Packed in Tube Stations
Cue of the most pitiful sights which he saw in Landau, said Private W. Eerch, of Port Ahurlri, who has been invalided home from overseas, was the use of the London tube service ns an underground shelter during air raid;. “I thought tine tropics were hot enough.” Private Beach said, “but It was nothing to the sweltering heat of the underground tubes. Women and children predominated in the use of the tube stations during an air. raid, and usually they were closely packed.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20547, 6 May 1941, Page 7
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87Packed in Tube Stations Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20547, 6 May 1941, Page 7
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