"public order, public health, main: tenance ofall" essential servicer, Trandling of millions of men andi women, removal of dead and wound from shattered buildings, care of 'Wounded when hoopitaly were being Futhlessly bombed and provision for Romeless) sometimes amounting many thousands in single daya' and Secumulating' to many. more after three or four days of succeative at-{acks—all these things. with the Welfare and education. of a great umber "of children amid thave canes, presented tasks which, view-fed in'eold. blood beforehand, might veil have seemed overwhelming":
The Prime Minister admitted where the, storm broke in, September hho waa for. several, weeks "anxious about what the result would be, and confessed. that atthe ght. "en ha, fold. rainy and dark evening, of long queyes, of people, among her" bund Sedy of young, gins in silk stockings... uses and overtaken: by the dole highhected shoes, wailing, fon wall of the siren, his "heart bled for London and Londoners".
"tthe. courage and unconquerable grit and stamina of Londoners show. 2 itself from she outset: without hat all. would have failed, but on rock we have been teonquer-
2 Stamina and vigour of Lon don was followed magnificently by the inhabitants of smaller cities when they received the full violence of enemy assaults, "perhaps it Is our turn now, T believe it ig in our power to, keep-the bombing on Germany going on 2 steadily rising scale.
Sim the last few weeks alone we have. thrown upon Germany about Felt the tonnage of bombs, thrown, by the Germans upon our cities during the whole course of the war.'—Reuter.
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