Smoke was hanging over some areas as I toured the capital in the moraing. 1 walked through streets still laced with hose-pipes, and my eyes smarted from acrid smoke, and Feontinually brushed falling smuts off my clothes. I strode by little tongues of flames which licked the gutted remains of the interior of an office.
Elsewhere firemen. were still at work damping and hacking down other smoking ruins, begrimed but heroic in their Sunday duty of saving the city they love. in many areas little heaps of sand and remains of burned out incendiary bombs _on pavements and roadways testified to the huge number of fire-bombs dropped.
Sunday workers still made their way to their centres of activity, taxis hurried along every open thoroughfare, and' buses, sometimes by cir-cult ous routes. continued their public. service with minimum possible interruption.
Tt was symbolic of the determina tion of the Londoner to carry on despite everything. There was less bright talk. Perhaps some people were in some such mood as that Kipling saw when he wrote: "The English began to hate."
The outlines of two great shrines. of Christian service—Westminster and St. Paul's Cathedral—stood out nobly against the sky.
Rescue parties were still at work today at a London hotel which was hit by a bomb in Saturday night's wanton raid. Hotel guests are still buried under fallen masonry.
City workers on their way 10 off ces today hed to pick their way Position in Iraq Cairo, May 13.
The situation in Iraq has become stabilized, says a Middle East, RAT. communique, British aircraft have been engaged in punitive operations against rebels in most of the districts where they were observed, The Berlin and Paris radio stations, which during the past week devoted their six daily transmissions in Arable almost entirely to the Iraqi rebellion. on Sunday night abruptly ceased references to the Iraqi usurper. Rashid All, and confined themselves merely to reading the rebel communique, Well-informed persons here express the opinion that Herr Hitler cannot through hose pipe at a few points wire smoke from soaked embers still persisted, but in streets generally dust and debris had already been swept aside and the rhythm of ordinary life.had begun again.
One of the most remarkable features of attacks hag been the manner in which the Londoner accepts what happened and readapts himself to wriged conditions. This was in evidence today although with the inevitable exception of those who arrived to find' their" offices non existent and remained near the site of their former employment in small groups discussing the next moves and awaiting orders. Those whose march to work took them past the Houses Parliament and Westminster Abbey paused to gaze sorrowfully at the damage. but found comfort from the fact that Big Ben. though blackened and scarred, still told the correct time Mr. Arthur Greenwood. Minister without Portfolio, whose special mission fs to plan the rebuilding of Bri-{tain after the war. today examined the ruins of the Debating Chamber of the House of Commons. which fas been the scene of many memorial speeches by British statesmen. All that is left are crumbling walls open to the sky. The Speaker's chair has gone and Pillars, leatherback" benjehes, fine vaulted roofs and soaring windows are all piled in an indistin"
siiable mass of masonry 50 fect high that still smolders inthe sunlight.
'A Member of Parliament clambered over the ruins to tell Mr. Greenwood that he found in one of the wrecked lobbies a cabinet containing the signatures of Gladstone. Most of the pri-vote rooms of Cabinet Ministers, including the Prime Minister's are undamaged. The libraries of the House of Commons and Lords have escaped damage—Reuter. tolerate an unsuccessful Quisling, The Moscow radio on Sunday night sharply criticized the altitude of rebel partisans of Raschid All, according to Ankara reports. In a broadcast for Rumania the announcer is stated to have described them as "instruments of foreign Powers,"
It Ig understood that no reply has yet been received from Raschid All Yo Egypt's offer to mediate in the dispute with Britain—Reuter,
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