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The Brighter Side

of the air raids

on London town

WHILE British fighters are

meeting Nazi raiders in the air, things are also hap- pening on the 'ground below, Here are stories, ranging from the heroic to the comic, but all expressing the thumbs- up spirit of Great Britain in. a blitzkrieg.

A DESPATCH rider, twice blown Into a ditch by bombs, was scrumbl- ing out when a voice asked: "Are you all right?"

As a shrapnel pelted on his fin hat he murmured: "I think I'm dead-I can hour musict"

Prophecy Wrong

THE warning sounded at a cinema in Sussex, Very few people went out, and the audience settled down to see the next film.

The tile was "One Hour to Live," There was a good laugh all round.

Necklace

THE stoward at a British Legion club in the south-

cast of England was asleep

when a bomb fell through the roof. He found himself sprawled on the wreckage of the bed. A pair of antlers- hanging on the wall had fallon round his neck. Otherwiec ho was unhurt.

No Admittance

MISS Mary Lansdowne and her sister went to shelter during an air raid warning in Essex.

Miss Lansdowne had just settled down when her sister snid: "Get up and unlock the door. It the house gets bombed the worden won't be able to get in."

Weed for Victory

A MAN in the midlands was hocing his garden at 2 am. during arald by the light of the search- lights and the moon.

"I might as well do a bit of weeding," said he, "1 can't get any sleep with all this noke going on."

Razor Race SEEN in a Kent town; Bar-

bor running down the road, followed by a string of customers, to see a Nazi plano which had just crashed a hun-. dred yards away.

Child's Version

A HULL five-year-old during a

rald:"Shall I sing you 'God says the King1 learned it to-day

Obscured View MRS. E. TURNER, & Shank

lin, Isle of Wight, says: "After an exciting train ride to Cowes, with a grandstand view of dog-fights, we stoppad at a station and got out. But the train did not move.

An elderly man stepped for- ward and yelled to the engine driver: "Hurry up and get that train out of the way. We can't see a thing now."

Blue. Sock

Mra. Gladys Harvey, of South- sca, writes: "We are not complac- ent, as the American Journalist Knickerbocker has suggested. We're mad. Mad because we have to cart the vegetables down into the shel- ter to get them ready for dinner

Whe

the vegetables are the mad because interrupts our efforts to write letters. We're maddest of all when we take a blue sock down .singing like mad.

donc. unfre

heavy

to mend and discover the mending wool is grey.

"We are not complacent. We are walting with pepper pour and ham- mers. Any other suggestions?"

Baker Carries On A SOUTH-EAST village

baker

W03 wakoned earlier than usual and found that a bomb outside the shop had blown in his front win-

doi.

First thing he did was to persuade his wife to go to sicep again.

Second thing he did was to scrawl a big notice; "Don't let Hitler spoil your appetite. Bread and cakes as visual"'—- and stick it in front of his shov,

Then he got ou with his naval day's boking.

Patience

Wrong Floor CONVERSA-

TION by a lift girl after a raid alarm which had ma de passen- gers think more of bombs com- ing down than lifts "going down" (re- ported by Miss Frances Chap- pell, of Dol

phin Square, S. W.) :—

"And the customer says to me; 'Dear, dear, when on carth is this going to be over? And I asked her; "What do you think I am, Hitler's secre». tary!!!

Pint On Bicycle As the sirens sounded at

lunch time a man was seen on a bicycle carefully carrying a pint glass of beer.

"This is one Jerry can't "have," sald he as he went into a shelter." If he comes meal times he can't expect us to find him beer as well."

After the all clear the man came out of the shelter-with an empty glass.

Welcome For Ices

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RS. New man, Hants, zurites that she two opent hours in a pub- lic air raid chelter, during which time an iec-cream man looked in, sold out all his stock, went back for more, and sold out again,

Telling Them!

Mrs. Florence Peters went to see a friend after a raid. She found the front of the house had gone and the friend had, been wounded in the leg.

As they stood where the front door and hall should have been a newspaper boy came up shouting, "All about where they've been!"

