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10, 1941

The Editor of "PM" Broadcasts on the Air Blitz

and at very high altitudes searchlights spout into the air this chaos. Hundreds of sturdy, POCKET CARTOON five or six miles in the air, to meet them round the edge of triple-tier bunks had been in- The daylight raiders are the City. Sometimes the tall stalled, like camp beda ono upon another, but made with heavy fountains of light disappear up burinp Instead of canvas. Each fighter planes, with no more into the mist. Sometimes they was numbered, and the occupant than a single small bomb to break against low clouds in a came back to the same bed every deliver. To-day it was white glow. Sometimes there night.

"What: aid 1' sell you 1. One sreech-andver what you get."

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the fellow that came over trace the approach of the 'planes Plumbing Будн going on. this morning, across the by the sounds and flashes of the There was a trained nurse and a sky-little white puffs of anti-aircraft guns. They thud clean and properly equipped anti-aircraft picked out his those near the City bark with a looking up.

far off over the horizon. Then first-aid bay. Things were course in a wide arc to the hollow sound; then all of a sud- west of the City.

I was lunching near where he laid his lone egg. It jarred the house, a little, but only succeeded in divert- ing conversation for a few minutes.

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explosions themselves coming between your hands and make a down from miles in the sky. It snowball of it. The night I was is a fine, heartening feeling to there there were 4,500 people think that one of those shells jammed together, "may be knocking the tail off the man who is trying to drop nitro- glycerine on your head.

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EYES ON BULGARIA

newspaper.

har known London under other conditions.

Its

The warden and the nurses in the first aid shelters were to me the most inspiring people I have met in London-calm, courage- ous, tireless volunteers, in- terested only in the people they looked after. When supplies were too slow in coming they bought them with their own

Toes

their own bedding. Most are crowded, and people sleep there To the visitor who has in rows, shoulder to shoulder-

By Ralph Ingersoll

POCKET CARTOON

BLOGGS PILLS

"Apparently it was a very tong-term contract."

limited funds; when rules are too few or too complicated they make their own with great good

capes is called a bomb bore, Mr Ingersoll tells his fellow- and people sidle away to countrymen the things which talk of other things.

When the guns are quiet you strike a war-time visitor who As a matter of fact, I they make an odd irregularly can hear the droning of motors; have had no narrow, es- patterned dróning buzz, quite capes since I have been distinct from the noise of trans- I HAVE been here nine here. Most of the noise port planes flying back and days now. By day I has been anti-aircraft, and forth from the La Guardia Field at home for their motors are have been talking to mem- the raiders that have got kept out of synchronisation to either wholly or in part without previcas bers of the Government. through the R.A.F. by day make it more difficult. for the By night I have been visitor over the anti-aircraft sound detectors to pick them up. ing underground shelters, by night-have been few Often they fly round and round and over the week-end Land not very potent. They That is life on the streets at

trying to orient themselves. AT last it appears the turn made a two-day round of have been driven so high in night; under the streets there is has come for Bulgaria to take the military airports de- the air that they cannot a whole other life, the life in the her place on the Axis carpet. fending London. The eyes of the world, momen-

find their targets, and shelters. There is no precise tarily diverted from the active two lives, one by day and been mist and fog on the sizes. The only generalisation The City of London lives much of the time there has pattern to the London shelter, they are improvised and of all phases in North Africa and one by night. By day, life Channel and so not many is that each is in the charge of Albania and the Battle. of in the City is almost normal; raiders have taken the an A.R.P. warden or a staff of Britain, are speculating on the there is the cheerful noise of chance and left the ground wardens, and the people bring course which Boris III will take the traffic in the street, in German France. when Germany demands that he people come and go from alter his government to make it offices and shops, restaur- pliable to Axis wishes, affordants are crowded at lunch free passage across the country time. Now and then there to out-manoeuvre Turkey and is the siren to startle the Grecce, and adjust his internal newcomer, but Londoners not been here since the war all kinds of people, children and sense. They will one day-erect- economy to become a granary pay little attention to day- the most startling change grown-ups, men and women. • monuments in this city to the for the Reich. Briefly, that time raids:

is the sudden end of the Everyone is concerned with seems about all that even avari- There is no rush for shel- day at black-out time. their improvement, from the Elsewhere I saw what looked cious Hitler could ask of the ters, but if the sky is clear The papers publish the man on the street-corner to the like the final step in the evolu- political parties in the Govern- tion of the shelter-a very deep people look up to see if they minute at which the ment. In the single week I cellar underneath a department black-out begins as our have been here I have seen the store. In one room in five were papers publish the weather conditions in several improve. card-tables, a darts game board, well-lit chairs in which to read, in one corner of a promi- In one of the big underground and an up-and-coming canteen, nent page. In the half-shelters in which I spent most Many people played cards und hour preceding, the entire of one night 8,000 people slept, chatted and read until they city of 8,000,000 people There, one could see the whole drifted off to comfortable beds evolution of shelter life under they had made for themselves shut, curtain, board up and one roof. Deep in one cavern- in other divisions of the collar. black out every window in ous room people slept shoulder The air was good; there was no their dwellings, offices, to shoulder, till they were so crowding. hotels, private homes crowded, with no more.room on the floor, that they slept prop-

