London, Sept, 4.
Millions of Britons awakened today full of the realization for the frst time of the grim fact that war had commenced. Through radio sets and wearing newspaper headlines they Tearned that Germany had struck her first blow against Britain only a few hundred miles away in the sinking of the Athenia, Except for the bombing of London nothing could have been calculated rouse British bitterness more than the torpedoing of a passenger tiner jamed with men, women and children ying to escape from Europe—United Press,
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