NOT FRIGHTENED

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21198, 22 August 1940, Page 9

NOT FRIGHTENED

PEOPLE OF ENGLAND GERMAN INVASION THREAT I ALL RESOLVED TO PLAY A PART British people are resolutely calm, unperturbed by Hitler’s threats of invasion, and they are determined take their share in the defence of the country, one and all. These are the impression' conveyed m a letter to a Hamilton businessman from his sister in England, under the date of June 26, 1940. “You will know by the wireless j all about the war and wonder how | we are all getting on,” the letter states. “Well, so far, we are short j of nothing. YVe are rationed for 1 meat, sugar, butter and bacon, but | can make do with other things. “It’s terrible to think how we have been let down by our Allies. We are now likely to get the full

brunt of invasion, but no one here is frightened and all are ready to do their bit. The air raids keep on but they do not do half the damage one would expect. “Last week we had our first German plane over this town. It killed a mother and daughter, and the father has since died. It was only three miles from this house. I heard the ’plane, but thought it was one of our own until I heard the explosions. I did not feel a bit frightened. “I’m sleeping in the house alone as Gwen (her daughter) is on night duty with the • A.R.P. Tom (her . son-in-law) is in the Army Pay Corp. Douglas (her son) is foreman at a munition factory and I carry on here and sew for the Red Cross. "Three bombs fell on a friend’s garden but they did not explode. “How wonderful the way the New Zealanders and Australians have ! joined up and arrived here safely. I expect you will get a lot of English children in New Zealand. Garry, my grandson, who will not be 16 until August, has asked his mother whether he could not join up.”