If anyone is worried about the everywhere people live or ped against walls, curled up on freedom of the Fress in this work. The streets empty metal stairs in unbelievable con- country I can assure him that suddenly. The only lights gestion. Cold and draughty at it is doing an alert job. Stu that come on are hooded or one end, it was thick and un- pidity and inefficiency are har- ried in the columns of all masked, lights giving direc- comfortable at another.

papers, bad conditions exposed tions to shelters, first-aid Yet a few hundred yards and good work applauded. posts or showing obstruc- away a beginning, had been tions in the highways.

mado on bringing order out of

few kingly survivors of the war. Bulgaria is terribly poor and is entirely dependent on Ger- many for textiles and machinery for which she can only pay with agricultural produce. Boris has had Fascist tendencies, and an Italian wife, for years but these have not been of the extrava- gant nature of Italy's dictator. By the way it is interesting to speculate that by his failure in Greece, Mussolini threw away another project that he had in mind the domination of the Balkans. He had made a good start with Albania and Greece would have given him valu- able bases from which to operate against Bulgaria whose people, poor and rent with fratricidal hates; would” have been excellent material upon

which to work.

POCKET CARTOON

"So I said: Time bomb or no time bomb, ur, ace' finish thio,

· rubber,!***

The red, green and yellow traffic lights that we are fami- can see the raider. They liar with at home, are tiny red, rarely can, as by day the green and yellow crosses here. Germans come only singly You cannot see them a few “Bulgaria's great standby now must

blocks away. bo dependence on the, goodwill of

The only noises on the streets with being reduced, in face of something Russia who cannot brook equanimity further encroachment of which all must recognise, as a. com- are the gears of the 'buses which the Nazis in the area of the Black mon danger a return to the semi-run on through the night, the slavery - they endured ́ litio more clap of boots on the pavements than sixty years ago before they usually the service boots of earned their Independence, produce

the police, the A.R.P. wardens One result of modern war and and the Home Guardsmen who diplomacy however, i feelings of the people are not able challenge you in the dark when

expression in force. Before you cross their beat.

and secret agents have! All but a few of the taxis -If they could find any and give it forestalled them, him and brutal have disappeared. Within a to. the peasants: the Nazis

could

order police are imported, the loaders are few minutes after the black-out the agricultural life of the country shot, the populace is terrified into the City is ready. It is a little and build

it scre much needed

roads acquiescence" and "a show little interest in the doctrines

Physically the Serbe, Croats and Bulgars who make up the popula tion of Bulgaria, have little to lose from either the Communista or Nazis. The former could expropriate the property of the wealthy Bulgars

Public

that the

opinien can find itself the

and railways, The people would hidex, the tragic truth Press after half-past six. Within. a.

llegi

"Is known"

Is happening

pages of few minutes It comes: the even-

In

only

of Communian, or. Nazliam and would Bulg

to

Boris anding alren. The Germans aro bo very unreliable military material. Hitler-perhaps also to Stalin and methodical and, "punctual" fel-

It is possible, however, that the Mussolini and the people them lows. hate of the Croats, Berby and Bul- | selves will only know when Europe:

gard for each other, and for the learns of the next turn of fate to the They come droning through Turks,... Greeks and Rumanilafis in history of this little country. withd black, and some nights the:

POCKET CARTOON

GAS-PP.

unknown shelter warden..

I have said this before and I should like to any it again not until you have been here and seen what it is like to live in an aerial siege can you get any idea of the size of the problem or the magnificence with which the: people of London are rising to meet it. Everywhere "there is the calm and casual courage that takes your breath away in ad- Tiration

The bombing of civilians is a brutal and ugly thing, but the heroism with which it is met and' ondured here, restores one's confidence in humanity, No- where in nine days of walking and talking did I see the alight fest evidence of indecision, or faltoring, Here Fascism has stubbed fte toe on the charactor of a people who can "take It," and who obviously propose to take it until the lust, German ́ ́raider has gone down in, smoke for hot-footed it for home with Atwo Spitfires on his tally