THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 5, 1941:
ESCAPED
RAID
FLOOD
About 150 people
them
women
and
many of children
escaped frem a London shelter
WRITTEN IN
TYPISTS ARE NOW SONNETS SKILLED FORESTERS PRISON
CITY GIRLS who used to do everything from which was flooded in a night raid. typing, serving in shops and factory work are now doing all the jobs that men can do on the farm, and more besides.
One of the shelterers said:
"The first we knew was the crashing of masonry Than the water rushed in. We made for Within a few
the back exit.
Some of them, after expert tuition in Western our waists. The men who left England's Forest of Dean, are now skilled foresters.
seconde we were wading up to
last had almost to swim out."
Everyone in the shelter escaped. Police and A.R.P. men swam for some time in the icy water to make sure of it,
One bomb had fallen in the road, and the other burst at the base of the orphanage building above the shelter, breaking water
main.
Detail of the work the land girls are doing in Gloucestershire, one of the largest employing countles of the Women's Land Army, were revealed at a rally in Gloucester's Shire Hall.
Training in Gloucestershire of Army began the Women's Land il
and in June of last year,
two short courses of training had been of completed by the time war broke
The Air Ministry's report the night's raids said that while out. in general they were not parti- cularly heavy, they were some- what greater than on the previous night, but practically ceased soon after midnight.
Most of the casualties occurred when a building was demolished rear the south bank of th Thames Estuery.
In the London area a few fires were caused but only one of these was large and all were soon un- der control.
TELLS OF ACCUSED DAUGHTER
CELL
Come, take this bread; had I the
wine as well,
Pressed from the richest grapes of some far State,
Despite all wars, within this
narrow cell