park side. The Germans xerm mentioning that when the Germans broadenst by the Minister of Health,

And have made two attempts to bomb do alm at a specific direction frequently, only to

object they

MacDonald, ta they Mr.

Bccommodnie hemselves trapped by shells from the Palace, for there is another huge very rarely hit it.

I should give you and to give or lead furulture and people mude homeless by air-raida crater 50 yards outside the Palace various instances known 10 mo

raminds.

personally.

Yel

there

one

There have already been a M- Bond Street (bomb in the road) thing that Jerry likes to bomb it is and

The

Burlington Arcade (on the railway stations and yet they ber casualties among the reseas shops)

have the cheek to protest when we werkers, but their spirit is unaffect- but the edifice not damaged,

Cheapside--Duw Church ulcinity, bomb the Potsdam depot in Berlin, ed. They pride themselves on being The "tough guys" of Civil Defence. is not surprising that owing to The Docks--hraop fires (ware-

and the houses.

drought that the Metropolitan Water Board is urging the utmost economy on all consumer. It 15 suggested that less should be used for baths Most destroyed or damaged build- and washing-up, and that garden

have because, in the basement or on the ground floor of your house (as the case may be) you are listening for the possible dropping of an incendiary bomb on the roof of your dwelling.

another direction

It is not easy for the faithful bi torian to know what he is allowed to way of the results of these raids, Naturally he does not wish to dis- close information of military value

The

These don't make much noise and nobody worries either about them, or

etiemy Naturally also he about screaming bonus, which are thinks that becaure statements have very poor fish. On the other hand appeared in the London newspapers a high explosive bomb

07 even

A

Two London daily newspaper of-

bedding.

Dealing with the the multiplicity of fres

he is justined in including them in fices-one badly and the other slight wrecked houses anything he may write. Poor, poor ly. delayed action bomb makes you sit dog! He little knows save by hard

experience, thut what has been ed

up and think,

Perhaps you may suggest you,

Act If the won't be "there" to do dwelling in hit full on.

Probably not, but in the basementi you stand a good chance of escape. I visited a Victorian-age house lo- day- hil by..a..bomb-everything was levelled down to the first storey, strain while the which stood the party wall of an adjacent house was not apparently damaged.

New-style Barrage

Most of the papers describe the gunfire, which they say suggested the barrage of the last war. For hour after hour the anti-aircraft gunners maintained fire of intensity and concentration.

Shells burst every few seconds ati various heights, but not a search-

What are present conditions in the occupied parts of France?

Muaruma three-fone twice bomb-

Д

Ings will not be reconstructed till the hoses should not be used for a time,

2 What future part

will France be

able to play in the

war?

3

What were the reasons for the French Army's

collapse?

de Gaulle

General gives the

JOAN OF ARC'S banner flies

England, saluted by

light cast a beam across a clear sky English soldiers, and hoisted to

It seemed as though a new technique the strains of the "Marseil- was being employed, and some of

the guns in action sounded heavier laise." than any heard before.

Occasionally above the roar, could be heard the drone of a ralding machine, but the guns seemed to hold the stage for noise. A German aircraft could be heard for some time crubing round endeavouring to And a spot where it could get through.

A later raider, following the route of the other, met the gunfire and was driven from the course, . Agoin the aircraft ran into the intense gunfire and turned back. The guns continued their battle In the dark and great purple flashes ran along the horizon,

answers

-in an interview with

G. WARD PRICE

There, In less than a score of words, you have three of the most striking historical Improbabilities on record.

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The walls Their peculiarity reflects the curl themselves.

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of all three of the French Services air, sea, and land,

arc

France.

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methods of 20 years ago. thought in terms of 'fronts'; there never was a "front, properly so call- ed, during the operations in France.

The old generals to

the whom the national defence was entrusted had long been too laert to realise that they would-be confronted with the new

and weapons

methods mechanical warfare. They founded their confidence on masses of men,

of

ous character of our present rela- carded with pictures of smiling "The sympathies of those others

members of the Army of Occupation are still with us, Do not make the whereas modern war is made with masses of material, manned by Never before haa London looked Carrying French children in their mistake of confusing the present highly trained experts. They had so like a French gurrison town. In arms, with the legend Refugees! You French Government or the French not the requisite resiliency of mind n walk along Piccadilly, or up Re- can trust the German soldier! Press or wireless, with the people of to recast their plans, to abandon gent-street, you will meet uniforms

however, there are signs of discour the changes that have come about.in of a professor at a French Catholic

"Among the Germans themselves, by old men who did not understand

Aty nation was badly led their preconceived Ideas."

