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...Dover, now a way station on Hell's Corridor from Dunkirk to London, tall (6 ft. 5 in.), eccentric, Harvard-bred Guy Murchie of the Chicago Tribune, a onetime seaman, chauffeur, section hand, longshoreman, gravedigger, author (Men on the Horizon), was standing by a window in his top-floor hotel room while a squadron of German bombers droned overhead. He was talking with two naval officers and his assistant, Australian Stanley Johnstone, when there was an explosion. The whole side of the hotel collapsed. Down through four floors dropped Newsman Murchie in a shower of timbers, bricks, soot, debris...
...Hurricane fighters. Other motor and aircraft factories at Birmingham and Coventry, attacked before, were attacked again & again. While the Germans hammered these targets, they continued pounding at seaports: Cardiff, Bristol, Portsmouth, Harwich, Dungeness, Hull. Only British stubbornness prevented the evacuation last week of such smashed-up places as Ramsgate, Dover, Southampton (see col. j). In the headlines appeared damage to such sentimental landmarks as St. Giles, Crip-plegate, in London where Oliver Cromwell was married and John Milton buried. Milton's statue was blown from its pedestal before the church (see cut). Also damaged were the spire of Rochester...
...Millions ravaged Belgium and France. Other millions obliterated Rumania. . . . Over England, night-flying air fleets . . . rained abominations from Harwich to Birmingham. Thousands of transport planes landed [the invaders] near Dover. ... As I write this, Dover is besieged. . . . The thing was decided back in 1918, with the war that failed of a decision...
...last month (for a plant at Charlestown, Ind.). These contracts were the first moves made by the U. S. Government to increase its pip-squeak peacetime powder supply. All Government powder now comes from three plants - Du Pont and Hercules and the Army's Picatinny Arsenal near Dover, N. J. - and Picatinny is on little more than a laboratory basis...
...morning when a British coastal convoy of 18 ships, strung out for a mile and guarded by destroyers, steamed under the tall chalk cliffs of Dover, a series of four bright flashes, closely spaced, followed by heavy smoke puffs, were seen on the French Coast, 20-odd miles away. About 80 seconds later four geysers spouted in the Channel near the convoy, accompanied by the crashing roar of four big shells exploding. At last the Germans were trying out their threat to "command the Channel with coast artillery...