There was not the slightest sign of panic. Everyone seemed to treat it great thrill not to be missed, and children were laughing and excitedly pointing out to each other various incidents.
Damage to surrounding civilian property is understood to b" comparatively slight, but one building was hit, and hours after the raid rescuers were still digging among the debris for bodies of men who had been working there.
Passengers in a bus were slightly injured by flying glass when a bomb dropped only a few yards from the vehicle. The bomb left a crater ten yards in diameter. All windows in the bus were blown out, part of the me was blown away, and the driver's cabin was shattered. The bus was practically empty.
At least four of a formation of 28 raiders were destroyed during the biggest raid so far on one section of the north-east coast, where miners stood at the top of a spithead waving caps as British fighters shot down bombers.
When the word was given at a trade union meeting in south-east England that the W: about, there was a cry of "carry on." The company declined to shelter in the basement, and instead gave three cheers for the RAF.
Sir Walter Citrine, General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress, declared: "Hitler is no more capable of wearing down this meeting than he is of wearing down the urined forces."
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