i rT po x ‘the damage. Berial BombardmentDamage Fails To Halt Publication Of Post Reporter's Newspaper This is the second and concluding article written for Dallas Post readers by Editor Basil E. H. Amps of the Ilford Gazette, Ilford, England. In this latest of his stories Mr. Amps describes how the English people resent damage to the King’s palace but are willing to take their own troubles on the chin smiling. By BASIL E. H. AMPS EXCLUSIVE: Liford, England (Passed by Censor) —These are bad times but so far the worst nights I have had were those which followed the intensive Saturday afternoon bombing of London’s dockland and East-End factory belt. From our gard- en we saw that evening a fiery red glow in the sky reflected with such intensity from a pall of smoke that covered all the East of London that one could read a paper by it. It looked as if all London was burning. That night for hour after hour I stood in horrified fascination listening to planes as they came up the river and unloaded their bombs on the blazing areas. Plane after plane came up and unloaded and each time there was a reverberating roar and the red glow leaped. It was like a regular service of dustcarts tipping refuse on to a funace. One dare not imagine what it was like for the people living in that area or the men fighting the fires. And the next night was the same. The red glow was dull in the early evening but it flared up again as the first bombers arrived to do their job and for the rest of the night crash followed crash and you shuddered at every crash. The horizon was ringing with fire and you wondered if any- thing was left to burn. The end of civilization may well come like this if man does not come to his senses. Since then I have seen some of It makes your heart ache when you see the mounds of rubbish that only the day before were homes that had taken long years of devoted labor to make and keep. You see a wife picking over the bricks searching for some little treasure or her husband staring stolidly at the ruins. I saw some peo- ple from the East End. They had been in that inferno of fire that dreadful week. They had nothing but what they stood uprin. Many had lost relatives. Some were weep- ing. I spoke to a young man with a sunken face the color of paper. He had three days growth of black beard and his eyes were hollow and staring. He had nothing left and he did not know where his wife and children were. He spoke flatly and without expression of three nights dodging bombs. The factory just opposite his house where he worked had gone up in flames. It must have been hell down there, and bombed though other parts have been, they have suffered nothing in comparison. You must not get the idea from this that all is wreckage. In most parts you would not realize that anything has been happening. Oc- casionally you will pass a heap of rubble that was once a building and in many of the main shipping areas you find wood where once was plate glass. At the beginning the people in the streets dashed for cover as soon as they heard a warning si- ren, but now they carry on until gunfire draws near and then wait under cover until it fades away again. Some of the cinemas are closed, because few people are in- clined to go to them nowadays, but the shops do business as usual and have large stocks and many custom- ers. There are times, in fact, when everything outwardly appears quite normal and you could go a long way almost anywhere without seeing ev- idence of raids. The other day I was feeling that as I rode my cycle to work along a main shopping road. At a junction I saw a number of people looking along the side road which was roped off. I stopped and looked and at first could see nothng wrong. Then I stared at a gap between some houses and thought, “Surely there were houses there”. I showed my credentials to the policeman at the ropes and went through. I found that two houses within fifty yards of the main road were just a pile of debris. White dust covered surrounding property for hundreds of yards. A piece of curtain hung from the top of a tree nearby. A torn photograph of some people at a Coronation was half cov- ered with dust in the gutter. Men of the rescue squad were working on the debris. There were seven or eight people under that pile of wreckage, all dead. But it didn’t register as it should do. In ordinary times this would have been a na- tional story—“Seven or Eight Killed as Houses are Wrecked!” the head- ing would have been. Now it was common place, not worth sending to the news agency. I knew one of the men killed in one of those houses. Outside a neighbor's house I met his son and air raid warden, gray faced, in the dusty blue dun- garees of His Service. He had been standing at the door of his father’s house during the raid. A friend on the other side of the road beckoned him across. He went. He had just half smoked a cigarette when a bomb hit his house that he had just left and wrecked it. Bombs Stop Letter The break here -indicates that I had to leave this letter and resume it again today (Oct. 4) It is very difficult to get time to do anything now that the evenings are getting so short. No sooner have