SPIRIT OF LONDON
TRIUMPH OVER RUIN
SYDNEY, May 15
Tribute to the unconquerable spirit of London is paid by passengers who arrived on a crowded liner from England. Most of the passengers were Australian and New Zealand women and children, the majority of whom had waited for many months to procure berths.
All the adult passengers agreed that Hitler might leave London practically in ruins, but he would never conquer the spirit of the people of England. He was merely intensifying their hatred of his savagery.
Sister M. Currie, who was formerly on the staff of the Auckland Public Hospital, and "/ho was in charge of a first aid post in London for several months, said she occasionally went in a splendidly equipped mobile operating theatre to the bombed areas. "At dawn," she said, "you might see nothing but stark ruin, but a few hours later the people would be flocking to work, despite the almost indescribable disorganisation of Iranic. They would be cheerful about it, too."--U.P.A.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 114, 16 May 1941, Page 7
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