"CHINS UP!"
LETTER FROM ENGLAND IMPRESSIONS FROM WALES "Hitler's talk of invasion! Bah I We're keeping our chins up and ;ha!l continue to do so," writes a Welsh school tc'acher, whose' husjand !:'• in the Army, to friends in Te Kuiti. She adds that she always listens in lo any broadcasts con-* coming New Zealand or tiny entertainment for her troops.
But whilst the writer is so confident that Hitler will not be able to achieve his purpose, she adds that the air war io extremely hard on those poor folk who have lost their homes and loA T ed ones.
j "Where my husband was stationed it was terrific—in fact too terrible to relate—he says lie will never forget those nights so long as he lives" she writes. "Thank God, we are safe and sound, although we get long warnings and the planes pass over in droves. What a hideous drone their engines make, expressive of the people, I imagine, or of their leader at least. Christmas. "It's very dangerous getting about at night in the blackout—l was near ly bumped of? on Christmas Eve, she continues. "We spent Christmas Day in an unusual way. My husband couldn't get leave, my brother is in Burma, so Mum and I had 1 an enormous goose between us—it lasted a whole week and it was very nice. In the afternoon we knitted comforts, then we .had tea—knitted again and thought of those who were less fortunate than ourselves, had supper, and then went to bed. Not very exciting, I admit, but there's a war on, we said, and that's that. I hope and pray that next Christmas families will be re-united again and living in peace." The previous day had been a busy one for her..There.-were about eighty evacuees in the town, and they had entertained them all Avith the resident children, to tea, games' and a magic lantern. "Old-fashioned, rather—but 'it's no time for taking a crowd of children to the cinemas and have 'wailing Winnie' dragging us out again," she, said in regard to the use of the magic lantern. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOtt
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 292, 7 April 1941, Page 2
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