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Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

November 12, 1940.

By Walt Disney

MAGAZINE PAGE

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

stories, ranging

fre

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 scrambl- "Arc ing out when a volce asked; you all right"

As a shrapnel pelted on his tin hat he murmured: "I think I'm dead-I can hour music!"

Prophecy Wrong

a

THE warning Rounded at cinema in Sussex. Very few people went out, and the audience settled down to ace the next fim.

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

Necklace.

THE steward at a British

Logion club in the south-

Obscured View

MRS. E. TURNER, a Shank

lin, Isle of Wight, saje: "After an exciting train ride to Cowes, with a grandstand view of dog-fights, we stopped 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

Mrs. Gladys Harvey, of South- sen, writes: "We are not compine- ent, as the American journalist Knickerbocker has suggested. We're mnd. Mad because we have to cart the vegetables down into the shel- ter to get them ready for dinner When the vegetables are we're mad because the

done.

heavy gunfire interrupts our efforts to write letters. We're maddest of all when we take a blue sock down Finging like mad..

to mend and discover the mending wool Is grey.

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

east of England was asleep Baker Carries On

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 fallen round his neck. Otherwise he was unhurt.

No Admittance

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

Miss Lansdowne had just settled down when her sister snid: "Get up and unlock tha

If the door. house gots bombed the warden won't be able to get in."

Weed for Victory

A MAN In the midlands was hoeing his garden at 2`am, during

a raid by the light of the search-

lights and the moon.

"I might as well do blt of weeding," said he, "I can't get any sleep with all this noise going on."

Razor Race SEEN in a Kent town; Bar- ber, running down the road, followed by a string of customers; to see a Nazi plana which had just crashed a hun- dred yards away,

Child's Version

A HULL Ave-year-old during a rald: Shall I sing you 'God save the King'7: I learned it to-day."

He kept the party going, by the. na ho got wrong, "Long to rald over is, he piped

A SOUTH-EAST villago

1019

wakened

baker carlier than usual and found that a bomb outside the shop had blown in his front win-

dow.

First thing he did, wos to persuade his wife to go to sleep apoin.

Second thing he did was to sernul a big notier; "Don't let Hitler spoil your appetito. Bread and cakes as usval". and stick it in front of his shen,

Then he got on with his usual day's bating..

Patience

Wrong Floor CONVERSA

TION by a lift girl after Comic Con

raid alarm which had

Q

mad a passCN- yers 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!

FUNNY SIDE UP

By Abner Dean

POSITIVELY NO

SALESMEN

OR. CANVASSERS

MIRALLE

SIGN co

W. THEN by Tulad kostaru Fywdzane, tues

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

salcamon?"

Pint On Bicycle WARSAW WAS

S the sirens sounded at

A$

lunch time a man was seen

on a bicycle carefully carrying

a pint glass of beer.

"This is one Jerry can't have," said 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

M

RS. New man, Hants, writes that she 8 pent t wo hours in a pub- 'ic air raid helter, during hich time an ice-cream man looked in, sold out all his. stock, went back for more, and sold out again. ·

BUY D.S

Telling Them!

Mr. Florence Pelers went to rec a friend after a ruld. 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 ball should have been n newspaper boy came up shouting, "All about where they've been!"

NOT SO

BAD

BY JERZY SZAPIRO

"Former-"Daily-Horald"-cor- respondent in Warsaw, whe

is now in London.

SINCE the aerial Blitzkrieg

began I have been asked this question acores 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.

Bettor Protected

The Nazis have improved their technique 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 at rald warden No Yellow Canary protected, feels safer.

big

The

on his beat called down a shelter.

"Everybody all

right?" people had been there three hours. Up come the answer, "All right, pal. We've got a lovely easy chalr down here. We're taking turns in it-half an hour each. My turn comes next Thursday week:*

OBSERVED: Two captured Nazi airmen eagerly reading English newspaper accounts of the battle

A taxi-driver stopping his cab to pick up two beetroots flung into the road by a bomb

In an overturned cage, canary seven feet from a bomb crater,

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, so photographic experts, working that I one set should be destroyed day and night in secret labora- during alt raids others will still be tories, have photographed re- available. taken many

The work has cords and plans down to such a weeks an official said recently an size that they can be carried in only, our experts and most trusted) a suitcase.

men could be put on to the job.

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 fow 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

War At first the toll of death in saw itself from air raids war com- paratively small. But by the last few days of September, the city's defences had been exhausted in the long slegs. Then the Terror spread.

In the Follch campaign the Nazis haver-resorted to night bombing,

except aver Warsaw in the last week of September. The capital's destruction was due to the com- bined effect of artillery shelling, air bombing, Incendiarism-and the 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 immunc from reprisals on their own citits, the Nazis flew systematically over the Polish plains, spreading death and destruction at their will.

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

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. They seldom exceeded half an hour.

.

The bombers were able to fly' as low as they wished, and that, believe it or not, was less terri- fying than the constant drone of high-flying bombers that wo are now experiencing,

The higher the bomber flies the wider the range of ils drone. It is thus able to give thousands of people 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 noise died away as quickly as it descended.

No Screamors Another nerve-shattering experi- ence, we missed in Poland was the whistle of the falling bomb. Dropped from a low altitude, Nazi did not bombs in Poland often strike their objective with enough force to explode..

Nellher did the Nazis use

Ingor time bombs, cam

Those are the differences in a comparison between Warsaw and London.

There la one striking similarity; the heroism of the citizens.

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

Given the defences, and the reta Hatory power you have here, War Baw would be"fighting yet,

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