AMERICAN CONSULATE
 
      Liverpool, England
 
      December 9, 1940
 
      Walter H. McKinney, Esquire,
 
      American Consulate General,
 
      London, W.I.
 
      
 
 
Sir:
 
      The report of the Regional Commissioner received by telephone 
      on December 7 shows that during the week ending that day there 
      was little enemy air-craft activity over this area and no serious 
      damage was done. On December 1-2 eleven small fires were were 
      caused at St. Helens, slightly damaging the glass works, but 
      they were quickly extinguished. On December 2-3 three per-sons 
      had to be evacuated at Nantwich, Chesire, because of an unexploded 
      bomb.
 
      Otherwise the Regional Commisioner referred to supplementary-y 
      reports of casualties and damage caused in the big raid of November 
      22-29. The latest figures for Tarvin, Cheshire, show that 22 
      persons were killed, 21 strongly injured, and 20 slightly injured, 
      17 of the fatal casualties being at the Barrowmore Hall Tuberculosis 
      Hospital. In the Liverpool hospital. In Liverpool, the latest 
      figures are, 264 dead, 62 seriously injured, and 253 slightly 
      injured. The gas works at Wavertree and the railroad track at 
      Garston were damaged, and the Garston Docks were closed until 
      December 3 because of unexploded land mines. Many of the land 
      mines dropped in Liverpool were rendered ineffective. It may 
      be raid, how-ever, from personal observation, that much destruction 
      has been wrought in the residential districts of Liver-pool: 
      in one of the best residential areas a severe block of houses 
      had been demolished and all the houses within a radius of five 
      hundred yards were rendered useless, and at Childwall, another 
      better-class area over one hundred and thirty houses were rendered 
      uninhabitable.
 
      
 
 
Very truly yours,
 
      PHILIP HOLLAND 
 
      American Consul General