THE COOL LONDONER

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 5 August 1941, Page 5

THE COOL LONDONER

"You have missed a couple of really good ‘do's’ in London by being where I you are. The last two raids wore the | worst we have ever had, and I am told that there is little left in the Old Change. Bread Street vicinity. and many other places. "A friend from London who spent , the night with me hot week told me j that the finest Debt he had ever seen j was on one night w hen he happened | to be in the West End. With shrapnel ! and high explosives dropping all over the place, there were crowds in the streets, men and women, old and young, rushing round smothering the incendiaries. "To watch it wa. not like a rugger match. They were knocking each other over to get there first, with not a thought of danger, but getting a tremendous lot of fun out of it. "lie went on to say that had lie made a tour of the air raid shelters that night he was sure they would have been empty, and that all the people were in the streets lighting the flames and incendiaries.’ —-(Extract from letter received by a Melbourne business man from a member of a leading textile firm in London. He himself was in London during the terrible September raids last vear).