LONDON WOMAN WRITES OF BOMB HORRORS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 13234, 9 January 1941, Page 6

LONDON WOMAN WRITES OF BOMB HORRORS

i ' The women of Loudon are snlon- ! pjfi. Every single one of. us is on It he battlefield: hut please do not let | tills letter distress you. . .We are i not grumbling, nor are we disheart- ! cued. . . We have undertaken 'this job and are seeing it through." Lo writes a young London woman {to a friend in Australia. Site and j her husband are both engaged in air | raid work. j Describing an air raid, slm savs: | “Jack and I were sitting in our forj tress —the kitchen —when he yelled: i ‘Put your head down.' Crash, bang, i smash. A high explosive bomb had j landed. We both went to the road jto see if we could be of any help. I had no steel helmet, so I se'zed the j padded lining of a tea cosy, put it jon my head, and then placed over l it an inverted enamel bowl. I kept ! the outfit on with a scarf. | “You just don’t feel afraid; the I whole thing is too big to allow such I a little feeling as personal fear. “In a little while the ambulance, rescue squad, and fire squad, were on the spot. Two houses opposite us had been blown to pieces. ‘After we had done all we could we returned to bed. but had just gone to sleep when a policemtu woke us and told us that there was an unexploded bomb in the far corner of the school grounds next to us. but we went to sleep. “We sleep on the ground floor now because it is safer. The front part of our living room is full of clothes given to me for the homeless. The I need is colossal. | “I was deeply touched the other ■ evening after asking church mem- i bers for clothes for the homeless. ) One little woman whom we call ‘Auntie Bessie’ pressed a pound note ! into my hand. She does housework, I and she had, saved the money for a ! holiday.” |