The Archive · 1940

Coventry. Nov

Time bombs still exploded here yesterday as persons streamed out of the town, carrying what posses sions they could in perambulotore fand other vehicles..

Thousands of soldiers were still busy pulling down walls, andthe dean began to Took tke a vast broke yor On a board nailed to 2 crumbling wall were at least five pages of names fof casualties caused by the German raiders. on the board, and atleest five hundred names on the pages.

Coventry is attempting to return te "somewhat "normal "state, after 'Thursday night's tarrie raid, which continued for ours, during' which the sky was filled" with whistling bombs, droning motors, and heavy anti-niveratt fre, Some factories and motor plants in the town itself were said to be shells of wisted girders and heaped pyramids of mortar and. crumbled brick-—United Press, Raid on German Ship's Captain Attempts Suicide steamer Phrygia, which was, scuttled when, afler steaming out of Tampico with three other German. vessels November 18, it encountered British raft, attempted suicide on lay night, according £0 the press which makes the allegation Gespite a denial from' German sources.

Newspapers allege the captain first tried to shoot himself, then attempted to jump overboard from the Orinoco in which he and his salvaged crew were lodged.

Mexican authorities are iavestiyating the case of the Phrygia with 4 Men reg giver the neutrality zone. Tt Is 0 that the captain of the Graf Spe German pocket-battleship, whic), Wat sunk by British naval craft off the Rio de la Plata, committed suicide, Reuter.

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