NO "JITTERS."
RAID AFTERMATH. Golfers And Bathers In "FrontLine* , Towns. United tress Association.—Copyright. (Reed. 2 p.m.) LONDOX, Aug. 18. Although the Bremen radio after the raid on Croydon said that 8,000)000 Londoners were trembling day by day in air raid shelters, swim* ming pools and golf courses yesterday were crowded. Weyniouth and other seaside —meaning frontline—towns had the largest number of seaside- pronienaders for months. The "Daily Mail" says that Sunday on the Kentish and Sussex coasts was just Sunday and that the authorities wiah more people would take shelter. It is estimated that 100,000 people on Saturday visited the south-west London suburbs, where bombs fell a day earlier. Mounted police were called out in the evening to clear the road.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 196, 19 August 1940, Page 7
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