STRICKEN AREAS
TOURED BV THE KING BRAVERY OF THE PEOPLE COMMENDED. SERVICES CONGRATULATED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.59 a.m.) RUGBY, September 9. The King today made a threehour tour of the areas in East and South-East London which had suffered most from the enemy bombing. His Majesty, who travelled up from Windsor specially to make the tour, commented upon the wonderful bravery of the people in these areas, who, though many of them had been rendered homeless and had suffered personal bereavement, appeared cheerful and gave the King the warmest reception. At many places which the King visited A.R.P. workers were still hard at work and his Majesty had occasion to congratulate the various services on their good work and high courage. Later the King drove tc a road where a huge bomb had struck and completely destroyed a row of eight houses. The King clambered up a huge pile of debris in front of a crater 75 feet wide and 50 feet deep. Dirtbegrimed A.R.P. workers were still searching here for bodies, and one man showed the King a big piece of a bomb. The King saw many other buildings, including a big block of flats which had moved one yard as the result of a bomb explosion, but which had not fallen down.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 September 1940, Page 5
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