The Archive · 1941

Never in a Shelter

T have never been in an alt raid properly organized we are not fossing money Semi we ores Wastage of Bombs shelter: yet. I have inspected a few, 2 lite ads else.

Tomten Rocing Hee A leltér received here by Me. W. sit our ai xotda. T believe in fate, Shanghai, Jan. 6. ven" few minutes Yn one during fe dur "The bombing of London and|G, Clarke, from a friend at home, what is to be will be—if your name elsewhere by the Germans has been is gull of the fighting spirit and is on old Jerry's bomb you will get from their point of view a great courage which is sustaining English it wherever you are—even shellers failure and it has completely failed moral in the face of the Luftwaffe-lhave been blown' to pieces, so one to stop production and far from we have a long and hard furrow is not safe anywhere, thats, my breaking the moral of the people, it) to plough, but by the grace of God opinion. We are only five minutes has stiffened them enormously. We} and our own strong right arms we ferry to Portsmouth, and at first that Bet some excitement in the way of} shall succeed, and then woe to Hitler was the place they were after, in bombs every day, but our defences and nis gangsters," says the writer, fact they put over the German wire-are always on an increasingly im- and it is this idea which will bring less some time ego that Portsmouth Boved scale th they "ar. coming lory so much cower. Hata wag in ul and netting sanding Sha. with great caution, and always avery reduced "scale Yrom the etter follow "the Germans are "raing igh Then you tee ate a diferent scene and oon ern ite at a great height, with the result) explosive and incendiary bombs over course, a lot of damage has been that when they, drop, their, bombs Gur good homeland, every night and done, but nol any more than in mot Iterally from, their objective, and Mostly all, night. 'Poor. old London places usually' it sone wee farm or land trticulaniy the poorer suburbr Bast) it, Dat & plesiant feeling, can of course is bearing the brunt of It) it is not a pleasant feeling, L can tua fed or lit harmless: dwelling Zoutatcy and South st the steer, 22S houses of no. miliary Importance Soueest and South of the river Terry planes just right over you ister, ne ite Tab we Stacia "tne ig and Want en, teak erie" noe need not give you details of his Milafitce You Aiserere to: [and fairy broad. He is pot perpetual- Bombings of" Germany and.-their e#, Wwelle We cannot expect anything Gasiiy detect then The. sirens are are giving the

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