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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 187, 22 May 1941, Page 2

The unquenchable spirit- of the ordinary people of Britain in the face of the heaviest enemy air raids is shown in a letter received by an Aucklander from a. woman of 78 who lives in London. “We are going through such a terrific time that we never know from hour to hour if our home and effects and ourselves will be blown to pieces,” she writes. “Our flat is over a confectioner’s shop and post office, and the night before last, for the 27th time, the front was blown in completely under us and two adjoining shops. I still manage to maintain my Devonshire pluck, but it takes a bit of doing at times. lam answering your letters at once, in case of what might happen. It is no use sitting down moping, for if a bomb puts an end to my mortal life then I shall not be on a bed of sickness year after year.”