When it was suggested that it was more heroic to stick on a job when one realized its dangerous possibilities Miss Diemer refused to accept the alibi. "No" she insisted. "I just jitterec way through. There were funny things that happened, but I didn't see the humourous side till afterwards.
"For example I elected to move from one flat to another on Bloody Saturday, sending my household pos sessions up Avenue Edward VII that afternoon. They were lost for a week and I didn't know whether they were destroyed by the bomb which fell at the corner of Ya Ya Ching Road or whether they had been stolen in the confusion. For days I camped in an almost empty apartment, but that was a minor detail "For the first few days I answered the telephone and took messages in a daze, starting at every warlike sound. I gradually learned to distinguish anti-aircraft guns from bombs and grew more intelligent as to manceuvres but won eternal ignominy by describing an observation balloon as a floating bomb" Although the Chief Editor mathematically demonstrated
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