ed raid of the war on this town on Tuesday night and early Hitler's Luftwaffe unleashed the most concentrat-Wednesday, but it was not as "concentrated" as was the assault on Coventry.
From dusk to dawn raiders conally dropped bombs over the entire city but as far as I could see yesterday morning casualties were not heavy anywhere. Damage was mainly to stores, offices and houses.
The.town, when I arrived yesterday morning, ing, looked like London after a bad night. could hear the familiar tinkle of glass being swept up, and traffic got into tighter and tighter jams as it was detoured around cordoned areas.
But buses and trams were full of workers and more thronged the pavements on their way to pieces of employment.
Scarcely one plate glass window remains. intact along streets in the shopping area.. Even those covered with protective devices were smashed. Pavements and gutters were filled with glass.
From this town I drove through the industrial area towards another town in the West Midlands area. I stood on a hill top and looked across miles: of country, and counted hund-réds."of smoke stacks. Plumes of smoke rose' in the gray sky and in the air there was a steady hum of machinery.
Chancellor Hitlers Luftwaffe has dámbged this area in spots but I personally saw that vast stretches of it have hót been scratched—United Press.
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