"MERE SCRATCHES"
British Official Wireless.
NEUTRAL VIEW OF RAIDS
Rugby, Sept. 10. The unshakeable cairn and increased spirit of determination aroused and the speed with which the wreekage is cleaved away are the features of the public reaction to Ihe London air raids which have most impressed foreign press observers, who have been given complete freedom to visit the scenes of destruction. The London correspondent of the Neue Zericher Zeitung, who visited three dock areas which suffered most severely, confirms, according to a press dispatch from Zurich, that it is civilian property and not military objectives that has principally suffered. "Although a war of terror has been started against London," he says. "the results so far are mere scratches on the giant frame of Britain's capital.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 September 1940, Page 7
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