The attacks, it states, were mainly concentrated on districts in east and south London, in the neighbourhood of the river. Some fires were started, but were quickly brought under control, Some damage, the communique dds, was caused to dwelling houses and industrial premises. Reports received show that casualties were rather less than previous nights.
Meanwhile, despite 15 successive days of savage attacks, life in London is not much changed compared with normal times.
Rising after a night disturbed by the almost continuous roar of antiaircraft barrage, punctuated by the Occasional rump, of nearby enemy bombo, the average Londoner finds timely reassurance in the regular appearance of the-milk at his door and the newspaper in his letter-box.
It is these manifestations of norality, bespeaking as they do of the efficient functioning of processes of communication and distribution over a wide area and involving a great variety of activities, which has most deeply impressed foreign observers in London.
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