Most of the elly's inhabitants, stil feeling the nervous strain of the previous two aerial conflicts, were now in their homes and shops warm-Ing themselves by' the evening fires not knowing what might happen on the morrow, but wrapped in. nameless "reverie comforted. themselves with the thought that, at least, for that day, all anxiety could be'
'Suddenly the air-raid alarm began to shriek' out its warning notes. Consternation and fear gripped the populous. A perfect babble of voices, half eries and half groans, arose from a rushing mass of ' frightened humanity who, leaving their homes, rushed out into the night to ind shelter, Most of the people had not Teached their hiding places, but were 'Ul In flight when the planes arrived and panic stricken they' hid in every hook and "corner. The full) moon's beams shining on' the placid surface of the Willow River which skirts Tiuchow on three sides presented the city In the centre of a horse shoe of silver easily seen from the sir. Presently flashes of fame from burst=
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