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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 Naz! 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 scramble ing out when à volee asked: "Arc you all right?"

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

Prophecy Wrong

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

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

Necklace

THE steward 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 fallen round his neck. Otherwise he 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 sald: “Get up and unlock the door. II the house gets bombed the warden won't be able to get in."

Weed for Victory

A MAN in the midlands wos beeing 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 ho, "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 plane which had just crashed a bun-· dred yards away,

Child's Version

A HULL five-year-old during n raid:-"Shall I sing you 'God save the: King'7; I learned it to-day."

Io kept the party going by the line he got wrong: Long to raid "/dver, ul.!"; ite" piped..

Obscured View MRS. E. TURNER, a Shank

lin, Isle of Wight, says: "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 complac- ent, us the American Journalist Knickerbocker has suggested. We're. mad. Mad because we have to eart the vegetables down into the shel- ter to get them ready for dinner When the vegetables are done. done, we're mad because the heavy gunfire Interrupts our efforts to write letters. We're maddest of all when we take a blue sock down singing like mad.

to mend and discover the mending wool is grey.

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

Baker Carries On A SOUTH-EAST village

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

dow.

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

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

Then he got on with his `usual day's baking,

Patience

Wrong Floor CONVERSA

TION by a

lift girl after Cornut Doyle)

a

raid alarm

which had

ma de passen- ́gers think morc of bombs com- ing down than lifts "going (re- down" ported by Miss Frances Chap- pell, of Dol-

phin Square, S. W.):

"And the customer says to me, 'Dear, dear, when on earth 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," 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

RS. New-

M2

man, Hants, rites that she spent two tours in a pub- o-air raid briter, during hich time an Tee-arram: man oked in, sold tall his hack for more. again.

Telling Them!

Peters went to see was, after a raid. She found int of the house had gone and And had been wounded in the

An they stood where the front tour and ball should, have been a newspaper boy came up shouting, "All about where they've been!"

A BIRMINGHAM air raid warden No Yellow Canary

The

on his beat called down a big shelter.

all "Everybody

right?" people had been there three hours. Up came the answer, "All right, pal We've got a lovely easy chair down here. We're taking turna tor -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 beetrools flung into the road by a bomb

In дл canary

overturned seven feet from a bomb crater,

British Defence Secrets

A

cago,

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: If one set should be destroyed. day and night in secret labora during air raids others will still be torlos, have photographed re- available.

"The

work hús

hös taken

many corda and plans down to such a... size that they can be carried in weeks," an official said recently, fas only our experts and most trusted? men could be put on to the job."

a suitcase.

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FUNNY SIDE UP

By Abner Dean

MIRALLE

POSITIVELY NO

SALESMEN

OR

CANVASSE

SIGN co

Crer, 1848 by Talind Testues Brading LE

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

---salosmon?!!

WARSAW

NOT

SO

WAS BAD

BY JERZY SZAPIRO

cor-

Formor "Daily Horaid" 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,

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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 daya of September, 1939,

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Better 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 ralds on Poland of a year ago. London is feeling the effect of these. But to offset this, London, and Britain as a whole, ia better protected, feels safer...

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, A

.

except over Warsaw in the inst 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 immune from reprisals on their own cilles, the Nazis flew systematically over the Polish plains, spreading death

will. and destruction at

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

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

The bombers were able to fis as low as they wished, and that, believe it or not, was less ferri- fying, than the constant drono of high-ying bombers that wo are now experiencing.

The higher the bomber files the wider the range of its drone. It is of thousands thus able to give 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 faw seconds.

The terrific noise died away as quickly as it descended.

No Screamers Another nerve-shattering experi- ence we missed in Poland was the whistle of the falling bomb. Dropped from a low altitude, Nazi 'bombs in Poland often did / nof strike their objective with enough force to explode.

Neither did the Nazis use scream- ing or "time: bombs.

Those are the differences in a

Night Raids Worse comparison between Warsaw and

At Arat the toll of death in War saw fiself from ale raids war.com- paratively small. But by the last few days of September the city's defences had been exhausted in the long alege. Then the Terror

prend. 25 ANO

In the Pollah campaign the Nazis hover resorted to night bombing,

London.

There is 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- ilatory power you have here, War saw would be Oghting yet,

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