HER WAR WINDOW
,OLD LADY ENJOYS BATTLES
An old lady, well over seventy, sits the hours through, day after day, at her bedroom window in Pope Walk, Dover. Across the 22 miles of Channel she can see the coast of France, and when the waves of German bombers and fighters come droning overhead and bombs and guns are at their noisiest, she greets them with a grin and a jest. Nothing will induce her to forsake licr open window. It is her grandstand view of the war and she means to keep it. The neighbours regard her as their mascot. "Nothing can happen to us while she's here," they say.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19401109.2.144.8
Bibliographic details
New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23809, 9 November 1940, Page 2 (Supplement)
Word Count
110HER WAR WINDOW New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23809, 9 November 1940, Page 2 (Supplement)
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the New Zealand Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence . This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Auckland Libraries and NZME.