{"id":1753,"date":"2022-05-04T05:33:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T05:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/?p=1753"},"modified":"2022-12-15T15:33:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T15:33:26","slug":"4-may-1941-sunday-belfast-1941-blitz-diary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/04\/4-may-1941-sunday-belfast-1941-blitz-diary\/","title":{"rendered":"4 May 1941 (Sunday) \u2013 Belfast 1941 Blitz Diary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crime continued in Blitz Belfast. The papers reported various punishments given by the courts. Mr J.H. Campbell K.C. R.M. sentenced a number of offenders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John Maquire, an 18 year old youth, was fined 40 shillings for saying \u2018Up Hitler\u2019 in Leeson Street. Campbell said that he did not send him to prison as he came quietly.<a id=\"_ftnref1\" href=\"#_ftn1\">[1]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"section-g8349d9\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-e6 section-g8349d9 gutentor-element gutentor-element-image\"><div class=\"gutentor-element-image-box\"><div class=\"gutentor-image-thumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"normal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Irish-Weekly-3.5.41-p.3.jpg\"\/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John Freeman was sentenced to six months\u2019 imprisonment for looting. Campbell told Freeman \u2018if you were a decent man, you would have been trying to help people instead of stealing from them\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Samuel Barbour, Robert Ballard and William Brown were sent to prison between four and six months with hard labour for looting lead from a building. The defendants said they stole the lead to sell it for food.<a id=\"_ftnref2\" href=\"#_ftn2\">[2]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"section-gcf4394\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-e6 section-gcf4394 gutentor-element gutentor-element-image\"><div class=\"gutentor-element-image-box\"><div class=\"gutentor-image-thumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"normal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Irish-Weekly-26.4.41-p.6.jpg\"\/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" id=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Irish Weekly, 3 May 1941, p.3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" id=\"_ftn2\">[2]<\/a> Irish Weekly, 26 April 1941, p.4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crime continued in Blitz Belfast. The papers reported various punishments given by the courts. Mr J.H. Campbell K.C. R.M. sentenced a number of offenders. John Maquire, an 18 year old youth, was fined 40 shillings for saying \u2018Up Hitler\u2019 in Leeson Street. Campbell said that he did not send him to prison as he came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-34"],"blocksy_meta":[],"gutentor_comment":0,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}