PLUCKY GIRL CLERKS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 9 July 1917, Page 7

PLUCKY GIRL CLERKS

CRITICISM OF DEFENCES

NEWSPAPERS ADOPT STERNER TONE. ...

(Received July 9, 1.15 p.m.) LONDON, July 8. At the time the hostile squadron •was overhead thousands of girl clerks remained at their desks. The system of warning the principal workshops and warehouses enablod many workers to reach safety. The large hospitals made elaborate preparations, and arranged to receive the inxush of injured. The first alarm was given at 8.45, and the "all-clear" signal at 11.30. As soon as the raid was over sueues of people waited at the public telephones to make anxious enquiries as to the" safety of relatives The mvwspapers take a sterner tone in 'Criticism of the defences, and call atften. tion to France's lead in the matter of 'reprisals. They add that soldiers will not tolerate their hcmes being thus ravaged Lor.l Montagu of Beaulieu, in ; n article, says the best way of shortening the Avar would be to concentrate on the construction of aircraft, and to •embark on a vast aerial offensive.