FUNNY SIDE UP

..

By Abner Dean

POSITIVELY NO SALESMEN CANVASSERS

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Cap. SPED BY Ensted Posiars 233quain

"Good morning, madam. Are you pestered to death by

salosmen?"

WARSAW NOT SO

WAS BAD

BY JERZY SZAPIRO

Former, "Daily Herald" cor-. respondent in Warsaw, who

is now in London,

SINCE the aerial Blitzkrieg

began I have been asked this question scores of times: "How does it compare with what Warsaw went through? It must have been much worse there?"

My answer will, I think, surprise most of you.

Although, for various rea- sons, It is difficult to compare the ordeal of the two cities, it seems to me that London is going through as bad a time as Warsaw did in those black days of September, 1939.

Better Protected

The Nazis have improved their techniqué of total air warfare in the intervening: twelve months.

They have added terrifying new weapons to their armoury since their mass raids on Poland of a year ago. London is feeling the effect of these. But to offset this, London, and Britain as a whole, is better

A BIRMINGHAM air raid warden No Yellow Canary protected, feels safer.

a big on his beat called down shelter.

The all right?" "Everybody people had been there three hours. Up came the answer, "All right, pol. We've got a lovely easy chair down here. We're taking turns in half an hour cach, My' turn comes next Thursday week."

OBSERVED: Two captured Nazl almen eagerly reading English newspaper accounts of the battle A taxi-driver stopping his cab to pick up two beetrools flung

A Into the road by a bomb..

cage, conary in an overturned seven feet from bomb crater,

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British Defence Secrets

Tiny photographic copies of Britain's defence secrets and important State documents, for which Hitler would give millions of pounds, have been sent to hide-outs scat- tered through the country.

Trusted and highly-skilled Several sets of prints of each of the documents have been made, 20 photographic experts, working that If one set should be destroyed day and night in secret labora- during air raids others will still be tories, have photographed re- available

That work har cords and plans down to such a

We had nothing like your, wonderful Air Force, your efficient anti-aircraft gunfire, your highly organised system of A.R.P. shelters, and so on. Our defences, such as we had, could not outlive the first few days.

It was this lack of defence throughout the greater part of the country that caused the casualties from Nazi terrorism to mount into their tens of thousands.

Night Raids Worse

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whew At first the toll of death in War saw itself from air raids was come. paratively small. But by the last few days of September the city's defences had been exhausted in the one, singo. Then the Terror

Ha kept the party going by the size" that they can be carried in okrepe an official-mid recently spread.

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In the Polish campaign the Nazle never resorted to night bombing,

except over Warsaw in the last week of September. The capital's destruction was due to the com- bined effect of artillery shelling, air the bombing, incendiarism-and dislocation of the city's essential services.

These night raids over London seem to me to be worse than any- thing we went through in Poland.

Unhindered by fighter planes and ground defences, feeling immune from reprisals on their own cities, the Nazis flew cally over death the Polish plains,

and destruction at their will,

They usually arrived early in the morning, just after down, then just before midday, and again before duak.

After a time, we knew just when to expect them and took whatever shelter we could find. The ralds usually lasted only a few minutes. Thoy seldom exceeded half hour.

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The bombers were able to fly ab low as they wished, and that, bellove it or not, was less terri- fying than the constant drona of high-flying bombers that we are now experiencing.

The higher the bomber files the wider the range of its drono. It is

uf give thousands thus able prople at the same moment the feeling that it is immediately over- head,

But when the bomber came sweeping down over us in Poland we had hardly time to know what was happening, much less to won' der what might happen in the next few seconds.

The terrific noleo died away as quickly as it descended,

No Screamers Another nerve-shattering experi- ence wo missed in Poland was the

whistle of the falling bomb.. Dropped from a low altitude, Naxi not bombs In Poland often ald strike their objective with enough force to explode.

Neither did the Nazis use sercam-

er time bombs. ing or

Those are the differences, in a

turt

Those between Warsaw and

London.

There is one striking similarity; the heroism of the citizens, be

There, as here, the determination to resist was strengthened, not weakened,

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