"my daughter was at a ball at Grosvenor House during the worst. the recent' raids, When it got really noisy the band switched to a louder tune and no one seems to have en-Joyed the evening any the less. The same night my wife was dining at a restaurant and enough bombs fell close by to make it very difficult for hier to got away by car owing to the surrounding streets being blocked by debris and craters. She drew up at tone point with the front wheels of the ear on the lip of a new crater. 'The words of an' Alr Raid Warden, 'Keep to the right. madam, there has been an dneident." seemed' rather an understatement, Our local and much bombed village, which provides no military objective. had" another? parachute bomb a fow nights ago. Although every window except the leaded and Mteel-framed ones, was broken and Reveral houses wrecked, no one was killed. Several old people. however. re homeless and have lost their life savings which they had invested in their cottages. Judging by the effect it'hag had on my neighbours 1 do not think that if every village in bombed the mans would be any neuter vio:
One old lady and her sranddaughter wore Inughing and, joking house within half an hour of their house being wreekced, After a talk together the firs man who was short of a quota sold £3,000 0 goods to the second and bought them back for £4,000 on the understanding that the necessary Import permit would be attached to the documents. A perfectly legal. trans~ faction and moreover a perfectly true story. The sad part is that every penny of the £1.000 so easily earned Will go to the Exchequer in E-P-T.
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