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Conger Reynolds correspondence, September 1918
1918-09-19 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 2
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in a city subject to air raids. The citizens welcome every cloudy, rainy night, not so much because they fear the avions that fly in a clear sky as because they can't sleep. O' moonlight nights for the noise of the sirens and bells sounding alentes. Last night it was fierce. We had one alente early in the evening. Just as I arrived at my apartment building about 11:30 pm, the second began. I stood outside a few minutes watching to see if anything would happen. Aside from two or three coups de canons nothing did. But one of the infernal sirens continued to blow. This morning I learned that the machinery had gone wrong so it couldn't be shut off. I was so sleepy I went to sleep in spite of it - for awhile. The all of them cut loose again. They make the most unearthly shrieking noise you can imagine. It is more terrifying than an air raid itself. In fact it is a relief to hear the barrage and even the bombs after such wierd racket. I came just enough out of fast sleep to be tormented as in a bad nightmare., Later in the night we had a fourth warning which also made sleep a delusion. I don't think the raiders actually came at all but the ever watchful guards cer-
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in a city subject to air raids. The citizens welcome every cloudy, rainy night, not so much because they fear the avions that fly in a clear sky as because they can't sleep. O' moonlight nights for the noise of the sirens and bells sounding alentes. Last night it was fierce. We had one alente early in the evening. Just as I arrived at my apartment building about 11:30 pm, the second began. I stood outside a few minutes watching to see if anything would happen. Aside from two or three coups de canons nothing did. But one of the infernal sirens continued to blow. This morning I learned that the machinery had gone wrong so it couldn't be shut off. I was so sleepy I went to sleep in spite of it - for awhile. The all of them cut loose again. They make the most unearthly shrieking noise you can imagine. It is more terrifying than an air raid itself. In fact it is a relief to hear the barrage and even the bombs after such wierd racket. I came just enough out of fast sleep to be tormented as in a bad nightmare., Later in the night we had a fourth warning which also made sleep a delusion. I don't think the raiders actually came at all but the ever watchful guards cer-
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