FROM CAMEROONS.
WAR WORK WOMAN. "WE SLEPT IN LIFEBELTS." (By Air.) LONDON, Aug. 27. London gave a warm welcome this | week to Mrs. "Bill" Hey, director of a trading company in the Frencfl Cameroons, who, at the age of 15, nursed wounded soldiers in the last war and who has travelled more than 4000 miles in a French banana ship to serve again as an ambulance driver;
Mrs. Hey, who left her husband in Douala and her two young children at school at Durban, arrived in England with only the clothes she was wearing, a typewriter, a handbag and a belt round her waist containing lier» passport, 5000 French francs and £17 in English i money. Mrs. Hey said this week: "The only other passengers in the French boat were an Englishman and a Frenchwoman. The journey took nearly a month, and after the first week we slept in lifebelts and never took our clothes off. After five days in a French harbour, under terrific bombardment by i German 'planes, we were taken off to a British ship, but I had to leave all my luggage."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 221, 17 September 1940, Page 5
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186FROM CAMEROONS. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 221, 17 September 1940, Page 5
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