Word: air-raid
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Japanese cities in the west, which would be the first victims of a Soviet bombing raid from Vladivostok against the Island Empire, enforced full air-raid precautions. Cables from Tokyo said the Home Fleet was being deployed, was "ready for any eventuality...
...foreign policy, is the state of the nation's defense preparations. Opposition M. P.s and the anti-Chamberlain Conservative bloc, led by portly, eloquent Winston Churchill, have already blasted from office Viscount Swinton, former Air Secretary, have jarred big, burly Sir Thomas Inskip, Minister for Coordination of Defense, Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare and his assistant, Geoffrey Lloyd, in charge of air-raid precautions. The harried Prime Minister realizes that a far-reaching revelation of a breakdown in Britain's defense preparations will rock his Cabinet, might even tumble the Government from office...
...last week the busy bombers, dropping pyrotechnic flares to light their work at night, had wrecked the Sun Yat-sen University, the British-owned Saichuen power station, cutting off all air-raid alarms, and the huge Fung Keng rubber plant. Scores of bombs, aimed at the Pearl River bridge, connecting the city with the industrial island suburb of Honam, fell along the waterfront, smashing sampans into wet and bloody splinters. Incendiary bombs plumped in Standard Oil storage tanks near the main Wongsha rail station, sent a 16-car train and the station roaring up in flames. The mammoth...
...Sabbath calm at turreted Windsor Castle, where King George, Queen Elizabeth and their daughters were spending the weekend, was shattered last week as the castle was "bombed" in a mock air-raid. No airplanes flecked the sky and the Royal Family strolled about the grounds as the "bombs" went off around them. The "bombs": nothing more than mighty firecrackers. The only damage: a window in the Royal Mews which fell clattering to the ground as a "bomb" went off too close. Windsor volunteers, organized in decontamination and first-aid squads, raced over the grounds aiding the fake "victims." All this...
...unfamiliar to most of the 1,500,000 inhabitants of Hankow and environs are air raids, but those Orientals and whites who did not run to air-raid shelters soon learned that this one was different. Out of cloud banks north of Hankow began to dart fast pursuit planes unlike those guarding the big Japanese bombers. They dived, attacked the invaders. Soon a spectacular dog fight involving not less than no planes, with the Chinese numerically superior, had developed. Big bombers were seen crashing to the ground, some lighter craft were observed tailspinning into the neighboring Yangtze and Han Rivers...