The thing that strikes me so fore~ bly is going to work in the morn ing. One sees the same crowds of People hurrying to their work, and the girls, many thousands of whom. must have spent the night in an air raid shelter, trotting along, as spick Germain planes and there he saw the hundreds of factories busier than they bad ever been, Anyone who remembers Coventry in peace time will no doubt recollect how from ihe railway line, the city night looked like a fairyland with fnilllons of twinkling lights. blazing from the motor car factories situated in end around the town as the night shift men carried on with their work of producing cars for the' English people.
'Today there are no lights to be seen' from the railway, but the factories ore working at night they were in the old days, Instead fof cars they" are turning out tanks {and aeroplane. engines and other stews of war. which will bring vielory to Britain, SSU rolling into Coventry' daily are the trains. from Birmingham, Rugby and Nuneaton carrying their loads of workmen bound for the Riley, Daimler, Stand. ard, and other plants, This was the pleuture of England which he painted for me—a strange England to one who knew it only Ju peace time but an England that is fighting. og It never fought. before, fan England that will win out be: Gtuse the people are determined Win out, No wonder Mr. Wendell Willkie was' moved when he saw how the British are taking the war, Never before has the British race been seen ina more favourable Usht, The final victory Is on its way. and span and cheeky as over, Not a hair out of place, nails manicured land everything exactly as usual.
In my house for instance, I live in a basement flat, so T don't worry much, as except for a direct hit some~ where too close, perhaps it is fairly safe, But the rest of the tenants, Some of whom are shop assistants in the big West End stores, well they are parked outside my door and on the stairs, yet they are up at about 630 am. and just as spick and span as ever when they o to offic.
Another curious thing 1s how very many cases I have noticed of the Jsame places gelting bombed twice and three times on different occasions, It cannot be deliberate but just-a matter of chance, for some of the "places are insignificant little dwellings, as well as factories which not engaged on any war work all, Itis astounding really, Cables Twice Mit At one place T had to repair a cable which had beea damaged by fan incendiary bomb. "A, few nights after a bomb splinter it the cable in the very place' in which it had been repaired. The other day a salvo of Bombs dropped just outside the very same building, "We had a bomb hie' basement. portion of our office Jast week; luckily it could not have been a very heavy one, but it blew out every Window in the building We had a salvo of bombs near my fat the other week just after T left for the flee and blew all the win dows out, except. my front room, {fad to replace with brown paper). Jone night It was pretty bad hearty and "the explosions. blow all. my brown paper down and I hed to replace it not tess than sx times dur-Ing' the night.
The first few weeks 1 used to sleep fully" dressed in. ease. But now T go fo bed as usual. "So you can. guess that things must have improved some.
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