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Fulton accused the Nazi pilots of deliberate attempts to bomb London hospitals, adding that every large hospital in London, almost without exception has had a direct hit, and that many of the smaller hospitals and nursing homes have been injured...
...should become a belligerent nation," declared Willis, "it will be physically possible for an enemy to bomb out coast. Naturally the army air corps has that eventuality in mind. France was bombed. After looking at the results it was easy to see that cellars of ordinary masonry buildings are traps. One such shelter in Beauvals had 16 people in it. The building fell and all were killed...
...Nanking, capital of Puppet Wang Ching-wei's National Government, Lieut. General Nobuyuki Abe, who is occupied China's real ruler, at long last went through the formality of recognizing Wang's regime. The day before, a bomb had gone off under a train in Soochow station, but the Chinese who planted the bomb got the wrong train and killed 100 of their countrymen. A few hours later General Abe's train went through safely to Nanking, where student agitators demonstrated against the Japanese and 3,000 policemen chose that time to strike for more wages...
Soon the Fascist hornets came, angry waves of Sparviero bombers, guarded by Falco chasers which British fighters rose to meet as explosives showered around the departing British warships. One bomb-fall landed all around the Ark Royal, but she emerged from cataracts of spray with all her anti-aircraft guns crackling angrily...
...British said: one of their Swordfish punctured the biggest Italian battleship; another torpedo hit the Bolzano (heavy cruiser) and a Skua's bomb hit a Condottieri (light) cruiser; fire from the Renown and the British cruisers damaged another heavy cruiser and two destroyers. Total: six strikes, which reduced Italy's serviceable battleships to two, her cruisers to 16, as against only one British ship struck, the cruiser Berwick, which lost seven men killed, nine injured when hit by two shells, but was still ready for action...