Women & Children First

BATTLE OF BRITAIN Women & Children First

London yesterday was subjected again to our retaliation fire.

Some such phrase usually winds up the daily German war communique. The ever-obliging High Command would no doubt be delighted to give more precise information, but it cannot. The Germans do not know just where their V-bombs fall; the British take pains not to tell them.

Most of the long-range projectiles now falling on "Southern England" are V-2 rocket bombs, even more inaccurate than the V-1 jet bombs. But they fall on a tightly settled island, and not all of them drop in open fields. In January they killed an average of 19 people a day; the month's casualty totals were nearly twice those of December. Inevitably, of the 2,214 killed or injured, more than two-thirds were women & children. The Berlin radio smacked its lips and boasted: "With another month of rockets nothing will be left of London."

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