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FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1941

NAZI BOMBS BRING

HATRED, NOT FEAR

Correspondent Finds | Each Spirit of English

» Raid In Increases Morale and Townfolk; Spurs

Industrial Effort.

By HELEN KIRKPATRICK

LONDON, April 25.—“1 sees it this way,” seysider to me during my five-day, 1000-mile motor tour of [an invasion attempt.

nine blitzed British seaports.

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“If 1 though Hitler had any chance of winning this war, I'd look for a bomb in the next air raid. Terrible it would be, to live under that raygime.”

Nazi bombs have lifted morale and inspired hatred of naziism in direct ratio to the destruction wreaked on home and factory. Material devas-| tation is beyond description. But the spirit to fight back and fight on grows stronger with each raid. Only twice on my entire tour did I hear of poor morale. And both instances were recited by sheriffs, one in Bristol and the other in Hull, who know their people as intimately as RAV one. There’ al Ivays a few] people who can’t | take it and who! complain,” said one of these officials, “but you N ! have to know Miss Kirkpatrick he place pretty intimately to find them, theyre so few and far between.”

Square Mile of Ruins

This phehomenon of high morale 1s compounded of tragedy and mira-| cles, At one place, we saw the spot where a 4-month-old baby had been found alive by a rescue squad undermeath the debris of a house blown to bits three davs before Both the infant's parents had perished In one area, an entire square mile of ruins marked the site of a community of two-story brick homes of workers. At what had been a corner grocery store, I saw a dog sniffing about in the ruins. The man whose remarks lead off this account whistled to the dog. “Knows his old home, all right,” said he. “Yes, I lived there for 37 years,” he said. “I live down there, now” --he pointed across the wreckage to a group of houses still unleveled. “They've been proper good to us, they have,” he said. “Helped me get furniture for the wife. Lucky, we was, not to have anyone hurt.” It was in Hull that we came upon a most harassing scene, a scene which has probably had hundreds of counterparts all over Britain. All that remamed of one small house was a pile of bricks. A corporal of a Yorkshire regiment was rummaging in the debris. He had been given a compassionate leave and he was looking for his wife. All he had found was a piece of a $50 fur coat he had given her last Christmas.

Britain Is Battered

Hull, we found had suffered, like many other towns, mainly through losses to the homes of its workers Loss of life had been the lowest of any blitzed town in the land, due to this east coast port's excellent shelters and air raid precautions “When Cham berl ain came back from Munich and said that it was peace in our time, we began organizing our ‘A. R. P.’ (Air Raid Precautions),” said the Socialist sheriff with a grin. From my five-day inspection of battered cities, I reached the conclusion that, living in London, people like ourselves had not realized the extent to which Britain has been battered. But the damage can

certainly be said to be largely to houses and small stores. Manchester, by reason of its industrial character, probably had the most industrial damage of any of the nine cities we visited. But there, as in Plymouth, Bristol, Cardiff, Swansea, Merseyside Towns and

Hull, the raids have only stiffened] the morale of the people and re-|

sulted in greater efforts to increase

[production in every phase of in-

dustrial life. It was also abundantly evident that American relief work, supplies of food and war materials, have made a deep impression on the people. It has cheered and encouraged them at bad moments and left them with a feeling of gratitude which millions of working class people in s | Britain will never forget.

WAR ENDS PEN FRIENDSHIP

SYDNEY, Australia (U, P.).—The New South Wales Department of}

Education has requested all pupils] | to discontinue correspondence with

children in foreign countries. It is feared pen friendships might be

used to obtain information valuable,

to the enemy and to spread Nazi

| propaganda.

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RAIDS FORECAST

ISLES INVASION

Nazis Bombing So South Coast British Naval Centers; Evacuation Urged.

By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN

LONDON, April 25.—Raids on. important Southcoast ports look sus-

{ If the Germans were able to

{knock out Great Britain's principal naval centers on the English Chan- | nel, it would be necessary for the

| British to operate their anti-inva-

‘sion patrols from more distant bases. Chances of a surprise attack would |

Ibe enhanced.

There is no other explanation to the fury with which the Germans) are attacking the South Coast in| preference to industrial centers and | Westcoast ports, which are primarily important to commercial navigation. Recent events have substantially improved the case for compulsory evacuation of all women, children and old people from a number of] cities which recently have been at-| tacked, or which are likely to be at-| tacked, with increased vigor during! the next few weeks. If complete] confusion is to be avoided, it will also be necessary to curtail nof-| essential traffic. Experience in Greece and Jugo-| slavia has demonstrated that attempts to prevent last-minute evacuation result in unwarranted slaughter. |

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