Long Eaton, Nov. 25.
"The spirit that remains in the old country is remarkable; I have never known it more united, and could not at all have believed that the folk could have endured the trials they have been faced with, with such fortitude, All seem to carry on and are resolved to win through. what-the cost.
"We went to Coventry last week, and in face of what has happened there—the destruction of the centre of the city—the people bear up extra ordinarily well and beyond any anticipation one could have had.
Birmingham too has suffered simile erly, but all carry on and would appear to treat their disasters with untold bravery and fortitude, Air-raid warnings are constantly with us, day and night. Sunday morning we had two before noon, and it i surprising how folk become accus tomed to changed conditions, In the streets there are numerous Air Raid Shelters, and people make them their abiding places for the night. We ourselves retire under the stairs.
Tue officers for the current veer of the Sino-American Cultural Association in Chungking were elected at a meeting held on Sunday, report to the "Si include Dr. H. H., Kung, Finance Minister, as the honorary chairman, Mr. Chen Li-fü, Minister of Education, and Mr, K. P. Chen, general-manager of the Shanghai and Commercial Savings Bank as the vice-chairman for the second consecutive year, the report adds. Dr. Leighton Stuart, president of the Yenching University in Peiping, was also elected as the American chairman of the Association, the report states.
A Máx who is playing a big part behind the scenes in rallying Equatorial Africa to the Allied cause is Sir Bernard Bourdillon, for the last five years Governor of Nigeria. He comes of a family with a long record of service in India, and served there himself from 1908 until after the Great War. Then he spent some years in Bagdad in 1932, Sir Bernard is tall, ascetic, and sparing of words, and believes that within the next few years the centre of the Empire will Shift from Asia to Africa, Both he and his wife are very popular among the native population, and the Nigerian shopkeepers show it by naming many new articles of clothing after them.
Am Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, appointed the first Commander-in-Chief, Far East, is the only officer living of the Air Battalion formed in 1912 from which the RAF. ori He was in the first air manceuvres of 1911, and one first BaH-dozer pilots to cross the Ënés in 1914 Originally a soldieř in the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, he was Commandant of the Imperial Defence College, the key-brain of the three Services, and 4 the first Air Force man to rule the College. He is nicknamed "Brook-ham, a combination of his two names, His family name was Brooke, and he assumed by Royal Licence his additional name in 1904. A man of Suffolk, he has served longer in the R.A.F. than any officer living. where we can just get in a bed and a chair, and when things get too warm, in we go. I have electric light and a portable electric stove, and sleep quite well occasionally.
"So far, Long Eaton has fared well. and we have been extraordinarily lucky; we have had about five houses demolished and a hundred or so damaged, at New Sawley and Trent Lock, otherwise the bombs "have dropped in fields. Ilkeston has fared much worse than we have, so has Beeston. Nottingham and Derby have had very lucky escapes, suffering little or no damage. Stanton has even escaped. Leicester has come in for a share, and the village of Oadby has suffered badly.
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