"AMI the moving downstairs has taken a lot of time as you can imagine and trying to know how best to arrange everything. Daphne R. has had a bad time at Dulwich with bomb and incendiatles and whistling chaps. Rose Marie is at Camberley, Hugh training at Sandhurst, They were in London the first very bad week-end, Esme is in the country somewhere with her wee son, We had a tremendous and glorious view of dogefights the other clear day, when without exaggeration 150 planes were visible, One Nazi bomber was hit and caught fire, overhead and miles up, and was a grand blazing sight as it disappeared to crash at Knole, That morning there had been a smaller affair and we saw one bomber kragh vertical away to Riverhead and three part chullsts. jump from a German ome. ber. It iS so thrilling to. watch, and makes up for some of the grimness the war, and one can imagine how thrilling it must be up high and in the thick of" it.
"Having very fine feld glasses (part of my sailor husband's wedding gift) makes it all the more exciting of course, Recently while watching a I have had a letter from Bufly's brother-in-law, who is back—in England now and going into U.LD. again, after having been in Sierra {cone for months. He was in the Barham with K, and apparently at Dakar and had an exciting affair while it lasted. He said there were no casualties and very little damage He gave me good news of K. which was a relief, Twelve-hour Raid "The night raids last from 7 pu.
Tam, now and soon I suppose we shall have them droning over at tea time. L only hope they don't start dropping bombs here during the day, would spoil all our fun in watching them and bring the terror of the night into our waking hours. 'They got the Cherring Halt recently, Dbut it' was soon mended and "the train" of J's delight is ing again, They have been after Seven Oaks station too and we heard the whizz and bangs of several coming. down. So far, praise God, the casualies have been almost negligible.
Nov. 14, by air mail letters missing)
"Tam moving at Long last. As you can imagine, T have been "worried to death to know what to do for the best. Nobody could help me or take the responsibility. Cousin Peter (the Gunners) came to see me and saw! what a bad time this part of the country and our peaceful tittle village in particular has been hav-dug and said he thought f must leave. He fixed our lease and he and Pam have arranged for us-all to go to friends in the country in Yorke shire. Although 12 miles from Sheffield, it is not on the path of the planes and they have had hardly any warnings and partlewlarly no bombs at all near. Anyway it's somewhere to put our heads and see what to do. The roof is now almost rainproof. It has poured unceasingly recently and the meadows are flooded today. Be of, good cheer, we are Japanese Ship Officers Arrested at Panama
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