London Aflame 'The picture of the burning of London, which appeared in February 13, sup of the NCDN. was taken on the occasion of the' German raid "which showered thousands of incendiary bombs upon the cen~ fre of the City in the hope of destroying it by fire. Considerable damage was done, though the enemy failed to bring about that amount of destruction for which he had apparently hoped. Mr. Ernie Pyle, a special writer for Scripps Howard newspapers in a despatch sent out from London after the raid wrote a vivid desriptive article in which the following passages Some day when peace has returned to thi odd "world I'want "to come to London again and look" down upon the peaceful sliver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges. And Sisol want {o tell somebody how London looked on''a Certain' night in the Holiday ccason, of the "And now and then. through a-hole in. that shroud' there twinkled - incongruously genuine star—tho old-faahoned Donuts single scene I have ever known, 'That was probably the last opportunity Mr. Pyle will have of witnessing such' a spectacle, for with the proper, efficient organization of men to watch the roofs of buildings for incen diary bombs, the chance of the enemy ever being able to start such another conflagration has been reduced to a minimum. The picture self isa' stern indictment of the German methods of conducting aerial warfare. A portion of London which contained no' military objectives was deliberately bombed, for no other reason than to spread terror. It failed of its real purpose, for the British are showing as the Spaniards did during the Civil that though aerial bombardment may do serious material damage, 23 a psychological weapon the bomb is a vastly overrated thing. The courage of the Londoner stands up as firm and erect as the dome of St. Paul's rises ihave the glow of the fire caused by Hitler's airmen, Ie is symbolic of the great moral which has sustained similar other blows without a whimper, That is in striking contrast with the Germans whose press, when the RAF. do some particularly fine bombing, screech non-military objectives being attacked, behaviour of their own men were remarkable for a tily-white innocence from wanton and widespread brutal murder. Fortunately Britain ig hitting German military objective increasingly harder blows, as Hamburg, and Hanover and dozens of other German ce tres for the production of war material clearly show. Those blows. will become harder Britain's air strength grows and the time may not be far distant when it will be possible to tive the Nazis larger doses of the medicine they are so enthusiastically administering to others. It then that there will in all probability be some whimpering. to be noticed.
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