BATTLE SCARS
BORNE BY SOUTHEASTERN ENGLAND FOUR THOUSAND AIR RAIDS. MANY HOMES DESTROYED OR DAMAGED. • _— (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) , (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) LONDON, December 23. Sir Auckland Geddes, Civil Defence Commissioner for the South-Eastern region, in a Christmas message, reveals' that since Dunkirk, the region has sustained 4,000 air raids. Tens of thousands of bombs have been dropped and many thousands of Kent and Sussex homes damaged and destroyed. Finding his house surrounded recently, by incendiary bombs, the New Zealand High Commissioner (Mr W. J. Jordan) went out and helped his neighbours to extinguish the bombs. An excited householder rushed up and said: “Warden?”
Mr Jordan replied: “No, Jordan.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 December 1940, Page 6
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110BATTLE SCARS Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 December 1940, Page 6
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