Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-09
Truth on Britain
Under BIitz
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down a statue. An oil bomb will
set docks alight in a flaming mass
from which there would seem 10
be no salvage, and a high explo-
sive will split the fire and put
much of 1t out.
A 4-pound incendiary will ruin
a ,hotel, but another will land IN.
a munitions dump and go out
such are the breaks OF bombing,
and Britain's luck has been good.
CHILDREN STILL SMILE
Bombs kill their share of people
but inflict surprisingly few hor-
rible-type multiple injuries. Shell
tiers TANNED to the doors with
men, women and children have
been hit directly by high explo-
sives, yet only those nearest the
blast are fatalities and the most
seriously injured (aside from men
tai cases, of which their have been
several thousand) will suffer the
amputation of an arm or leg. or
the loss of hand or eye. The
answer is that if a blast inflicts
terrible Disagreement il also is
close enough to collapse the lungs
and inflict instant death!
Since the first weeks Of the
blitzkrieg. the courage of the Brit
ish has never left them. From
smallest child to oldest inhabitant
ii is a matter of pride to withhold
any fear and to jump TO the call
of one of the many civilian services
fighting fires. dousing incendiaries.
finding time bombs, aiding the in
jured, feeding the homeless and
rescuing the trapped.
The children are amazing. !
have seen them smiling at play.
when their homes consisted of
2 by S-foot strips of subway plat
form: their meals public stew;
their lullaby the rattle of aerial
dogfights or crashing bombs, dron-
ing airplanes and cracking anti
aircraft fire.
They know the full gravity of 1t
all - they've seen their friends
blasted to death in their homes,
their dads killed in various serv-
ices, their mothers called upon to
do herculean tasks. But they have
been taught the heritage Of British
courage.
But the obvious point is that
children should and must be evacu-
ated from highly congested areas
into the countryside. as we'll as
should every female in a nom
essential occupation.
BUILD NEW PLANTS
The British government has not
used its emergency powers 10 clear
cities of surplus populations but
the step is not far off for there
must be no congestion during the
forthcoming intensified Springtlme
olitzes. But again English courage
plays its part. for such is its,
strength it will face any terrors
rather than divide the family.
Dispersal Of population is as i'm
portant a defense maneuver as
dispersal Of production. The latter
step was completed long before
war broke out and all new indus
trial construction in England is
based on the shadow factory
scheme. that is. numerous produc-
tive centers and numerous assem- /
bly, points independent Of each
other individually yet interrelated
as whole.
The Germans will need a much
better Fifth Column than that
which served them IN France to
ferret out England's new factories
1t is a fact that during the worst
bombing periods. new industrial
nearly equaled enemy
deStruction-and machine tools are
easily salvaged.
All English construction today.
OF course, is based on war needs,
thus much reconstruction Of dam