RAIDS AND KENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 71, 25 March 1940, Page 6

RAIDS AND KENT.

What the Sydney "Dailv Telegraph" described a« the beat joke' of the war was contained in a recent cable message from London. "Air-raid* nTf proving such an attraction in Scotland that enterprising people are making monov out of them. Residents of South Qiieensferry. at tlie southern end of the Firth of Forth Bridge, are advertising rooms. at high rental* for grandstand views of air raids." Surely this is one of the queerest ways on record of the landlord's power to capitalise his position and to make the people pav. Here is another paragraph:—"A tcashop proprietor said that his trade had improved considerably since the raid. 'AH or accommodation ha* been booked out. I have refused numerous applications for rooms. Aly shop is crowded at weekends.'" Great efforts have s>een made in Britain to provide air-raid shelter*, and to move people from the cities to the country, especially- children. In Scotland these efforts and the sounding of the siren warning lias had the opposite effect. The people want to watch the air-raids. An Edinburgh warden, when a.sked why the warning siren had not been sounded durinjr an air-raid, said: "Xobody take* cover in Scotland, except on button day." G.AI.F.