we finish- ed tea than we have to go down to the shelter for the night. In conse- quence I am having to do my cor- respondence and other things in spasms. This is being written in the HEADS AIR CORPS Major Gen. George H. Brett, new chief of thes U. S. Air Corps, suc- ceeds Major Gen. Henry H. Arnold, who was promoted to the new post of deputy chief of staff. The promo- tions clothe the air corps with new importance. office during warning. I can hear that confounded drone overhead and the guns will begin to bark in a moment. This raid has lasted since noon and it is now four o‘clock. Clouds prevent any view of what is happening. It is always more nerve wracking on days like this because you know they are sitting up there above the clouds but you can’t see them or judge how far they are away. On the bright days we have had throughout September day raids had no terrors. We stood and watched the air battles which took place at such tremendous heights that the planes were visible only as gnats, and kept an eye open for parachutes and falling planes of which we have seen several. There was some thrill about that, but believe me, there is no thrill about skulking in an air raid shelter for half the day with the pretty sure prospect of being down there all night as well. There are some brave souls, of course, who appear to take little or no notice but I have seen so many houses laid flat and listened to so much tragedy that I, frankly, haven’t the nerve to stay indoors through the thick of it. The trouble is, I suppose, that having shelter to go-to, I have got ‘“‘shelter conscious”. If we hadn’t one and had had to stay indoors, lurking under the stairs as many people do, I should have got used to it by now. I have been in the house during one or two heavy bouts of firing and the place has shaken as if it were going to crumple on top of me. That is not a nice feeling. So you see, I am Card Of Thanks Mrs. Corey Gordon and son, Paul wish to thank all those who so kindly assisted during the recent ill- ness and death of their husband and father. Mrs. Corey Gordon. Paul Gordon. THE FIRST NATIONAL HANK DALLAS, PENNA. MEMBERS AMERICAN BANKERS’ ASSOCIATION DIRECTORS R. L. Brickel, C. A. Frantz, W. B Jeter, Sterling Machell, W. R. Neely, Clifford Space, A. C. Devens, Herbert Hill. OFFICERS C. A. Frantz, President Sterling Machell, Vice-President W. R. Neely, Vice-President W. B. Jeter, Cashier F. J. Eck, Assistant Cashier Vault Boxes For Rent. No account too.small to secure careful attention. Interest On Savings Accounts. afraid you cannot count me among the heroes of London. I am stick- ing it because economic and other reasons decree that I shall. That, of course, is the way it is with a good many more. But the attitude of mind of many people is really extraordinary. An elderly lady with whom I was talk- ing had had her home wrecked be- yond hope of salvage. Everything she had owned—and it wasn’t much —had gone. The day before that on which I saw her Buckingham Palace had been hit. She was full of in- dignation—that Buckingham Palace had been hit! It did not occur to her that she should have been more indignant that her own house had been hit. Printing Plant Damaged We have had out difficulties on the paper. A fortnight ago our printing works were set on fire and gutted by incendiary bombs. All the machine room and the compos- Vr aa ing rooms and foundry were burn- ed out. We had a good deal of stuff already in type for that week’s issue and that was just a river of lead. We scrambled everything over to a newspaper office in the next town, took our comps and machine opera- tors over by car and in a day and a half they reset every advertisement in the paper and all the current news and we produced that week’s issue just a little ahead of scheduled time. It was a real feat but it meant hard work for a day or two. We have been printing there since but hope to have our own works going again next week though it will be a tarpaulin roof among charred ' Upholstering @ Free Estimates PAUL B. SMITH 54 South Franklin Street Wilkes-Barre ° —— PHONE 8-0281 —— wood and blackened walls. It isn’t much good going in for elaborate reconstruction because it is by no means unlikely that we shall catch it again. And now I must close my letter as I am told they will only accept a certain weight of letter for U. S. A. just now. In any case I have some shopping to do as soon as we get the “raiders passed” siren. It is no good trying to do shopping before that because most of them keep closed during the raid warnings. will try to write you a more coher- ent letter before long. This one has certain limitations in that respect, — “SMILING SERVICE ALWAYS” Oliver's Garage Hudson Distributor DALLAS, PENNA. I am afraid, but the fact is there is so much I want to write about that I think would interest you that I can’t get it focused properly at this stage. Thank you for your interesting last letter. I sent off a copy of our you can slip across any U. S. A. paper and hope you received it. If papers at any time I shall be glad for them. ; All the best until next time. Yours, Basil E. 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