The King yesterday spent more than five hours touring the city, viewing the damage, interviewing scores: of injured and rescue workers, and seeing for himself what was being done for the many hundreds who hàve lost their homes, Where damage was the worst, the King watched soldiers clearing roads and working with A.R.P. personnel on the remains of many buildings.
At the conclusion of the tour, His Majesty told Mr Herbert Morrison, Minister of Home Security: "I am glad that things have gone as well as they have in these dreadful circums; stances." t
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