Here in Shanghai, where the results of bombing from the air have been seen, it is rather difficult to gauge the reaction of the Briton at Home to the present aerial onslaught on English cities, towns and villages by the Nazi air force. Most inhabitants of this city, or at least those who witnessed the events of 1937, know what terror from the skies is really like. Therefore, they ask, is it not natural, when there are daily mass raids by bombers, for the Bri ish people to be overawed, or even reduced to a state of terror by the roar of planes and the ear-splitting detonation of bombs? Unfortunately they cannot pay a fleeting visit to England to find out for themselves how the homesiders are taking these visits of Herr Hitler's legions of the air but they can rest assured that their fears about the British people, men, women and children, are unfounded. In the offices of the "North-China Daily News" there are received from tithe to time copies of various English journals, daily and weekly newspapers, ma-gaziness, etc., in which one invariably finds some account of how the civilian population from Land's End to~John O'Groats is reacting to the German air attack. There are interviews with housewives, who prepare their husbands' dinners in streets in which houses have been shattered by bombs. "What have we to be afraid of?" these brave women say. "We stick by our men and no German bomb will scare us. is the spirit of the working-class housewife. As bombs fall on her district she shelters with her children and curses the Nazi for interrupting her cooking. After the raid she goes back home and carries on with her household tasks—if her home is there to go to. If it isn't then some kindly neighbour helps her out with accommodation and utensils, until another home is found or her own repaired. The truth is that nobody in England is afraid of the Nazis. One has only to read of the crowds which gather to watch our fighters shoot down Nazi raiders or the jocular comments of people who have been endangered in one way or another by bombs. Can the same be said about Germany?
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