TERRIFYING NIGHT
AUSTRALIAN ACTRESS FRIENDS KILLED BY BOMB LONDON, Sept. 26. “Hitler really seems to be after me,” said Dprothy Brunton, the Australian actress, to-day, after a terrifying night spent sheltering .from German raiders. “It was a miracle that we were all alive after Tuesday night’s raids, but last night was a worse terror.” With her husband, Miss Brunton was in a cellar nine floors under their flat last night when a near by bomb explosion caused gas mains and water mains to burst. The. police turned them out in the interests of safety, and they ran to a public shelter 400 yards away, while the London barrage roared and chunks of shrapnel spattered about. After three hours the police began returning people to their ' original private shelters, and, with two married couples, their friends, Miss Brunton and her husband ran again into the street. The men of the other two couples climbed up six flights of stairs to their flats, and immediately a timebomb exploded. They were both killed by falling walls. Miss Brunton and her husband had a remarkable last-minute escape when they decided to stay on the ground floor, without escorting their friends.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20380, 17 October 1940, Page 7
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