London, Sept. 18.
Air raids on London docks have killed only one man inside the dock area, revealed Mr. Ronald Cross, Minister of Shipping in a broadcast last night.
"After days and nights of horror and bombs and flames, thanks to the wonderful air-raid shelter organization of the Port of London authorities, there had only been one man killed by enemy action within limits of the docks, and this poor fellow was in a tiny cabin which by sheer bad luck got a direct hi Outside docks, the Minister continued, the story was very different. London's docks are surrounded by densely-crowded areas. There are many miles of small streets where hundred thousands of London's poorest people live in tiny houses, mostly weakly built.
"To their ever-lasting shame, the Huns have poured a deluge of destruction on these unlucky folk."
Those leaving the district were not "done for," they were, so to speak, the wounded going out of battle. The great bulk of people in these bombed parts of London were remaining. They refused to move for Hitler, Mr. Cross asserted.—Reuter.
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