Rescuers Work On With Death At Their Elbow
LONDON, September 13. After touring the metropolitan districts, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Home Security (Mr Wyndham Mcßane), paid in a broadcast address a striking tribute to London’s fire defence workers. “Blackened men with bloodshot eyes are manning hoses among the dying flames, scorning relief, which they know is not available,” said Mr Mcßane. Women ambulance drivers are waiting to take away casualties, while fire threatens to cut off their retreat. “Men work on in the presence cf a time bomb until it explodes, causing deaths among them. “These things are woven in the tapestry of the country’s heroism—men and women working by the light of fire with death at their elbow.”
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Northern Advocate, 14 September 1940, Page 7
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