The Archive · 1941

No Panic Seen

I will not waste paper telling you much about London as T know you very {air account in the "North-China," but if you are visualizing the people here rushing about, and diving Into air raid shelters every time there is a warning, you have got the wrong picture entirely. Tight tell you that the bombing is $0 promiscuous that no one is safe anywhere, and one comes across de~ molished buildings in the most unexpected places, little quiet street for instagee, oF 15 miles from London i The raids are pretty continuous at time of writing, and Jerry has just started again just after 7 pin. and will continue right through the night until about 7am. Then the day raiders start, But I must say that, for the past ten days we have had comparatively peaceful nights in the centre of London, We can hear Jerry occasionally, and some of the hearer barrage, but it is nothing like was a few weeks ego.

As for daylight raids, very few people take any notice of them now, although an occasional plane or two Will get through our outer defence and drop a bomb or two and some people will get killed and a few more shops of pubs, or a church perhaps. will be destroyed. So it seems we are definitely keeping him out.

From what I hear from my cole leagues who live in the country Jerry must be jettisoning most of his stut In the-open country. It is hard to understand what he expects to gain from trying (0 intimidate us. He 18 simply wasting his time.

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