Town, Nov. 21 Chancellor Hitler's Luewaffe un.
Jeashed the most concentrated raid of the war on this town on Tuesday night and carly Wednesday, but it was not as "concentrated as was the From dusk to dawn raiders eontinually dropped bombs over the entire elly but as far as T could sce waltzes were anywhere, Damage was mainly to stores, offices and houses.
The town, when T arrived yesterday morning, looked ike London afler a bad night. Everywhere T could "hear the familiar tinkle of lass being swept up, and trae got {into tighter and tighter jams was devoured around cordoned areas, But buses and trams were full of workers and more thronged the pavements on their way to. placer of employment.
Scareely one plate lass window remains intact along streets in the shopping area, "Even those covered with protective devices were smashed. 'Pavements and" gutters were Mead with' glass, From this town 1 drove through the industrial area towards another town in the West Midlands area, 1 stood on a hill top and looked across miles of country, and counted hundreds of smoke stacks, Plumes. of smoke rose in the gray sky and in the air there was a steady hum of machinery, Choneelior Hitler's Luf}watfe has damaged this area in spots but T per sonally saw that vast stretches of IL have "not been scratched—United Press, English Midlands Severely Bombed Recent serious London, Nov. 21, and this morning though widespread, were intermittent and on a minor scale, the Air Ministry communique said,
the London area, the Midlands, planes dropped bombs "on widely-scattered points in the south= corn half of England, "one point in berth-west England and South Wales," the communique declared.
The Air Ministry asserted that in "several towns in the Midlands fires were started and high—explosives demolished some houses and damaged others. "A number was Killed and others were injured in this area.
Rlsewhere, although some damage way done at' several points, attacks generally, Were ineffective and. the humber of killed aiid injured was very small" "Phe all-clear in London A few minutes later errifie Battering The Midlands were taking a lorvitie hammering, from Chancellor Hitler's Euftwale, said reports here, the full ry ut the attacks being concentrated fon" one particular town in the Mid-Tana Waves of German bumpers roared town from dusk until the rly morning hours, " Seurehliahts eae criss-erossed in the night sky aah intense anticaireratt barrage Tighted the Watehers essed one of the most ial battles set sven in that the country" shortly before the reports jeeessive waves 3f bombers show"
th explosive bom nid "bread baskets explosives. and incen Midlands town. elf My quiet ideas © cit ea leks, for the second night in ste ces the Midlands igh explosive bombs residential. districts in 9 town. One. bomb fell on grounds and another ina Fouulway and broke ain Little damage was reported in London proper ip to midnight:—United Pres Company. San Diego, California "The High Command simultaneously der Boeing bombers "of the lying ferlyes" type which are al ready" completed.
The machines at the Consolidated Aircraft Company are reported to be very similar to the "fying fortresses," both being capable ofa range or 3
The Consolidated Company's bombers have just begun coming off the production line, while as regards the Boeing bombers Britain will be able to take first deliveries as soon as the negotiations ended. Indeed it 18 derstood that the was made to Reuter.
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