"I must interrupt my narrative here to inform you that the air raid sirens have just sounded (we hear them exceedingly well at the office where I am writting this—after office ours. of course), and te time is 7230 pin, This must be our 320th warning since Last June when the Luftwaffe first started, but for all that we have been extremely fortunate In receiving very little damage to property and very few casual-fies compared with other towns near by, have been {0 our old home town (Plymouth) quite a umber of times since T left London in September 1829, in fact as recently as the week before last, and when T say that T saw only one concrete evidence of the result of enemy action in the +hole-one hundred and twenty mile journey. you can realize what. little amage has really been doze during the past five months of aerial warfare over this part of the country, Although there have been several casualties and "damage to - property fon.@ fairly large scale in some parts, particularly in London and SE, coastal towns, our native town (Plymouth) has "not been greatly effected and one has to travel around quite a bit to see any damage at all, which may alleviate any misgivings you may have in your mind on that "You can realize that we are kept very busy and work very long hours, which is very tiring and a little bor-tig. No doubt you are. kept well informed of all the latest happenings the precent struggle and of all the brilliant feats of our wonderful airmen anid lads in navy blue who have, so, far, frustrated all the enemy's efforts in trying to bring this country into subjection, "No Need {0 Worry"
"Anyway there Is no need for you or any other exiles away from the Mother Country to worry about us of home, as we are all well catered for in food and materials and have practically everything one could desire in spite of the necessary ratloning of certain commodities. managed-to got one whole week during the summer and spent this short time with my people who, T am glad to say, are pretty ft and well for old "uns", and are standing the strain of the' air raid and. accomparing A. A, gun fire remarkably well, "We have enjoyed a particularly fine summer and autumn, 80. much se that the water supplies wore beginning to show siges of giving out in many places until recently when we had plenty of rain, Yesterday, in fact, "the wind and rain were colly ferrifte and one had dimeully in walking against it—and keeping one's hat onl
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