UNDER BLIGHT OF WAR

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 126, 21 February 1941, Page 7

UNDER BLIGHT OF WAR

How British Post Offices Carry On (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, February 18. . "You could in that one room feci the German blight, creeping over civilization and bringing for a time the silence of the tomb Io the inter-communication of men. But we shall hear all the keys tapping again when the blight bas_ been destroyed.” Tlte Postmaster-General, Mr. W. S. Morrison, thus described today his experience at a central telegraph oilice where, he said, in peacetime might have been seen post office telegraphists communicating with the chief towns of Europe.

Speaking of the conditions under which post office workers carried on in spite of raids, Mr. Morrison said that he had seen postmen and letter sorters the morning after a raid calmly performing their duties though the roof above them was hanging in ruins and the mailbags had to be dug out from piles of debris. "I have seen." he said, "a great telephone exchange with a large unexploded bomb within a few feet of its foundations and the staff of men and women, who had been informed of its presence, electing to carry -on during the days which it took to dig it out, so that the public service should be maintained.”