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FTER thinking, erroneously of course, that Glasgow was to be immune and that the city would not experience a blitz such as Coventry, London and other cities have been called upon to undergo, the city got one of the worst that Hitler's powerful and efficient Air Force could possibly have inflicted upon us. There is no use in minimizing or under-estimating the extent of the damage sustained for it was serious and the deaths were many, while the losses were colossal.
But as usual what suffered most were not the actual concerns that were engaged in war produ lotion but the homes, houses and personal possessions of the innocent men, women and children. Surely if Nazi Airmen, who brutally murdered those innocent children, babies in arms, some of them, others only a few years old, could have seen the result of their handiwork, they would for ever hide their heads in shame.
What they did was not warfare, it was mass murder done in the most cowardly, brutal way imaginable.
Those who did this reprehensible business have nothing over which to gloat. They ought to be ashamed of themselves But to imagine for single moment that through it and by it they have cowd the folks of these areas would e absolutely wrong. The men in the big works zre working as never before. They are determined to give the Empire what it requires to bring Nazi Germany to its heels. If they needed a tonic to make it waken up and produce the maximum amount that can he produced well, this cowardly blitz hag done it and from now on there is but one object and aim in view and it is to give the Forces of the Island Home whatever they need in ihe way of ammunition that will enable them to repay Germany in its own coin.
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