BOMBS FOLLOWED HIM AROUND

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21821, 26 November 1940, Page 6

BOMBS FOLLOWED HIM AROUND

LONDONER’S MANY MOVES (From Our Own Correspondent) LONDON, September 21. One Londoner is beginning to think that he must have as many lives as the cat! A Government employee, he lived until recently in a flat not a thousand miles from Baker Street. A few nights ago the Germans dropped an 8001 b bomb only 10 yards away. Next morning, feeling even chillier, he moved into a block of fiats in Mayfair. And, that night, a bomb fell slap on the block of flats. Next day he went, congratulating himself on his luck, to share a friend’s fiat in another part of West London. And, six hours after, a Moltov breadbasket fell on his friend’s flat. He was badly burned and was removed to hospital. Within two hours the hospital itself was hit by a highexplosive bomb. He’s now recuperating in a suburban hospital. His friends are giving that suburb a wide berth. A visitor to London who has also had to move more than once is Queen Wilhelmina, who was living until lately in a part of London repeatedly bombed. She moved to a small villa a few miles out The change proved unwise. The place proved to be a favourite "indiscriminate” target. Two nights running the Queen was nearly bombed; one bomb fell within a few yards of the house. She has now moved back to London, to a place which has a good deep shelter.