This letter is from a Navy wife who, instead of keeping a lonely vigil in Australia, has been right in the thick of the war at Malta. The wife of Commander J, C. Morrow, who by his recent promotion became the youngest officer in the Royal Australian Navy ever to hold a commander's rank, and who sank the first Italian submarine in the war, she describes her life in and out of air-raids with a flavour of British humour.
^We had only. been in Malta only communication with the outside fortnight when there was a com-world was by cable. pulsory' evacuation of Navy wives Englishwomen Lived in Barracks were very pleased we had done so when, three days later, both my husband and Lieutenant-Commander Walsh came into harbour for about 16 hours.
"The following week, Mrs Walsh and Mrs. P. O. L. Owen left for Alexandria, but we stayed on. As you know, war was declared by Italy, and there was then no question of leaving, as we were completely cut off, and there was not even a mail leaving or arriving at the island. Our Gilbert and Sullivan concert on Saturday, October 36, and these may be had en application at the office.
for B.W.À. War Work Fund.
following is the programme:
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.