Fre Belfast, May 6.
the second time in three weeks, the Luftwaffe crossed the Irish Sea on Sunday night to strike indiscriminately at this busy, patriotic Northern Ireland city. Yesterday as thousands picked their ways through streets strewn with broken glass, the spirit of the people was as unflinching as it was after the first big raid on April 15.
Amid the misery of ruined homes, this fortitude mingled with tremendous relief that casualties were not as heavy as at first feared, The blow was, however, severe as the official communique shows with its reference to "much damage to commercial, industrial and residential property."
At a hospital hit in the previous raid, and damaged again on Sunday night, nurses shepherded their patients—mostly women and children—to safety as flames swept part of the building. Their calm courage was matched by the firemen, ARP. workers and ambulance drivers, who battled through the night to check the fires and bring in the injured, and by those ordinary men and women whose homes are gone, but who, since they feel they are in this war as completely as any other part of'Britain now, are not dismayed because they felt its full severity.
Only a few hours after the" sun rose on the battered city, tidying up proceeded as swiftly as' possible Reuter, Liverpool Carries On London, May 6.
After four days and nights of ra Liverpool is carrying on. Following a special meeting of the city' emergency committee, special arrangements were considered, and a statement issued saying that Liverpool had passed through a serious trial, and that the committee expressed its great appreciation of the spirit in which the citizens had met the crisis, It was a great inspiration, the committee added, to know that Liverpool had not been behind other cities in its realization of the importance of maintaining the steadiness of civic life,
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