PITY THE BABIES!
WAR-TIME NOMENCLATURE Add. to tlio list of unfortunate war "babies who for the rest of their lives will be called Syren, Syreena, ami Dunkirk. little Bardia Strong, who was born on the day Bardia fell, writes a London correspondent of the Sydney ‘ Morning Herald.’ There is another small hoy called, but not so far christened, Bomber, because he coincided with the arrival of a bomb which did not go off. These grisly Christian names only underline the fact that Londoners are becoming so used to air raids that it takes something much more concrete than the sound of enemy aircraft overhead to scare them.
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Evening Star, Issue 23861, 16 April 1941, Page 10
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107PITY THE BABIES! Evening Star, Issue 23861, 16 April 1941, Page 10
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