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Greymouth Evening Star, 10 December 1940, Page 6

The nonchalance with which the young idea at Home has come to regard enemy bombing is amusingly exemplified in a letter received by a Wellington resident from a friend in England. After explaining how one has to go out of one’s way to see the shattered houses, the writer says that outwardly nothing appears altered. “All this indiscriminate bombing of homes seems futile, and cannot be the means of defeat,” continues the letter. “People are very wonderful and the kiddies of to-day take most things so casually—even bombing. This is quite true of two small Brighton boys,' who were one Saturday afternoon in a cinema that was hit and badly shdtThey were not to be found anywhere. The mother was distracted, jwhen towards evening the two mites turned up. ‘Well,’ said mother, ‘and jvhat does this mean? I thought you two, had been in the “Odeon”?’ (the bombed cinema). ‘Oh, yes,’ said the ’pair of them, ‘we were. But when that 'was bombed we went to the “Princess” to finish out!’ ” ■

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