NIGHT IN SHELTERS.
COMMON SENSE, NOT PANIC. British Official Wireless. RUGBY, Sept. 23. Londoners faced their sixteenth successive night raid when German bombers appeared over the capital on Sunday night. The German broadcast, gloating that "Londoners were allowed to spend the night in underground stations" and that it is "now learned that, during the last 48 hours, Londoners have had to spend 15 in air raid shelters," has shown an utter lack of understanding of the spirit in which such "cover" is taken. The adaptation of Londoners to the new night life, necessitated by the threat of murder from the sky, is glowingly praised by neutral correspondents, one of whom suggests that the Germans are far from the mark if they are mistaking Cockney common sense for panic and fear.
The attitude of Londoners is summed up by the catch phrase, continually heard with comic emphasis when the sirens sound: "It's that man i
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19400924.2.61.14
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 227, 24 September 1940, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
154NIGHT IN SHELTERS. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 227, 24 September 1940, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Auckland Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
Ngā mihi
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Auckland Libraries.
Log in