The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-09-06
Parliament
is Driven
To Shelter
Nozis Over London:
Britoin Alreody
Getting Wurships
N. Prs GO To CELLAR

M.P.'s GO To CELLAR
An air raid alarm today In Lon
don forced the British parliament
To suspend It's session and so 20
shelters. while watchers
on rooftops said German planes
inscribed a swastika or cross In
smoke above the London sky.
After a half-hour interruption.
the house of commons resumed de-
alterations about 4 p. m.
An air raid alarm. the second Of
the day. sounded ~ parliament
met TO hear Prime Minister Win
ston Churchill make an answer 10
Adolf Hitler's warning OF yester-
day that he would rae" the
towns Of Great Britain.
NAILS WRITE IN SKY
Members OF commons met for q
few minutes and then. after
Churchill had arrived amid cheers.
suspended the session and went 10
the cellar air raid shelters. II was
the first time they had been used
for a real air raid alarm.
Outside. watchers In one Lon
don area said they saw a Ger
man swastika written In smoke
high In the sky. Other watchers
said the insignia appeared To be a
cross. formed by smoke from the
exhaust Of the planes.
STILL ON ALERT
The alarm. second Of the day
In London. was sounded when .
great force Of German bombers
swept over the southeast coast,
some OF them heading for Lon
don.
When the house resumed its
sitting. the speaker said:
The house must understand
that the red warning traders In
the vicinity Ia still on and we are
still on the alert"
PREMIER PLEASED
Churchill told the house that the
Anglo-American Interpretations
base deal was "A memorable trans
action"
AS far as can make out" said
Churchill, 1T has been completed
to the general satisfaction Of the
British and American people" The
commons cheered Churchiil's
statement.
He said the American destroyers
would be put into active service
Immediately.
CREWS ARE READY
He said the agreement repre-
scented simply mutual measures Of
assistance rendered TO each other
by two friendly powers In = spirit
Of confidence.
He said the British crews al
ready are meeting the destroyers
at various ports where they are
being delivered.
The British United States agree
ment. said Churchill. will encour-
age Britain's friends throughout
the world, but he warned that 1T
would be . mistake TO try To read
into the official notes more than
the documents bare on their face"
CITES GERMAN LOSSES
Churchill declared that In her
daylight raids against Britain Ger
many has lost planes At a ratio Of
three 10 one and pilots at q ratio
Of six 10 one.
Churchill said that only ignor-
ant persons would suggest that
the transfer Of the destroyers con-
stituted the slightest violation Of
international Law OF affected the
non-beIligereney Of the United
States.
The British crews are already
meeting the destroyers BY the
long arm Of coincidence. he said.
amidst laughter.
WARNS AMERICA
Il am glad that the armed air
and naval frontiers Of the United
States have been advanced along
a wide arc into the Atlantic zone. "
he said. This win enable them TO
take danger BY the throat while
IL IN still hundreds Of miles from
their homeland"
Churchill said Adolf Hitler mo
doubt win not like this transfer
Of destroyers. and have no doubt
he viii pay the United States out
II he gets a chance.
Churchill said thu American de-
stroyers would I'm the gap before
Britain's war time built destroyers
entered service.