19 SEPTEMBER 1941, Page 10

What pain and misery and fear has since then crept

al those untidy pavements and past those dull red frontag Even as I write von Leeb's armies are battering at the gat in a desperate attempt to find their winter-quarters. I nev felt that St. Petersburg as I knew it justified the gigue human energies which had gone to its creation. I can o pray that Leningrad will justify the human heroism which being lavished upon its defence.