BRITISH MORALE
UNSHAKEN BY PROLONGED BOMBARDMENT CONDITIONS IN SEASIDE AREAS. DOVER BUSY & CHEERFUL. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, October 14. i The morale of Britons remains unshaken by the prolonged bombardment. This has been proved by a tour made of the ports and holiday towns on the south-east coast, where the civilian spirit is unbroken and life is as near normal as the dropping bombs permit. Dover is as busy and cheerful as any other town in England. The seaside populations have dwindled, but the evacuation is nowhere wholesale. Children still play in the streets, and women go shopping even after raid warnings. Ramsgate has changed its way of life more than other towns. There, women and children, remembering the terrific onslaught of August 14, are spending many hours daily and most of each night in shelters 60 to 90 feet underground. GERMAN CLAIMS LONDON, October 14. The Berlin radio today claims that the Luftwaffe dropped 350 tons of . bombs on England in the last 24 hours compared with six to eight tons dropped by the Royal Air Force on i Germany and German-occupied terri- ' tory. i
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 October 1940, Page 5
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