Evening star., 1941-09-04
Safest Raid Shelter
Is Inside Dover's
Towering Cliffs
Mayor Offers Reward
For Bomb Crater More
Than 6 Feet Deep
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM,

I NOENH american newspaper hlIance.
/ LONDON. Sept. Ave stood to-
/ gether looking at France, a free
Frenchman and I. We could not
see very much, just penciled line
on the horizon. We were 20 miles
away, at Dover, and 1t was misty.
But beyond that gray stretch of
water was everything the French
man had once loved-wife, work,
children, parents, brothers and
! sisters.
Il haven't heard from my family
! since escaped with Gen. de Gaulle."
he said his eyes fixed on France.
But Ill be back there one day,
and for every day I've waited I'll
kill German"
The scream of an air raid alert
came almost as a relief. and we
walked to the safest air raid shelter
in the world. right inside the tower
ing Dover cliffs.
There are ships in the harbor
today, which is the reason for the
German raiders. Dover holds the |
record for air raid alerts and special |
warnings long distance shellingl |
The casualties and damage have. not |
been as great as they might have |
been expected.
The worst raid occurred a few |
weeks ago, when bombs killed sew
eral people. injured many and dam
aged great number of houses. The |
bombs landed early in the morning |
Quarters In Chalk Cliffs.
The admiral of Dover Castle has |
his headquarters inside the white |
cliffs, and it was here that the evac-
uation of DunkerQue was planned. |
The chalk substance of the cliffs |
can take any amount of bombing |
and shelling, and the Mayor OF Do
yer, whom we found later serving |
behind his licensed pub, has offered |
reward to any one who can find |
a bomb crater in the cliffs more
than 6 feet deep.
left the free Frenchman in Dover |
and continued to Folkstone, where |
in the last big raid the Mayor and |
every member of his family were |
blown to bits, and where, in spite |
of the constant raids, the dancing
still continues nightly.
And I journeyed up to the indus |
trial cities of Leeds, Hull, Manches- |
ter and Glasgow, where in the last |
raids babies had blood bath in
their perambulators and children |
were running around with fingers |
and hands blown off calling for par
entS who could not hear.
Little Scotch in Scotland.
The presumed German objective |
at Glasgow was Clydebank and the
shipbuilding works. 1t amazed me
to find families still living, working
and sleeping in these districts. Per-
| sonally. would as soon live on
volcano.
Glasgow yielded me my best
breakfast to date, an enormous bowl
of porridge and a giant haddock.
| But later on when asking for
highball I was informed that most
of the scotch in Scotland had gone
to the United States.
There were queues outside the
candy shops in Manchester, jam
had been unobtainable for two
weeks and the streets were blan-
keted with SCOT. Manchester has
had its share of bombing, although
not as heavily as Liverpool, Hull
or Plymouth.
Leeds America Conscious"
At 2 am. in Manchester there
was a loud knocking at my door.
"A light is showing from the ho-
tel and we think it is your ROOM"
they told me.
rs it here?" the porter shouted
to some one in the street.
mo, the room below" dim voice
replied.
Sleep had been too disrupted for
resumption.
They tell you in England that in
an air raid you are just as safe
on the top floor as in the Easement
unless it is direct hit" That
may be, but the basement looks
safer.
Leeds is very America conscious"
AT Bingley Training College near
Leeds, 160 Yorkshire teachers are
studying American history, geogra-
ply, economics and social life with
a view to teaching the young of
Yorkshire what really happened in
l776 and afterward in the United
States. This is almost as big
revolution as the revolution itself.