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Ominous to Greek ears was another Italian sound-effect they heard that evening - from Mussolini's news agency, Stefani: news that there had been a "border incident" that day near the Corizza Pass on the Greek-Albanian border, and a bomb incident at Porto Edda (named for Il Duce's daughter). The Italians, of course, blamed Greek "armed bands" and agents. Denial of the affairs by the Greeks went unheard, their offers of discussion were turned down. Within a few hours Mussolini and Hitler had one more conference, at Florence (see p. 28), and Italy...
...luxury liner Empress of Britain, flagship of the Canadian Pacific fleet, tenth largest of the world's liners, was attacked by a German bombing plane 60 miles off the northwest coast of Ireland. Despite heroic action by the Empress' anti-aircraft crew, a heavy bomb struck the ship, set her afire. Captain Charles Howard Sapworth, who was decorated last year after he brought King George & Queen Elizabeth back from Canada in the Empress, maneuvered his ship so that the flames were kept from the forecastle until, after five hours, her passengers & crew could be taken aboard British warships...
...conveyance was modern enough. Adolf Hitler's private car is made of the strongest steel, with heavy steel reinforcements along the floor. Although a bomb or a mine might lift the car from the tracks, nothing less than a direct hit by a heavy air bomb or artillery shell could pierce it. The car is heavily padded inside. Its windows are protected by thick steel shutters that can be brought down at a moment's notice...
General Pestilence. Again last week, in the form of a denial, the question of the Government's removal from London was publicly raised. Also, for the first time, public health in the bomb-battered capital was openly discussed. In the New States man & Nation appeared a brutally frank piece by Ritchie Calder, young scientific and sociological journalist, friend of H. G. Wells. Wrote...
Casualties, Courage. Bomb casualties for the terrible month of September were announced last week. Among a total United Kingdom population of 47,098,000 they did not sound so bad-6,954 killed, 10,615 seriously injured, bringing the war-long totals to 8,365 killed, 12,352 injured. But the majority of these casualties were women, and four-fifths of the total died in long-suffering, lambasted London. And the cold death figures did not begin to reflect the casualties of heart and mind, the tolls of fear and despair and sickness...