Forty-nine years old, and the son agement and depression. Many of modern war. They dared not risk college, de Gaulle has had an un- them visit French homes in search of their personal reputations by going usually wide military experience. broadensis in their presence without their own incompetence had brought serving as a subaltern in a regiment defeats that He began as an infantry officers MOST people assume the wearers interference. Cases of suicide by about. of those uniforins to be members of German soldiers are frequent" "But the real France still exists shal Pelain, then a colonel. In the commanded, oddly enough, by Mar- General de Gaulle's Army of Free I expressed surprise at this. When winter comes, and the Ger- Inst war he was wounded threa Frenchmen. That, unfortunately, is "The same thing occurred among mana begin to tighten the screw times, on the third occasion at Ver- disbanded the French troops whom Napoleon starving the French people to feed dun, where he was picked up by a soldiers, sailors, and airmen, who led to far parts of Europe, ex- themselves, Hiller will find that German patrel. Five times he come

over from Dunkirk or from plained the general. "These Ger-France is by no means an cosy coun- to escape from the prisoner-of-war Norway, and are waiting for the op- mans are homesick and obsessed by try to hold in bondage."

the thought that the war may lost a

camp in which he was confried. portunity to go back to France.

After the Armistice, though still They want to get home to their long time. It would be a mistake to Behind the times suffering from his latest wound, he familles. They are free to do so as look on such symptoms as a sign of

returned to the army and served Hoon as shipping is available. No permanent demoralisation."

THE Arst attribute of General under the direct orders of General Seven planes at one time appeared General de Gaulle's principle is the in the future developments of this is his natural modesty. There is no resisted the Bolshevist Invasion of "What part can' your country play Charles de Gaulle to impress a visitor the Polish Army that successfully Weygand when he took command of In the centre of 's ring of bursting o English one that one volunteer war? Lasked the man who, though luck of self-confidence in his bear- 1921.

is worth three pressed

What are present conditions in the sentenced to death by a Government ing, which, thanks to his mugnificent occupied parts of France; where whose leaders were once his com- physique is unusually impressive Germany read him many of these men, have their ades-in-arms, now represents sil But his manner is marked by un-n

that is left e

of the libertier France affected geniality; and he talka with BESIDES being employed on the homes?

From the Intensity of the firing and the drone of planes it appeared as if a strong attack was being launch ed. German tactics, too, were en- tirely different from previous nights. Planes which came overhead turned back before the flashing-shells more often than not without dropping

bombs.

•

...

shells London rocked to the re- mendous noise, but it was the almost cheerful boom of the guns fighting

back and not the crash of bombs,

nol so. These

hal

are

them. to stay.

· pressure is put on

At the belght of the battle a ahriu whine rent the air as a plane dived I had the opportunity of putting the British Army and the French characteristic of nearly all French funtry battalion, then a regiment, a *It will be the bridgehead by which that lucid case of expression that a staff, and commanding" frat, un" in- that question to General de Gaulle, steeply. Whether it had been shot the Commander-in-Chief of the forces forming here will one day re- General Staff officers, brigado, and finally a division of down or not was impossible to say, French forces in this country. He turn to the Continent to free the was anxious to hear an explana tanks, ho has travelled widely in the

crash would have been. in- Baudible above, the guns,

controls special sources of Informa-pooples now in bondage there, an- tion of the collapse of the French Near and Middle East. His books tion and his answer was clear and swered General de Gaulle Army from this offcer, of whom M. on mechanised warfare, disastrously Reynaud, as Frenier, thought so meglected in his own country, Жето ghly that on June 6to made him studied with the closest attention by Under Secretary of State for War, the German Army

Guns Louder

Just

Than Bombs

The mood of the French people Winter's test

How is one of relaxation and It was not the army that was keen horseman and, good player. comparative acquiescence, said the "REMEMBER, he went that defeated, but the High Command," of tennis and bridge, as

san,g

well ba general "The people are relieved though I am almost the only calor he wild.They had never grasped a recognised authority on Link that the Aghting is over for the time officer representing the French cause the fundamental fact that there is strategy and tactics, once did the drone of planes being Separated familles are com- In-Englan

Genern day above the crash of gunfire. Liga todetherogain/The German others who would Have come-bare;

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