TUBE RAILWAYS AS SHELTERS
96,000 PEOPLE USE THEM EACH NIGHT Received Jan. 10, 8.40 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 9. Figures given regarding shejterers regularly using the London tube station average 96,000 each night. The average in November was J 16,000, and October 138,000. The highest figure retarded in a night was on September 27, when 177,000 slept in the tubes. The night of the great firebomb raid on December 29, 115,000 sheltered in the tubes. Reading libraries are installed in three stations and <1 artboa rds are allowed in some under-grot' rd stations.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 9, 11 January 1941, Page 5
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92TUBE RAILWAYS AS SHELTERS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 9, 11 January 1941, Page 5
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