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...fighter-bombers and fast, light bombers (Junkers 88) to which they resorted when their bigger death crates proved too easy meat for the R. A. F.'s fighter defense, they swarmed in over London. They also visited Liverpool, Manchester and other inland towns, to whose inhabitants the bombing of London is only horrid hearsay. Most of them stayed at great altitude because their converted Messerschmitts, with a red line painted on the windscreen for a "bomb sight," were no good for precision work and, anyway, the purpose of their "total" war was indiscriminate damage and terror among London...
Same time that the Germans were driven to wild night bombing, the British intensified their own night work. Last week they smashed repeatedly at Berlin and set gas works, rail yards, factories on fire. They reported the Berlin Central Post Office entirely gutted. Still not yielding to popular pressure for "total" attacks on German civilians, the R. A. F. continued to concentrate its bombs on selected military targets. At the same time, the British canceled their order to pilots to bring all bombs home if the specified target could not be found. For the first time since September...
Added last week to the list of bomb-scarred landmarks were the London Times building (publication was not interrupted), British Ministry of Information, Trafalgar Square (Nelson's statue not damaged), St. Paul's Cathedral (high altar smashed by falling masonry, but the lead rafters held up the roof), Memorial Hall of the University of London (10,000 books destroyed, including German and Jewish collections), Dudley House (depot for U. S. gifts, where 1,000 lb. of Red Cross wool was buried under rubble), Waterloo Station, Battersea Park (near a main powerhouse). Wellington College in Berkshire...
Other big-name casualties reported in the week were Princess Catherine Galitzine of Russia and Cinemactress Madeleine Carroll's sister Marguerite ("Gigetti"), both killed by bomb explosions...
First indication of the value to Japan of Vichy's surrender came when 45 Japanese planes, taking off from their new bases in French Indo-China, bombed Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province, vital aviation and manufacturing centre, junction of both the Burma Road and Indo-China Railway. Japan was also in position to bomb supplies brought by motor truck over 600 tortuous miles of the Burma Road, if & when Britain reopens...